Meet the Expert: Tim O'Reilly on Preparing for the Post-COVID Future
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Watch the video recording of this event.
The future will not be like the past. We’re at an inflection point where the decisions our societies make now can have an enormous impact on the course of the next few decades. Those of us in business have difficult choices to make. And those choices have to be made with wildly uncertain futures in mind. We can no longer base our strategies on the old baselines of predictable consumer demand, globalization, office life and business travel, and access to talent, credit, or venture funding.
Join us for this edition of Meet the Expert with Tim O’Reilly for a conversation on what skills will be needed to plan for the new world and how scenario planning will help you develop a robust strategy that will hold up well against a range of possible outcomes. Learn how to better prepare for a post-COVID future as you explore the technologies that will be most important in the 21st century.
O'Reilly Meet the Expert explores emerging business and technology topics and ideas through a series of one-hour interactive events. You’ll engage in a live conversation with experts, sharing your questions and ideas while hearing their unique perspectives, insights, fears, and predictions.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
By the end of this live show, you’ll better understand:
- How to use scenario planning to develop a robust strategy to prepare for a post-COVID future
- The skills and technologies that will be most important in the 21st century
This live event is for you because...
- You want to learn about the fundamental shifts that are transforming the business landscape and customer needs.
- You want to better prepare for an uncertain future.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Tim O’Reilly
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read “Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Covid Future” (article)
- Read WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (book)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Monday, June 15, 2020, at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
- Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
Your Guest
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. His original business plan was simply "interesting work for interesting people," and that's worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs online conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. He’s perhaps best known for his role in shaping big ideas like open source software, unconferences (Foo Camp), Web 2.0, and government as a platform. His 2017 book WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us explored the role of human agency in shaping the future in the face of the coming AI wave. These days, he’s focused on mechanism design for the human-AI economy. Mechanism design is sometimes described as “reverse game theory”, whereby you start with the outcome you want and then figure out what rules of the game will produce that outcome. He explores these ideas at the non-profit AI Disclosures Project, which he co-founded with Ilan Strauss. He writes frequently on Substack at the O’Reilly Radar, the AI Disclosures Project’s Asimov’s Addendum, and his own Conversations with AI.