Celebrity Speaker for Hire Amy Webb is a renowned futurist, strategist, author and professor. She is the founder of the Future Today Institute, an evidence based data analyzation firm that predicts and prototypes the future. She was named on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers most likely to shape the future. She is also the 2017 winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award. Webb’s work in forecasting methodology has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, New York Times and Fast Company.
Webb’s data methodology has advised three-star generals and admirals, White House leadership and CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies. Amy also writes extensively about artificial intelligence, emerging technology, digital media and the impacts and opportunities they present to society. She is the tech columnist and a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine, and regularly contributes to publications all over the world, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fortune, Mother Jones and others.
Webb’s mission to change the face of the future is captured in her most recent best-selling and award winning book, “The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream”. The book covers how organizations can identify risks and act preemptively before disruption strikes. It was named one of Amazon’s top books of 2016. Webb also wrote, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity. This disruptive book outlines the broken nature of artificial intelligence and how to address it.
Her viral TED Talk, How I Hacked Online Dating, based on her memoir, “Data, A Love Story,” has been viewed more than six million times and was translated into 32 languages. The memoir is even being adapted as a feature film. Webb has given multiple TED Talks, spoken at emerging tech conferences, and analytics conferences.
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