Curiosity of an anthropologist. Instinct of a tech founder. Energy of a rock star.
Sam Rad is an anthropologist who spent twenty years inside technology revolutions, founding four companies through the rise of e-commerce, blockchain, and AI, and learning one thing above all: change has a pattern.
With the curiosity of an anthropologist, the instinct of a tech founder, the candor of a friend, and the calm of an ex-competitive skydiver, Sam shows leaders and their teams the pattern behind every big change, so they're ready for whatever comes next.
She says the things other speakers won't, and she says them with warmth. Her talks lift the overwhelm, hand the room a simple way to read what's happening, and end on the promise every anxious audience needs to hear: we're going to be OK.
Sam is a rare individual who has the unique ability to catalyze and inspire everyone around her.
Change has
a pattern.
Every powerful new technology is like a jetpack. It promises new heights, and it scares you about where it might take you. Once everyone has one, not having one is how you get left behind. But owning it isn't the point, and neither is using it. Steering it is.
In Change Has a Pattern, anthropologist and futurist Sam Rad shows audiences the cycle every big change follows, why the new tools aren't paying off yet, and the four moves that turn the corner. The pattern has repeated through five thousand years of recorded history, which is why the message works in any industry and lands with any room: it is universal, and above all, human.
In times of radical disruption there is no roadmap, and what got you here won't get you there. The natural reaction is to brace. Sam uses history, and a clear look at what's coming, to make the change feel less daunting. She hands the room the moves to let go of the old way, reset on the real goal, and use the new tools for expansion instead of more of the same.
People don't just walk out ready for what's next. They walk out wanting it.
Every evolution in history followed the same pattern.
Plow
Printing Press
Electricity
Internet
Artificial Intelligence
Biotech
Quantum
Every room is asking the same question.
What happens next, and are we ready for it? Sam has answered it for rooms in New York, London, Cannes, and beyond.
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Are you ready for what's next?
What's coming next is radically different.
As humans merge ever more deeply with technologies that seem to be advancing impossibly fast, we have entered a new era, the Age of Acceleration, that will call our very humanity into question.
With transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, extended realities, and quantum computing increasingly blurring the boundaries between human and machine, organic and synthetic, reality and virtuality, we find ourselves at a crossroads of history, contemplating:
What is real?
And what does it mean to be human
in this new reality?
On stage. Worldwide.
Unlike anything we've experienced.
Sam is a rare individual who has the unique ability to catalyze and inspire everyone around her.
Sam took the audience on a mesmerizing and radical journey — unlike anything we've experienced at our events.
Sam not only distills complex topics around emerging tech — she makes sense of why they impact individuals and businesses alike.
Walk out ready.
Sam Rad is the speaker you book when you are facing change, and you want the room to walk out inspired to shape what comes next.
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