Diana Wu-David is a futurist, author, and thought leader focused on the future of work, leadership, and global change. As Director of Futures at ServiceNow and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Foresight Network, she brings institutional depth to her forward-looking perspective on how organizations and individuals can navigate the complexities of a rapidly evolving workforce. A former Financial Times executive, she has spent her career helping organizations and individuals navigate the complexities of a rapidly evolving workforce. Her book, Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration, has inspired readers around the world to rethink their approach to career resilience, adaptability, and purpose. Through her work as a consultant and speaker, Wu-David collaborates with executives, entrepreneurs, and companies to create sustainable strategies for growth in a digital, globalized world.

In addition to her writing and consulting, Wu David is an educator who teaches at institutions like Columbia Business School and the University of Hong Kong. She is passionate about empowering leaders to embrace flexibility, foster innovation, and prioritize work-life balance in their teams and organizations. Known for her accessible and forward-thinking approach, Diana Wu David is recognized as a guiding voice for those seeking to thrive amid the uncertainties of the modern workplace and create a future that values both people and progress.

Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, strategic advisor, author, and the CEO of Fast Future, delivering future insights, provoking radical thinking, and enhancing humanity’s prospects. He helps leaders in global corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and governments in over 70 countries anticipate and respond to future shaping forces and ideas. His core expertise is helping clients understand and shape the emerging future, focusing on advancing business, society, and individual lives by harnessing new thinking, innovation, and disruptive developments such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the crypto economy, and human enhancement.

Rohit uses cross-disciplinary insights with clients to address challenges such as delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, building systemwide resilience, adapting to the crypto economy, and envisaging business futures in a ‘designed for digital’ world.

John Sanei is a South African futurist, best-selling author, and keynote speaker dedicated to helping individuals and organizations prepare for an uncertain and fast-evolving future. With a focus on psychology, human behavior, and digital transformation, Sanei provides unique insights into how people and businesses can thrive amid disruptive changes. His books, including What’s Your Moonshot? and Magnetiize, explore topics like resilience, adaptability, and the mindset shifts needed to succeed in a volatile world, making him a guiding voice for those seeking to turn challenges into opportunities.

Known for his dynamic presentations, Sanei combines futurist thinking with practical strategies to inspire his audiences to embrace change and foster innovative thinking. He works globally with organizations and leaders, offering guidance on building future-ready cultures that prioritize collaboration, creativity, and adaptability. John Sanei’s work emphasizes the importance of mindset in navigating the modern world, encouraging leaders to cultivate curiosity and emotional intelligence to remain relevant and impactful in a rapidly shifting landscape.

Brett King is a world-renowned futurist and speaker, an International Bestselling Author, and a media personality who covers the future of business. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented as an influence on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. His book Bank 4.0 was recognized as the Top Foreign Language Book in Russia for 2019. He has spoken in over 75 countries, at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, The Economist, IBM’s World of Watson, CES, SIBOS and more. He has appeared as a commentator on CNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, and Bloomberg. He advised the Obama administration on Fintech policy and advises regulators and bank boards around the world on technology transformation.

King hosts the world’s #1 ranked podcast on Futurism called THE FUTURISTS, and the #1 Fintech podcast and Radio Show on FinTech called “Breaking Banks” (11m downloads, 180 countries). He is the Founder of Moven, the world’s first mobile challenger bank that pioneered major first for the industry including the first in-app bank account sign-up, the first real-time receipt, the first contactless payment capability and an app home page design that has been adopted by the industry at large. He sits on the boards of multiple Fintech, Technology and Banking related companies.

Named “King of the Disruptors” by Banking Exchange magazine, King was voted American Banker’s Innovator of the Year, voted the world’s #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand and was nominated by Bank Innovation as one of the top 10 “coolest brands in banking”. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Advance Global Australian of the Year Award for being one of the most influential Australians living offshore. His books have been released in more than a dozen languages and he has achieved bestseller status in 20 countries. His book Augmented was a Top 10 Non-Fiction book in multiple markets. His book Bank 4.0 has remained on the Amazon Top-10 Bestseller’s list for Banking Books for five years.

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 Fall 2022 Nikolas’ new book will be 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.

Tracey Follows is a globally recognised futurist and philosopher of identity whose work has evolved from analysing trends to building an entirely new world framework for the synthetic age. Known for her strategic foresight for global brands, media, and governments, Tracey is now the creator of Me:chine World –  a philosophical, practical, and soon-to-launch curriculum exploring the next evolution of identity in the C21st.

