Peter Leyden Speaking

Next Agenda's Founder and CEO Peter Leyden is a world-class speaker who has keynoted conferences throughout the United States and Europe and even other parts of the world. He has a very original way of explaining technology and future trends in a compelling way to general audiences and making these developments relevant to businesses and organizations in the nonprofit and government worlds.

He specializes in big-picture overviews that connect the dots between disparate developments in many different fields in technology, particularly in computers, biotech, nanotechnology, and energy technologies. He also understands demographics and can interpret how generational changes and overall differences in generations impact technology, economics and business. As a former correspondent and a long-time world traveler, he always brings a global perspective to these trends and can connect developments taking place in different regions of the world.

All of his material is framed towards the future - with a focus on not just what's happening now, but what's coming next and how it will affect you. His talks will give you insight on how to strategize early about what inevitably will come.

Leyden does all this in a very entertaining fashion, using a constantly-evolving multimedia presentation that integrates dramatic images, a constant flow of charts and graphics, and video to continually stimulate his audience and keep them moving through the material at a vigorous pace.

The overall effect opens their minds to new developments, makes connections that they maybe had not had made before, and also inspires them, and makes them more optimistic that the future has the potential to be much better than what we experience now. His speeches have the effect of a motivational speech that leaves audiences talking and buzzing about the kinds of provocative, sometimes controversial, but always interesting ideas that he compellingly lays out.

Peter Leyden

Short Bio

Peter Leyden is the Founder and CEO of Next Agenda, a new media startup helping organizations solve complex challenges by connecting offline and online worlds through the innovative use of video and then scaling up online collaboration through the use of next generation web tools. He works with clients who are wrestling with large-scale public problems in economics and energy, as well as large companies that are dealing with the pressures of our highly integrated global economy.

Leyden is a former managing editor of the original Wired magazine, which helped define the digital revolution and invent the early World Wide Web. He was the director of the New Politics Institute, which helped transition people in politics to the new media tools like web video and social networking that ultimately culminated in Barack Obama's transformative campaign in 2008. He worked for years at Global Business Network, the pioneering futures think tank and strategy consulting firm that helped large global corporations and governments around the world tackle complex problems which had no clear solutions.

Leyden is the coauthor of two books, The Long Boom, and What's Next. He started his career as a journalist, including working as special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek. Leyden has two master's degrees from Columbia University: one in political economy and one in journalism.

Speaking

We do two kinds of talks: one is integrated into a larger Next Agenda package, and the other works as stand-alone talks that you can use to kick off a conference, a keynote, or drive a meeting independent of other Next Agenda offerings.

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If you would like Peter Leyden to do a keynote for a conference or a self-contained talk for a meeting, he works exclusively with the Keppler Speakers Bureau, one of the leading bureaus in the United States, based in Washington, DC. Click here for more information.

If you want Leyden to speak as part of a larger Next Agenda package in which he helps illuminate these trends and developments as a way to potentially use some other Next Agenda offerings like the video coverage or the web collaboration tools, click here to contact the Next Agenda team.

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