Amy Webb
"I'm a quantitative futurist and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. I have never limited myself to one field exclusively, because I believe that the global challenges faced by business and society are interconnected across disciplines. My academic background includes game theory, economics, statistics, political science, computer science, sociology, music and journalism."
Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Webb's research focuses on strategic foresight and using data to model probable, plausible and possible scenarios for the future.
She was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led and won the prestigious 2017 Thinkers50 RADAR Award for her research and work in strategic foresight.
Her most recent book, 'The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity', is a call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
What you'll learn from Webb
- Understanding how the world will change after the COVID-19 crisis
- What kind of business opportunities will arise during and after it
The Future Today Institute
Professor Webb is the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading strategic foresight and future forecasting firm that researches emerging technology on behalf of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies and financial institutions around the world.
She has advised three-star generals, senior government administrators and executive leadership of the world's largest companies on the future of artificial intelligence.
Her future forecasting work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Wired, Fast Company, CNN, NPR and more.
She has given hundreds of keynotes and invited talks at international forums, which have included the World Economic Forum's Industry Strategy Meeting, South By Southwest, and the National Academies of Science.
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