Gerd Leonhard
Gerd Leonhard is a keynote speaker, futurist & humanist, film maker, musician, and renowned author. He is the CEO of The Futures Agency, a unique, global organisation designed to help its clients discover, understand and create their preferred future.
Gerd did his Basic Studies in Theology from the University of Bonn. As one of the leading futurists worldwide, Gerd has presented at over 1500 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years in the field of digital ethics (the ethics of technology). He has an affluent experience of working extensively with the likes of Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi and IBM, just to name a few.
Gerd is a Forbes column contributor, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London), a Visiting Professor at the Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil, and a member of the World Future Society.
He contributes regularly with his insights and thoughts in The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Wired UK, and interviews with the likes of BBC, CNN, Arirang TV, Swiss SRF, ZDF, ARD, ARTE.
Gerd trained in Jazz Guitar from Berklee College of Music and dedicated significant time in life to music at LicenseMusic.com Inc, Musicrypt, PopKomm Innovation In Music and Entertainment Awards, and Sonific.
He is also a filmmaker, who runs his own film studio, TFAStudios, and is the CEO of TheFuturesAgency, a global network of 50+ leading futurists. Gerd’s films on the future of technology and humanity, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence have reached millions of viewers, and are regularly shown at many conferences and at in-house corporate training.
Gerd was named as Wired UK’s 100 Most Influential Europeans in 2015 and ranked #7 in the global ranking of futurists.
Gerd’s client list includes most Fortune 500 companies as well as many governments and NGOs. He is considered a leading voice on a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence and cognitive computing, the opportunities and challenges of being human in an exponential society, a sustainable business and cultural ecology, TV/film, radio and broadcasting futures, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, ‘hard-future’ consumer trends, (wo)man-machine futures, the IoT, big data and automation and many others.
