Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist, author and founder whose work has helped organisations anticipate and prepare for the profound impact of emerging technologies. Recognised globally for her expertise in strategic foresight, she has built a reputation for identifying the signals that shape the future of business, society and innovation. Her influence extends across corporate boardrooms, governments, academia and international institutions, earning her recognition as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. Through rigorous research and a distinctive data-driven approach, Amy has become a trusted voice on artificial intelligence, technology trends and long-term strategic planning.
Amy began her career as a foreign correspondent and technology reporter in Asia, writing for leading publications including The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. Her experience analysing technological change and global developments laid the foundation for her future work in forecasting. In 2006, she founded the Future Today Institute, originally known as the Future Today Strategy Group, which has grown into one of the world’s leading strategic forecasting firms. The following year, she launched her first annual Tech Trend Report, creating what would become an industry benchmark for tracking major technological convergences and their implications. Amy continued to expand her influence by co-founding Spark Camp in 2011, a leadership conference bringing together experts from technology, media and society. Her profile rose further following a widely viewed TED Talk titled 'How I hacked online dating' on algorithmic thinking and data in 2013, which has attracted more than four million views worldwide.
Alongside her advisory work, Amy is a highly regarded author and thought leader. Her memoir, 'Data, A Love Story', chronicled her innovative use of data to navigate online dating and demonstrated her ability to make complex ideas accessible and entertaining. She later published 'The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream', which won the Gold Axiom Medal for business books. Her international bestseller 'The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity' explored the future of artificial intelligence and its societal implications. She also co-authored 'The Genesis Machine', named by The New Yorker as one of the year’s best non fiction books. Amy has served as executive futurist consultant on Hulu’s science fiction drama 'The First' and was a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board. Her achievements include the Thinkers50 RADAR Award, inclusion on the BBC 100 Women list, recognition by Poets&Quants and being ranked the third most influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50.
As a speaker, Amy combines academic rigour, real-world experience and compelling storytelling to help audiences understand what comes next. Drawing on decades of research and forecasting, she translates complex technological developments into practical insights that leaders can act upon immediately. Her presentations are grounded in evidence rather than speculation, making them particularly valuable for organisations navigating uncertainty and disruption. Whether discussing artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, strategic foresight or the future of business, Amy delivers engaging, thought-provoking keynotes that challenge conventional thinking and equip audiences with the tools needed to anticipate change, identify opportunities and make better long-term decisions.
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Books
The Big Nine
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream
Data, A Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Amy Webb's official speaking topics are listed below:
What’s on the Horizon for Artificial Intelligence?
AI is no longer an emerging technology—it’s the engine of transformation across every sector of society. But what’s next? And are we truly prepared? In this eye-opening keynote, Amy Webb—quantitative futurist and author of The Big Nine—uncovers what’s really coming down the pipeline for artificial intelligence. From stunning breakthroughs in generative models to the quiet rise of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Webb connects today’s innovations to a future far more profound than most leaders anticipate. You’ll hear astonishing true stories and brand-new scenarios—both optimistic and catastrophic—that illustrate where AI could take us next. Whether it’s reshaping business strategy, rethinking ethics, or reengineering entire industries, this session equips leaders with the insights and tools they need to not only understand the trajectory of AI, but to actively shape it. Expect to walk away challenged, inspired, and ready for a future that’s arriving faster than anyone predicted.
Living Intelligence
Futurist Amy Webb introduced a radical new concept in a seminal paper that quickly went viral: Living Intelligence—systems that can sense, learn, adapt, and evolve. Powered by the convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, and biotechnology, Living Intelligence represents a profound shift in how machines interact with the world—and with us. In this mind-expanding keynote, Webb takes audiences deep into this emerging frontier, revealing how Living Intelligence is driving an exponential cycle of innovation, disrupting industries, and creating entirely new markets in its wake. This isn’t just about AI—it’s about a fusion of technologies that will reshape every sector, from healthcare to agriculture to energy. Leaders who focus solely on artificial intelligence, while ignoring its convergence with the physical and biological realms, risk being blindsided by a wave of disruption already forming. With breathtaking stories from the edge of science and industry, and never-before-seen insights, Webb challenges conventional thinking and offers a stunning preview of what’s next. Audiences will leave with a transformed understanding of innovation—and a clear view of how to lead through the next era of intelligent systems.
