John Hagel is a business philosopher, senior management consultant, author of 6 books, including the acclaimed The Journey Beyond Fear, and the founder of several organizations, including the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center, and the Beyond Our Edge, LLC. He is also a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems at the World Economic Forum. 

Hagel has been published in business publications, including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC, and BBC.  

One of his distinctive contributions to the AI scene centers on this insight: “The AI apps that will ultimately add the most value are those that focus on gathering access to richer, real-time data about the specific contexts that are most important to the users.”