Jonathan Brill is renowned as the Global Futurist at HP, where he spearheads the identification and assessment of potential opportunities and threats within the company's ten-year horizon. Drawing from two decades of experience in product innovation, he has established himself as a transformation architect, adept at navigating complex challenges with a blend of strategic foresight and technology innovation.Throughout his prolific career, Jonathan has nurtured growth pipelines for an array of clients, including iconic global brands, startups and institutions like the MIT Media Lab. His leadership has led to the development of over 325 products, generating an impressive $27 billion in new revenue. With a profound understanding of creating novel user experiences, he has designed interactive exhibits, retail spaces and virtual reality installations.As an engaging speaker and thought leader, Jonathan imparts insights on the industries of the future, natural user interfaces and innovative product strategies. He's also an enthusiast of the science of gustatory perception, consulting with top chefs to develop menus and even sharing his research on global platforms like TED. With a unique blend of forward-thinking vision and practical expertise, Jonathan Brill continues to shape the trajectory of technological innovation and business transformation.
Society and Culture, Information Technology, Change Management, Personal Development, Emotional Intelligence
Most people think innovation happens when a wild-eyed inventor has a good idea and then has makes a crazy bet that magically pays off. While this is sometimes true, it ignores a deeper truth: the innovations that extract the most value are the ones that remove major risks.In this eye-opening talk, Jonathan Brill, HP Labs’ former Global Futurist unveils the best practice tools that the world’s most prolific inventors at companies including tech titans and family farms use to innovate their product, financial, operational and strategic capabilities.Once you understand how risk and innovation are intertwined, you can immediately create greater value for clients and improve your company’s resilience to radical change. More importantly, you have a framework entrepreneurial risk taking that everyone in your organization can easily adopt and understand.
Society and Culture, Information Technology, Change Management, Personal Development, Emotional Intelligence
Why do some leaders make better bets? They have better tools for making sense of the future. Risk and reward aren’t causally related, but they operate on the same underlying equation. This means that the same tools that help you manage volatility canhelp you turn into opportunity. The lessons in this workshop come from Jonathan Brill's powerful new book, ROGUE WAVES: How to Survive and Profit from Radical Change.In this exciting, highly interactive workshop, your team will learn tools and techniques to make bigger bets while more effectively managing risk.Over the course of sixty minutes, we'll play two games that prepare you to benefit from a broad range of possible futures:· In the first, you'll learn how to consider the broad range of possible futures and the specific ways you can innovate around them.· In the second, you'll master a new, powerful tool to identify opportunities for innovation using a real case example.This will be more than an entertaining experience. You'll walk away with instantly useful skills to turn the future to your benefit.