Jason Schenker’s top talks now revolve around a few critical areas:
– Economic and market challenges (inflation, jobs, the dollar, interest rates, supply chain, recession)
– Cold War Two and global energy politics
– Global debt crisis risks
– Future of Finance and Innovation topics (NFTs, the Metaverse, Sustainability)
Some examples:
The Economic and Financial Future After COVID
This presentation focuses on the economic, financial, and business impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion includes forecasts for the economy, recession risks, and financial markets, as well as the outlooks for fiscal policy, Fed monetary policy, commodity markets, domestic manufacturing, global trade, real estate, employment and jobs, energy, finance and FinTech, food and agriculture, healthcare, national security, international relations, and travel. Topics in this talk come from Jason Schenker’s recent book “The Future After COVID: Futurist Expectations for Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities After the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Jobs For Robots: Between Robocalypse and Robotopia
Based on his 2017 book of the same title, Jason Schenker addresses the most critical topics for the future of work, including automation, robotics, FinTech, e-commerce, and online education. Find out what you’ll need to do to keep relevant in your career.
Schenker offers a critical examination of the downside risks and upside opportunities for the future of work presented by robotics and automation. He also discusses the greatest challenges required to ensure that society benefits, as we are propelled from the information age into the automation age.
The Current Economic and Financial Outlook
The economy and financial markets are constantly shifting. This presentation will offer an integrated view of the state of the key major world economies, with a particular focus on the United States. There will also be a significant discussion of current and near-term Fed and foreign central bank policies, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, the dollar, oil prices and precious metals prices. Hear market expectations and near-term forecasts from one of the most accurate forecasters in the world, according to Bloomberg News. The presentation will also discuss long-term trends and threats that will become increasingly important in years to come. Audiences will learn about:
- Current economic and financial market conditions and forecasts from one of the top-ranked, most accurate forecasters in the world
- Factors that pose near-term upside risks to the economic outlook
- Factors that pose near-term and long-term downside risks to the outlook
Risk Management in the Face of Economic and Financial Market Uncertainty
Economic and financial market dynamics pose risk—and even more so as technicals become increasingly important alongside fundamental economic data. This presentation includes a discussion of financial market risk management from an expert who worked as a risk specialist at McKinsey before founding Prestige Economics, a research firm that has consistently performed risk management consulting projects for some of the largest companies in the world.
Market-specific risks will be discussed within the context of the economic outlook, including interest rates, foreign exchange and commodities. In addition to a discussion of managing market risks, there will be a discussion of financial market trading dynamics, where the definition of long term has become increasingly shorter. This presentation includes a discussion of expectations for the future of market volatility and investing. Audiences will learn about:
- Current economic and financial market conditions and forecasts from one of the top-ranked forecasters in the world
- Implementing risk management strategies to help them better manage their risks
- The trend toward shorter-term trading and what it means for financial market volatility
Jason Schenker’s Bio:
Mr. Schenker is the President of Prestige Economics and Chairman of The Futurist Institute. He has been ranked one of the most accurate financial forecasters and futurists in the world. Bloomberg News has ranked Mr. Schenker a top forecaster in 46 categories, including #1 in the world for his accuracy in 26 categories, including for his forecasts of the Euro, the British Pound, the Swiss Franc, the Russian Ruble, the Chinese Yuan, crude oil prices, natural gas prices, gold prices, industrial metals prices, agricultural commodity prices, and U.S. jobs.
Mr. Schenker’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has appeared on CNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, Fox Business, BNN, Bloomberg Germany, and the BBC. He has been a guest host of Bloomberg TV and a contributor for Bloomberg Opinion. Since 2004, Mr. Schenker has given keynotes for private companies, public corporations, industry groups, and the U.S. Federal Reserve. He attends OPEC and Fed events and has advised NATO and the U.S. government.
Mr. Schenker has written 36 books. Fifteen have been #1 Best Sellers, including The Future After COVID, Jobs for Robots, Quantum: Computing Nouveau, Commodity Prices 101, Recession-Proof, Futureproof Supply Chain, Electing Recession, The Future of Finance is Now, The Future of Energy, The Author Institute Method, The Dumpster Fire Election, The Future of Travel, and The Robot and Automation Almanac for years 2018, 2020, and 2022. Mr. Schenker contributed to the forthcoming book World Emerging from Pandemic from National Intelligence University and commissioned by the Strategic Multilayer Assessment. Mr. Schenker was ranked one of the 100 most influential financial advisors in the world by Investopedia in 2018.
As the President of Prestige Economics, Mr. Schenker advises executives, industry groups, institutional investors, and central banks. He also founded The Futurist Institute, for which he created a rigorous course of study that includes The Future of Work, The Future of Transportation, The Future of Data, The Future of Finance, Futurist Fundamentals, The Future of Energy, The Future of Leadership, The Future of Healthcare, The Future of Quantum Computing, and The Future After COVID. Mr. Schenker is also an instructor for 20 LinkedIn Learning courses on business, risk management, economics, jobs, finance, audit and due diligence, recession-proof career strategies, leadership visibility, and data.
Mr. Schenker holds a Master’s in Applied Economics from UNC Greensboro, a Master’s in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding from CSU Dominguez Hills, a Master’s in Germanic Languages and Literature from UNC Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s in History and German from The University of Virginia. He holds eight post-graduate certificates: FinTech from MIT, Supply Chain Management from MIT, Negotiation from Harvard Law School, Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard Business School Online, Design Thinking from the UVA Darden School of Business, Cybersecurity from Carnegie Mellon, Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston, and Professional Development from UNC Chapel Hill. Mr. Schenker holds the designations FLTA® (Certified Futurist and Long-Term Analyst), CMT® (Chartered Market Technician), and CFP® (Certified Financial Planner).
Before founding Prestige Economics, Mr. Schenker worked as a Risk Specialist at McKinsey and Company, and worked previously as the Chief Energy and Commodity Economist at Wachovia (Wells Fargo). Since 2012, Mr. Schenker has been one of the 100 CEOs on the Texas Business Leadership Council, a non-partisan organization that advises Texas elected leadership at the state and federal level. He is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. In 2021, Mr. Schenker oversaw the launch of The Author Institute to help leaders write books and share their stories. He also co-founded NFT Degree, a joint venture founded to protect the provenance and authenticity of human capital assets.
