ANSWERS FROM THE FUTURE
Digital and in-presence talks powered by Bologna Business School to inform, inspire and provide effective tools to the corporate world.
Experts from different industries and fields disseminate ad-hoc contents in the form of on-demand speech: from internal business conferences, congress with clients to Talks for top management. Alec Ross, Former Senior Advisor for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and BBS Distinguished Visiting Professor is the first speaker but many others will soon inspire your corporate audience.
Alec Ross is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School and the author of the New York Times best-seller, The Industries of the Future which has been translated into 24 languages and been a best-seller on 4 continents.
He is currently at work on a book about the collision that has taken place at the intersection of government, business and citizens which will publish in 2021.
He is a Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm and sits on the board of directors or advisors for companies in the fields of technology, finance, education, human capital and cybersecurity.
He has served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and as a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs.
His writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy. His academic writing has appeared as the journal cover articles in publications including the SAIS Review of International Affairs and the NATO Review.
During the Obama Administration, he served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, a role created for him to help modernize the practice of diplomacy and bring innovative solutions to advance America’s foreign policy interests.
Alec served as the Convener for the Technology & Media Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.
He co-founded and helped lead a technology-focused social enterprise and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income
people, with programs on four continents.
AMONG RECENT RECOGNITIONS:
U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award Oxford University Internet & Society Award
Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine TriBeCa Film Festival Book of the Year Award
SPEECHES
Industries Of The Future – TEDx Baltimore
Alec Ross on the Industries of the Future – The RSA Global Rebellion – PopTech
BOOKS
The Industries of the Future