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Leader's EdgeWhat’s Now, What’s New, What’s Next in TechHaving previously served as chief futurist at Deloitte, global innovation director at Accenture, a venture capital co-founder, and an inventor, Mike Bechtel has more than 25 years of experience with technology and innovation.
Starting with the basic tools developed by ancient ancestors, Mike explains how to view today’s advanced technology with the right perspective. Data centers, AI, and quantum computing are all on the agenda.
2025-12-2232 min
Leader's EdgeWhat’s Now, What’s New, What’s Next in TechHaving previously served as chief futurist at Deloitte, global innovation director at Accenture, a venture capital co-founder, and an inventor, Mike Bechtel has more than 25 years of experience with technology and innovation.Starting with the basic tools developed by ancient ancestors, Mike explains how to view today’s advanced technology with the right perspective. Data centers, AI, and quantum computing are all on the agenda.
2025-12-2232 min
Digital Disruption with Geoff NielsonDeloitte's Chief Futurist on AI, Job Loss, and the Art of ThinkingWhat happens when AI becomes as good at thinking as humans and what skills remain uniquely ours?On this episode of Digital Disruption, we’re joined by Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte.Mike began his career at Accenture Labs, where his team helped Fortune 500 clients put emerging technologies to profitable use. Twelve years and twelve U.S. patents later, he was named the firm’s first Global Innovation Director, tasked with creating the strategy, processes, and culture to foster company-wide intrapreneurship. At Deloitte, Mike and his team focus on m...
2025-09-291h 22
E-WritesE-Writes Podcast: The Intersection of AI and CreativityE-Writes Podcast: The Intersection of AI and CreativityThe Rising Fear of AI in Creative FieldsOne of the most pressing concerns among creatives is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to take over their jobs. The fear is palpable, especially as generative AI demonstrates its capability to write, create artwork, and produce video content with minimal human input. However, as we dive deeper into this topic, it’s crucial to explore the role AI plays as a tool rather than a replacement.AI: A Tool for Enhancement, Not ReplacementA re...
2025-06-2004 min
Your Seat at the Table - Real Conversations on Leadership and GrowthHow to See the Future with Deloitte's Chief Futurist, Mike BechtelWhat does it take to truly see the future — and help others act on it?In this lively episode, hosts Mike Maddock and John Tobin sit down with Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte. Mike shares his fascinating journey from ska bands to anthropology, consulting, venture capital, and teaching at Notre Dame.They discuss the power of curiosity, why expertise can sometimes be a liability, how to stay relevant, and what it means to be a "dot connector" in a world dominated by AI.Mike also gives us a bold (and fun!) prediction ab...
2025-06-131h 00
The ThinkND PodcastTen Years Hence: Innovation, Part 4: A Brief History of the FutureWhat will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience building? Explore questions, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Let these ideas serve as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.Join Mike Bechtel ’98, Managing Director and Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLP and adjunct professor of corporate innovation at the University of Notre Dame, fo...
2025-06-051h 15
Money TalksMoney Talks: Inteligencia Artificial: ¿Héroe o villano?Conversamos con Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist en Deloitte, respecto a las consecuencias de la inteligencia artificial en las empresas y las personas, a un año de su irrupción en el mercado. ”Si el 2023 fue de pánico, el 2024 ha sido una gran pausa”, dice.
2025-02-1038 min
TECHTalks New Tech FrontiersTech Trends 2025 at CES®In this episode, host Raquel Buscaino invites Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist of Deloitte Consulting LLP, on a live recording from CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, to share his insights on Deloitte's Tech Trends 2025 and how they connect to some of the latest tech innovations featured on the show floor.
2025-01-1020 min
Today in Tech6 big tech trends for 2025 that you can’t ignore | Ep 208While generative AI, spatial computing, and citizen development all spurred disruptions to businesses in 2024, will those themes continue as we enter the new year? Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at Deloitte and one of the authors of their 2025 Tech Trends reports, joins the show to review the biggest technology trends for companies for the new year.
