Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned global futurist speaker and Chief Futurist who mentors top executives to create bold visions by exploring desirable futures, anticipating opportunities and risks, and strengthening strategic planning.
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Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker, the Chief Futurist at Futurist.com, Consultant, Author, Media Producer, and Executive Advisor. He has delivered futurist keynotes to and worked with executives and the C-suite at over 300 of the world’s most impactful organizations and governments.
Nikolas and the Futurist Think Tank help executives learn strategic foresight practices that shape the visions that shape impactful organizations, trillion-dollar companies, startups, progressive governments, and multi-billion dollar investment funds.
Nikolas’ keynotes are always customized for what you need and ignite your audience’s thinking to shift midgets from WHAT IS TO WHAT IF… The result is the ability to be curious, explore possibilities, and imagine incredible futures for all.
All keynotes are available in-person at your event or workplace, full virtual from Nikolas’ Future Casting studio (4K streaming and high-production), or in hybrid format using your studio or event space.
EXPONENTIAL HUMANITY – embrace new frontiers in A.I.
The exploitation of data has long been the lifeblood of industrial progress since the 1980s and now we’re transcending that ability through Artificial Intelligence, augmentation, and automation. In harnessing its ability, we hope to positively affect the world and create incredible futures to drive productivity and solve some of the greatest challenges of our times.
Nikolas will show you…
-A.I.’s transformation – and how it’s shifted from academic exploration into a real-world powerhouse of change across all industries.
-How our world is being revolutionized – thought industry automation, education being redefined, and exponential industries changed through the foundations of data science, the implementation of new A.I. tools, and the application of machine learning in the wider world and in your industry.
-How to implement A.I. in your organization – the practical abilities and skill sets needed, the structural considerations for strategic planning, and the mindset needed for continual development and growth in A.I. capabilities.
SUPERCHARGING INNOVATION – uncover new opportunities, grow your business.
Every organization wants to be seen as innovative, solving real world problems and leading their industry. The majority fall at the first hurdle – taking a chance and empowering their people to explore possibilities. Leading executives are now finding that the process of innovation can be revolutionized by leading with futures work to speculation on the futures ahead of us and their place in those incredible worlds.
Nikolas will show you how to…
-Build resilience and innovation into your organization – how to build innovation mindsets and capabilities across your organization, and in the heart of every employee.
-De-risk innovation through futures work – by looking at the signals, trends and scenarios that show us the dynamics of solutions we imagine will change the world. It also allows us to feel how we are in those places using design fiction and world building.
-Think like a futurist – how to question your own history and perspectives, be wildly creative & collaborate, look for pockets of the future in the present, and build hope as an energy to change the world.
Nikolas will take you through his world-leading process of futures work and show you how that supercharges innovation and strategy to deliver increased revenues and explosive growth.
2050, The Brave New World
The world will change in the next 20 years more than it has in the previous 100. At the heart of that are technologies that are advancing at a pace never seen before – exponentially.
Nikolas will provide a deep dive into the key exponentially developing and growing technologies that are changing the world, including Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Robotics, Computational Systems, 3D Printing, Medicine/Neurosystems, Cybersecurity and Bioinformatics, Renewable Energy, Nanotechnology, and Quantum Computing.
Industry and Discipline Keynotes:
-Futures Design
-Future of Innovation and Disruption
-Future of Work
-Future of Artificial Intelligence
-Future of Water, Energy, and Food Nexus
-Future of Waste
-Future of Aerospace, Engineering and Manufacturing
-Future of Logistics and Transportation
-Future of Agriculture and Agribusiness
-Future of Finance and Insurance
-Future of Urban Planning
-Future of Metaverse and Web3 / Digital Engagement
-Future of Privacy and Security
More Services – Beyond the futurist keynote:
Futures Training and Workshops
Imagine being able to ignite your organization’s curiosity, explore our futures together, and imagine multiple future scenarios that might play out for your industry and organization. Develop an anticipatory capability that integrates that foresight to influence your strategic planning – and the future you want for your organization, your industry, and the world. Nikolas Badminton goes beyond the keynote to provide impactful organizations with Foresight Training and Workshops that allow clients looking to learn about the tools and techniques used in foresight.
Executive Roundtables
Many organizations and event organizers have been able to reward their most valued executives, attendees and sponsors with a closed door, exclusive roundtable with Nikolas Badminton. These are places to explore ideas presented in the keynote and have a lively and open discussion on the implications of those signals, trends and scenarios discussed on critical industries and your organizations.
Executive One-on-One Coaching
Each year, Nikolas Badminton offers curious and driven executives the opportunity to learn more – one-on-one – about the foresight and futures exploration techniques that can transform their strategic planning into an anticipatory capability. The result is greater visibility of the unknown opportunities, challenges and risks that may come to pass, and an ongoing expiration of the scenarios that will drive profit, growth and increased market capitalization.
Board Retreats
Take the thinking and discussions about critical strategic thinking and decisions that shape the futures of your organization to the next level with an advisory session and deep-dive into impactful signals, trends and scenarios that company leadership needs to be considering.
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Bio:
Nikolas is the Chief Futurist for the Futurist Think Tank at futurist.com, a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA), and works with trillion-dollar companies, central banks, governments, startups and those willing to challenge our poverty of imagination, awaken curiosity and create incredible futures.
He has worked with hundreds of world-leading companies, including NASA, Google, Microsoft, United Nations, United Way, Bayer, Corteva, Bank of Canada, American Express, AT&T, Thales International, Rolls Royce, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, Government of Canada, UK Home Office, Government of Cayman Islands, IDEO, and many more.
Nikolas has been a mainstay in the media for the past decade talking about our futures. He’s appeared in the ‘Smart Drugs’ documentary, was an advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downley Jr and appears in the upcoming series ‘The Secrets of Big Data’ on Discovery. He appears regularly on SIRIUSXM, and on CTV’s Future Friday. His essential research has also been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik, Venturebeat, and Global News. He also produces and interviews incredible thinkers on the renowned Exponential Minds Podcast.
In 2022 Nikolas’ new book was released – ‘Facing Our Futures’ provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to imagine new futures, create bolder visions, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. Nikolas’ thinking can also be seen in the opening chapter of ‘The Future Starts Now’. Both are published by Bloomsbury Business.
