Nikolas Badminton
Nikolas Badminton on the Importance of Futures Design
Nikolas Badminton
Keynote Speaker
Chief Futurist, futurist.com
Nikolas Badminton is a global futurist who mentors leaders and works with organizations to create more connected, curious, and creative teams that embrace futures design to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
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Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist with over 30 years at the frontline of technology, technology transformation, and future exploration. He’s advised AGMs and Boards, coached world-leading CEOs, run futures conferences, and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at over 300 companies in the past 10 years alone. He teaches people how to think like futurists and create anticipatory organizational capabilities that drive incredible profit and growth.
Nikolas will deliver a customized keynote for your industry with incredible optimism and energy that aims to inspire, ignite curiosity, and teaches you how to think like a futurist through curiosity and asking, ‘what if…’. He will share stories of cultural shifts, insights into new disruptive technologies, and rethink how you establish winning strategies in your organization by deploying foresight.
He’s also the author of the internationally renowned book — Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth.
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Nikolas Badminton’s Speech Topics
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Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures
What if we can gain foresight to master diverse and renewable energy ecosystem opportunities?
The energy industry is at an impasse. Global and domestic markets are seeing economic shifts, growth, and changing market dynamics through transformation of how we generate, distribute, and consume energy. Our renewable energy economy is being accelerated by policy, competition, new innovation, and research ecosystems powered by data, AI, and automated systems that present new opportunities for efficiency and growth.
You will learn how progressive leaders embrace futures exploration and take action to plan for what comes next in energy independence, electrification of infrastructure and transportation, and global sustainability.
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Geopolitical Technology Futures: looking to 2035 and beyond
What if we anticipate global shifts and geopolitical moves and technology’s role in shaping our world?
Advanced technologies are reshaping global power dynamics, partnerships and strategic competition. Developments in Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing, global supply chains, and the critical water-energy-food systems are transforming how nations and their pivotal industries are gaining strategic advantage and rewriting their geopolitical playbooks.
You will learn the transformation across critical resource management in an era of climate change and decarbonization,
strategic realignment of global supply chains and financial systems; the evolution of defense, space, and arctic sovereignty and technology innovation; and the intersection of digital sovereignty and cybersecurity in shaping national security and power dynamics.
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Supercharge Innovation: Rising above your competition
What if we create a company-wide culture of innovation that uncovers new opportunities and drives incredible growth?
Organizations have been getting innovation wrong. It lives in every employee, every meeting, and at the foundations of the organization. The innovative mind is a shift in how we obsess over wicked problems and look at the incredible futures ahead of us.
You will learn how to take bold steps to take in building a culture of innovation, and the inspirational stories of those doing it. You will learn how to fuel new ideas in your organization and apply futures thinking to de-risk the innovation process and create incredible roadmaps for change. He will show you how that supercharges thinking that drives increased revenues and explosive growth.
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Hopeful Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond
What if we can explore incredible futures, channel organizational wisdom, and build hope as an energy for change?
Nikolas Badminton will show you how to think like a futurist and imagine hopeful futures by exploring signals and trends transforming your industry and shifting your mindset from what is to what if….
This next-level futurist keynote will help you navigate global megatrends that are changing power dynamics, and explore the trends that will transform your industry – Artificial Intelligence and automation, digital transformation, data growth, spatial computing, water-energy-food resiliency, sustainable agriculture and food supply, construction, transportation and logistics, healthcare, banking and fintech, smart cities, privacy and cybersecurity, and more.
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The AI Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth
What if we can look beyond the hype with wisdom and hope to supercharge our organization with deeply integrated AI? Nikolas Badminton presents the definitive AI keynote for strategic executives who want to plan for the long term. Understanding how we can harness AI’s capabilities drives hope to positively affect the world and create incredible futures that solve some of the greatest challenges of our times. You will learn AI’s role in shaping our futures, the upgraded
organization and how our world and industries are being revolutionized. He will also show what practical abilities and skills
sets are needed, and how organizations can integrate A.I. capabilities for real results.
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