Alexander Rose

Environmental portrait of Alexander Rose, formerly with the Long Now Foundation, now with Automattic, wearing a black outdoor jacket and black baseball cap, looking at the camera.

Automattic

Alexander Rose is the Director of Long-term Futures at Automattic, where he recently developed the 100 Year Plan. Rose was previously Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation and continues his work on The Clock of the Long Now with Danny Hillis and Jeff Bezos, a monument-scale clock designed as an icon to long-term thinking.

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(l-r) Nic Palmarini (UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)), Alexander Rose (Automattic), Caroline Emmer de Albuquerque Green (University of Oxford) and Amy Wilkinson (Ingenuity) at the DLD Munich 2026 conference. Credit: Sebastian Gabriel / picture alliance for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

Three Perspectives on Longevity

The quest to live longer, happier lives is about far more than outrunning death, this inspiring DLD26 session makes clear. Longevity demands a fundamental redesign of how we live, work, and care for…
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Colorful illustration by Annette Jung representing the DLD Munich 2026 conference design

DLD Munich 2026

From January 15-17, 2026, DLD Munich will bring together more than 250 speakers across different disciplines. Find out how to attend the premier gathering of the year…
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