Peter Leyden

A tech expert and thought leader on transformative technologies, artificial intelligence, and future trends, Peter Leyden helps audiences understand and navigate this new era of global change.

Peter Leyden has been recognized as a leading-edge thinker ever since he arrived in 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 digital age entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley much like his current work on The Great Progression is doing for The AI Age in San Francisco.

Leyden created “The AI Age Begins,” a premier event series launched in San Francisco soon 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, entrepreneurs, innovators, and experts to come up with answers to key questions surrounding the arrival of this world-historic general purpose tool – AI. 

Leyden synthesizes what he’s constantly learning about what’s coming next to clearly explain the near-term implications and eventual impact of these developments. 

Not only a thought leader of big ideas, Leyden 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 also communicates through his keynote speeches: 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? 

A masterful storyteller, Peter uses compelling images and infographics in his keynote presentations that enlighten and entertain a wide range of audiences. His dynamic performances and optimistic spirit leave people energized and inspired. 

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 better world. 

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