2025-01-021h 04Today in TechExploring the spatial universe in 2030 | Ep. 166While we continue to see ‘meh’ reactions to products like Apple’s Vision Pro headset and Meta continues to struggle with its Oculus headsets, there is still a feeling that spatial computing will be with us in the future. Deloitte Consulting takes a futuristic look at the ups, downs and everything in between of the technology – not through a list of charts and graphs, but through the use of speculative fiction and “What If?” types of stories. Mike Bechtel, chief futurist and managing director at Deloitte, joins the show to discuss this world of 2030 and how different spatial technology will have bo...
2024-07-1139 min
12 Geniuses PodcastAI: Talent's Rocket Fuel with Mike BechtelArtificial intelligence is touching elements of our lives that most people couldn’t have predicted even five years ago. No aspect is being disrupted more than our work and our jobs. As Michael Kanaan said on 12 Geniuses back in 2021 in The Future of Artificial Intelligence, “there is no job on the planet that AI doesn't have its rightful place to do the job better.” Exactly how jobs will be redefined is largely dependent on the mindset companies have toward their talent and these new tools that are able to do magical things. In this interview, Deloitte Consulting’s chief...
2024-05-0123 minToday in TechBusiness tech in 2024: 6 trends you can’t ignore | Ep. 125While generative AI dominated the headlines last year, there are some other amazing macro-trends in the world of technology that will have a big impact this year. Keith chats with Mike Bechtel, chief futurist and managing director at Deloitte Consulting, about the big trends for the year, as identified in the company’s Top Tech Trends report.
2024-02-081h 10
SHIFTWhat to Watch: Tech Trends for 2024As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024.
We Meet:
Deloitte’s Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel
Credits:
SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green, and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.
2023-12-2014 min
Człowiek Biznes Technologia by Wiesław Kotecki#118 – Mike Bechtel: „Is the future already here? Porozmawiajmy o przyszłości, kreatywności i innowacyjności”W dzisiejszym odcinku podcastu „Człowiek. Biznes. Technologia” goszczę Mike'a Bechtela, głównego futurologa w Deloitte. Posłuchaj i zanurz się w świat AI, ludzkiej kreatywności oraz oczywiście… przyszłości.
Nasza rozmowa koncentruje się przede wszystkim na szybkim rozwoju technologii, jego wpływie na społeczeństwo, demokratyzacji dostępu do narzędzi, a także roli historii w zrozumieniu postępu.
2023-12-0700 min
TECHTalks New Tech FrontiersTECHTalks: Discovering xTechThe job of technologists often relies on identifying the patterns of the past in order to better make sense of the patterns of the future. On this episode our host Raquel Buscaino interviews Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist, Deloitte Consulting LLP who discusses his role as a Chief Futurist, the evolution and simplification of technology over the last century, and how we can apply those lessons to help us better understand the next iteration of technological solutions that he calls xTech.
2023-11-0919 min
12 Geniuses PodcastMike Bechtel | Miraculous Mechanical Intelligence of 2053For the Summer of 2023, a dozen futurists talk about what life will be like for humans in 30 to 50 years. Each guest is asked to paint a picture of the changes that we will experience between now and 2053 or 2073. Then they are asked what mistakes we are making today that the people of 2073 will look back at in disbelief. The goal of these episodes is to spark the imagination of listeners about the future we have the ability to create. In this episode, Mike Bechtel paints a picture of life in 2053 with a focus on information technology. Mike...
2023-07-0723 min
NextGen BankerSXSW: The Future as Seen at SXSW & Successful Strides in Financial InclusionThis special episode is live from Fintech House at South By Southwest (SXSW) event from March 2023. Listen as guest host Dara Tarkowski, Managing Partner, Actuate Law and host of Breaking Banks’ sister podcast Tech on Reg speaks with Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting and David Reiling, Chairman and CEO, Sunrise Banks; Author, Fintech for Good; and host of Provoke.fm‘s NextGen Banker.
