We are pleased to announce that the next distinguished speaker to attend the Futurist of The Year 2024 Science Congress will be Jonathan Brill – futurologist, scientist and publicist. He is “the world’s best futurist” according to Forbes magazine. Harvard Business Review called him “the world’s leading architect of transformation” and Inc. magazine called him a “Legend of Silicon Valley” for his work as a global futurist at HP, as an inventor AI and Metaverse technology, and as an advisor to the US Secret Service.
His visionary but pragmatic approach to the future is based on years of work as a futurologist directing long-term strategies and planning. He is also a research fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and a management consultant at Frost & Sullivan.
Brill’s innovation consultancies developed more than 350 products and generated more than $27 billion in revenue for clients such as Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have included technologies ranging from artificial intelligence, search engines and the metaverse, to theme park attractions and the design of the U.S. pavilion at the 2015 World Expo (Expo Milano) and Gordita at Taco Bell.
Jonathan Brill is a thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, the Peter Drucker Global Forum, South China Morning Post, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He educates corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford University.
On the first day of the Futurist of The Year 2024 Scientific Congress, which will be held April 9-11 in Warsaw, Poland, Jonathan Brill will give a lecture on AI technologies.
For more information about the Futurist Of The Year 2024 Science Congress, visit www.futuristoftheyear.com.
“Don’t just watch your future happen – architect it”.
“Don’t just watch your future happen – architect it.” In his talks, Jonathan Brill takes the audience to future horizons and shows them how to use change to their advantage. Drawing on a $15 million research program and his international bestseller “Rogue Waves,” he shares how the collision of technological, geopolitical, economic and social trends will affect specific audiences. Brill then presents practical, innovative tools to gain from these changes. He makes the future concrete with related stories that inspire awe, influence action and inspire a new sense of comfort in the face of uncertainty. JP Morgan’s Head of Learning and Development said: “our executives walked away changed.” You will too.
Jonathan Brill – BIO
Jonathan Brill is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. He writes, gives presentations and advises startups, Fortune 50 companies and secret services on how to create and take advantage of uncertainty. His friendly personality, compelling stories and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hardened executives to new ways of thinking and acting.
Harvard Business Review recently called Brill “the world’s most outstanding architect of transformation,” and Forbes called him “the world’s best futurist”. His visionary but pragmatic approach to the future is based on his years as Global Futurist at HP, where he led long-term strategy and planning. He is a senior research fellow at HBR’s Institute for China’s New Growth and a managing advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market research firms, with offices in 46 countries.
He is the author of “Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change” (McGraw-Hill), which was the second best-selling book on economics in China. The Economist magazine called it ” a very important book for managers,” and Adam Grant called it “a grounding model for implementing change instead of being unpleasantly surprised by it.” Jonathan Brill has already taught the techniques in the book to more than 27,000 executives, from startups to Fortune 500 to the US Secret Service.
Inc. magazine called Brill a “Silicon Valley legend,” as his innovation consulting developed more than 350 products and generated more than $27 billion in revenue for clients such as Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have included technologies ranging from artificial intelligence, search engines and the metaverse, to theme park attractions and the design of the U.S. pavilion at the 2015 World Expo (Expo Milano) and Gordita at Taco Bell.
Jonathan Brill is a frequent thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, the Peter Drucker Global Forum, South China Morning Post, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He educates corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford University.
He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, worked for years as a research consultant at the MIT Media Lab, and received management training at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
