Peter Leyden

Founder and CEO

Peter Leyden is a serial innovator and entrepreneur who has worked at the front edge of technology and new media in a range of experiences attempting to help change the world for the better.

Leyden currently is Founder & CEO of Next Agenda, a content and new media company specializing in advancing big ideas through the innovative use of web video & online tools.

He also is Co-Founder of Torchline, which creates online learning labs led by remarkable people over interactive video that allow everyone to innovate together and learn the way forward.

Leyden was managing editor at the original Wired Magazine that introduced the world to the digital revolution and helped invent the early world wide web. He worked for years at Global Business Network, the pioneering networked think tank that helped global corporations and governments learn about the future.

He was founding director of the New Politics Institute during the 2004 to 2008 cycle, helping those in Washington transition to a new way of doing politics using the Internet.

Leyden started his career as a journalist, including serving as a special correspondent for Newsweek magazine in Asia. He is the coauthor of two books on technology and future trends: The Long Boom, which was translated into aLeyden currently is half-dozen languages, and What’s Next.

He frequently gives multimedia keynote speeches about technology and future trends at conferences throughout the United States.

Leyden has two masters degrees from Columbia University, and graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and daughter.