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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.

Why Humanizing Algorithms Is a Good Idea

Algorithms [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-change-corporate-governance/] are taking over the world. Not yet completely and not yet definitely, but they are well on their way to automate a lot of tasks and jobs. This algorithmization [https://datafloq.com/read/7-Reasons-Algorithmic-Business-Change-Society/1676] offers

How Unlimited Computing Power, Swarms of Sensors and Algorithms Will Rock our World

Unlimited computing power, swarms of sensors and smart algorithms will change how organizations should be managed and can propel us to Earth 2.0.

12 Qualities Your Next Chief Data Officer Should Have

The Chief Data Officer is on the rise! In a 2015 Forrester research [https://www.forrester.com/report/Top+Performers+Appoint+Chief+Data+Officers/-/E-RES123064] of 3005 data analytics decision-makers, 45% said that their company had appointed a Chief Data Officer (CDO). In addition, a survey [http://www.

12 Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know

Algorithms have become part of our daily lives and they can be found in almost any aspect of the business. Gartner calls this the algorithmic business [https://datafloq.com/read/7-Reasons-Algorithmic-Business-Change-Society/1676] and it is changing the way we (should) run and manage our organizations.

Why Big Data Should Be Called Mixed Data

Big Data is here to stay, and it is having a profound effect on businesses and societies. That having said; there are still so many organisations that have no clue about what Big Data is. Big Data means different things for different people, organisations and industries. While it is true

Algorithms Are Changing Business: Here is How to Leverage Them

When Google’s algorithm AlphaGo beat South Korean Go Grandmaster Lee Se-dol [http://www.cnet.com/news/google-alphago-artificial-intelligence-victor-in-game-of-man-vs-machine/] by 4-1 last week, it was a significant event in the world of algorithms and artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.

Understanding Your Business With Descriptive, Predictive And Prescriptive Analytics

Companies have long been involved in the analysis of how a company performed over time. As the history of big data [https://datafloq.com/read/big-data-history/239] shows, already for many years, we try to understand how the organisations or the world around us behaves by analysing the

How The Internet of Things Is About to Explode

The Internet of Things [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/5-cyber-risks-affecting-internet-things-manage-risks/] is heading our way, and it is heading here fast! In the past years, we have seen that the Internet of Things (IoT) is really taking off and we can safely say that we

5 Reasons Apache Spark is the Swiss Army Knife of Big Data Analytics

We are living in exponential times. Especially if we are talking about data. The world is moving fast, and more data is generated every day. With all that data coming your way, you need the right tools to deal with the growing amounts of data. If you want to get

5 Easy Steps to Embed Big Data in Your Business

For many organisations, it is still difficult to understand what Big Data is and how it should be incorporated into their business. This is quite understandable, as Big Data offers such radical and disruptive new possibilities as well as requires a dramatic cultural change for many organisations. The past weeks