{"id":1357,"date":"2017-06-12T19:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/amy-webb\/"},"modified":"2017-06-12T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:03:39","slug":"amy-webb","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/amy-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy is an author, futurist and Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting and strategy firm that researches technology and answers \u201cWhat\u2019s the future of X?\u201d for a global client base. Now in its second decade, the Institute advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups around the world. Amy 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. Webb is an adjunct faculty at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches a popular MBA-level course on futures forecasting. She is the bestselling author of three books, including The Signals Are Talking: Why Today\u2019s Fringe Is Tomorrow\u2019s Mainstream (PublicAffairs, December 2016) which explains how to predict and manage technological change. It was selected as one of Fast Company\u2019s Best Books of 2016, won a 2017Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology, was an Amazon\u2019s best book of December 2016 and was a #1 Bestseller. 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