Perttu Pölönen is an inspiring and thought-provoking speaker who fosters optimism for the future. He talks about the challenges and the possibilities regarding the future of work, information technologies, education, disruption, and ethics. Perttu has received excellent feedback on his ability to encourage his audience to think bigger.

Perttu Pölönen has been given many titles, such as author, keynote speaker, futurist, and visionary. In Finnish media, Perttu has been called a gentle highbrow and a fearless inventor. Perttu himself still prefers not to use titles at all.

Perttu is a classically trained composer by education, but became an entrepreneur at a young age. Perttu has studied at Singularity University, a think tank located at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. While in California, he co-founded a non-profit, 360ed, that develops AR apps for the education sector in developing countries. Before that Perttu invented MusiClock, a patented tool that helps students learn music theory. The idea won the biggest science fair in Europe, the European Union’s Competition for Young Scientists and the MusiClock mobile app became #1 music app in over 10 countries.

In 2014 Perttu was given the “Most Creative Finn” Award at Slush and in 2018 MIT Tech Review honored him among 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe. Perttu has written three books: Future Skills (2020), Future Identities (2021) and The Digital Spell (2023). Perttu is an inspiring thinker who believes that human skills and values will be crucially important in the future, to balance technological advancements.