Tech Futurist
Professional Speakers
Are you looking for a tech futurist speaker for your next corporate event? Our renowned thought leaders are experts in emerging technologies and trends, each bringing with them a talent for inspiring audiences with insights into what's next in the world of tech.
Choose From Our Stellar Network of
Tech Futurist Speakers:
Tom Koulopolous
Visionary Leader and
Authority on Changing Technology
Tom Koulopoulos is a renowned business leader, futurist, and author of 13 books, including his latest work, Reimagining Healthcare. As the chairman of Delphi Group, a fast-growing global futures think tank based in Boston, he's widely recognized as a deep thinker in the technology and culture arena. He's also a frequent commentator on MSNBC, a columnist for Inc.com, and an adjunct professor at both Boston University and Bentley University. With his incisive view of world trade and innovative ideas, Forbes has called Tom a business visionary. His writing has been praised by Tom Peters and the late Peter Drucker for its ability to challenge conventional wisdom and inspire change.
Daniel Burrus
Best Selling Author,
Business Strategist, Technology Futurist
Regarded as a top futurist on global trends and innovation, Burrus is a sought-after speaker, strategic advisor, and CEO of Burrus Research. He has founded six successful businesses and is the author of seven books, including the Amazon #1 bestseller, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage. 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.
Brian David Johnson
Futurist, Author, Professor
Brian David Johnson has made the future his business. From 2009 to 2016, Johnson was Intel Corporation's first-ever futurist. Currently, he is a professor at Arizona State University's Global Futures Laboratory and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He also works in a private practice with a broad range of groups, including governments, militaries, corporations, nonprofits, and start-ups, to help them envision their future. Johnson holds over 40 patents and is the best-selling author of both science fiction and fact books, including A Threatcasting Textbook, The Future You, WaR: Wizards and Robots and 21st Century Robot.
Shawn Dubravac
NYT Best Seller of Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate; President of Avrio Institute
Dr. DuBravac is an internationally-recognized thought leader and top-rated keynote speaker, delivering pragmatic and provocative insights on the trends, technologies and paradigms transforming the globe. His research focuses on the forces shaping tomorrow that are percolating on the peripheral of society and business today. By providing an elevated view of developing trends, DuBravac empowers leaders and their organizations to improve strategic decision-making capabilities by identifying and understanding the changing landscape and opportunities that lie ahead. Today DuBravac is president of Avrio Institute with clients including Fortune 100 and Global 1000 companies, scrappy start-ups, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Grounded in economics, DuBravac served for over a dozen years as chief economist for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer tech companies and owner and producer of CES.
Nancy Giorando
Founder & CEO, Play Big Inc. & Ranked as One of the “World’s Top Female Futurists” and Top 7 “Women of Influence on the Future of Leadership”
Recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and evolving a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands. With growing conviction of what will (and needs to) shift, executives value her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the terrain ahead and guide those ready to build more relevant and sustainable solutions. A 10 year TEDx curator (and world’s first licensee), Nancy is a Singularity University guest lecturer, frequent panelist at South by Southwest (SXSW), creator of the first Career Fair For the Future event for college + high school student and recent co-founder of Femme Futurists Society (a growing collection of interviews with leading futurists around the world) and remains an active strategist.
Nicholas Webb
Healthcare Futurist and Innovation Expert
Nick Webb is a number-one bestselling author and one of the most popular Innovation, Healthcare, Future-trends, and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Nick is the CEO of LeaderLogic, LLC, a Management Consulting Firm that provides consulting services and training to the top brands in the world. He works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multibillion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations. As a technologist, Nick has been awarded over 40 Patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including one of the world’s smallest medical implants and one of the first wearable technologies.
Jim Carroll
Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert
Carroll is one of the world’s leading global futurism, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list that ranges from NASA to the PGA, Disney to Johnson & Johnson, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the National Australia Bank. Over the last 20 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight with his events on stage, taking in his ability to inspire audiences through a combination of deep insight, on-stage humor and motivational guidance, all grounded in deep observations on future trends.
Michael Rogers
MSNBC's 'The Practical Futurist' and
Technology Expert
Michael Rogers is a technology pioneer, author and journalist, who is also futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. His consultancy, Practical Futurist, has worked with organizations ranging from NBC Universal and FedEx to Boeing, GE and Microsoft. He co-founded Outside magazine and then launched Newsweek’s technology column, winning numerous journalism awards. For ten years he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, leading both the newspaper and Newsweek into the new century and earning patents for multimedia technology. He is also a best-selling novelist whose books have been published worldwide, chosen for the Book-of-the-Month club and optioned for film.
Crystal Washington
Technology Trends Expert and One of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists
One of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, Crystal Washington helps global brands like Google, Microsoft, and GE use cutting-edge technology to drive performance and take their business to the next level. After working in revenue management and corporate sales managing Fortune 500 accounts and repeatedly breaking company records, Crystal founded her own social media consulting firm called Black-Market Exchange, which became enormously successful. Infusing humor and wit, Crystal is known for her ability to take complex technology topics and make them easy to understand and accessible for everyday professionals and small business owners, across generations.
Matt Britton
Gen z, AI & New Consumer Expert
Matt Britton is a world-renowned expert on the impact of tomorrow’s consumer on the leading brands of today. Over the past two decades, he has provided invaluable consultation to more than half of the Fortune 500 on the influence and impact of Millennials and Gen Z. Currently at the helm of Suzy, a pioneering consumer intelligence platform, Matt has facilitated a radical transformation in how brands garner real-time feedback.