Tracey’s original concepts, which include the Me:chine Self (the synthesis of the machinable and unmachinable self that inhabits a machinic world) have positioned her as one of the most distinctive thinkers redefining human agency, sovereignty, and personhood for the decades ahead. And her award-winning podcast is now broadcasting the Me:chine Dialogues.

Her work has significant global impact. In 2025, as Chair of the UN/ITU Cross-Technology Working Group, she helped deliver the world’s first Global Digital Citiverse Framework, shaping international policy, ethics, and standards for virtual worlds and digital innovation. She was the futurologist for the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Future of Engineering 2050 campaign and she continued to advise a wide range of organisations across sectors and industries as diverse as pensions, asset management, housing, defence and security, grocery, formula one, property, finance and delivered a standout project on The Future of Health 2040 in Canada.

A compelling communicator, Tracey is one of two Resident Futurists covering products of the future on BBC Radio 4’s Dough, with media appearances in 2025 including CNN, BBC News, BBC Front Row, BBC 5Live, and exclusive interviews in The Sun and The Mirror. A popular keynote speaker she has spoken at the United Nations, U.S. State Department, FT Global Boardroom, Nobel Visions, FT Tech Live, FT Wealth Management, Finovate and Fortune Brainstorm AI, and delivers strategic foresight in executive programmes at London Business School and leading corporate academies.

Tracey is the author of The Future of You and host of the award-winning podcast of the same name (winning Best Tech Show, Independent Podcast Awards 2023). Her new major work, Me:chine, extends her philosophical system into a practical and educational framework – forming the foundation of a new curriculum for identity and agency in the synthetic century.

Across her career, Tracey Follows has moved beyond trend commentary to create a generative worldview that helps leaders and institutions understand not only where the world is heading, but who we must become to inhabit it.

Michael McQueen is an Australian futurist, change strategist and 10-time bestselling author renowned for his expertise in navigating change and staying relevant in an era of rapid transformation. With over two decades of research and experience, McQueen has become a trusted advisor to leaders of Fortune 500 brands, helping them anticipate shifts and adapt to emerging trends. His books, including Mindstuck, Winning the Battle for Relevance, and Preparing Now for What’s Next, explore the mindset and strategies necessary to stay at the cutting edge and have become essential resources for leaders seeking to future-proof their businesses.

As a highly sought-after keynote speaker, McQueen has presented to over 500,000 people across 5 continents sharing the stage with the likes of Bill Gates, Mel Robbins and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Having previously been named Australia’s keynote speaker of the year, Michael has been inducted into the professional speaker’s Hall of Fame. Known for his engaging style and actionable advice, he equips leaders with practical tools to foster resilience, innovation, and adaptability within their teams. Michael McQueen’s work continues to empower individuals and organizations to evolve with confidence and embrace opportunities in an ever-changing landscape.

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.

He has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Microsoft, VISA, Deloitte, Google, Procter & Gamble, KPMG, Honda, FedEx and the U.S. Department of Defense.

He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight, and his latest book The Anticipatory Organization is an Amazon #1 bestseller.

Burrus is also a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of disruptive innovation, exponential change and the future for a variety of publications including CNBC, Huffington Post, and Wired Magazine.

He has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg. Burrus has been quoted in a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes.

Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

He is the creator of the Hard Trend Methodology and the Anticipatory Organization® Business Model now being used by leading organizations worldwide. His award-winning learning systems, Anticipatory Leader® and Anticipatory Organization®, are results driven and are being used by many of the most innovative organizations worldwide.

His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s where he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty exponential technologies that would become the driving force of business and economic growth for decades to come. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology driven change and its direct impact on the business world.

Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, a celebrated futurist, the president of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and the chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute, based in San Francisco.

Spitz lectures and publishes extensively on anticipatory leadership, futures capabilities and decision-making in complex unpredictable environments. Spitz has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital businesses. He advises CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders on their most strategic decisions, evaluating their organizations’ competitiveness and identifying disruptions ahead.

Spitz sits on a number of advisory boards of companies, climate councils, venture capital funds, and academic institutions worldwide. He is also the Foresight & Sustainability partner of Vektor Partners (Palo Alto, London), a VC firm investing in the future of mobility, and an LP investor in Berkeley SkyDeck fund. Spitz is an industry-recognized expert, writer, speaker and investor in Artificial Intelligence, he chairs the Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence, and is known for coining the term “Techistentialism”.

As former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, Spitz launched the bank’s US M&A practice in San Francisco and built its European Technology & Digital investment banking franchises in London and Paris.

Graeme is an Expert on the Future of Work and the Disruptive Forces that are shaping organisations and their leaders. He is an internationally recognized futurist, specializing in the future of work. He was also a TEDx ‘Top Picks 2021’ Speaker.

