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Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, CSP, is a world-leading strategic futurist and award-winning global keynote speaker who helps Fortune 500 leadership teams navigate AI and emerging technologies. Recognized by Salesforce as one of 16 global voices shaping the future of AI, he holds a PhD from University of Technology Sydney and is the author of six books on emerging technology and judgment in the AI era, including his latest book: Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change. He is the founder of Futurwise and the developer of the Intelligence Age Scorecard that helps individuals and organizations understand how prepared they are for the future.

His pioneering efforts include the world's first TEDx Talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TEDx talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving into the complex interplay of AI and our perception of reality. In 2024, he launched a digital twin of himself, offering interactive, on-demand conversations via text, audio, or video in 29 languages, thereby bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds – another world's first.

Dr. Van Rijmenam is a prolific author and has written more than 1,200 articles and six books in his career. As a corporate educator, he is celebrated for his candid, independent, and balanced insights. He is also the founder of Futurwise, which focuses on elevating global knowledge on crucial topics like technology, healthcare, and climate change by providing high-quality, hyper-personalized, and easily digestible insights from trusted sources.

Below, you can read all his articles.

How Blockchain Can Prevent the Spread of Fake News

What’s the current state of blockchain and “fake news”? In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the supposed rise in “fake news [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/problem-misinformation-bad-bots-online-trolls-coronavirus/]”: a term that can cover everything from satire and misleading content

AI journalism: possibilities, limitations, and outcomes

Microsoft made waves this May when it announced that it would lay off more than 50 journalists and editors [https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275524/microsoft-news-msn-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-ai-replacements] from its workforce. Many of these employees were involved in the news curation process, selecting

Why Digital Transformation Has Become a Prerequisite for Success

Digital transformation is a prerequisite for most companies to maintain their competitive or leading position. Especially in these uncertain times, it has become apparent that digitization is indispensable for companies if they want to be and remain successful. The company must be agile and innovative and, moreover, always put the

The GPT-3 Model: What Does It Mean for Chatbots and Customer Service?

What is GPT-3? In February 2019, the artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/30-ways-how-ai-will-change-your-business/] research lab OpenAI sent shockwaves through the world of computing by releasing the GPT-2 language model [https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/]. Short for “Generative Pretrained

The Data Organisation is Here to Stay, and Organisations are Finally Aware of It

If there is one thing that this Corona crisis has made clear, every organisation needs to digitally transform their business as soon as possible. Digital is here to stay, and organisations are finally aware of it. Covid-19 enabled in days what organisations used to take years: enabling employees to