Jo Caudron

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Jo Caudron

Who is Jo Caudron?

Jo Caudron is a renowned keynote speaker and author with a digital career spanning almost 30 years. His mantra is: “a strong vision of the future is the ‘why’ of change”.

As the founder of Belgium's first digital agency, Jo has a rich history as a digital entrepreneur. He created over 2 dozen companies, all active in technology, innovation and transformation.

Jo is a transformation strategist, passionate about navigating the impact of technological and societal disruptions. Through his company Scopernia, he has been assisting organizations in all sectors throughout Europe and the Middle-East in understanding how their world is changing and how they can adapt their core business to be ready for the future.. Jo is the author of six books covering diverse transformational topics. In his book, The World Is Round, he delves into the significant technological and societal challenges facing our world. Many of the scenarios he describes have already come to fruition due to the Corona crisis, climate disasters, and shifting geopolitical landscape.

His latest book, De Toekomstformule (The Future Formula), is a comprehensive exploration of the rapid societal, technological, and economic changes and system shocks the world is facing today. The book serves as a blend of a catalog of global trends, personal insights, and a practical framework for envisioning the future. It presents a method to map out the most significant disruptions of tomorrow, and offers a model for finding solutions through sustainable innovation.

Jo's true passion lies in engaging with people and inspiring them with his message of change and optimism. As a keynote speaker, he has shared his insights on hundreds of stages across Europe.

Jo is happily married, has 2 children and 5 cats, and is an avid music enthusiast with a soft spot for complex progmetal.

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    Mastering the AI-Shock

    A strategic view on Artificial Intelligence

    Jo's presentation explores AI's transformative role in today's world, highlighting its potential, yet also the critical issues it raises for businesses and policymakers. He emphasizes the need to address AI's impact on competitiveness, market expectations, and internal governance while considering ethical, workforce, and privacy challenges.

    In this era of significant upheavals, the emergence of AI is a pivotal force shaping our future. The rapid rise and adoption of this technology present a dual-edged sword, with the potential for unprecedented (economic) opportunities, while also posing complex challenges.

    With the advent of generative AI platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT, we stand on the brink of what could be the most profound system shock of our times. The implications span across every sector, from healthcare to finance, education to manufacturing, and beyond.

    In his presentation, Jo provides an overview of AI's current applications, illustrating how it's already revolutionizing the way we operate. He raises the crucial strategic questions that business leaders and policymakers must urgently consider as they enter this new landscape. What is the impact of AI on your product or service and how is it changing your competitive position? What are the changing market and client expectations because of AI and are new challengers better equipped to service these needs? How does your internal organization and governance adapt to AI?

    Moreover, Jo confronts us with the key challenges accompanying AI's rise, such as ethical considerations, workforce displacement, and privacy concerns. Through a balanced lens, this presentation provides you with insightful perspectives on leveraging its potential responsibly.

    Expect to leave with a nuanced understanding of AI's capabilities, equipped with the key strategic questions you need to address when introducing AI in your organization.

    The Future Formula

    In search of the rules of tomorrow.

    In his keynote, Jo Caudron explores how the 'Old Normal' is being challenged in these times of great change. With his 'Future Formula', he demonstrates how we can shape the rules for a sustainable and resilient future through radical innovations.

    We live in the Great Disequilibrium, an era marked by radical transformations that are no longer a choice but a necessity due to external pressure.

    In "The Future Formula," Jo Caudron discusses the key challenges and changes facing modern society and economy.

    The 'Old Normal', which emerged after World War II, is nearing its end. We are confronted with urgent issues such as climate change, migration, technological and societal disruptions, and sudden system shocks such as pandemics, wars, and the rapid rise of AI. The welfare state as we know it is under pressure.

    These factors force us to think about new rules for the future: we must reevaluate our vision of the planet, sustainability, economy, and society.

    In this presentation, Jo offers his 'Future Formula', a method for companies and organizations to identify challenges and map out the problems ahead. He explores how various radical innovations in the field of products, sourcing, and especially business models can contribute to sustainable solutions for a better society and economy.

    The world is round: a story that looks beyond the digital transformation, in search of an optimistic view of the future Standard version (50’-60’)

    During his keynote, Jo focuses on the many changes and how they threaten to create increasing uncertainty and pessimism. He looks for connections between individual societal transformations and explains how they jointly form a meta storm. This is an overarching series of perfect storms, with the future of work, living and mobility in its epicentre. He explains the reasons behind our increasing pessimism. By offering an insight into the future of work, society, mobility, economy and other themes, he shows that it is possible to create an optimistic view of the future: one in which we can all believe. This keynote is based on the major themes in his new book, 'De wereld is rond' (the world is round).

    The world is round: a story that looks beyond the digital transformation, in search of an optimistic view of the future, for each individual sector Sector version (90’)

    During his keynote, Jo focuses on the many changes and how they threaten to create increasing uncertainty and pessimism. He looks for connections between individual societal transformations and explains how they jointly form a meta storm. This is an overarching series of perfect storms, with the future of work, living and mobility in its epicentre. He explains the reasons behind our increasing pessimism. By offering an insight into the future of work, society, mobility, economy and other themes, he shows that it is possible to create an optimistic view of the future: one in which we can all believe.

    This keynote is based on the major themes in his new book, De wereld is rond (the world is round), and pays closer attention to the following areas:
    - future of mobility and living
    - future of work and education
    - future of production and agriculture
    - future of food and retail

    The World Is Round - In Search Of The Post-Corona Future

    In his latest book 'The World Is Round', Jo describes how we could live differently, a decade from now. 

    He starts from the many challenges of today and searches for an optimistic world view in which we work and live in Urban Villages, where we buy more online, where education is not necessarily given in schools, where care is organised differently, where we move less and in which production and even agriculture partly return to where we consume. 

    As a result of the Corona crisis, many of his ideas have suddenly become a new reality. Where his book gave us ample time to reflect upon this distant future, the Coronacrisis forces us abruptly to think about tomorrow's world. 

    Will the Corona Pendulum swing back entirely to the old habits as soon as possible, or is there really going to be a New Normal? 

    In this presentation, Jo goes in search of what that world might look like both in the near future as in a decade from now. It provides it a framework to deal with the many challenges and uncertainties that we are facing today and tomorrow.

    Jo worked out two different formats: a traditional (online) keynote plus Q&A or a more interactive version that discusses the key topics in a more talkshow-style format. 

     

Jo Caudron is a fantastic speaker and also a very pleasant man to work with. His presentation was inspirational and met all our expectations!

Chris Meyer

VIB - Training and Information

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The keynote by Jo Caudron, at our company event called De Digitale Werkplek, went perfectly. The content and presentation were clear and the audience was enthusiastic about everything that was addressed during the presentation.

Zeno Veerschaeve

Lab9