Hamilton Mann received the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award 2025, in partnership with VAR Group, at the Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala.

The acceleration of technological advancement – particularly AI – is rapidly and fundamentally reshaping the business landscape. The Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award applauds a visionary whose work illuminates the complex implications of our evolving digital reality. It celebrates thought leaders who translate the technological revolution into practical management frameworks.

In a courtroom in Los Angeles, a young woman’s life, her initials, K.G.M., was reduced to evidence. Hours spent scrolling. Nights without sleep. A mind drawn, again and again, toward a glowing screen that never asked her to stop. Meta and YouTube were found liable for negligence in protecting a minor, with damages awarded for the psychological toll of systems that plaintiffs argued were engineered to be addictive and exploit their developmental vulnerabilities.

Hamilton Mann in Conversation with Jyoti Guptara at the 2024 Global Peter Drucker Forum on Artificial Integrity.