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Nikolas Badminton

Speaker

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chief Futurist and Hope Engineer

Nikolas Badminton is an award-winning, dynamic and innovative keynote speaker and futurist consultant who shares an awe-inspiring vision of trends that shape the future to world-leading organizations and governments. He provides expertise in new technologies and promotes exponential thinking with a critical, honest, and optimistic view that empowers you to plan for today, tomorrow, and for the future.

Keynote Speeches

The A.I. 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 that 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 skill sets are needed and how organizations can integrate A.I. capabilities for real results.

Client takeaways

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset
    • Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how AI will transform companies and industries.
  • Explore A.I. signals, trends & scenarios
    • See how AI is evolving how industries work. See how your workforce will supercharge their capabilities using AI, spatial computing and other technologies.
  • See high-hope leadership in action
    • Learn the stories of how world-leading companies are applying AI and futures thinking to supercharging our strategic thinking.
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.

Takeaways:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset
    • Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and a develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries
  • Explore signals, trends and scenarios
    • See case studies and shifts showing us how your industry will change in the next 5, 10, and 20+ years. Identify opportunities, challenges and risks ahead of your competition.
  • See high-hope leadership in action
    • Learn the stories of how world-leading companies, are applying  futures thinking to supercharging our strategic thinking
Supercharge Innovation: Creating a Brave New World

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 drive increased revenues and explosive growth.

Takeaways:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset
    • Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries
  • Learn innovation methods
    • New methods and industry dynamics will be explored together that indicate how your workforce will level up their thinking and consideration of exponential technologies.
  • See thought leadership in action
    • Learn the stories of how world-leading companies are disrupting themselves and innovating using futures thinking
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.

Takeaways:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset
    • Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries
  • Learn about future energy ecosystems
    • See how solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear and storage solutions combine to create new energy industry dynamics and business models.
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 defence, space, and arctic sovereignty and technology innovation; and, the intersection of digital sovereignty and cybersecurity in shaping national security and power dynamics.

Takeaways:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset
    • Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and explore energy transition and future geopolitical scenarios.
  • Learn about future geopolitical shifts
    • See how the growth in data, AI, quantum climate tech, and sensor ecosystems are accelerating positions and economies.
  • See high-hope leadership in action
    • Learn the stories of how world-leading energy companies are disrupting themselves  using futures thinking.

Platform Plus Presentations

Unique formats and ways to connect with audiences.
Next level client engagement
Nikolas is renowned for his level of engagement, focus and customization of keynotes for each and every client and is now providing more value with each engagement:

100+ hours of focused research for each keynote that provides new thinking on the signals, trends and scenarios to supercharge strategic thinking.

Focused collaboration and co-creation with each event organizer and client to produce the most impactful content for their audiences

In-depth Q&A and audience engagement sessions that go deeper into the signals and futures design that Nikolas presents

Beyond Customization
Nikolas will work with you, the client and their team to speak with their executives stakeholders and key clients to gain a deep understanding of where they are, where they see the world shifting and evolving, and what their ideas of the futures ahead of their industry are.

Nikolas then taps into his knowledge base - and the global Think Tank - to do specific research to excite and ignite thinking at the event. Following confirmation of the engagement he produces the talk title and blurb and outline the areas for exploration - then Nikolas and the client discuss and focus in on what is needed to shift perspectives and supercharge strategic thinking.

Audience reviews:

  • Nik really knows how to immediately engage and inspire an audience. His insight, foresight and expertise is invitational in nature, where his captivating content not only leaves his audience wanting more, but inspires them in a way that energizes the growth mindset and punctuates a “WHAT IF” mentality. We loved his work. - The Walt Disney Company
  • Nik is not just an incredible presenter. He grabs the audience's attention and doesn’t let go. So many of our partners told us they had never examined the future of their business in such a thought provoking way. - Intel
  • Nik brought a provocative point of view on new large compute areas (artificial intelligence, spatial computing, sensor fusion etc.) that left the room starting to shift the way they approach future product framing. - Verizon
  • Nik came in and wowed us. He surprised many of us with his foresight and predictions and gave our audience information on subjects they didn't even realize they should be considering. The group he presented is in the business of making predictions, so for him to surprise us was inspiring. - TD Bank
  • Nik engaged our audience in a thought-provoking manner and challenged them to think differently about how our work impacts the future generations of our communities. Nik was collaborative throughout and invested in the success of our event and its audience members. - PCL Construction
  • Nikolas is delightful and easy to work with. Whether it’s to motivate your audience toward change today or imagining our future, you definitely need Nikolas at your conference. - United Way Worldwide
  • We found Nik’s comprehensive and multifaceted approach to visioning the future and its associated trends quite inspiring and insightful. - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Nikolas served as a dynamic host for this provocative event. Nikolas worked hard to understand the University and our intended outcomes; as a result, we engaged Nik to work with us as our strategic curator for the Waterloo Innovation Summit.

    - Senior Director Community Relations & Events, University of Waterloo
  • Nikolas was an absolute pleasure to work with from start to finish. His presentation was very well-received and we've heard only great things so far. I've attached the feedback that was submitted in the mobile app for his keynote for your reference.

    - Program Director and 2018 Committee Chair, ARMA Canada
  • Nikolas served as a dynamic host for this provocative event. Nikolas worked hard to understand the University and our intended outcomes; as a result, we engaged Nik to work with us as our strategic curator for the Waterloo Innovation Summit.

    - Senior Director Community Relations & Events, University of Waterloo
  • Nikolas’ genuine enthusiasm and knowledge of technology and industry trends made for a thought-provoking keynote to kick-off our event.

    - Director, Labour Relations Services, Metro Vancouver
  • Nikolas was completely accurate in the danger and ownership of data and how to secure it now and what the future holds.

    - Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce

Speaker Biography

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned global futurist speaker and Chief Futurist that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to create bold visions by exploring desirable futures, anticipating opportunities and risks, and strengthening strategic planning. 

“Drive profitability today by exploring futures and shifting mindsets from what is to what IF…

He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 450 leading organizations at the frontline of futures, strategy and disruption – including The White House, NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan, Verizon, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, Dyson, BISCI, ISACA, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, UK Home Office, United Nations, and many more.

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth – is Nikolas’ number one best selling book and has been named Top-50 Business Books by The Next Big Idea Club, and JP Morgan Private bank’s “Next Gen Pick” for their Summer Reading List to guide young executives to embrace futures thinking.

“We are Hope Engineers.” His perspective reframes hope as renewable energy and strategic activism: “Hope is essential, possibilities are endless, and futurism is activism. We are Hope Engineers, and we’re destined to build a new world together.” Badminton shows leaders how to engineer hope through well-informed strategies with audacious goals, creating pathways through challenges while energizing agency in themselves and their teams.

Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, and was an advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr.

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