Matthias Horx

The future after the crisis

Matthias Horx is one of the most well-known trend and futurologists in German-speaking countries. For over 25 years, he has been studying transformation processes in business and society. Changing values, new technologies, youth culture, and the megatrends of the era such as globalization, individualization, and the shift to the information society are the subject of his research. After studying sociology, Horx worked for newspapers such as ZEIT, TEMPO, and MERIAN. As a journalist and author, he focused primarily on changing values, youth culture, and modernization processes in society. Horx is co-founder of TRENDBÜRO Hamburg, Germany's first trend consulting agency. Today, he runs his own futurology institute, consults for major European companies, and is the editor of the monthly "Zukunfts-Letter." Matthias Horx is known to a wide audience through publications, TV appearances, and his numerous lectures. He teaches trend and futurology at venues including Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and the MCI Management Center Innsbruck. The optimistic and humorous lectures offer his listeners orientation and suggestions for decisions on future developments and strategies.

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Topics

Blue Ecology - How to Save the World
The Power of Megatrends
A Guide to Future Optimism - Why the world isn't getting worse, but we're so keen to believe it is
Future Wealth - Economies, Markets, and Prosperity Models of the 21st Century
Future City - How Mass Urbanization is Changing Our Lives
Technolution - The True Co-Evolution of Technology and Humanity
The Trend Experiment - How to Properly Handle Trend Research
Global 2050 - Perspectives for Planet Earth

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References & Press

"Dear Mr. Horx, thank you very much for your extremely interesting and stimulating presentation at our 2nd Human Resources Future Forum in Munich! The many enthusiastic responses from participants show that your scenarios on the future of the work system were not only highly interesting to us in terms of content, but also clearly demonstrated, with practical examples, the challenges that good HR work will have to face in the coming years."
Thomas Sattelberger, Member of the Board of Management for Human Resources, Deutsche Telekom AG

"Dear Mr. Horx, just a short note to express my deep gratitude for the excellent presentation you gave at our conference in Edinburgh last week. We believe the conference was a great success and an integral part of that, having such a frank, candid perspective on the future of the postal industry delivered in a highly professional manner, which challenged the leadership of our membership."
Jane Dyer, Director, Markets and Communication, International Post Corporation