Tracey Follows

Professor, Strategic Foresight at London Business School

Speaker

Professor Tracey Follows is listed as one of the top 50 Female Futurists in the World, in Forbes.

She teaches strategic foresight at London business School to Senior Executive Leadership and Corporate Management programmes globally. She is also Visiting Professor in Digital Futures and Identity at Staffordshire University. She writes a regular AI/Innovation column in Forbes and speaks regularly at AI conferences, her expertise is highly regarded.

The Future of You – Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology:

Tracey’s best-selling book – The Future of You, shows how our freedoms and potential will be transformed over the coming decades. From health passports, bio-hacking and relationships with machines to mind clones, digital voting and virtual legacies beyond the grave, we need to understand these vital issues today so that we might design the future of our identity tomorrow.

She is the CEO of futures consultancy Futuremade working with the world’s biggest global brands and businesses. Recent clients include Coca-Cola, Tesco, PZ Cussons, Snapchat, Google, Diageo, Sky, Lego, Farfetch, Conde Nast, BT, Telefonica, the IAB, Women’s Business Council and Virgin.

Tracey has keynoted at UN HQ, FT’s Tech Live, Nobel Visions, Think With Google, and the US State Dept and many more. Trusted by the FT to the BBC for comment on the future of our changing world.

“Tracey is a high-impact speaker who truly does see trends in society & technology years before anyone else. She has spoken twice for FT events I’ve produced, most recently at the 2021 FT-TNW tech conference, where she delivered the closing keynote”.