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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. The architect of quantitative futurism, she turned futures thinking from intuition into a rigorous, data-driven discipline. As founder of the Future Today Strategy Group, she advises Fortune 100 companies, governments, and institutions on converging disruptions in AI and biotech, equipping leaders to anticipate change and secure lasting 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. Few practitioners have shaped the discipline as profoundly as speaker Amy Webb.
Futurist speaker Amy Webb advises a significant share 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. Her firm’s client roster includes Mastercard, Ford, and NASA.
Webb is Adjunct Professor of Strategic Foresight at NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches MBA-level futures forecasting. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she serves on the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board and Global Risks Board, is an AI Governance Alliance partner, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Recognition and Influence
Recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers, Webb has been ranked on the Thinkers50 list and won its Radar Award. Forbes named her one of “Five Women Changing the World,” and she was listed among the BBC’s 100 Women. For nearly two decades her firm’s annual emerging tech trends report was an industry institution, downloaded more than a million times a year. She has since retired that format in favor of the Convergence Outlook, a framework built for an era in which technology, capital, geopolitics, and climate pressures collide at once rather than arriving in sequence.
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 reshape humanity. The Big Nine examines how tech giants are shaping the future of AI and won the Gold Axiom Medal. The Signals Are Talking, a Fast Company Best Book, lays out 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 the questions that define organizational futures: how to design innovation ecosystems, how to navigate the convergence of AI, biotechnology, and advanced sensors into what she calls “living intelligence,” and how to 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 vivid storytelling that make the future tangible and actionable for senior leaders navigating unprecedented change.
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Amy Webb Keynote Topics
Great leaders don't simply react to change, they anticipate it and shape it. In this keynote, Amy Webb reveals how to develop a futurist's mindset to unlock creativity, drive innovation, and prepare organizations for what's next. Drawing on her work advising Fortune 100 companies and global governments, she shares practical frameworks for identifying weak signals of disruption, mapping plausible futures, and making strategic decisions that balance present pressures with long-term vision. Audiences learn to move from reactive planning to proactive strategy, positioning their organizations to thrive amid accelerating technological, economic, and societal shifts.
Artificial intelligence is not 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 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 equips leaders with strategic insight to navigate industries being redefined by biological and digital convergence. Webb connects today's breakthroughs to profound future scenarios, helping audiences understand not just AI's trajectory but the broader revolution transforming everything.
AI has moved from emerging technology to the engine of transformation across every sector, but what is 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 scenarios both optimistic and cautionary, illustrating where AI could take us and why embodied intelligence through robotics may prove 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 forces reshaping business no longer arrive one at a time. In her most current framework, Webb argues that we have entered an era of convergence, where technology, capital, geopolitics, climate pressures, and shifting human behavior collide to create system-level change that is greater than the sum of its parts. This keynote gives leaders a way to think about compounding disruption rather than isolated trends, showing how to spot convergences early, assess where power and value will move, and build strategies resilient enough for a world in which the old, linear model of change no longer applies.
Speaker topics
FAQs on Booking Amy Webb
Why Amy Webb?
Booking Amy Webb is a strategic investment in helping your organization understand and prepare for transformative change. As the world's leading quantitative futurist and the creator of methodologies used globally, Webb does not 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 such as 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 for the convergence of three general-purpose technologies: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and advanced sensors. Together they create systems that can sense, learn, adapt, and evolve, fundamentally rewriting technology's role in society. Webb introduced the concept in her research and on the SXSW stage, warning that this convergence is driving a technology supercycle with decades-long implications for business, governance, and human life. She argues that organizations must prepare now, because living intelligence will reshape everything from drug discovery and personalized medicine to robotics and materials science.
Why did Amy Webb retire her annual tech trends report?
For nearly two decades, Webb's annual emerging tech trends report was an industry institution, downloaded more than a million times a year and widely imitated. She retired the format because it was built for a world in which forces of change moved in sequence, one technology emerging, gaining traction, and reshaping a market at a time. That linear model no longer fits reality. In its place she introduced the Convergence Outlook, which examines what happens when technologies, capital, geopolitics, and climate pressures mature and collide at once, producing system-level change that is far harder to predict and far more consequential.
What topics does futurist speaker Amy Webb cover?
Amy Webb's keynotes address strategic foresight, artificial intelligence and its governance, the convergence of AI with biotechnology and sensors, technology supercycles, synthetic biology, innovation strategy, and preparing organizations for disruptive change. She tailors her strategic foresight methodology to each audience, providing curated tools, frameworks, and action steps for specific industries and challenges. Her presentations combine data-rich analysis with vivid 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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