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• First Name: Tom
• Last Name: Koulopoulos
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• Job Title: Chairman and Founder
• Company: Delphi Group
• Country: United States of America
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• Session Timeslot: Wednesday 14/10/2026 09:20-10:00
• Session Title: Plenary
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• Session Location: Hall A1
• Role: Keynote
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  Tom Koulopoulos is Chairman and Founder of the Delphi Group, a Boston-based think tank he has led for more than 35 years. He is also the founding partner of Acrovantage Ventures, investing in early-stage technology companies shaping the future of work, healthcare, and enterprise innovation. Tom’s thinking has been praised by some of the most influential voices in modern management.

  An author of fifteen books, inventor with multiple patents, and longtime Inc.com columnist, Tom brings more than four decades of firsthand experience at the intersection of technology, business, and human behaviour. His latest book Gigatrends looks at the six tech trends that are shaping the future of how we live, work, and compete. His forthcoming book The Mirror: Finding Meaning and Purpose in the Age of AI is an examination of what intelligent systems reveal about leadership, values and ourselves.

  He has served as Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, Director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and as a professor at Boston University - giving him a rare ability to translate complex technical realities into strategic insight that resonates equally with engineers, operators, and CEOs.

• Presentation Title: The next 50 years: trust, identity, and the future we’re about to create
• Presentation 2-Line Description: What does it take to secure trust in a world where identity is fluid, currency is becoming invisible, and technology is advancing faster than our ability to govern it? In this opening keynote, Tom Koulopoulos will take us on a fast-paced, eye-opening journey from 1976 to 2026 - a fifty-year arc defined by exponential innovation, shifting power structures, and the quiet reinvention of how we establish trust at scale. From the birth of digital systems to the rise of AI and synthetic identity, the forces reshaping our world are the same ones redefining the very foundations of currency and identity. But this isn’t a history lesson. It’s a wake-up call. Drawing powerful connections between past inflection points and what lies ahead, Tom will challenge assumptions about security, authenticity, and control in a world where the line between physical and digital has all but disappeared. What does ‘identity’ mean when it can be generated, cloned, or decentralised? What happens to currency when trust shifts from institutions to algorithms? And most importantly, who decides? With his signature clarity, energy, humour, and provocative insight, Tom will set the tone for the conference by reframing the next 50 years not as a continuation of the past, but as a fundamental socio-economic reset. His message is simple and powerful: AI may be able to build the future, but we are the ones who must decide what kind of future to build.
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