Peter Leyden

Drawing from his expertise in transformative technologies, artificial intelligence, and future trends, Peter Leyden helps audiences understand and navigate a new era of global change.

 Peter Leyden is a tech expert and thought leader in artificial intelligence, transformative technologies and the future ever since coming to San Francisco to work with the founders of WIRED magazine at the start of the Digital Revolution. His book The Long Boom inspired a generation of entrepreneurs in The Digital Age in Silicon Valley much like his current work on his next book The Great Progression is doing for The AI Age in San Francisco. 

 Leyden hosted The AI Age Begins, one of the premier event series held in San Francisco in the two years after Generative AI burst onto the scene. He drew off his extensive experience in the region to regularly convene an extraordinary network of top technologists and entrepreneurs, innovators and experts to come up with answers to key questions surrounding the arrival of this world-historic general purpose tool. 

Leyden is a gifted storyteller who can take what he is constantly learning about what’s coming next in new technologies and trends, and clearly explain to a wide range of audiences the near-term implications and eventual impact of these developments. He uses dramatic images and compelling infographics in presentations that are both highly informative and entertaining. His fast-paced performances and optimistic spirit leaves people energized and inspired. 

 In addition to being a thought leader of big ideas, Leyden also is a serial entrepreneur who understands the challenges of business. He is founder of Reinvent Futures, a strategic foresight firm advising senior leaders on four key questions that he communicates through his talks as well: What’s really going on today? What’s probably coming in the next decade? What’s possible to achieve in the next 25 years? And what should we do now? 

 Since running WIRED as Managing Editor in the heyday of the 1990s, Leyden has founded two startups that helped pioneer the use of the new medium of YouTube, and the early days of interactive video like Zoom. 

 Leyden currently is the creator of The Great Progression, a series of essays and interviews leading to his next book, making the case that in the next 25 years we have an incredible opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies like clean energy to drive progress, reinvent America and make a much better world.

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