Discover how hacking can innovate your business
Discover how hacking can innovate your business
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Professional hacker and IT Security consultant on a mission to promote creativity and innovation in organizations
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Josh is not only a hacker of work; he’s a hacker of speaking. He ignores conventions that suck energy out of a room and turn listeners to zombies. He opens eyes. He boggles minds. He doesn’t just tippy toe up to the edge, he hits it going 100 miles an hour. Hire this deviant to speak to your group. I dare you.
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“Josh Klein is the quintessential hacker – a cross-disciplinary, pattern recognizing polymath who takes his greatest joy from combining the unexpected and seeing the result work in new and better ways.”
Speaker Josh Klein is a passionate hacker of all things. He examines systems, he takes them apart, and he puts different pieces together to produce something new and more effective. He hacks everything. His list includes social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behavior, and many more. Josh knows that the greatest innovations come from rethinking ordinary situations, or hacking; a do-it-yourself movement with roots inside the engineering community.
Speaker Josh Klein started as a technology hacker in his parent’s basement and ended up working with leaders at the upper echelon of business, government, and internet security. Along the way, it became clear that a tipping point in new technology was changing commerce as we knew it in a myriad of ways.
From black market economies to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, from the radical departures in exchange and marketing enabled by Big Data to the as-yet-unrealized impact of 3D printing and the Internet of Things, Josh has specialized in translating technology insights into actionable strategies for business leaders.
See keynotes with Josh KleinBuying a startup, hiring hot talent, or licensing a new technology usually doesn’t do organizations any good – because they’re mishandled.
Learn how world-changing technologies like E-Commerce, Mobile, and Big Data were used correctly… and badly. Real-world examples from the front lines of transformative technologies show you the pitfalls to avoid along with how they can be managed by organizations at any stage to produce significant new growth.
Covid took the concept of talent and put it on overdrive, making top talent even harder to find or keep and bad apples impossible to remove. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Come learn what the rise of remote work, hybrid work, and changing expectations from truly innovative employees can mean for your organization, from exploiting synchronies in cross-compatible new currencies to aligning meaning and motivation.
The question is… how? From the gig economy to fully automated luxury capitalism, society is only just starting to respond to the tidal wave of disruption new technologies represent. Dig into the impact AI, Robotics, and Biologicals will have on your job and the work of your employees, and learn how to get ahead of the risk – and your competition – in maximizing the under-considered opportunities the shift to hyper-human skilling represents.
We know we’re more predictable than we suspect, but what does the scale and scope of data about us – as employees and consumers – mean for the evolution of business? Learn about the responsibilities this will entail, the risks of getting it wrong, and how to positively bring the impending era of hyper personalized modeling to bear on your existing (and future) markets
Distributed sensor networks (i.e., the IoT + AI) are changing how people live, what they buy, and how they relate. But nobody is closely examining what happens when you mix them together. This talk explores the two main sociopolitical directions that are taking off in exploiting the impossibly powerful mix of real-time, where-you-are algorithmic intelligence – and what it means for your business.
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Normally I’m not captured by many keynotes but your presentation was awesome… and very scary. My attendees LOVED it! You were the talk of the conference. Thank you
Steven Stout
Josh Klein takes you on a journey that helps you escape the confines of traditional thinking and explore new ways of doing things that help you achieve results quicker and smarter.”
Marilyn Williams
Josh Klein is a natural born storyteller with a real knack for capturing -- and keeping -- an audience engaged. Authentic and irreverent, it’s always a pleasure to see Josh on stage
Melissa Withers
My brain is still splattered against the wall from this morning.
Nikole Yinge
What is the message you hope people take away from your presentations?
If it’s my presentation on cybersecurity, I hope it’s that they now realize that with a few manageable steps they can do an enormous amount to protect themselves. If it’s my presentation on innovation, I hope it’s that they realize it’s not only worth it, but is imperative to pursue their passions in order to succeed.
How are your keynotes unique?
Not many people have consulted on IT Security for the US State Department and emerged with their sense of humor intact. Translating deep technology concepts in a way that leaves you able to share them with your Mom sets my talks apart. I try to arm those of us that don’t do deep packet inspection of darknet traffic for fun (that’s an internet thing) with the ability to understand the capabilities and limitations of, and then to act on, new and emerging technologies.
How did you become a hacker?
When I was 11 a friend of mine showed me how to steal a pirated video game from a local university network. Once we’d played for a few hours he deleted the game and told me that if I wanted to finish it I’d have to figure out how to go get it myself. 18 hours later I had the game, but never did play it – it turns out figuring out how to get it was so very much more fun.
What are your thoughts on ‘destructive hackers’?
If by “destructive” you mean “malicious” I don’t much like them – being mean nets short term gains but never adds up to mutually beneficial actions in the long term. If by “destructive” you mean taking things apart to understand how things work so we can make them better, well, that’s what human beings are made for.
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What is the best experience you have had as a keynote speaker?
I gave a talk on my last book, Hacking Work (www.hackingwork.com) in Canada a year or so ago. At the end of the talk one gentleman waited in line to talk with me, and told me rather respectfully that he thought I was full of crap. He thought what I was suggesting was disrespectful to the trust relationship between employer and employee, and pointed out he’d been working for the same company for 26 years.
Two months later he emailed me and explained that a week after my talk – and two weeks before he was due to retire – his company had fired him in order to avoid having to pay his pension. After he’d gotten over the shock, he bought my book and implemented a bunch of the strategies, and eventually got hired at another company doing work he’d always dreamt of doing. Knowing that my work had helped someone not only cope with a betrayal like that but come out thriving made every bit of blood sweat and tears I put into it entirely worthwhile.
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