Corjan Mol is a Dutch entrepreneur, author, historical investigator and television presenter. He has been a cast member of The Curse of Oak Island since 2019 and presents Straten van Toen, an award winning series that recreates historical streets with AI. With Christopher Morford he wrote The Jerusalem Files, a bestseller in the US and Canada and in 2027 will release The Sandbar Six, a fact-based historical adventure series for young readers.
“Corjan tells a story like no one else, using history as a mirror in an inspiring and unique format. ‘Strategy is the courage to sail into the void’; that line still comes up regularly in our meetings.”Prof. dr. Kevin Vernooy, Medical Director Heart+Vascular Centre, Maastricht UMC+
Corjan delivers bespoke keynotes of 30 to 60 minutes, in Dutch or English, researched and written for one audience. Each talk starts with a conversation about the question the organisation is actually facing. The talks are highly visual: the history is shown, not described, in cinematic AI-generated scenes and film made for that one stage.
How do you lead when the map runs out, and AI is redrawing the coastline faster than anyone can chart it?
The question took us from a great 15th century Chinese fleet that mapped half the world and then burned its own records, via the Arsenal of Venice, where 16,000 workers ran the first assembly line on earth for a republic that lost because it wanted to be like its rival, to the Phoenicians, who solved a bookkeeping problem by inventing our alphabet. Along the way, we found:
How do you stay ahead in a field where mistakes cost lives and research can save them, while AI and robotics are changing the rules?
The question took us from Columbus, who got stuck on his way to discover America, via Gutenberg's printing press, to the Sun King Louis XIV's royal physician and a Bell Labs corridor that produced nine Nobel Prizes. Along the way, we found:
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