Where are the opportunities in evolving technology; what’s hype and nonsense? At times we are so busy wondering if we can do something, that we don’t always think if we should. I...
2023-04-1426 minNextGen BankerSXSW: The Future as Seen at SXSW & Successful Strides in Financial InclusionThis special episode is live from Fintech House at South By Southwest (SXSW) event from March 2023. Listen as guest host Dara Tarkowski, Managing Partner, Actuate Law and host of Breaking Banks’ sister podcast Tech on Reg speaks with Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting and David Reiling, Chairman and CEO, Sunrise Banks; Author, Fintech for Good; and host of Provoke.fm‘s NextGen Banker.
Where are the opportunities in evolving technology; what’s hype and nonsense? At times we are so busy wondering if we can do something, that we don’t always think if we should. I...
2023-04-1426 min
Life Of A CareerChief Futurist Deloitte - Mike BechtelNever Discount Your Personal Experiences | The Antropologic Roots in Technology and the Future of Careers Mike Bechtel is the Chief Futurist at Deloitte and an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Innovation at Notre Dame. Mike is also an alumnus of Notre Dame where he graduated with an Anthropology degree and a minor in Economics. In his earlier career, he started as a consultant in the professional services industry. Following his initial stint in consulting, he became a venture capitalist for nearly a decade before venturing back into the consulting industry to become Deloitte’s Chief Futurist....
2023-04-0452 min
Bernard Marr's Future of Business & Technology PodcastThe 6 Most Important Tech Trend Predictions For 2023In this conversation, I speak with Deloitte’s Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel about the key 2023 tech predictions. We cover the latest on AI, the metaverse, taming cloud chaos, decentralized systems and even mainframe modernization.
2023-02-0955 min
Transform NOW210. A Futurist Weighs in on 2023 Tech TrendsOn this podcast, Brad Hairston is joined by Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist of Deloitte Consulting, who breaks down six key tech trends in 2023 impacting innovation and foundational business areas.
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Here’s what we talked with Mike about:
*The role of the Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting
*Macro-technology forces that are the backbone of information technology
*The top 2023 tech trends that align with all of these forces
*How innovation is as much about cross pollination as it is about creativity
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Link to Deloitte’s Tech...
2023-01-1837 min
On CloudWhat's ahead for cloud in 2023? Taking control of complexity, observability, and dataThe coming year looks bright for cloud, but only if companies can take better control of their cloud ecosystems. In this podcast, David Linthicum talks with Deloitte's chief futurist, Mike Bechtel, about trends on the horizon that can help organizations brighten their cloud future. Mike's perspective is that taming cloud complexity via abstraction, leveraging observability, and taking control of data can result in better cloud operational efficiency and better returns on cloud investments.
2023-01-0427 min
Talking the DriveOut of the Box: Deloitte Chief Futurist and Gensler Design Labs Leader Think BigTom Stat, Gensler Director of Design Labs and Mike Bechtel, Deloitte Chief Futurist talk with host John MacLeod about how time is our scarce resource and personalization is the new battleground in the connected car.
2022-07-1826 min
DisrupTVDisrupTV Episode 269, Daniela Barbosa, Adam Lowe, Mike BechtelThis week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Daniela Barbosa,General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation, Adam Lowe, Chief Innovation Officer at Arculus and Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.
2022-03-041h 03
The Press Room from Deloitte InsightsTech Trends 2022Tanya talks with Scott Buchholz and Mike Bechtel about cyber threats, charismatic AI, and the other factors that are automating, streamlining, and completely reinventing the world of IT.
2022-02-1528 min
NextGen BankerMike Bechtel: A Futurist on How To Navigate Tomorrow’s UncertaintiesMike Bechtel makes his living as a futurist – but in order to make predictions about tomorrow, he grounds himself in the past. “Futurists are just secretly historians,” he says.
Bechtel is Deloitte’s chief futurist and talks with David about how companies can prepare for the future whilealso tempering their expectations based on experience. He gives insights into what he feels will drive the technology of tomorrow – “going beyond the screen,” says Bechtel – and how corporate leaders can devise a plan to keep up.
