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Artificial intelligence is no longer a future trend—it is reshaping industries, redefining work, and influencing how people interact with information, institutions, and one another. Yet amid the excitement, many leaders are still grappling with what AI will actually mean for their organizations and the broader world.
In this insightful keynote, Noreena Hertz cuts through the headlines to explore the real opportunities and challenges of the AI era. Drawing on her expertise at the intersection of technology, economics, and society, she examines how AI is transforming business models, decision-making, productivity, and workforce dynamics. She also addresses critical questions around ethics, bias, trust, governance, and what it means to remain human in an increasingly automated world.
Combining research, real-world examples, and forward-looking analysis, Noreena equips audiences with a practical framework for understanding and navigating the AI revolution.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand the opportunities and risks AI presents to organizations and society.
- Learn how AI is transforming business, work, and decision-making.
- Identify strategies for leveraging AI while managing ethical and operational challenges.
- Gain insights into the future of leadership and human potential in an AI-driven world.
The geopolitical, economic, and business environment is undergoing a profound transformation. Shifting alliances, supply chain realignments, demographic changes, technological disruption, and growing uncertainty are creating new challenges—and new opportunities—for organizations around the world.
In this timely keynote, Noreena Hertz helps audiences understand the forces reshaping the global landscape and what they mean for business strategy. She provides a clear and compelling framework for navigating volatility, building resilience, and identifying opportunities in an era where change has become the norm.
Drawing on her work advising global companies and senior leaders, Noreena offers practical insights for organizations seeking to remain competitive, adaptable, and future-ready.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand the major geopolitical and economic trends shaping the global marketplace.
- Learn how shifting trade, technology, and demographic dynamics impact business strategy.
- Discover practical approaches for building resilience in uncertain environments.
- Gain tools to help organizations adapt and thrive amid constant change.
oday’s youngest workforce and consumer generation is redefining expectations around work, leadership, community, and brand loyalty. Yet many organizations continue to approach them using assumptions that no longer apply.
Based on her groundbreaking research, Noreena Hertz explores the values, motivations, concerns, and behaviors shaping Generation K. She examines how economic uncertainty, technology, social change, and growing distrust of traditional institutions are influencing how this generation works, spends, communicates, and connects.
This eye-opening keynote provides leaders with practical strategies for attracting, engaging, and retaining younger talent while building stronger relationships with the consumers who will shape the future marketplace.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand the defining characteristics and priorities of Generation K.
- Learn how younger employees view work, leadership, and career growth.
- Discover strategies for improving engagement, retention, and workplace culture.
- Gain insights into evolving consumer behaviors and expectations.
What does it take to build influence, overcome obstacles, and create lasting impact in environments where the odds may not always be in your favor?
Drawing on her remarkable career as an economist, author, academic, board director, and global thought leader, Noreena Hertz shares lessons from her own journey navigating leadership and success in traditionally male-dominated fields. Through candid stories and practical insights, she explores the importance of resilience, authenticity, confidence, and purpose-driven leadership.
This inspiring keynote empowers audiences to challenge limitations, seize opportunities, and build careers defined not only by achievement, but by meaningful impact.
Audience Takeaways:
- Learn practical strategies for building influence and advancing leadership opportunities.
- Develop greater confidence in navigating challenges and career transitions.
- Understand how authenticity can become a powerful leadership advantage.
- Gain tools for creating meaningful personal and professional impact.
Biography
A global economist, whose work intersects the nexus of economics, technology, politics and society – and a pioneering and renowned thinker on AI, the post-millennial generation, decision-making and community building – Noreena also advises some of the largest organizations and most senior leaders in the world on strategy and transformation.
She sits on the boards of Nasdaq-listed companies Mattel and Warner Music Group and also the board of the HR Tech Company, Workhuman. She has served on Citigroup’s Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board, the Inclusive Capitalism Taskforce’s Advisory Group, and RWE’s Digital Transformation Board. Her thinking served as the inspiration for Bono’s Product (Red).
 Noreena’s best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open are published in more than twenty countries. Her latest book is the international bestseller The Lonely Century – A Call to Reconnect, which was chosen by The Daily Telegraph, Wired, and El Mundo, amongst other publications, as a Book of the Year.
As a visionary thinker, Noreena is also frequently sought after as a Keynote Speaker and has given keynote speeches at TED, The World Economic Forum in Davos and Google Zeitgeist as well as for leading global corporations, sharing platforms with such luminaries as President Bill Clinton, Professor Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall amongst others. Her opinion pieces have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, and The South China Morning Post.
Noreena also makes frequent television appearances around the world including on flagship television shows such as CBS’ This Morning, BBC’s Question Time, NHK’s Global Debate. She has created and hosted four television documentaries; hosted her own show on the US’ largest radio network Sirius XM and served as the economics editor for the UK’s leading commercial television network, ITV.
Noreena has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Having spent 10 years at the University of Cambridge, in 2014 she moved to University College London where she is an Honorary Professor.
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