
Nikolas Badminton
Nikolas Badminton on the Importance of Futures Design
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Nikolas Badminton on Transformation and Change
Nikolas Badminton on the Importance of Futures Design
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.
Global and domestic markets are experiencing economic shifts, growth, and changing market dynamics due to the 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, which present new opportunities for efficiency and growth.
See how solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, and storage solutions combine to create new energy industry dynamics and business models. Nikolas will show you how progressive leaders embrace future exploration and take action to plan for what comes next in energy independence, electrification of infrastructure and transportation, and global sustainability.
Emerging technologies are reshaping global power dynamics, partnerships and strategic competition. Developments in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, global supply chains, and critical water-energy-food systems are shaping geopolitics. Discover how nations and industries are leveraging technological innovation to gain strategic advantage, and rewriting their geopolitical playbooks.
Other areas for exploration include 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.
Nikolas will deliver an energetic and inspiring keynote that ignites curiosity, shifts your mindset from what is to what if, and teaches you how to think like a futurist. 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.
As always, the keynote is built in collaboration with clients to create incredible impact and help attendees:
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