Gartner Futures Lab Podcast

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What's Gartner Futures Lab Podcast about?

What does the future hold for us? What common wisdom should we challenge? Listen to the Gartner Futures Lab podcast, where we take out our crystal ball to prepare you for future scenarios and disruptions, and explore new ways for you to create your own tomorrow.

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Gartner Futures Lab Podcast episodes:

06.14.2024
Rhetoric and Information Warfare
Today, legacy media outlets and traditional authoritative sources are no longer the exclusive gatekeepers and curators of information narratives, a reality that stems from a trend Gartner refers to as the “Decline of the Authoritative Narrative.” Furthermore, the rise of...
05.09.2024
Early Signals of the ‘Next Big Thing’
Tracking early signals is a vital component of trendspotting. It enables businesses to stay ahead of the curve, adapt to changes and make informed decisions. While it involves navigating through a vast amount of information and requires a keen eye...
04.12.2024
The Role of a Futurist
The role of the futurist is to be more intentional about not only how to think about the future, but also how to connect and plan for the various trends, forces, and disruptions that will impact the strategic planning for...
03.15.2024
Convergence of AI and Spatial Computing Will Revolutionize Human-Computer Interaction
With the convergence of many emerging technologies, every surface in the real world essentially will become an interface. This will revolutionize human-computer interaction and the process of how we compute in general. In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab...
02.09.2024
The Future of Creativity
Over the next few years, content creators and consumers will encounter exponential changes in types of hyperpersonalized experiences, as well as in the speed and ease that those will be created and deployed. Some of those experiences are already being...
01.12.2024
The Art of the Long View
In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Peter Schwartz, author of “The Art of the Long View.” They explore the present and future including topics of generative AI, science fiction, geopolitics, scenario...
12.15.2023
The (Far) Future of Leadership
Welcome to the year 2040! Leadership will continue to be about “enabling others to achieve the right results.” However, in the not so distant future, those “others” may not just be people — they may also be machines. In this...
11.10.2023
The Future with No Endpoints
Arriving at a future where the devices we interact with daily aren't things at all will be a wild ride. Threat actors continue to hone their craft while security strategists try to keep up, and meet the ever-changing demands of...
10.12.2023
Pentesting the Organization’s Future
The security landscape is ever-changing, evolving and complex. To add to the complexity, security threats could come from all areas of what Gartner refers to as Tapestry (TPESTRE — technology, politics, economics, social, trust, regulatory and environmental). In this episode...
09.15.2023
Metaverse, Web3 and Generative AI
Metaverse, Web3, and AI (especially generative AI) are three emerging combinatorial technologies that have sparked many discussions about experience, identity, privacy, data and existential impacts on society. In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick talks...
08.11.2023
7 Disruptions You Might Not See Coming
The seven disruptions examined in this podcast stem from a wide variety of backgrounds, and at face value, have little in common. Some are relatively “new” and some have been “brewing” for a while. In this episode of the Gartner...
08.01.2023
Brave New Worlds Episode 1 — A Multiversal Organization
Stories are a powerful means of communication. When done well, they heighten engagement, assist with recall and distill complexity to its essence. Effective leaders use stories as a shortcut to audience understanding — a necessary step before action. Science fiction...
07.14.2023
Can Digital Humans Replace Your Sales Team?
Gartner Maverick research delivers breakthrough, disruptive and sometimes contradictory ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Formed in our research incubator, it is designed to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy. Maverick findings and advice should be treated...
06.09.2023
Using Tapestry to Anticipate and Influence the Future
Executive leaders should promote the use of technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal and environmental (TPESTRE) as a planning tool for uncertainty — which Gartner refers to as a “Tapestry” — as an input to strategically plan for the critical...
05.12.2023
Maverick Research, Biomimicry and Honeybees
Gartner Maverick research delivers breakthrough, disruptive and sometimes contradictory ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Formed in our research incubator, it is designed to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy. Maverick findings and advice should be treated...
04.21.2023
Thriving in the Age of Disruption
While the only long-term prediction that makes sense today is that there really is no predictability, we have to assume disruption will continue, and at a frequency and scale equal to or greater than what we have witnessed. In this...
03.09.2023
Using Science Fiction Storytelling to Share Visions of the Future
In this inaugural episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner Senior Director Analyst Marko Sillanpaa to discuss the use of science fiction storytelling as a tool to use exciting and intriguing stories to...