Thomas Koulopoulos FUTURIST. AUTHOR. VISIONARY. INVENTOR. INC500 LEADER.

In this tour-de-force keynote Tom looks at the greatest technological shifts of the 21st century and lays out a roadmap to navigate the change, disruption, and opportunities they will create.  Gigatrends sheds a bright and insightful light on the many unanticipated ways that technologies such as AI will shape the future and how they will alter the landscape for risk and opportunity; connecting the dots between what are often confusing and disconnected trends. 

At a time when uncertainty seems to be looming large over every aspect of our lives. Gigatrends sets a course for the future that is realistic, fascinating, and above all, hopeful.

Companies are struggling to navigate a perfect storm of economic, workforce, and market disruption the likes of which we have never seen on such a large and prolonged scale. However, that doesn’t mean that it can’t be done, only that we need to be creative and courageous enough to change the way we approach much of what we’ve come to accept as the way we work and run our businesses.

In this keynote, Tom provides a roadmap for navigating the future of a workplace where humans and digital workers will work side by side, marketplaces where friction is virtually eliminated, the role that AI will play in reimagining work, and the critical issues of managing Gen Z and Gen Alpha. 

This is a watershed moment in history; some companies will reinvent themselves and the way they engage with employees, customers, and partners, while others are quickly left behind. Simply put, there is opportunity in the uncertainty. The take away will be a positive and realistic look at how to reimagine the work.

The world is at the precipice of one of the most dramatic shifts in history: the transition from an industrial society to one that is based on a deep understanding of an entirely new form of knowledge capital, behavior—our behaviors as well as those of the intelligent machines that we are building.

Although revealing our behaviors may conjure up images of Minority Report and 1984, the reality is that a new kind of value is emerging that has the power to profoundly transform our lives, our economy, and our businesses—from personalized medicine and autonomous advocates, to hyper-personalized products and loyal brands that know what you need before you know to ask for it.

And it’s not just human behaviors that are being captured and analyzed. AI-powered autonomous vehicles, smart devices, algorithms, and intelligent machines will all exhibit behaviors. In this very near future, every person and digital device will have its own digital-self—a digital twin which knows more about us than we know about ourselves. These intelligent objects will communicate with each other across vast digital ecosystems, creating a level of collaboration and transparency we can barely imagine today. Your digital-self will be one of your most valuable assets, requiring radical new technologies and approaches for how you own, protect, and share your digital behaviors.

Far-fetched? Only if you discount the enormous power of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, which will use the invisible patterns in all of our behaviors to develop an intimate understand of what drives us, where we see value, and how we want to experience the world.

Fascinating, engaging, and incredibly timely, Revealing the Invisible provides a front row seat to the future of business and our lives in the 21st Century.

The single most significant shift in business is underway - Digital disruption seems to come up in virtually every conversation about the future, but what most people don't talk about is how it's opening up the door to the evolution of Digital Business Ecosystems. Simply put, Digital Business Ecosystems are fully digital networks of suppliers and partners that redefine their products and services to capture new opportunities for growth in tired old markets. They are not only at the heart of successful high growth companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Facebook, but also long standing and traditional market players such as Boeing, GE, New Balance, Starbucks, Capital One, and Coca-Cola.

Digital Ecosystems create entirely new business models that drive out all of the friction in an industry and use behavioral data and machine learning  to create an entirely new integrated and nearly effortless customer experience.

In this leading edge keynote, Tom looks at how Digital Transformation and Business Ecosystems, from insurance to healthcare to education to manufacturing and retail, will be critical to the success of every business in every industry over the decades to come.

One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post millennial generation, Gen Z.

While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society, no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability to make sure that every human being on the planet is connected to each other, fully educated, and economically engaged. What might this mean for the way in which we build our business, markets, and institutions for education in the future?

In this revolutionary keynote, drawing from his book, The Gen Z Effect, Tom delves into a vision of the future that will not only disrupt but also reinvent almost every aspect of how we work, live and play. From radical new approaches to marketing and manufacturing to the potential obliteration of intellectual property and the shift to mass innovation, Tom provides a mind-bending view of why we will need to embrace Gen Z as the last best hope for taking on the world's biggest challenges and opportunities, and how you can prepare yourself and your business for the greatest era of prosperity and advance the world has ever experienced.

In this lighting-paced, tour-de-force session Tom looks at how companies are radically changing their approach to innovation by learning how to fail fast, embrace uncertainty, build for the unknown, abandon the success of the past, focus on their core competencies, and challenge conventional wisdom. Tom uses examples from some of the pioneering innovators from Sony to Apple and 3M to NASA to illustrate some of the best and brightest success stories of innovation at work. His views will provide a prescription for change in how you approach innovation, in a way that is straight forward, comprehensive, and, above all else, incredibly practical. You’ll identify the ways in which you can drive your own organization’s efforts to increase innovation and better leverage the latent creativity in every organization.

Come prepared for an enlightening and life-changing discussion about the importance of innovation and get ready to take a hard look at how issues of culture, generations, and leadership impact the way we innovate. Tom’s approach is insightful and cutting but be forewarned, at times unorthodox. It’s the reason Forbes.com called him Business Visionary with an incisive view of world trade and why, in the words of his long time mentor Peter Drucker, “Tom makes you rethink not only your business but yourself.

You’ll leave this session with a roadmap and a context for your conference experience and with specific insights, methods and tools to help you quantify your organization’s innovative ability as well as a solid foundation for the decisions you will need to make in the months and years ahead.

The Cloud is the hottest topic since the advent of the Internet. And nobody can speak to it with more insight, energy, and humor than Tom. It’s why HP, Microsoft, Gartner, Intel, Cisco and many others have asked Tom to keynote their organizations’ cloud events. Drawing on his latest e-book, Cloud Surfing, Tom paints a powerful picture of how The Cloud will change the way we live, work and play.

How will The Cloud define your job. Social Media, open models for education, the ongoing debate about classroom vs. virtual learning, mining online conversations, and identifying needs for education.

What is The Cloud? It’s a framework for the disruption of structure. A place where we will all learn, live, work and play in the 21st Century. It’s where nearly 35 million people already work. It’s where your kids are when they dive into online play. It’s a classroom without walls, instructors, or curriculums. It’s where you meet and make friends in social networks and where conversations are turned into communities. It’s where companies go to find the next big idea. It’s where political campaigns are won and lost. It’s where the future will outweigh the All that may seem radical, but it doesn’t even come close to defining how disruptive The Cloud will be.

In its simplest terms The Cloud is the new context for innovating business and society.

However, the Cloud is NOT just about technology. In fact technology is only a small part of The Cloud. Just as important is the way The Cloud changes the way we collaborate, work, how we are influenced and how we influence, and how we experience the world.

Join Tom as he takes you into the cloud to better understand how we can respond to this massive change in order to transform ourselves and our industry!

Tom takes the time to really understand his audiences. This doesn't just mean a 15 or 30 minute prep call. Instead Tom will take as much time as is needed to talk with the client about their industry, the event messaging, and attendees. To put it in his words, "Tell me what keeps your attendees up at night. That's what I want to help them with." 

Tom takes the time to talk to prospects and clients. He will get to know the event, the organizer's objectives, and the audience intimately. In addition to pre-event planning calls, that means arriving early to participate in receptions, and staying after the keynote to talk to his audience.

Actionable content: It's great to engage and entertain an audience, and Tom commands the stage with authority and authenticity that connects with audiences across industries, demographics, and seniority; however,  he goes deeper to provide actionable strategies for his audience to use when they get back to the office.