If you are not disrupting your business or industry, someone else is.
Salim shares jaw-dropping insights on how companies can leverage technology and strategy to grow 10 times faster than their peers. He turns cutting edge ideas into thriving startups and applies leading-edge thinking to invigorate industries.
“Thank you Salim for being a part of Unilever’s Success!”
Paul Polman
Salim Ismail is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations
Salim has been building disruptive digital companies as a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s.
As a prolific speaker, Salim gives more than 150 talks a year to audiences of all sizes around the world. He has been profiled across a vast array of media outlets including The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, and the BBC.
Salim is a sought-after strategist and a renowned technology entrepreneur who built and sold his company to Google.
Speaking
Salim Ismail is a prolific speaker that has spoken in front of top business leaders of Fortune 500 companies and boards around the world. Salim delivers in-person and virtual keynotes, and delivers half-day and full-day workshops. Speaking highlights include keynotes delivered at TED, the Vatican, the G20 Summit and the UN. Salim tailors his content to his audiences. Topics include:
Exponential Organizations
As a result of accelerating change, a new breed of businesses is scaling 10 times faster than established organizational structures. Salim Ismail calls these exponential organizations. This talk describes the characteristics and attributes of these organizations and finishes with how to implement these ideas into established companies. He looks at today’s fastest growing technologies and the social impact they will have on our organizational, political, legal, educational, and medical systems. From artificial intelligence to biotech, these disruptive technologies are changing the face of many disparate industries and creating new innovations and opportunities. Audiences walk away with a tailored action plan for moving forward that utilizes five internal and five external strategies to spur astounding growth – like partnering with an incubator and transforming their organization’s leadership team.
Disruptive Convergence
As a result of accelerating change, a new breed of businesses is scaling 10 times faster than established organizational structures. Salim Ismail calls these exponential organizations. This talk describes the characteristics and attributes of these organizations and finishes with how to implement these ideas into established companies. He looks at today’s fastest growing technologies and the social impact they will have on our organizational, political, legal, educational, and medical systems. From artificial intelligence to biotech, these disruptive technologies are changing the face of many disparate industries and creating new innovations and opportunities. Audiences walk away with a tailored action plan for moving forward that utilizes five internal and five external strategies to spur astounding growth – like partnering with an incubator and transforming their organization’s leadership team.
Exponential Finance
Today there are 8 billion internet-connected devices in the world. By 2020 Salim Ismail predicts there will be 50 billion. Will computer driven cars be a reality in three years? Will we see a dramatically lengthened lifespan and delayed retirements in a matter of 1-2 decades? What does this mean for investment, growth, and contraction in key industries? As the world becomes more digital, advancements in technology are skyrocketing. Technology strategist Salim Ismail knows the trajectory of fascinating projects that are sure to change our lives and challenge societal norms as we know them. His take on the impact to the financial services sector will have you thinking twice about where to put money and how much is needed for the future.
The Future of Entrepreneurship
The confluence of new developments makes today the best time ever to be an entrepreneur. Salim talks about how accelerating technologies, crowd funding, incubators, fablabs, and cloud computing have made it faster, better, and cheaper to be an entrepreneur. This talk also covers the steps needed to create entrepreneurial ecosystems and start-up communities in different regions.
Exponential Medicine
The fastest technological improvement today is being seen in biotechnology. According to technology strategist Salim Ismail, by the year 2020 it will be cheaper to sequence your genome than to flush your toilet. What will this mean for personalized therapies? Will we eradicate allergies? Or grow replacement organs? Will artificial intelligence make better, more accurate diagnoses than human doctors? Could a computer be your future surgeon? Ismail tells incredible stories of the research and development he’s seen first-hand and the potential for next-generation disruptive technologies. He weighs the benefits with the sinister side and calls on society to prepare our systems for running the world (legal, political, medical) to meet the realities of the very near future.
Salim founded and led some of the most influential tech companies at the foundation of our digital society.
Including PubSub Concepts and Angstro, which Google acquired in 2010. He led Yahoo!’s internal incubator, Brickhouse, and is an XPRIZE Foundation Board member. Salim also co-founded the Fastrack Institute which harnesses new technologies to solve the most pressing problems faced by cities today. He sits on the Board of Rokk3r, Inc, and is a general partner at its Rokk3r Fuel ExO venture fund where he identifies the next founders of exponential growth companies.
How scalable is your organization?
Is it an ExO?
We are seeing a transformation in business that hasn’t been seen in the last hundred years – the future will be owned by this new breed of Exponential Organizations.
Our environment is changing exponentially, mainly driven by exponential technologies and globalization. As a result, the world is becoming increasingly open and transparent and we are slowly moving from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. However, our organizations are still linear: hierarchical, centralized, closed, top down and focusing on ownership due to scarcity of people, resources, assets and platforms. They evolved one hundred years ago for an era of economies of scale and relative stability and predictability.
Now it is time to introduce the Exponential Organization leveraging openness, transparency and abundance in a new way. This is a new organizational model that is condusive to an exponential age. It closes the gap between the linear organization and its exponential environment. It is at least 10x more effective, efficient and/or faster relative to its linear peers in the same market. In the first half of the book, we examine these revolutionary structures and detail the ten characteristics and attributes of ExOs – five external elements and five internal organizational strategies. The second half of the book is a how-to guide: How can you build a startup with these principles? How could you apply them to a mid-market company? How can you retrofit these ideas into large organizations?
Exponential Organizations 2.0
Exponential Organizations 2.0: The New Playbook for 10x Growth & Impact. The platform is the only place to find the latest version with updated case studies and content about how you can build an Exponential Organization (ExO). This version is still a draft, and we have one final round of edits before it is exported to Amazon. For now, you can read this current living version here for all basic or higher members.
This version written by Silicon Valley legends Salim Ismail, Peter H. Diamandis, and Michael S. Malone
Together with more than 80 global OpenExO community members contains all new content from experiences gained in the 8 years since first publishing Exponential Organizations by advising some of the world’s most disruptive companies, research results, and never before revealed insights.
By Accessing this book not only do you get incredible insights but access to the incredible minds of the OpenExO Community. This is the decade of the ExO, dive into this book today!
Workshops
The business world has learned over the last two decades how to scale technology, but now it’s time to scale your organization. A new breed of Exponential Organizations – companies that grow at a minimum pace of 10x better than their peers – is delivering a new way of doing business.
In full- or half-day workshops, Salim walks participants through how any company, from a startup to a multinational, can become an exponential organization, streamline its performance, and grow to the next level. The key benefits of the workshop include:
Overview
Getting an overview of accelerating technologies and understanding the new paradigm for building organizations
Linear vs. Exponential
Understanding and internalizing the distinction of linear vs. exponential
Scale 10x
Learning how to scale any organization to 10.
Regardless of an organization’s size or age, Ismail has a tailored action plan for getting it on track to grow at an astounding rate.
He offers real tactics, like partnering with incubators and transforming the leadership team, so that participants get a clear roadmap for moving forward.
This workshop is the perfect extension of his keynote for organizations looking to put his insights into practice.
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