Andreas Ekström
- Swedish journalist, digital thought leader, and bestselling author
- Google culture expert who investigates a company’s latest changes, technology, and challenges
- Expert on the digital revolution, its ethical implications, and AI products
- Recipient of two speaker awards
Writer, journalist, thought leader, and leading author Andreas Ekström analyses all things relating to the digital world for Sweden’s daily newspaper Sydsvenskan. He has, during his career, worked at various newspapers, written blogs, made podcasts, and delivered over 1,000 keynotes in 30 countries across the globe. Andreas was also the recipient of the Breakthrough Speaker of the Year Award 2016, and the Speaker Of The Year Award in 2019.
His book about Google, “The Google Code”, is seen as a leading commentator on most aspects of the digital environment. In it, Andreas Ekström considers all aspects of a company’s culture and its rise to dominance in the digital sphere. Various aspects looked at include a company’s constant evolution, the changes made to meet user demands, its design and technology strategies, and data gathering strategies. He also takes a look at the algorithms behind its searches, while examining the relationships between user trust, corporate trust, bias, and company accountability.
Andreas Ekström is passionate about digital equality. He envisions a world wherein wealth is shared. This does not only infer financial aspects, but also regarding knowledge, power, technology, relationships, and behaviour.
Believing that people are the pioneers of the digital world, Andreas Ekström advocates the need for a digital constitution. People, he feels, need to consider the ethical implications of technology. This sees Andreas often debate the need for convenience versus the ethics of AI product regulation.
Andreas Ekström – Speaker
Andreas Ekström, a highly sought-after speaker with a reporting experience that covers many years in the digital field, shares amazing insights about how digitalization has influenced the media, business world, and politics. He lives in Sweden and presents in both English and Swedish.
Speaking Topics
- The Big Five: Andreas Ekström takes us on a journey that gives a whole new perspective on things we thought we knew, but perhaps never thought enough about.
- Power & Responsibility: A People’s Take on the Digital Revolution – Superman said it best: With great power comes great responsibility. What happens when a self-driving car is facing a moral decision? Like whom to crash into when in an accident? And where do we draw the line between” good” services and” bad” surveillance? Andreas Ekström maps out the main battlefields of the future: Legally. Socially. Politically. Financially. His examples and observations will get any audience to reflect on their everyday digital operations in a new way.
- The Future of Media: Europe & The World – Andreas Ekström has been a commentator on all things media-related for most of his professional life. For over ten years, he was a columnist in the prestigious Journalisten Magazine. His open, non-dogmatic way of discussing issues ranging from freedom of speech to copyright and the future of media business models, has made him a natural part of any analytical discussion within the media industries and politics. Like few others, he can overview the history, the present, and the future of his field.
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