Azeem Azhar: Global AI Futurist
Technology strategist and keynote speaker Azeem Azhar helps leaders navigate exponential technologies, geopolitics, and organizational strategy to futureproof decisions in an era of rapid disruption.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Founder of Exponential View with a global executive audience
- Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School
- Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council on Complex Risk
- Advisor to McKinsey, PwC, Accenture, and global governments
- Formats: Technology and strategy keynote speaker, futurist, advisor
- Audiences: C-suite executives, boards, policymakers, investors, and organizations navigating AI, climate tech, geopolitics, and digital transformation
- Outcomes:
- Clear frameworks for understanding exponential technologies
- Strategic insight into how AI and emerging tech reshape industries
- Practical guidance to futureproof organizations and decisions
- Travels from: London, UK
- **Fee range: $75,001 - $100,000
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Keynote Topics:
Generative AI: The good, the bad, the revolutionary
Experience the AI Revolution with Azeem Azhar: Get front-row insights into generative AI’s impact on business from a seasoned tech visionary. Azeem’s keynote is a masterclass in transforming AI complexities into clear, strategic advantages for your organization.
The Past & Future of the Exponential Age
An insightful journey into the exponential age, where AI, renewables, and biotech redefine our world fundamentally. Azeem, a celebrated futurist brings clarity and strategy to the forefront, helping diverse audiences from boardrooms to tech teams harness these transformative trends for future success.
The leaders guide to AI
The future of business will be shaped by AI. This keynote will delivery clarity on the trends that matter and how to approach them. Drawing on deep insight, academic research and practical knowledge, this talk address your key strategic questions from market expansion to workforce implications.
This talk can serve small groups of your Board or C-level or be delivered to larger leadership groups.
The AI opportunity for [your industry]
An industry-focused talk that zeros in on the specific opportunities and threats faced by your industry.
Talent Short Bio
Azeem Azhar is a globally recognized authority on exponential technologies and their impact on business, society, and geopolitics. He is known for translating complex, fast-moving innovations such as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, climate tech, and advanced manufacturing into clear strategic insight for senior leaders.
Azeem is the founder of Exponential View, a widely influential platform with more than 400,000 subscribers that delivers analysis on how accelerating technologies reshape economies and institutions. He is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and serves as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Complex Risk.
A trusted advisor to global organizations, Azeem has worked with McKinsey, PwC, Accenture, and governments worldwide on AI, advanced technologies, and climate innovation. His experience spans venture capital, policy advising, and strategic consulting, giving him a rare, cross-disciplinary perspective on technological change.
He is the author of The Exponential Age, widely acclaimed by executives, economists, and academics, and named to best-of lists by the Financial Times, London Times, MIT Technology Review, and Harvard Business Review. As a keynote speaker, Azeem equips leaders with frameworks to cut through noise, understand which technologies truly matter, and act decisively in a period of unprecedented transformation.
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Keynote Speaker Azeem Azhar is a world-renowned authority on the intersection of exponential technologies and organizational strategy. Known for his ability to decode complex tech-driven transformations, from artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to climate tech and geopolitics, Azeem equips business leaders with the strategic foresight they need to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.
As the founder of Exponential View, a globally influential platform with over 400,000 subscribers, and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, Azeem’s insights are trusted by C-suite executives, policymakers, and innovation leaders worldwide. Azeem Azhar serves as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Complex Risk and is a sought-after advisor to organizations like McKinsey, PwC, and Accenture.
Highly praised by executives at Spotify, LinkedIn and Accenture, as well as by economists and academics alike, “The Exponential Age” was named to best-of lists for 2021 by the Financial Times, London Times, MIT Technology Review and Harvard Business Review. A venture capitalist whose tech expertise is highly sought-after by governments, consultancies and financial firms around the world, Azhar has been a senior advisor to Hong Kong’s mass transit authority, MTR, consulted on AI and advanced technologies at Accenture and McKinsey & Co., and Azeem Azhar has advised PwC on climate technologies.
With so many technologies developing and scaling quickly, leaders need to be able to cut through the noise to focus on which technologies they’ll need to directly contend with. Azeem Azhar excels as an executive’s key advisor by providing a methodology for understanding complex technologies, how those technologies will impact an industry or organization, and how leaders can act now to futureproof their companies.
We find ourselves at a pivotal moment in history, as we navigate significant shifts driven by a range of powerful exponential technologies. Among these, artificial intelligence stands out, along with renewables, synthetic biology, 3D printing, and more. These technologies are ushering in a transformation of a magnitude unprecedented in the last century and perhaps ever before. This transformation is occurring against a backdrop of changing climates, shifting demographics, and evolving geopolitics.
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