Bechtel also says the banker of the future will “lead with need.”
2022-02-0734 minNextGen BankerMike Bechtel: A Futurist on How To Navigate Tomorrow’s UncertaintiesMike Bechtel makes his living as a futurist – but in order to make predictions about tomorrow, he grounds himself in the past. “Futurists are just secretly historians,” he says.
Bechtel is Deloitte’s chief futurist and talks with David about how companies can prepare for the future whilealso tempering their expectations based on experience. He gives insights into what he feels will drive the technology of tomorrow – “going beyond the screen,” says Bechtel – and how corporate leaders can devise a plan to keep up.
Bechtel also says the banker of the future will “lead with need.”
2022-02-0734 min
On CloudReady for cloud's future? It might be a quantum leapWhat's the future of cloud? No one really knows, but it's the job of futurists to try to predict it. In this podcast, David Linthicum talks with Deloitte's Chief Futurist, Mike Bechtel, about where cloud may be headed. Mike's take is that, over the next five to ten years, decentralized cloud and quantum computing will make a huge impact on cloud and how companies use cloud as a force multiplier for innovation. The catch? Companies must be bold and take calculated risks to get there.
2021-09-1531 min
Bloom in TechThe World After Covid With Deloitte Chief Futurist Mike BechtelWhat's likely to change in business, entertainment, media and tech in the years after the Covid-19 pandemic finally eases? What's NOT likely to change? I talked with Mike Bechtel, managing director and the chief futurist at Deloitte and a professor at the University of Notre Dame business school, about what comes next, how technology and expectations are changing, and much, much else. Bechtel led Deloitte's work with the World Economic Forum, who put on the Davos summit each year in Switzerland, to put together a comprehensive look at where the world is headed, and what businesses, governments and non-governmental...
2021-06-091h 04
9 Stories UpS2 E2: Futuristic TherapyWorried that he has waded too far into the nostalgic end of the pool, Hunter spends an hour on the virtual couch with Mike Bechtel, Chief Futurist at Deloitte to take a look beneath the surface.
2021-05-0843 min
Think Tank Radio: Conversations in a Digital WorldWhat Does “Future-Proofing” Your Business Actually Mean?The Buzz: “Future-proofing is the process of anticipating the future and developing methods of minimizing the effects of shocks and stresses of future events. In general, the term future-proof refers to the ability of something to continue to be of value into the distant future—that the item does not become obsolete. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_proof]
We hear it all the time: leaders need to “future-proof” their businesses. But what does that actually mean?
One thing is clear, you must start with a solid foundation and be ready to change. In the currently evolving post-pandemic world, it can be diffi...
2021-04-2200 min
The Press Room from Deloitte InsightsTech Trends 2021Covid-19 was a catalyst for digital change in 2020, accelerating trends that were already in motion. Tanya Ott talks to Deloitte's Scott Buchholz, Mike Bechtel and Anh Phillips to find out what comes next.
2021-02-1033 minThink Tank Radio: Conversations in a Digital WorldThe Role of Futurists: Helping Organizations Plan a Path ForwardThe buzz: “Futurology is concerned with ‘three P's and a W’, i.e. ‘possible, probable, and preferable’ futures, plus ‘wildcards’, which are low-probability, high-impact events, should they occur In The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin distinguished futurology – the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurists – from novelists, whose ‘business is lying.’” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist
From 2000 to January 2020, the business world was changing rapidly. Then Covid-19 hit and the rate intensified. Uncertainty soared and continues. Some companies were prepared for disruption. Others may never recover. Forward-thinking companies engaged futurists to predict and assess trends.
What do futurists really do for business o...
2020-09-1500 min
Insights In Depth: The future of governmentWhat's next? A future look at the tech trendsDeloitte leaders Mike Bechtel, Scott Buchholz, Sonal Naik talk to Tanya Ott about the tech architecture of the future, the value of the freedom to fail, and investing in the new and the next.
2020-08-0531 min