Magnus Lindkvist

Magnus Lindkvist is an acclaimed trendspotter and popular speaker around the world. He is the author of Everything We Know is Wrong (Marshall Cavendish, 2009) and was selected as Swedens Business Speaker of the Year in 2009. He is a futurologist and lecturer within business intelligence and trends.

Magnus is an active member of TED, a congregation and yearly seminar in California featuring some of the world’s foremost innovators, scientists, thinkers and artists among its members. He is also a course director at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, a collaborative partnership between Stockholm School of Economics, The Royal Institute of Technology, The University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and medical university Karolinska Institute.

In his speech Magnus helps us to understand the nature of unexpected events and how we are affected by it on an individual, corporate and societal basis.