Featured Speaker:

Amy Webb

World-Renowned Futurist; Founder & CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group

Amy Webb is widely recognized as the global authority who transformed the practice of strategic foresight into a rigorous, data-driven discipline. A pioneering quantitative futurist, she established the field’s foundational methodologies that today guide leaders, organizations, and governments in anticipating disruption, shaping the future, and securing long-term growth.

Exclusively represented for speaking by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Amy and her team advise a third of the Fortune 100. New CEOs rely on her counsel to navigate leadership transitions and articulate a vision for the next decade. Seasoned executives turn to her to identify their organizations’ next growth curves, while boards of directors seek her guidance to understand disruption, systemic risk, and opportunity amid accelerating change.

Her influence extends far beyond the private sector. She has advised three White House administrations and counsels U.S. federal agencies, Congress, and heads of state across four continents on technology and long-term planning and policy. For the past 10 years, she has served as a professor of strategic foresight at New York University Stern School of Business.

She also collaborates with the creative community to shape how millions of people imagine the future. Amy advises writers, directors, and producers on projects for Netflix, Hulu, and Marvel. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Ranked the #3 Most Influential Management Thinker in the World by Thinkers50, Amy is regarded as one of the most important voices on the future of technology, business, and society. Forbes named her “one of the five women changing the world,” and the BBC recognized her among its 100 Women of the Year. She is an elected Life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several boards for the World Economic Forum.

Her work appears regularly in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wired, The Atlantic, Fortune, and MIT Sloan Management Review. She is also a frequent guest on CNN, MS Now, Fox News, NPR, Marketplace, and television networks worldwide.

A prolific author, Amy has written four seminal books, including the international bestseller The Big Nine, which reframed global debates about AI, and The Genesis Machine, named by The New Yorker as one of the year’s best nonfiction books. Her books—translated into 23 languages—are read in boardrooms, classrooms, and policy circles around the world; two have been optioned for film.