Videos of Some Full Keynote Talks
Leyden has spent the last 25 years giving hour-long keynote talks about new technologies and the future to audiences of all sizes throughout America, Europe and occasionally other parts of the world.
Here you can get a sense of his latest thinking and the full experience of some recent keynote talks. If you want to sample shorter clips go to Video Clips Physical.
The Great Progression: The Positive Story of America to 2050
If you are going to watch one full-length keynote talk by Peter Leyden then this video is it. Leyden's talk The Great Progression 2025 to 2050 is about the positive potential of AI and other transformational new technologies as they scale up over the 25 years.
Leyden gave this keynote talk to kick off a global conference of 1300 senior leaders in the data center industry from 17 countries in the fall of 2024 in Phoenix Arizona.
The AI Age Begins: What You Need to Know Starting Now
This is the full version of Peter Leyden's keynote talk on The AI Age Begins: the Real Implications, Positive Possibilities & Actual Risks.
Leyden gave this keynote as part of a conference of farmers of large-scale agriculture operations in the fall of 2024 in the heartland of America.
The Great Progression Towards Solving Climate Change
This is a relatively short 30-minute version of The Great Progression 2025 to 2050 given to a summit of very senior European business executives in Cannes, France in the fall of 2023.
This talk kicked off an entire conference on how we might drive a high-growth economy towards a new era of abundance and still be able to solve climate change.
The AI Age Begins: Starting in Education
Peter Leyden addressed the entire faculty and student body of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) to open up the academic year of 2023-2024.
Parts of this talk do address Artificial Intelligence and all of the material is geared to undergraduate college students whose entire lives and careers will be enmeshed in this transformative new technology.
The Paradigm Shifts of the 2020s & The Transformation Ahead
This is an extremely well-produced video of a closing keynote talk he gave in the main hall of the Moscone Center in San Francisco to the RiskWorld global conference in the spring of 2022. This is an excellent way to see Leyden interacting with his stunning slides.
The Global Grand Strategy: The Tech & Trends Inexorably Coming
This is the full version of Peter Leyden's keynote talk given in the fall of 2024 about The Inexorable Technologies and Trends to Come in the next 25 years.
This video is about an hour long keynote and looks at 10 technologies or trends that inexorably will play out in the next 25 years in America, and also 6 developments that will do so globally in that same timeframe.
The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 2020 to 2050
Watch this highly produced full 30-minute virtual talk Leyden gave about The Transformation that’s coming in the next 30 years. This talk was given during the pandemic to The Long Now Foundation in their renowned seminar series curated by the legendary Stewart Brand.
The Transformation Begins: The Story of America & the World to 2050
Peter Leyden gave this fast-paced 30-minute keynote talk at Stanford University in the fall of 2022 to an unusual gathering of 60 family offices of fortunes from around the world that wanted to accelerate their impact on climate change in the next 10 years.
The audience included those who made the fortunes, the next generation who will inherit the fortunes and the people managing the funds. Leyden kicked off the whole 4 day summit with an energizing & inspiring overview of the decades ahead.