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Amy Webb
Quantitative Futurist | Founder & CEO, Future Today Strategy Group | Professor, Strategic Foresight at NYU Stern | Thinkers50 Leader | Bestselling Author
Strategic foresight has never mattered more, and no one has shaped the field more profoundly than Amy Webb. As the architect of quantitative futurism, she transformed futures thinking from intuition into rigorous, data-driven discipline. Founder of the Future Today Strategy Group, she advises Fortune 100 companies, governments, and global institutions navigating convergent disruptions in AI, biotechnology, and emerging technologies—equipping leaders to anticipate change and secure competitive advantage.
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Amy Webb biography
Amy Webb is the global authority who transformed strategic foresight into a rigorous, data-driven discipline. As Founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group, she pioneered the world’s first quantitative modeling approach to foresight, establishing methodologies now used by leaders, organizations, and governments worldwide to anticipate disruption and secure long-term growth.
Futurist speaker Amy Webb advises a significant portion of the Fortune 100 alongside the White House, U.S. federal agencies, Congress, the European Union, and the United Nations, where her work informs global technology governance and long-term policy planning. Her proprietary methodology identifies early signals of transformation across industries, converting them into actionable intelligence and mapping the implications of emerging technologies—from artificial intelligence and biotechnology to climate systems and geoeconomic realignments.
Webb is Adjunct Professor of Strategic Foresight at NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches MBA-level futures forecasting. She was elected a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board, Global Risks Board, and as an AI Governance Alliance partner. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Recognition and Influence
Recognized as one of the most influential management thinkers globally, Webb was ranked on the Thinkers50 list and won the Thinkers50 Radar Award. Forbes named her one of “Five Women Changing the World,” and she was listed among the BBC’s 100 Women. Her firm’s annual Tech Trends Report is downloaded more than one million times each year.
Webb is the award-winning author of four books. The Genesis Machine, co-authored with microbiologist Andrew Hessel, was named a New Yorker Best Book and explores how synthetic biology will revolutionize humanity. The Big Nine examines how tech giants are shaping AI’s future and won the Gold Axiom Medal for best business and technology book. The Signals Are Talking, selected as one of Fast Company’s Best Books, reveals her strategic foresight methodology. Her memoir Data: A Love Story became a viral TED talk and launched critical conversations about algorithms and human relationships.
As a speaker, Amy Webb brings unmatched clarity to questions that define organizational futures: how to design innovation ecosystems, navigate the convergence of AI, biotechnology, and advanced sensors into what she terms “living intelligence,” and prepare for technology supercycles that will reshape entire industries. Audiences value her ability to translate complex foresight research into practical frameworks for decision-making, delivered with sharp wit and compelling storytelling that makes the future tangible and actionable for senior leaders navigating unprecedented change.
Amy Webb Speaking Videos
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Amy Webb Keynote Topics
Great leaders don't simply react to change—they anticipate it and shape it. In this transformative keynote, Amy Webb reveals how to develop a futurist's mindset to unlock creativity, drive innovation, and prepare organizations for what's next. Drawing from her work advising Fortune 100 companies and global governments, Webb shares practical frameworks for identifying weak signals of disruption, mapping plausible futures, and making strategic decisions that balance present challenges with long-term vision. Audiences learn how to move from reactive planning to proactive strategy, positioning their organizations to thrive amid accelerating technological, economic, and societal shifts.
Artificial intelligence isn't the only transformation reshaping our world. Webb reveals how the convergence of AI, biotechnology, and advanced sensors is creating "living intelligence"—systems that sense, learn, adapt, and evolve in ways that will fundamentally rewrite business, healthcare, manufacturing, and society itself. From computers made of living neurons to materials with properties beyond nature, this keynote explores the technology supercycle now underway and provides leaders with strategic insights to navigate industries being redefined by biological and digital convergence. Webb connects today's breakthroughs to profound future scenarios, equipping audiences to understand not just AI's trajectory, but the broader technological revolution transforming everything.
AI has moved from emerging technology to the engine of transformation across every sector—but what's truly coming next, and are organizations genuinely prepared? Amy Webb cuts through the noise to reveal AI's actual trajectory, from multi-agent collaboration and large action models that predict behavior to the quiet rise of artificial general intelligence. She presents astonishing scenarios—both optimistic and cautionary—illustrating where AI could take us and why embodied intelligence through robotics may be essential for AGI. This session equips leaders with frameworks to understand AI's evolution, rethink strategy and ethics, and actively shape outcomes rather than simply react to them.
The metaverse and decentralized systems are reshaping how organizations operate, transact, and engage stakeholders. Webb explores the evolving role of virtual environments, shifting power dynamics in financial and commercial transactions, and the strategic considerations for navigating this technological shift. From real estate and banking to education and governance, decentralization is redefining operational models. This keynote provides actionable insights for leaders preparing to compete in digitally native ecosystems where traditional boundaries dissolve and new opportunities emerge for those positioned to act decisively.
Speaker topics
FAQs on Booking Amy Webb
Why Amy Webb?
Booking Amy Webb for your event is a strategic investment in helping your organization understand and prepare for transformative change. As the world's leading quantitative futurist and creator of methodologies used globally, Webb doesn't offer speculation—she delivers data-driven foresight grounded in rigorous research. Her work advising Fortune 100 companies, the White House, and the United Nations has positioned her as the authority on navigating convergent technologies like AI, biotechnology, and advanced sensors. Her keynotes equip senior leaders with practical frameworks to identify early signals, map plausible futures, and make decisions that secure long-term competitive advantage. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to book Amy Webb for your next event.
What is Amy Webb's "living intelligence" concept?
Living intelligence is Amy Webb's framework describing the convergence of three general-purpose technologies: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and advanced sensors. This convergence creates systems that can sense, learn, adapt, and evolve—fundamentally rewriting how we understand technology's role in society. Webb introduced this concept in her Tech Trends Report and during her keynote at SXSW, warning that this convergence is driving a technology supercycle with decades-long implications for business, governance, and human life. She argues organizations must prepare now for these shifts, as living intelligence will impact everything from drug discovery and personalized medicine to robotics and materials science.
What are Amy Webb's most popular books?
Amy Webb has authored four influential books. The Genesis Machine, co-authored with Andrew Hessel, was named a New Yorker Best Book and explores synthetic biology's potential to reprogram life itself. The Big Nine examines how tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are shaping artificial intelligence's future, winning the Gold Axiom Medal. The Signals Are Talking reveals her strategic foresight methodology and was selected as one of Fast Company's Best Books of 2016. Her memoir Data: A Love Story chronicles her data-driven approach to online dating, became a viral TED talk, and sparked global conversations about algorithms in personal life.
What topics does futurist speaker Amy Webb cover?
Amy Webb's keynotes address strategic foresight, artificial intelligence governance, the convergence of AI with biotechnology and sensors, technology supercycles, synthetic biology, emerging tech trends, innovation strategy, and preparing organizations for disruptive change. She customizes her strategic foresight methodology for each audience, providing curated tools, frameworks, and action steps tailored to specific industries and challenges. Her presentations combine data-rich analysis with compelling scenarios that help leaders visualize plausible futures and make better decisions today. Aurum Speakers Bureau can help you determine which of Webb's topics best fits your event objectives.
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