Frontier-tech investor and founder of tomorrowmensch. Business philosopher and author of eight books. More than 1,200 keynotes in 45 countries, from Oslo and Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. In English, in person or virtual.
01 Topics
Anders Indset connects philosophy with the state of science and technology and translates both into decisions leaders can make today. He offers neither reassurance nor doom. He offers a stance.
When machines take over knowledge and intelligence, what is left for us? Anders shows where value will sit when labour, energy and computing cost almost nothing, why judgement becomes the scarce resource in every organisation that runs on AI, and why a stake in the outcome is a better answer to the fear of AI than reassurance.
Anders coined the term quantum economy in 2018; his latest book is The Quantum Economy (2026). The next industrial base is being built in energy, computation, quantum technology and the life sciences. As founder of tomorrowmensch he invests in exactly these fields, so his talks connect the science with the business case.
Leaders do not need another forecast. They need a stance. Anders calls his stance possibilism: neither naive optimism nor doom, but the decision to shape the future rather than just manage it. In The Viking Code he shows what organisations can take from Norway's performance culture, where high performance and values belong together.
Boards and leadership teams · Government entities and public bodies · Banks, investors and financial services · Technology, AI and digital transformation · Energy and infrastructure · Real estate · Family businesses and conglomerates · International conferences and summits
02 New for 2027
Capital, capability, dignity: who owns what works for us?
Energy, computing and labour are getting cheaper faster than companies and societies can adapt. When work costs almost nothing, wages alone no longer decide who prospers. Ownership of the systems that work for us does. Anders shows what follows: for the business model, for capital and for the people who carry both. His stance: the future belongs to everyone if everyone has a stake in it.
The title answers Ludwig Erhard's 1957 promise of “prosperity for all”, which in post-war Germany was carried by work.
03 Up for discussion
The future is cheaper than rescuing the past.
When work costs nothing, ownership must belong to everyone.
Debt buys speed only once.
The money is there. It just isn't working.
When the price of work falls, the worth of a person must not fall with it.
When knowledge is free, judgement counts.
Future is a verb.
04 The 2027 programme
When labour, energy and computing cost almost nothing, ownership of the systems decides who prospers. What that means for companies, capital and people, and why the future belongs to everyone.
30–60 min · EN / DE / NOThe audience gives three words. From them, Anders Indset builds a complete keynote on the spot: no slides, no lectern, handheld microphone, a clear arc and a close. Every one is different. None is unprepared.
45–60 min · EN / DE / NOThe next industrial base is being built in energy, computation and quantum technology. Who has the inputs to win it, why so many fail to deploy them, and what possibilism asks of leaders now.
30–60 min · EN / DE / NOIf machines take over knowledge and intelligence, what is left for us? Why judgement becomes the scarce resource in every organisation that runs on AI.
30–60 min · EN / DE / NOWhy does a country of five and a half million produce so many world champions? What companies, sales teams and family businesses can take from Norway's performance culture.
30–60 min · EN / DE / NOWhere physics, biology and philosophy meet: which economy will quantum technology produce, what is life, what is consciousness? A keynote or a half-day dialogue with a scientist.
45–60 min or half a day · EN / DE
05 Signature format
The live keynote that only ever happens once.
In English, German or Norwegian. In person only.
06 Formats
For events in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf: in person or virtual.
Enquiry → Briefing call → Confirmation → Preparation → Event → Follow-up
07 Stages (selection)
Swiss Economic Forum / WIRED Istanbul / NATO Allied Foresight Conference / XPANSE Abu Dhabi / Bitkom AI, Data & Quantum Summit / Digital Excellence Conference / Zukunftskongress Linz / ImmoSummit / InsuranceCom / Radio Advertising Summit / Creative Week Frankfurt / Future Tech Fest
08 About Anders Indset
Anders Indset was born in Trondheim, Norway, grew up in Røros and has lived in Germany for 25 years. He connects philosophy with the state of science and technology and translates both into decisions leaders can make today. His stance is possibilism: neither naive optimism nor doom, but the decision to shape the future rather than just manage it.
He has written eight books, four of them SPIEGEL bestsellers, most recently The Quantum Economy (2026). The Singularity Paradox and Ex Machina were written with quantum physicist Florian Neukart. Thinkers50 has recognised him as one of the most influential future thinkers in technology, leadership and economics. He speaks English, German and Norwegian, with or without slides, and on request entirely live.
09 For event organisers and bureaus
Anders works directly with event organisers and with international speaker bureaus. If you are booking through a bureau, we are happy to work with them.
Anders Indset is a frontier-tech investor and the founder of tomorrowmensch. The Norwegian-born business philosopher and author has lived in Germany for 25 years. He has written eight books, four of them SPIEGEL bestsellers, and has given more than 1,200 keynotes in 45 countries. Thinkers50 has recognised him as one of the most influential future thinkers.
10 Dates 2027
Now taking bookings for 2027: leadership forums, conferences, summits and evening events in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the wider Gulf and beyond. Tell us the date, place and audience. We reply within 24 hours on working days.
