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Learn More About Olaf Groth
Olaf Groth has 30 years of experience as an executive and adviser building emerging tech and digital strategies, capabilities, programs and ventures across 35+ countries across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia with multinationals (e.g. AirTouch, Boeing, Chevron, GE, Qualcomm, Q-Cells, Vodafone, Volkswagen, etc.), consultancies, startups, VCs, foundations, governments and academia.
Groth is the founding CEO of AI and emerging tech advisory think tank Cambrian Futures and of solution development studio Cambrian Labs, where he and his team have invented and patented a cutting edge privacy inclusive data access agent (PIDA), National and Organizational AI Readiness, GeoTech capabilities, digital governance and data market frameworks. Groth is also a Professor of Practice for Global Foresight, Strategy, Innovation and Policy at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Adjunct Professor at Hult IBS and Honorary Adjunct Professor at UT Malaysiaโs AI Faculty. He is the Faculty Director for the Berkeley Executive Education program Emerging Technology Strategies, Sr. Adviser and Executive-in-Residence at Berkeleyโs Institute for Business Innovation, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeleyโs Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), and a Startup Mentor at Berkeley Skydeck. He has been a member of the Global Expert Network for the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Global Alliance for AI Governance (AIGA) at the World Economic Forum and frequent moderator at its Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC โSummer Davosโ) in China, and a contributor to IEEEโs Global Initiative on Ethics for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems. Groth’s expertise covers:
Craft
- Scenario Planning, Futures & Foresight
- Corporate, Business & Innovation Strategy
- Tech, Innovation & EconGrowth Policy Design
- Strategic Leadership & Strategy Execution
- Corporate Alliances & Negotiation
- Emerging Technology Management
- Ecosystem Mapping
- Organizational Transformation
- Tech Governance Design
Domains & Trends
- AI and Emerging Tech (Automation & Robotics, Semiconductors/Quantum, Web3/Blockchain/Crypto, Climate & Clean Tech)
- Future of Global Economy & Globalization 2.0
- Geo-tech (tech in geo-pol & geo-econ)
- 4th Industrial Revolution & Smart Supply Chains
- Digital Property & Data Markets
- Cybersecurity
Groth is lead co-author of a recent award-winning book on the Cognitive Economy, “The Great Remobilization: Strategies & Designs For A Smarter Future“ (The MIT Press, October 2023), the AI book “The A.I. Generation: Shaping Our Global Future With Thinking Machines“ (Pegasus Books, August 2021) and its hardcover sibling “Solomonโs Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines” (Pegasus Books, November 2018). He is a frequent commentator on CBS KPIX News, ABC 7 News, Fox News, KRON News, NPR and Bloomberg TV (USA), Deutsche Welle, ARD and ZDF (Germany), Channel News Asi (Singapore), CGTN, China Radio International, and various podcasts, as well as a contributor for outlets like WIRED, Financial Times, Straits Times, The Hill, Harvard Business Review (USA, Germany, France, Italia, Spain, Arabia), California Management Review, Quartz, Wirtschaftswoche, Handelsblatt, Tagesspiegel, FOCUS, Die Zeit, World Economic Forum, Huffington Post, Peter Drucker Forum, LSE, Todayโs CFO, Thunderbird International Business Review, World Financial Review, European Business Review, Roubini EconoMonitor, and Duke CE Dialogue.
Groth holds Ph.D. & MALD degrees in global affairs with business, economics and technology focus from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, MAIPS & BA degrees with economics focus from the Middlebury Institute at Monterey, studied negotiation at Harvard, economics at Georgetown, finance at Berkeley, and strategic leadership at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Olaf Groth is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Groupยฎ.
Olaf Groth offers keynote presentations, interactive virtual experiences, workshops and panel discussions on a number of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Global Futures and Strategies for:
- The โ6 Cโsโ for the Emerging Shape of the Global Economy/Globalization 2.0
- The New Global Risks
- Global Data Wars
- The Era of National Security in Everything
- Tech at the Center of Geopolitics
- Convergence of Emerging Tech, e.g. AI and Data with Quantum, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, Cyber, Crypto, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Genomics, Climate and Energy Tech, etc.
- Necessary Transformations of Societies, Economies, Industries and Organizations
Contact us to learn more about these topics or other topics Olaf Groth can customize to your organizationโs needs.
A Crypto Cataclysm? The Case for The Long View
April 25, 2021
Three Questions About AI
October 3, 2019
AI Algorithms Need FDA-Style Drug Trials
August 15, 2019
Can AI Make Us Smarter? (Audio)
June 12, 2019
A Conversation with Olaf Groth
June 5, 2019
Sorry, Congress: The Tax Bill Won't Create the Jobs of the Future
December 20, 2017
The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future
(The MIT Press, October 2023)
The A.I. Generation: Shaping Our Global Future with Thinking Machines
(Pegasus Books, August 2021)
Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines
(Pegasus Books, November 2018)