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

Once upon a time business as usual was often good enough. No more. Where we are going, good enough is dead.

In a world where everything is connected, where everything is equally excellent, where performance is reaching perfection, there's only one space left to innovate in - you. Right now, you are a central point of the raging tornado of change fueled by digitization, mobilization, augmentation, disintermediation, Automation - well the list goes on. Science fiction is becoming science fact.

Think about self-driving cars or computers that can learn and think. The way we work will never be the same. The skills we need will be dramatically different.

Winning or losing are now happening faster than ever before. So what's your response? How will you discover new opportunities in one of the most transformational times in human history?

Are you driving change, or are you being driven by it? Disruption has become the new normal. With change, it's always gradually, then suddenly.

Well, things really have stopped happening gradually. This change is exponential. Everything that used to be dumb and disconnected is now wired and Intelligent.

Cars, cities, ports, farms even our bodies will be wired with sensors and will talk to each other. These game changes are also Combinatorial. They amplify each other creating a perfect storm of change.

Quantum computing fuels Big Data, the Internet-of-things fuels artificial intelligence and deep learning which fuels robotics. however, anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable. Human-only traits such as creativity, imagination, Intuition, emotion, and ethics will be even more important in the future, Because machines are very good at simulating, but not at being Yes, robots and software will do some of our work, but this will allow us to focus on things that cannot be automated.

To imagine change squared, you've got to start engaging more with what might be not just with what is. Immerse yourself in the immediate future five to seven years out from today. We need to go beyond technology and data to reach human insights and wisdom.

Technology represents the how of change, but humans represent the why. The future is about holistic business models. The opportunity is to be liquid to learn just in time not just in case not single Improvements, but complete transformations not individual systems, but new Ecosystems.

Humanity is where true and lasting value is created. We will engage late and buy things because of the experiences they provide and because of their transformative power. The future doesn't just happen - the future gets happened!

The new way to work is to embrace technology but not to become it, The future is in technology, yet the bigger future lies in transcending it. Let's live and lead from here.