Scenes from the Future: A 5, 10, 15 or 20-Year Forecast of Your Industry
Technology continues to intersect with our lives in new, weird, and wonderful ways. With tech’s integration into our daily lives becoming second nature to so much of the world, we often overlook this intersection. And yet, emerging tech will play a key role in shaping the future of humanity. In this mind-bending session, world-renowned futurist Amy Webb takes audiences on a captivating journey as she provides a thought-provoking series of snapshots into the near and far future of business and society. Drawing from her work and research as founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group, she will develop an original set of scenarios that describe your organization or industry’s plausible futures in your choice of the 5, 10, 15 or 20 year time range. She will offer crisp, practical insights for how your organization can achieve its preferred future, and will put forth probable answers to tomorrow’s most pressing questions.
Emerging Tech Trends
Which tech trends should we be monitoring? How can businesses distinguish between “trend” and “trendy?” And most importantly, how can you prepare yourself and your organization for what’s next in a world where constant disruption is the norm? In this custom speech, futurist Amy Webb taps into her research of your organization and industry and links it to curated, data-driven longitudinal tech trends to reveal the forces shaping the future of your business. She connects trends from within and outside of your field to illustrate a chain reaction of events, the potential outcomes of those events, and the ways they might shake up your business, as well as provide tools and strategies for adapting. This talk is always original and has been delivered on the world’s largest and most prestigious stages, including the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival and World Economic Forum in Davos, to help organizations in any industry position themselves as the disruptors before being disrupted.
How to Think Like a Futurist
The world’s most successful leaders are the ones with the ability to manage the present and innovate for the future. As Amy Webb shares, this requires a new kind of strategic thinking. Drawing from her bestselling, award-winning book, The Signals Are Talking, Webb demonstrates how leaders can harness a futurist’s strategic tools to ignite future-focused creativity and innovation in support of their organization’s strategic objectives. In this talk, she provides an adaptable framework for how to think like a futurist, rethink risk, and know when to take action. She shares future scenarios for emerging tech in your industry and those adjacent to it—from synthetic biotechnology and artificial intelligence to metaverses and blockchain—and helps you discover your own ability to forecast what’s on the horizon and use that way of thinking to create your own preferred future today.
- 2025 – Ranked as the #3 most influential management thinker globally by Thinkers50
- 2023 – Named one of the Most Influential Business Professors by Poets&Quants
- 2022 – Co-authored and launched 'The Genesis Machine', which was named one of the year's best non-fiction works by The New Yorker
- 2022 – Received the official U.S. Army Mad Scientist proclamation for her contributions to technological foresight
- 2020 – Honoured by the BBC on their prestigious global 100 Women list
- 2019 – Published the international best-seller 'The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity'
- 2019 – Co-initiated the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board as a founding member
- 2018 – Served as the executive futurist consultant for the Hulu sci-fi drama series 'The First'
- 2017 – Won the Thinkers50 RADAR Award
- 2017 – Named one of the top 30 people shaping the future of organizational management
- 2016 – Published 'The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream', winning the Gold Axiom Medal for business books
- 2013 – Delivered TED Talk on algorithmic data thinking
- 2013 – Published her comedic, data-driven memoir 'Data, A Love Story'
- 2012 – Named as one of Forbes Women Changing the World: Technology
- 2011 – Co-founded Spark Camp
- 2007 – Created and published her first annual Tech Trend Report, establishing an industry-standard benchmark that tracks macro tech convergences
- 2006 – Founded the Future Today Institute (originally Future Today Strategy Group)
- 2001 – Worked as a foreign correspondent and technology reporter in Asia for elite publications including The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek
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