Reimagining Our World
Through Data

REIMAGINATOR

One of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, Dr. Kalev Hannes Leetaru is a global advisor to governments, NGOs and the world’s largest corporations to help them solve tomorrow’s greatest challenges in an ever more uncertain world. His GDELT Project fundamentally transformed modern global risk forecasting, becoming one of the most iconic and largest realtime open graphs over Planet Earth. For more than a quarter-century his landmark studies have been at the forefront of reimagining how we understand our world through some of largest datasets and computing platforms on the planet.

Repurposing emotion to forecast the future. Reimagining news as a catalog of earth. Reconceiving the future of television for NBC's SyFy as the first Twitter-driven live television show. Reenvisioning a thousand years of books as the world’s most unique art gallery. Redefining academia’s scholarly output into insights. Reappraising supercomputing as a tool for understanding society itself. Rethinking how we use data to understand tomorrow. Kalev translates the world’s most advanced technologies from cloud to AI into real-world applications that transform the world, building futures that "reimagine our world through data."

Transformation at these scales for the world’s largest and most complex grand challenges is as much about people and ideas as it is about technology. As a journalist, thought leader, storyteller and builder-scholar, through more than 1,300 articles he has explored the interplay between information, society, technology and democracy through columns for Foreign Policy, Forbes, RealClearPolitics and others. His work has been cited in the presses of more than 100 nations, with The Economist listing his 2011 Culturomics 2.0 study as one of the five most significant scientific discoveries of the year and Der Speigel calling him "one of the superstars of the new discipline."

With a transdisciplinary career spanning academic, commercial, journalistic, non-profit and governmental sectors worldwide, Kalev works with governments and organizations across the globe to reimagine how we use data to understand the world around us at scales and in ways never before imagined.