Graeme helps organizations to understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years, and how we can respond in order to confidently stay ahead of change.

He fuses creativity, client-focus and insight into the disruptive trends that are transforming business. Graeme is one of the most talented speakers and experts in his field worldwide. His talks engage, inspire and blow out the cobwebs of complacence. For the past two decades, Graeme has worked with some of the world’s most recognized brands, travelling to over 80 countries in total, and speaking to around 100,000 people every year.

He is the author of 5 best-selling books, and on faculty at 5 top global business schools.

Brian Solis is a world-renowned futurist, keynote speaker, and author of over 60 industry-leading research publications and 8 best-selling books exploring disruptive trends, corporate innovation, business transformation, and consumer behavior.

Forbes has called him “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time” and The Conference Board described Brian as “the futurist we all need now.”

Brian serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow where he leads vision, strategy, and program innovation for the company’s global Innovation Centers. Brian also studies disruptive technologies, emergent trends, and market shifts to advise business executives on innovation and transformation strategies.

Brian continues to publish business and technology thought leadership in industry publications such as CIO, Forbes, and Worth, and has consistently been recognized as one of the world’s leading thinkers in innovation, business transformation, and leadership for over two decades.

AI Expert and Leading Futurist Andrew Grill is a dynamic and visionary tech leader with over three decades of experience steering technology companies towards innovative success.

Ranked as a top 10 Futurist speaker and known for his captivating global keynotes, Andrew offers practical and actionable advice, making him a trusted advisor at the board level for companies such as Vodafone, Adobe, DHL, Nike, Nestle, Bupa, Wella, Mars, Sanofi, Dell Technologies, and the NHS.

His book “Digitally Curious” delves into how technology intertwines with society’s fabric and provides actionable advice for any audience across a broad range of topics.

A former Global Managing Partner at IBM, five times TEDx speaker, and someone who has performed more than 550 times on the world stage he is no stranger to providing strategic advice to senior leaders across multiple industries.

Andrew’s unique blend of an engineering background, digital advocacy, and thought leadership positions him as a pivotal figure in shaping the future of technology.

Bronwyn Williams is a polymath who will challenge your assumptions about the present and the future. She is a Futurist, Economist and Business Trends Analyst.

She has over a decade’s worth of experience in strategic management, trend research and strategic foresight. She has consulted for clients in public and private sectors across the world.

Part economist, part strategist, Bronwyn’s particular areas of expertise include fintech trends, alternative economic models, and sustainable futures design.

She co-authored Survive The AI Apocalypse published by Random Penguin, The Future Starts Now published by Bloomsbury UK and Rescuing our Republic, a thought-provoking book with interviews from a diverse group of public intellectuals, business leaders and political mavericks discussing tangible ways South Africa can rescue itself from itself. She’s a columnist for leading business and technology publications and is a  sought-after media commentator on future trends and economic trajectories for network channels, including CNBC Africa and eNCA in South Africa.

Bronwyn has delivered hundreds of keynotes to audiences across dozens of countries. Her top speaking topics centre around “futurenomics,” that is, the future trajectory and potential of the social and political economic forces that shape our world and how we connect and trade with each other.

Secondary speaking topics include consumer trends, generational cycles, macro and microeconomic forecasts, PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), change management, foresight strategy and techniques, and risk management.

Tony Hunter is a respected futurist, innovation strategist, and thought leader focused on helping organizations prepare for rapid technological and societal change. He is known for translating complex future trends—such as artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and emerging business models—into clear, actionable insights for leaders and decision-makers.

With a strong background in strategy, foresight, and organizational transformation, Tony works with executives, governments, and institutions to anticipate disruption and build future-ready capabilities. His work emphasizes strategic agility, innovation culture, and human-centered approaches to technology adoption. As a speaker, advisor, and facilitator, Tony challenges conventional thinking and encourages leaders to shift from reactive planning to proactive future design.

Through keynote speeches, workshops, and advisory engagements, Tony Hunter helps organizations navigate uncertainty, identify opportunity in change, and create resilient strategies that enable long-term relevance and sustainable growth in an increasingly complex global landscape.

Roman Retzbach is a forward-thinking futurist, innovation strategist, and transformation advisor specializing in future-ready leadership and business adaptation. He is known for helping organizations anticipate change, navigate disruption, and build strategies that remain relevant in rapidly evolving economic and technological environments.

