Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change? Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard

Update Feb 22: If you like this video, please have a look at my latest short film The Good Future right here on YT and subscribe to my newsletter at Business as usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. Exponential technologies are rapidly changing our lives and societies, every day, everywhere. We will need different skills, and we will need to get much better at driving change - or we will be driven by it. Most importantly, we should embrace technology but not become it. Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be - and anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable. Lastly, we must go beyond technology to define real human values in this new digital ecosystem. 0:00 - Intro 0:07 - Business as usual is dead or dying 0:44 - Science fiction is becoming science fact 1:23 - The exponential change 1:59 - Human traits will become extremely important 2:50 - The technological how and human why 3:30 - embrace technology, don’t become it A short film by Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard, produced in association with Accenture UPDATE 9/2020: Please also have a look at my new BEST OF VIRTUAL KEYNOTES 2020 Compilation: Get The 10 Technological and Societal Megashifts Rewiring Our World Free at: Subscribe to this channel to never miss a thing, and be sure to share my videos if you like them. You can sign up for my ’Best Reads & Finds’ curated futurist newsletter at If you like my videos and shows, you can download all episodes via (look for the folder or my keynotes 2020 folder) Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland (my latest book) Audio-only versions of most of my videos are available via SoundCloud , and Spotify see My key memes and messages can be browsed here: For booking inquiries, please go here If you enjoy my videos and talks, please take a look at my best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” - it’s now available in 12 languages! Twitter: @gleonhard Newsletter: Executive Producer and narrator: Gerd Leonhard Producer and Art Director: Jean-Francois Cardella Script: James McCabe After Effect: Sylvain Collet Sound mixing: Jeremy Joly Music by