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Richard van Hooijdonk is a trend watcher, futurist and international keynote speaker. Many trend watchers and futurists look at the future from a distance. Richard van Hooijdonk lives in it. His team consists of people and AI agents, and he has several chips implanted in his body. He speaks about AI and new technology, the organisation of the future and leadership in the AI era. He takes you into a future you can barely picture today, and shows how you can steer it yourself. He has given more than 3,000 keynotes in more than 30 countries and is the author of the bestseller De wereld van morgen (The World of Tomorrow).

Richard van Hooijdonk is a trend watcher, futurist and international keynote speaker. Many trend watchers and futurists look at the future from a distance. Richard van Hooijdonk lives in it. His team consists of people and AI agents, and he has several chips implanted in his body. He speaks about AI and new technology, the organisation of the future and leadership in the AI era. He takes you into a future you can barely picture today, and shows how you can steer it yourself. He has given more than 3,000 keynotes to audiences totalling more than 650,000 people across more than 30 countries, in Dutch and English, in person and online.

With that team, he gathers examples from hospitals, ports, retail and education around the world. His talks show which choices employees, leaders and organisations face as a result of these developments. Criminal uses of the same technology, including cloned voices and fabricated videos, feature in every keynote.

He is the author of the bestseller De wereld van morgen (The World of Tomorrow) and more than 2,000 articles, and a regular guest on radio and television. He uses his chips to open doors and make payments, among other things, and he is exploring the possibilities of a brain chip.