With a strong focus on future trends, digital transformation, and human-centered innovation, Roman works closely with executives and leadership teams to translate foresight into practical action. His approach combines systems thinking, strategic foresight, and organizational design to help companies respond proactively to emerging challenges and opportunities. As a speaker and advisor, Roman is valued for his ability to simplify complex future concepts and connect them directly to leadership decisions, culture, and performance.

Through his work, Roman Retzbach supports organizations in developing resilience, adaptability, and long-term vision—empowering leaders to move beyond short-term thinking and confidently shape sustainable futures in an era of continuous change.

Liselotte Lyngsø is a Founding Partner in Future Navigator. She is likely to be one of the most inspiring and enthusiastic persons you will ever meet. Her ability to create powerful images and inspire people to align towards shared goals is mind-blowing. She will spin your head around and show you possibilities, that you never even dreamed of. Yet she will never leave you in the unknown – if you are honest about building a better tomorrow. Her big passion in life is to train people to visualise the future.

For more than 18 years, Liselotte has travelled the world as a keynote speaker and moderator. Liselotte is a valued consultant for several global organizations and companies. She has recently been appointed to the Lifeboat Foundation – Safeguarding Humanity as a futurist advisor. Also, she is in the prestigious group of international thought leaders who will select the topics and inform the production of the NMC Technology Outlook. She is a Board Member of Specialisterne – enabling a million jobs for people with autism.

Liselotte Lyngsø is working with systematic trendspotting via strategic partnerships with Supertrends, and The Futures Agency

Visiting New Zealand Ministry of Transport – When will Smart Cities and cars be smart?

As a moderator, she offers follow-up interviews with the speakers. Listen to this debate on autonomous cars in Radio New Zealand -the country which is now experimenting with flying cars!

In her previous life, Liselotte was the Managing Director of Fahrenheit 212 – An Ideas Company owned by Saatchi & Saatchi. Before that, she worked at IKEA’s scenario planning division and for 8 years she was Director of Research at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Before that, Liselotte worked at the European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit.

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times best sellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. His forthcoming book, The Singularity Is Nearer, will be released June 25, 2024. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

For more than a decade, Calum has been a global keynote AI speaker, delivering insightful, entertaining, and inspirational talks, specialising in the future of AI and its impacts on all of us – our societies and our economies.

He is also one of the founders of Conscium, a startup aiming to develop indicators of machine intelligence, and aiming to scale neuromorphic computing.

Calum’s talks cover digital disruption, the future of jobs, the future of health, the impact on various economic sectors, and much more.

Calum has given talks on AI in 18 countries on five continents and is available for speaking engagements worldwide and virtually.

He has written four books on AI – two novels and two non-fiction – and numerous articles, many of which you can find on this website.

He co-hosts the London Futurist Podcast, a weekly series of 30-minute discussions about AI and related subjects like the use of data, longevity research, and the simulation hypothesis. They feature informed, articulate guests talking about a future which is exciting, but not immune to risk and disappointment.

Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. His talks are inspirational, but also grounded by the pragmatic realism developed during this career.

Calum studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.

As humanity rushes headlong into a world first served and soon dominated by technology, futurism has become a burning issue for everyone, not just visionaries and geeks. Gerd Leonhard blends humanism with futurism to create manifestos and creative non-fiction that dramatically widens the franchise and audience for near-future exploration. His new book – Technology vs. Humanity – is a breakthrough work of provocation that alerts the world to the imminent ethical and moral choices we will all have to confront much sooner than expected.

A musician and creative by background, Leonhard has spent fifteen years living in the future, applying his insights and practical wisdoms to present-day dilemmas from the erosion of work life to the epidemic of digital obesity that threatens to destroy a generation. Founder of The Futures Agency, Gerd Leonhard travels the world delivering customized advice to enterprise and public organizations of all kinds – helping them to both understand their future choices and discover their ‘true future’.

Gerd’s books and essays are supported by an increasing array of multi-media features, including films and webisodes from his own boutique film studios. Together with the The Futures Agency advisory and speaking tours, these media properties constitute a unique quarry of groundbreaking insights for individuals and organizations in transformation. Besides Technology vs. Humanity, Gerd’s other books include The Future of Content, Friction is Fiction, and the bestselling title The Future of Music. He also contributed a key chapter to The Future of Business, edited by Rohit Talwar.

A member of the Royal Society for the Arts (London) as well as the World Future Society, Gerd’s client list includes Consumers International, YouTube, Nokia, The Guardian, Google, Sony-BMG, Telkom Indonesia, Siemens, RTL, ITV, the BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, MTN, The Financial Times, DDB / TribalDDB, Ogilvy, Omnicom, the European Commission along with many other notable organizations.