Amy Webb is an award-winning author, futurist and Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting and strategy firm that researches technology and answers "What's the future of X?" for a global client base. Her future forecasting work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company and more. Her research has also been cited in several academic papers. She is a Lecturer on the future of media at Columbia University, and this fall, she will join NYU's Stern School of Business as an Adjunct Professor to teach a new course on forecasting the future of technology. She was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She founded Webbmedia Group (FTI's predecessor); co-founded Knowledgewebb Training, which facilitates hands-on workshops; and co-founded Spark Camp, a next-generation convener that facilitates important conversations on the future of a better society. In 2013, Amy published Data, A Love Story (Dutton/ Penguin), a memoir about the world of online dating, consumer behavior and finding love via algorithms. Data is being adapted as a feature film, which is currently in production. Her third book, The Signals Are Talking is about what the future holds--and what you can do about it in the present (PublicAffairs, December 2016).