PIONEER IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY & INNOVATION | ANTICIPATORY INTELLIGENCE | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION DESIGN
About
Regina Joseph is not only a thought leader and pioneer in a broad range of domains.
She is the rare futurist who can back up that title with a unique track record of prescience & innovation.
For 3 decades, Joseph has consistently envisioned pivotal changes years before the rest of the world. And she has delivered that vision by building products, software, research, analyses & training for:
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Multinational corporations ranging from Sony to Microsoft
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Think tanks, governments and heads of state including the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the European Commission
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Multilateral organizations including NATO, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Defence Agency, the Pentagon and the United Nations
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And federal research organizations in the US and the EU, including the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands.
Featured in:
Innovation
RESEARCH &
ANALYSIS
Regina's work has been at the forefront of combining data, behavioral, and technological insights to enable better decisions in policy-making. She served as a Senior Consultant or Co-Principal Investigator on 6 federally-funded government research programs totaling more than $100M, spanning from 2011 to the present. Her research in forecasting and decision science. extends from her consultancies, Sibylink and Pytho, to such past work as a think tank Senior Research Fellow.
DEVELOPMENT &
OPERATIONS
Regina has developed competition-beating technical platforms and award-winning software since 1993.
As the creator of Blender, she forged not only the technical structure of the world's first digital magazine; she went on to develop--on behalf of clients like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and others--the earliest commercial applications of new digital codecs like the enhanced CD; and broadband and streaming standards.
MEDIA &
TECHNOLOGY
Regina introduced digital media and advertising before the rise of graphical browsers in 1995, kickstarting the revolution in the media industry. She began as a beat reporter and columnist for newspapers and magazines like AdWeek & Forbes. Her understanding of both the content and business sides of media, coupled with her technical skills, enabled her to foresee coming changes--and continue innovating right up to today in such areas as programmatic editorial and ad systems.
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Training
Regina Joseph has spent the past decade honing training systems and techniques proven to increase better reasoning and predictive accuracy. Using randomized controlled trials and thousands of human test subjects in government-funded gold-standard experiments, her outperforming training programs were key factors in her research teams' victories in IARPA and NSF competitive challenge programs.
Her validated training courses have been commercialized and are used by both the public and private sector. They are part of the official curriculum of the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Academy.
An all-digital version of her training program, the ARETE Prediction Bootcamp, is available to the public. The 6-week course is exclusive and limited to only 40 trainees per year.
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Regina Joseph presents her magazine Blender, the first digital publication, and the first examples of digital advertising for technologists and futurists at RAND Corp. in 1995.
Regina Joseph predicts the future of the news industry in a landmark American Society of Newspaper Editors annual meeting in 1997.
Regina Joseph featured in a roundup of the earliest start-up founders in digital media on CNN's It's Only Money program in 1997.
Regina Joseph hosts Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout in a discussion about the future of political corruption and influence in 2015 as part of the Futures Lab she led at New York University's Center for Global Affairs.
A promotional film for Regina Joseph's Strategic Foresight & Analysis training program was developed by the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Regina Joseph presenting her Cyber Forecasting research results (conducted for and funded by the National Cyber Security Centre of the Netherlands) at the annual ONE Conference in 2019
Regina Joseph explains the analog-to-digital transition of the 1990s that forged our current technological era and her role in its development for an episode of The Smartest People in the Room series. She presented together with her Sony Music colleague David Hughes.
Regina Joseph and her Pytho co-founder Pavel Atanasov present Phase One results of their National Science Foundation-funded experiment, Human Forest in 2021 at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS).
Regina Joseph and her Pytho co-founder Pavel Atanasov discuss their National Science Foundation-funded Human Forest research and quantified forecasting work on the @GlobalGuessing podcast in 2021.
Consulting
Regina Joseph consults on a wide variety of subjects and processes. She can customize consultancy packages that suit small organizations to large multinationals. Some typical engagements include:
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STRATEGIC ADVISORY: I work closely with decision-makers as a Superforecaster on matters of strategic significance. This long-term engagement involves analysis for select organizations.
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INNOVATION SYSTEMS CONSULTING: When decisions don't lead to breakthroughs, system audits and analysis can correct course. Contact me if your brand strategy requires retooling, or if your product development cycle is broken. I’ve successfully uncovered the signals and leads notable companies needed to implement new products and initiatives.
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CUSTOM FORECASTING TOURNAMENTS & TRAINING: Need to upgrade the decision skills of your organization? One of the most effective ways to improve organizational direction is to cultivate their cognitive quotient with gamified challenges combining information collection, synthesis and real-time feedback.
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CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING INTERVENTIONS: Organizations rarely assess the quality of their creative development on a regular basis. Rapid-fire interventions can help a product team or organization hone their creative process and draw new insights that can be put to profitable use.
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Speaking
Regina Joseph has shared her vision of innovation and strategic foresight at conferences, workshops, security exercises, private corporate events, universities and global research symposia. She has also served as a commentator on futures-related news and policy on outlets like the BBC, Politico and NPR.
She has participated as a featured or keynote speaker at events hosted by organizations including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Defence Agency; Ministry for Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands; European Commission; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; National Geospatial Agency; U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; NATO; Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands; US Institute of Peace (USIP); US Technology Leadership Council; U.S. Air Force; International Atomic Energy Agency; U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategic Multilayer Assessment; United Nations International Criminal Court; U.S. Army; United Nations Youth Assembly; Dutch Future Society; MIDEM; MILIA; GSMA Mobile World Congress; E3 Expo; Billboard’s Digital Media and Entertainment Expo; the Consumer Electronics Show; MIPCOM; American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE); American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME);
She provides strategic briefings at corporate planning events, including ones hosted by Clarim Media; Elsevier; Nouriel Roubini's Global Alpha Forum; KPMG; Nokia; Sony; Liberty Global; & Microsoft.
Joseph's career also includes academic and research-related speaking engagements. She was a Senior Research Fellow and developer of the Future Security Foresight division of the Netherlands' national think tank, the Clingendael Institute. There she trained international diplomats and military officers in foresight, predictive analytics and decision-making techniques. She taught courses in strategic foresight, cognitive computing, and info-hacking as an adjunct at New York University, where she also built the Futures Lab. At NYU she developed the lab's programming, including hackathons; lectures featuring notable speakers from the worlds of foreign policy, transnational security and technology; and moderated symposia involving partners like IBM. She has presented her research results at conferences including ones organized by IARPA; International Symposium on Forecasting; Collective Intelligence; the ONE Conference; dCypher Symposium; Operational Research Society UK; TNO and the Atlantic Council.
Regina Joseph is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and was featured as part of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation's 50th anniversary commemorative media program.
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