YURI VAN GEEST

Co-author of the bestselling book “Exponential Organizations”, speaker and entrepreneur on exponential emerging technologies, digital transformation and technology trends



Yuri van Geest is specialized in Singularity and future visions/trend. He is an international keynote speaker and entrepreneur on exponential emerging technologies, digital transformation and technology trends.

Yuri is co-author of the bestselling book called Exponential Organizations, that he wrote together with Salim Ismail, Mike Malone and Peter Diamandis. The book explains why some organisations are able to grow exponentially and describes the fundamentally new ways startups and corporates are organised to deal with disruption, exponential technologies and accelerated change.

He is involved in the Singularity movement since 2008. He is a triple alumnus of the Singularity University, Exponential Medicine and Exponential Finance. He is also the Dutch Ambassador of Singularity University and in 2014 he organized the first European Singularity Summit in Amsterdam.

Yuri was also a key member of the Topteam Creative Industry within the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation in the central Dutch government which focused on driving innovation at the ecosystem level. Furthermore he was co-founder/lead organizer of successful corporate hackatons and non-profit events & communities like Quantified Self Europe and Amsterdam, Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Lean Startup NL and TEDxAmsterdam.

The common theme throughout his lectures is Innovation and Inspiration. Next to his keynotes, Yuri is available for master classes and training for c-level executives.

  • Innovation

  • Robotics

  • Future Trends

  • Entreprenership

Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Exponential Organizations was written as a guide to navigating the shifting business environment due to the introduction and proliferation of exponential technologies.

Today’s organizations are built for a linear world: hierarchical, centralized, closed, top down and focusing on ownership due to scarcity of people, resources, assets and platforms. They evolved one hundred years ago for an era of economies of scale and relative stability and predictability.

Our environment is changing exponentially, mainly driven by exponential technologies and globalization. As a result, the world is becoming increasingly open and transparent and we are slowly moving from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance.

Exponential Organizations lays the framework for organizations to adapt and thrive in a world of abundance by diving into new organizational structures that leverage exponential technologies and a shifting global business mindset.

  • Travels From Amsterdam, NLD

  • Fee Range USD 20.000 a USD 40.000