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Andrew McAfee
Co-Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy | Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan | Bestselling Author, The Geek Way & The Second Machine Age | Futurist
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan and co-founder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He has spent two decades translating digital-economy research into practical guidance for executives. His acclaimed book The Geek Way reveals what makes tech-driven companies adaptive — and how any organization can copy the playbook. Audiences leave his keynotes sharper on AI, talent, and the future of work.
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Andrew McAfee biography
Future of work speaker Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. For more than two decades, speaker Andrew McAfee has studied how digital technology, artificial intelligence, and management innovation are reshaping companies, labor markets, and the global economy — translating MIT-grade research into clear, actionable insight for executives.
His latest book, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results, was named a Financial Times Business Book of the Month and an Economist Best Book of the Year. In it, McAfee distills the four cultural norms — science, ownership, speed, and openness — that separate the world’s most successful technology companies from their slower-moving incumbents, and shows how any organization can adopt them.
From Race Against the Machine to The Geek Way
McAfee is the co-author, with Erik Brynjolfsson, of three landmark books on the digital economy: Race Against the Machine, the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, and Machine, Platform, Crowd. His earlier work includes Enterprise 2.0 and More From Less, the latter making the optimistic case that capitalism and technological progress are dematerializing economic growth and improving environmental outcomes.
His research and commentary have appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, on CNN and 60 Minutes, and at the World Economic Forum, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival. His broader research is published through the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, which he co-founded.
As a speaker, Andrew McAfee gives executives what they actually need: a clear-eyed view of how AI, automation, and digital operating models are rewriting the rules of competition, and a practical framework for building organizations that can win in the new economy. His keynotes pair MIT-caliber rigor with the storytelling instincts of a writer, leaving senior audiences both better informed and better equipped to act.
Andrew McAfee Speaking Videos
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Andrew McAfee - Dematerialization: Humanity’s Biggest Surprise
Andrew McAfee Keynote Topics
Drawing on his FT Business Book of the Month The Geek Way, Andrew McAfee unpacks the four cultural norms — science, ownership, speed, and openness — that explain why the most successful technology companies consistently out-innovate, out-execute, and out-adapt their incumbent rivals. The keynote translates these patterns into concrete management practices any organization can adopt, regardless of industry.
Tech giants like Amazon and Google didn't win by being lucky; they built a different kind of operating model. McAfee shows how leaders can redesign their company's core processes, decision rights, data infrastructure, and talent practices to compete in a digital economy. He outlines what to keep, what to retire, and how to sequence the transformation without breaking the business.
AI, automation, and remote collaboration are restructuring where work happens, who does it, and how value is created. McAfee provides senior leaders with an evidence-based map of where machines genuinely outperform humans, where humans remain irreplaceable, and where the most economic value is being created at the intersection. He closes with a practical agenda for upskilling, organizational design, and leadership in the AI era.
Why do strong companies suddenly underperform? McAfee draws on years of research into organizations, economies, and industries to identify the structural and cultural patterns that quietly erode performance: misaligned incentives, slow decision-making, broken feedback loops, and capital allocation drift. He provides a diagnostic framework leaders can use to find the failures inside their own organization before they reach the income statement.
In an era of justified anxiety about climate and resources, McAfee makes the data-driven case that advanced economies are now growing while consuming fewer raw materials per unit of output. The keynote — based on his book More From Less — explains the four forces driving dematerialization (markets, technology, public awareness, and policy) and what business leaders can do to accelerate environmental and economic progress at the same time.
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FAQs on Booking Andrew McAfee
Why Andrew McAfee?
Andrew McAfee combines MIT research credibility, three bestselling books on the digital economy, and a rare on-stage ability to make complex shifts in technology and management feel obvious in retrospect. He has briefed audiences from the World Economic Forum and TED to corporate boardrooms, and his frameworks — from The Second Machine Age to The Geek Way — have shaped how a generation of executives think about AI, automation, and organizational design. Book Andrew McAfee through Aurum Speakers Bureau to give your senior audience the clearest available view of how the digital economy is rewriting the rules of competition.
What is The Geek Way about?
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results is Andrew McAfee's latest book, named a Financial Times Business Book of the Month and an Economist Best Book of the Year. It identifies four cultural norms — science, ownership, speed, and openness — that explain why companies like Amazon, Netflix, Google, and SpaceX consistently outperform their industrial-era counterparts, and provides a practical playbook for any organization that wants to operate the same way.
What is Andrew McAfee's role at MIT?
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a research center focused on how digital technologies are transforming the economy, business, and society. His work bridges academic research and executive practice, with frequent contributions to leading business publications and direct advisory engagements with global enterprises.
What does Andrew McAfee speak about?
McAfee's most-requested keynotes cover the cultural lessons of high-performing tech companies (The Geek Way), digital operating models, AI and the future of work, corporate dysfunction and how to fix it, and the surprising case that capitalism plus technology can decouple growth from environmental harm. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to align Andrew McAfee's keynote with the strategic priorities of your audience.
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