Michael Carl

Global Topspeakers are on the stages of the world, in corporations, banks and companies. Some of them also make their way to the well-known stages of TEDx Talks worldwide. On the TED website, lectures from TED conferences are published almost daily. These lectures share the idea “Ideas worth spreading”.

Medicine and the automotive industry: At first glance, two sectors of the economy with little in common, except for the ambulance. But developments in digitalization will present them with the same challenges in the coming years. The Global Topspeakers and futurologists Stefan Jenzowsky and Michael Carl show why we are therefore also living healthier and safer.

With the developments of the future, it is not only a question of HOW we will live and work before long but, above, all a question of WHERE. Global Topspeaker Michael Carl and his team at the renowned German trend research institute 2b AHEAD ThinkTank analysed how buildings will change in the coming years. In this context, they have now published their study “Smart Buildings 2030: Business Models for the Security Technology of the future”..

The topic of blockchains and the closely related internet currency bitcoin are currently being discussed everywhere. However, they are considered to be highly controversial. Just as some seem to outright hype these technologies, others, in turn, caution against the risks the might entail. Global Topspeaker and futurologist Michael Carl, however, knows what’s behind the many speculations on digital transaction systems.

During the parliamentary elections in Germany, topics such as integration and Europe dominated the election campaigns. Digitisation, however, was hardly mentioned in German politics. In the coalition talks, this has to change, demands Global Topspeaker Michael Carl. The futurologist and strategy expert says: “Politics needs a digital leap.“

By the end of the year, NCR wants to equip the first banks in Germany with new automated teller machines (ATMs). The world leader in the production of ATMs talks about the “ATM of the future”. But will there even be a need for ATMs in the future or will digital payment systems prevail? Global Topspeaker and trend researcher Michael Carl knows the answer to this question. In his lecture on the future of money and payment processes, he presents the Big Picture of the entire finance sector and explains how this sector will develop in the coming years. As one thing’s for sure: Due to digitisation, the banking sector is facing radical change.

RegTech, robo-advisors, fraud detection: The new trend study by Global Topspeaker Michael Carl is full of technical terms and new technologies, since the renowned futurologist has analysed the future of banking. The results of the study, however, do not only imply major changes for the entire financial sector, but for the individual private customer with a checking account as well.

Recently, the new book „2030 – Wie viel Mensch verträgt die Zukunft“ (How much „human“ can the future take“) by 2b AHEAD ThinkTank was published. In it Sven Gabor Janszky, Global Topspeaker, chairman of Europe’s largest future research institute and president of the Rulebreaker® Society describes how – in the year 2030 – space tourism will develop and get off the ground in the premium range of the “all and sundry” sector. This topic no longer is a utopia as private companies such as SpaceX by Elon Musk are slowly conquering space and the first space tourist on the flight around the moon is making headlines as well.