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Peter V. Leyden Age 60

Berkeley, CA | Lindenhurst, NY | San Francisco, CA

Also known as: peteleyden

Peter Leyden is an expert on new technologies and trends shaping the future who constantly looks for whats next. Leyden is an innovator and entrepreneur who worked for a series of pioneering organizations that tracked the disruption of the digital revolution and helped reinvent the fields of media, business and politics. Hes also an author and speaker who frequently gives keynote talks about what hes learning at conferences throughout the United States and occasionally Europe. Leyden was managing editor at the original Wired magazine that introduced the world to the digital revolution and that helped invent the media of the early world wide web. He worked for years at Global Business Network, the networked think tank on future trends that helped corporations adapt to globalization and make long-term strategic plans. He was founding director of the New Politics Institute during the to political cycle, helping those in Washington transition to the new way of doing politics using the Internet. Leyden currently is founder and CEO of Reinventors, a startup using the new medium of group video to carry out a series of virtual roundtables with top innovators about how to fundamentally reinvent America. Before that he was founder and CEO of Next Agenda, a new media startup specializing in advancing big ideas through the innovative use of web video online tools. Leyden started his career as a journalist, including serving as a special correspondent for Newsweek magazine in Asia. He is the coauthor of two books on new technologies and the future The Long Boom, which was translated into a half dozen languages, and Whats Next. Leyden has two masters degrees from Columbia University, one in politics and the other in journalism, and he graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University with a BA in intellectual history. He has lived for the last couple decades in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife daughter. Specialties Internet and Hi-Tech, Media and Entertainment, New Media, Social Media, Web Video,

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