- Swedish journalist and digital thought leader
- A prolific, bestselling author with a focus on all things relating to the digital world
- Google culture expert who investigates the company’s latest changes, technology, and challenges
- Expert with regards to the digital revolution, its ethical implications, and AI products
Writer, journalist, thought leader, and leading author Andreas Ekström analyses all things relating to the digital world for Sweden’s daily newspaper Sydsvenskan. A digital futurist, Andreas Ekström is a bestselling author.
His book about Google, “The Google Code”, is seen as a leading commentator on most aspects of the digital environment. In it, he considers all aspects of the company’s culture and its rise to dominance in the digital sphere. He looks at such aspects as its constant evolution, the changes made to meet user demands, its design and technology strategies, and data gathering. He also takes a look at the algorithms behind its searches, while examining the relationships between user trust, corporate trust, bias, and the company’s accountability.
Andreas Ekström has a great passion with regards to digital equality. He envisions a world wherein wealth is shared. This does not only infer financial aspects, but also with regards to knowledge, power, technology, relationships, and behaviour.
Believing that people are the pioneers of the digital world, Andreas Ekström believes in the need of a digital constitution. He feels people need to consider the ethical implications with regards to technology, and often debates the need for convenience versus the ethics of Ai product regulation.
Andreas Ekström – Speaker
Andreas Ekström is a highly sought after speaker with a reporting experience that covers many years in the digital field. He has amazing insights with regards to how digitalization has influenced the media, business world, and politics.
Andreas Ekström lives in Sweden and presents in Swedish and English.
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 who 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. He is equipped with examples and observations that 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 for most of his professional life. For over ten years, he was a columnist in the prestigious Journalisten Magazine. His open and non-dogmatic way of discussing everything 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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