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Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, CSP, is a world-leading strategic futurist and award-winning global keynote speaker who helps Fortune 500 leadership teams navigate AI and emerging technologies. Recognized by Salesforce as one of 16 global voices shaping the future of AI, he holds a PhD from University of Technology Sydney and is the author of six books on emerging technology and judgment in the AI era, including his latest book: Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change. He is the founder of Futurwise and the developer of the Intelligence Age Scorecard that helps individuals and organizations understand how prepared they are for the future.

His pioneering efforts include the world's first TEDx Talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TEDx talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving into the complex interplay of AI and our perception of reality. In 2024, he launched a digital twin of himself, offering interactive, on-demand conversations via text, audio, or video in 29 languages, thereby bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds – another world's first.

Dr. Van Rijmenam is a prolific author and has written more than 1,200 articles and six books in his career. As a corporate educator, he is celebrated for his candid, independent, and balanced insights. He is also the founder of Futurwise, which focuses on elevating global knowledge on crucial topics like technology, healthcare, and climate change by providing high-quality, hyper-personalized, and easily digestible insights from trusted sources.

Below, you can read all his articles.

How to Measure AI Readiness Without Hiring a Consulting Firm

Enterprise AI readiness assessments cost hundreds of thousands and take months. There's now a $25 alternative using adaptive AI questioning to deliver the same pillar-by-pillar analysis in 15 minutes — personalized to your industry, technologies, and actual answers.

Why Most AI Maturity Models Miss the Point

Most AI maturity models ask whether you've adopted specific technologies. Wrong question. What matters is whether your organization can scan for signals, experiment at speed, govern AI outputs, and prepare its workforce. Technology without these capabilities creates fragility.

The AI Readiness Checklist Every CEO Needs in 2026

Are you scanning beyond your own industry? Can you move from pilot to production in under 90 days? Who validates AI outputs before customers see them? Could a junior employee propose an AI experiment and get resourced in a month? These four questions tell you everything.

Visa's AI Readiness: Pioneering Agent Rules It Hasn't Set for Itself

Visa pioneers AI agent authentication for the world's payment rails yet scores at the floor on governing its own AI, the gap a regulator would see first.

How to Benchmark AI Readiness Against Your Industry

Are you ahead or behind your industry peers? Aggregate data reveals patterns: financial services leads on governance but lags on workforce readiness. Healthcare watches trends well but can't pivot fast. Your readiness profile is industry-shaped.

Why Your AI Strategy Isn't Working (and What to Fix First)

You approved AI spending 18 months ago and can't point to meaningful results. The problem isn't the technology — it's a gap between scanning trends and actually executing. A structured diagnostic reveals which handoff is failing and what to fix first.

IBM's AI Readiness: Strong Signals, Slower Operating Model

A WAVE assessment of IBM built from public sources alone, strong frontier sensing, slower operating model, and the governance gap regulators will notice.