
Olaf J Groth PhD
@OlafGrothSF
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Founder, Professor & Author helping leaders shape the future of industries and nations disrupted by emerging tech and geopolitics.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined December 2008
RT @HelloFrankLavin: Great luncheon today with @OlafGrothSF discussing his book, "The Great Remobilization" and the five Cs: COVID, China,….
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Day 1 of my talks and workshops here in Kyiv, equipping local financiers and SME managers with strategic foresight and #AI skills, thanks to Kateryna Akymenko, Gauthier Vasseur and team at DATAWISE. This city pulses with agile, frugal innovation—especially in autonomy and
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Fascinating as always @Lingling_Wei . Vacuum invites counter-pressure (Clausewitz). Thanks for sharing. But will the “fuel” be there, given the lack of focus on domestic consumption, that domestic growth has likely been lower and unemployment higher than what Beijing has been.
While Trump is waging a trade war, Xi is fighting a Cold War. His goal is “strategic stalemate”—an enduring equilibrium where US pressure becomes manageable&China buys time to catch up. It’s a strategy rooted in understanding of what the Soviets got wrong.
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4th of July at SFO airport. Meet Alexander Sehlke, an astro-geologist at renowned @NASA Ames Research Center examining moon rocks for materials we can use to live and work on it as we stage for Mars. His army-style pack made me mistake him for a soldier. In a way, he is—serving
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Thanks @Capgemini. It was a pleasure to share my thinking. It's indeed a critically important moment for Design Activist Leaders, seeing new building blocks amid the chaos for more resilient system futures. I meet them. They just haven't made the news and punched through.
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What to make of US #eliteuniversities? How do they compare to China and Germany? What role do they play in innovation and entrepreneurship? Why are they under fire from #Trump? What needs to improve? Listen in on the conversation with the Galileo team.
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Podcast Episode · Galileo · 07/01/2025 · 27m
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Hats off to my brilliant co-authors @tobias_stra and Manu Kalia —and to the @wef for publishing our latest. 💡 The age of aimless AI experimentation is over. Every deployment must live in a strategic portfolio—with clear metrics, real adoption readiness, and a line of sight to.
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My interview on Quazakstan TV (marker 0:30) with a young colleague who was new to this and did a great job. The Kazakh and greater Central Asian economies will depend on interconnecting sandbox experiments between global #AI hubs to drive growth as countries aim for digital.
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For those of you interested in how "The Next Decade of AI Will Redefine Global Power," watch my panel at the @AstanaIntlForum (marker 3:58:40). The Cognitive Economy requires a healthy agency-respecting data economy, digital sovereignty but also interoperability via sandbox
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At the @AstanaIntlForum I discussed the importance of carbon neutrality in driving the advancement of #AI, #data, and #compute technologies for economic growth on Kazakhstan's channel KZ24. Transitioning towards electrification in transportation and manufacturing, we enhance
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My interview on Azerbaijan’s @azlivetv at the @AstanaIntlForum. Azerbaijan's and the region's oil & gas reserves remain key fuel for the #AI, #data, and #chip-driven #CognitiveEconomy we discuss in "The Great Remobilization." But energy today must do double duty: power growth
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After my last post from the @AstanaIntlForum yesterday, you asked about what kinds of #tech exactly are being or could be developed here. My quick answer below. I’d add #robotics for carbon-positive #minerals extraction, because Kazakhstan sits on substantial deposits. But
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Spent the past week in Kazakhstan, and there’s a lot to be excited about here. My quick take as the @AstanaIntlForum closes:
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