Silvia Leal
International Expert in Future Trends, Technology and Metaverse, Podcaster and Keynote Speaker
Silvia Leal is an international expert in future trends and technology. She is positioned as one of the world’s leading experts on digital transformation, leadership, culture, the future of employment and the metaverse, which is why more and more companies trust her as a Key Opinion Leader, designing and transmitting high-impact messages.
She is an Honorary Member of the Journalist Association and has recently received the Prize for the Promotion of Postgraduate Training from the Spanish Association of Business Schools, highlighting in this case that it has been granted unanimously.
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About Silvia Leal
Dr. Silvia Leal holds a PhD in Sociology and is consistently ranked among Spain’s top ten thought leaders in technology and leadership. Her award-winning keynote talks and advisory work span artificial intelligence, immersive technologies, the evolution of employment, and the metaverse, helping leaders and organisations unlock real value in times of rapid change. Silvia brings clarity and contagious optimism to complex topics, making her a sought-after voice in media and business.
She is also recognised as an Honorary Member of the Journalist Association and has received Spain’s National Management Prize (2024) and the Inspire Award for AI outreach. Her broadcast experience includes hosting the acclaimed TV series “La Cuarta Revolución” on RTVE and navigating tech futures for millions via her “Tendencias con Silvia Leal” podcast.
Business Challenges Silvia Addresses
Silvia’s keynotes and masterclasses tackle the most critical business challenges today:
- Making Sense of AI & Emerging Technologies: Silvia helps organisations and their teams overcome fear and uncertainty, offering actionable steps to harness AI, immersive experiences, and future tech trends for business growth.
- Workforce Transformation & Employment Futures: She provides frameworks to navigate automation, robotics, and the evolving job market, emphasising how technology creates new opportunities across sectors.
- Innovation & Inno-leadership: Silvia challenges audiences to embrace creativity and innovation, guiding leaders from traditional management to a culture of inspired innovation.
- Cybersecurity Awareness: With practical advice on human error prevention, Silvia highlights cybersecurity best practices, showing how proactive approaches reduce risk and safeguard assets.
- SME & Organisational Growth: Silvia’s sessions are especially popular with SMEs, addressing digital adoption and competitive advantage in a tech-driven world.
Silvia Leal is recognised for making complex ideas accessible and inspiring action. Whether speaking at conferences, offering strategic advice, or designing leadership programmes, she creates memorable, high-impact experiences that equip businesses to survive and thrive. With over 100 conferences delivered annually in 20 countries, Silvia combines deep expertise, engaging storytelling, and practical optimism, ensuring every audience leaves equipped for the future.
Talks
The metaverse is the natural evolution of social media. It is the new era of the internet, a technology that has been with us for a long time, but which is now when it has become fashionable along with other terms such as NFTs and cryptocurrencies. And there is no going back, but how many know how to make it profitable? The keys to your successes or your failures?
The new technologies are gradually expanding in the classrooms but… Should mobile phones be allowed in the classes? What can we use tools like artificial intelligence or the metaverse for? where is the limit?
What’s more, does it exist?
Robots and technologies such as artificial intelligence are taking on tasks that until very recently could only be done by humans. However, the truth is that these technologies create more jobs than they destroy. What are those professions? How to prepare to perform them successfully?
Any object connected to the internet is at risk of being hacked. And the cost of such an attack can be so high that this problem has become a matter of state. The good news is that more than 90% of cybersecurity incidents are due to human error. That is, they can be avoided.
Technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things or the metaverse are radically changing our way of living, but also of consuming. This has a huge impact on the business fabric and, above all, SMEs that must understand these tools well to adapt successfully.
They say that without innovation there is no salvation, but where to start? How to make the sources of inspiration arrive? How to get profitable ideas? And how to inspire teams to dare to innovate? In short, how to go from leadership to inno-leadership?