As a speaker, facilitator, and workshop designer, Jeffrey Rogers brings an interdisciplinary and systems-oriented approach to exploring the question of what it means to live and to lead in an era of accelerating change. He believes the future is too important to be left to the futurists, and his grand professional goal is to empower more people to think/act/live and lead like the future is theirs to create.
Jeffrey is an award-winning educator and conversation catalyst who creates unique learning experiences that build knowledge while also building community. He is principal at the boutique advisory firm be radical and has been a top-rated moderator of immersive executive education programs and international summits for Singularity University since 2017. Jeffrey has also been featured as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, and the Empowerment Summit (at ECAL in Lausanne).
Previously, Jeffrey spent a decade building learning and development solutions, consulting on a couple of e-learning startups, and designing and delivering experiential youth leadership programs. He’s a social scientist by training (UC Berkeley, UT Austin) and a future-focused educator--with abiding interests in leadership, human ecology & complexity--by calling.
Introduction to Exponentials, Accelerating Change, Convergence, Philosophy of Technology, Disruption
In this session participants will cut to the core of the mechanisms driving much of the radical change felt across civilization. Thinking exponentially is core to everything we teach at Singularity, and getting into this mindset is a fundamental first step for gaining insight into the future. During this session, participants will come to understand the basic concepts of exponential growth, but will more importantly explore its implications in order to shift away from a linear way of thinking. Traditional linear thinking often leads us to overestimate growth in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. This is the deceptive aspect of exponential growth. This matters because many technologies (including artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, advanced manufacturing, and more) are driven by exponential improvements in computation and progress in ways that can leave us astonished and unprepared. Exponential growth is democratizing access to these tools, once limited to wealthy labs, enabling small teams and individuals to achieve what was once exclusive to governments and corporations. This session prepares participants to understand exponential growth patterns, understand their implications, and how to apply them within their industry.