In this episode, globally renowned strategic foresight specialist, journalist, and Reinvent Futures founder Peter Leyden takes a moment during his Mardi Gras visit to New Orleans to discuss his ‘positive future casting’ work and what he sees as emerging technology breakthroughs in the key fields of energy generation, biotech, and artificial intelligence. He draws on his early-career first hand experience as a oil rig roughneck in Louisiana, and as a young journalist in the deep south, to contextualize the potential for Louisiana to become a global driver of Blue Economy innovation.

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Peter Leyden
Reinvent Future Founder

Peter Leyden has spent his career in a wide range of roles figuring out the future, explaining what’s probably coming next, and helping envision how we can build a better world. Since coming to San Francisco at the beginning of the digital revolution to work with the founders of WIRED magazine, he has become a thought leader on the future, new technologies and megatrends.

Leyden has given keynote talks for the last 25 years on roughly a monthly basis as a futurist and tech expert working through Keppler Speakers. He is the coauthor of two influential books on the future that were published in multiple languages, including The Long Boom, and he now writes popular online pieces like his latest The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050.

Leyden is the founder of Reinvent Futures where he works as an advisor taking what he knows about the future and giving strategic foresight to senior leaders of organizations. He’s also a longtime host of physical and virtual events that convene top innovators from diverse fields impacting the future, and in 2023 Reinvent Futures will launch The Great Progression series.

Leyden ended up as managing editor of WIRED magazine in the heyday of the 1990s and he subsequently founded two of his own media startups focused on the future. He learned the futures business working at the pioneering strategic foresight and scenario planning firm Global Business Network, with the legendary Stewart Brand.

He graduated summa sum laude at Georgetown University in Washington D. C. and has two master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York.

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