Amy Webb

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute. Webb was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led and won the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award. She is a 2017-18 Delegate in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Webb’s special area of research is artificial intelligence and she has advised three-star generals, White House leadership and CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies on the future of AI. Her most recent book, The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream (PublicAffairs/ Hachette, December 2016), is a Washington Post Bestseller and won numerous awards.