Dr. Mark van Rijmenam | Speaker Profile
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading strategic futurist who thinks about how technology changes organizations, society, and the metaverse. Van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, 5x author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy, detailing what the metaverse is and how organizations and consumers can benefit from the immersive internet. His latest book is Future Visions, which was written in five days in collaboration with AI.
Featured keynote topics
Unleashing the Generative AI Genie: A Brave New Metaverse or a Nightmare Scenario?
If 2021 was the year for the metaverse, 2022 was the year for generative AI. In the past months, Generative AI took the world by storm, and in 2023, these disruptive forces will converge to kickstart the immersive internet and unleash creativity like never before. In this keynote, Dr. Van Rijmenam will explore the exciting and rapidly evolving field of generative AI and its disruptive impact on the metaverse. Generative AI is a form of AI that can create original content, such as text, images, and entire virtual worlds. The use of generative AI in the metaverse has the potential to transform the immersive internet before it has even arrived. However, it is certainly not without risks. Join The Digital Speaker to understand the future of the internet.
How the Metaverse Will Change Business Forever
We are at the dawn of a new era; the immersive era. The metaverse can be seen as the next iteration of the internet: a version that supports immersive, interactive, and persistent online digital experiences. It is not a single place, let alone one specific virtual world. The impact of the metaverse on organizations and societies will be profound, but what is the metaverse, and how will it change everything? In this talk, Dr Van Rijmenam takes you on a journey in the future of the internet, explaining how we can build a metaverse that could unlock trillions of dollars for society.
How the Future of Work and the Metaverse Will Transform the Employee Experience
The future of work revolves around three megatrends with major implications for the employee experience: data, decentralization, and automation. Due to the convergence of technologies such as big data, blockchain, and AI, organizations will become data organizations and industries data networks, augmenting human capabilities and optimizing the human-machine partnership. These trends will accelerate the rise of the digital employee and change career mobility, collaboration, required career skills, and how organizations manage talent.
In this talk, Dr. Van Rijmenam will share his insights on how the future of work will radically change in the coming decade by sharing examples of how other companies are utilizing these trends to design the future of work.
The Collaboration Era – How to Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in exponential times, and simply having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. Collaboration among employees, customers, and machines is increasingly vital to transforming an organization and building a secure and rewarding networked society.
The organization of tomorrow is a data organization. So, how can organizations use technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence to bring together different stakeholders, collaborate and co-create the future? Organizations need to put the data to work. When they do, blockchain will change the power dimensions between organizations and customers, not the least because of self-sovereign identities and trusted peer-to-peer interactions. At the same time, artificial intelligence will create new human-machine interactions that change the concept of what an organization is.
Testimonials
“World-class inspirational. His presentation and insight in the discussion after were world-class inspirational. I highly recommend taking a close look at Mark’s work!”
Peter Barkman – EVP International expansion & CMO at Solita
“This was an awe-inspiring session with Mark van Rijmenam and Nestlé leaders. We are very grateful for him sparking curiosity and sharing a glimpse of what the metaverse entails, and the fact that some elements are not tomorrow but today.”
“Dr. Mark is a fantastic and engaging speaker. He spoke at EY’s APAC MSL Forum, bringing to life the world of metaverse for our Asia-Pacific senior leadership team.”
Speaker background
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is the publisher of the ‘f(x) = e^x‘ newsletter, read by thousands of executives, on the future of work and the organization of tomorrow. The Digital Speaker has spoken in 25 countries across the globe and collectively inspired over 100.000 managers, directors, and C-level executives at Fortune 2000 companies and large global events.
Dr. Van Rijmenam is one of the leading voices in technology and is known for his candid, educated, and balanced views on how technology can benefit but also threaten society. Van Rijmenam’s mission is to help large organizations and governments benefit from innovative emerging technologies while ensuring that it is done ethically and responsibly.
Recently, he founded the Digital Futures Institute, which focuses on ensuring a thriving digital future for business and society. The research institute uses innovative storytelling to deliver a deep understanding of digital technology and its long-term implications for all levels of society and elevate the world’s digital awareness.
Social media and podcasts
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanrijmenam
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/markvanrijmenam
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/the-digital-speaker
- Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/the-digital-speaker
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4y0e77EQRZijXzRSWLpY4O
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkvanRijmenam-speaker
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_digital_speaker/
Books
- Future Visions: https://amzn.to/3HKvd75
- Step into the Metaverse: https://amzn.to/2ZtC9S3
- The Organisation of Tomorrow: https://amzn.to/31mL436
- Blockchain: https://amzn.to/2D8fcb8
- Think Bigger: https://amzn.to/2Fq6vGW
Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
Book this speaker
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