As an economist, Dr. Malmgren decided to be part of building the world economy instead of just talking about it. She helped launch an award-winning firm that manufactured aerial, terrestrial and marine drones. This allowed her to see how automation, robotics, remote-control, AI, materials and super computing all come together to create new possibilities. She is fundamentally an optimist and reminds us the automation, robotics and AI have so far created more jobs than they have destroyed. She brings a fundamentally optimistic view about technology as she explores and explains the new sectors that are opening up the world economy: space infrastructure and space manufacturing, automation, robotics, remote control, and AI-led systems, the incredible expansion in life sciences and material sciences that mean we can create not only new materials and life itself. We can also combine dry computers with wet, biological, computers to create synthetic combinations that may exceed our capacity to comprehend possibility.

Computational power is expanding exponentially. Today’s super-computers and Quantum computers allow us to solve problems that used to take system 10,000 years to process (faster than any human) now take 200 seconds. We have never been blessed with such extraordinary problem-solving power.

The expansion of technology and the flow of the internet means that we have to absorb ever more information to understand our world. This is why humans are shifting from words to symbols and images. The volume of information must be compressed. Not only do we prefer using emojis to words but increasingly all corporate reporting and information is being converted into immersive Web 3 experiential content. The 3D world is already tricking the human mind into recovering from burns more quickly and allowing higher quality meat and milk from cows. It is not just that gaming technology is fun. It is effective and will be how we tell the stories of technological change itself.

All this creates a world where greater abundance and ease becomes possible. Humans can work smarter and less hard yet get ever more powerful results. But, we have to learn to allocate time more effectively to collaborations and to creation instead of just consumption. The greater the tech, the more need there is for a soulful approach to life. AI is optimizing for efficiency and cost but humans optimize for joy, love and novelty. Companies and countries will have to decide how efficient humans can or should really be.

Key Takeaways:

• The speech is fundamentally optimistic and will demonstrate how technology has always, and will continue to create more opportunities than it disrupts - including new job creation, extraordinary human progress and greater abundance for all.
• By providing personal anecdotes and real-world examples, Dr. Malmgren illuminates the future of unprecedented computational power and how solving complex problems at an extraordinary pace will revolutionize our ability to tackle the impossible.
• The rise of immersive Web 3 content and 3D experiences will drive more effective communication (hugely impactful for any organization needing to drive engagement with clients) and revolutionize diverse fields, from healthcare to agriculture and beyond.

Dr Malmgren has several award-winning books on leadership in which she talks about heartfelt leadership and soulful working: The Leadership Lab (Business Book of the Year 2020) and The Infinite Leader (International Press Award 2021). She explains what underpins the many leadership failures of recent years. The world has changed and now people need to be motivated rather than told. Leadership is more about the “ship” than the “leader”. She emphasizes that in a fast-innovating world, imaginal skills now have as much or more value than analytical skills. Top down leadership simply doesn’t work when the pace of change is accelerating so fast. People now want to be inspired rather than to be ordered.

In her written and spoken work, Dr. Malmgren has also introduced the concepts of Cosmopoeisis and Conscious Capitalism. Cosmopoeisis is the act of world creation, which is much bigger than creating an idea or a business or a product or program. JRR Tolkien, Steve Jobs at Apple, Phil Knight at Nike and other visionary leaders all understood that the most successful ideas are about creating a world where others can become their best selves. It is about creating an invitational space. Conscious Capitalism is not just about being green or clean. It is also about thinking through the consequences for others. Peter Drucker always said, “businesses have to be profitable,” but real brands are built on their social purpose. That means awareness of consequences is essential for all leaders these days. Awareness of supply chains and social costs are essential to brand management and corporate success.

In this speech, Dr. Malmgren proposes ‘situational fluency’ as a new area of study - the ability to understand and move between multi-dimensional spheres and silos of expertise. This will allow leaders to join the dots across the landscape of reality to create a new global narrative on which a fresh leadership approach can be based.

Key Takeaways:

• Audiences will learn how to acquire sharper situational awareness, greater diversity of thinking, a willingness to lead from the heart rather than the head, and understand that the nature of leadership itself has evolved.
• In this speech, Dr. Malmgren compares and contrasts old ways and news ways of leadership - and explains why these shifts are inevitable and how they will touch communities, companies and countries alike. It does not matter how successful you are. It is possible to up your game.
• Understand why culture is the key. Human interest in coming together will always be the key to successful resolution of differences. Culture still beats strategy.