Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of Futurist.com and a renowned international futurist keynote speaker, researcher, and media producer. He helps trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments and the media shift their mindset from “what is” to “WHAT IF…” The result is empowered employees, new innovative products and incredible growth that leads to more revenues and a more resilient future.
He has published over 750 articles on future trends and collaborates with research partners to look into the influence of technology and humanity. His 2020 study on The Future of Life’ with Intensions Consulting is now available to view for the United States and Canada. In addition, his opinion has also been featured globally on BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik and Venturebeat.
Nikolas has keynoted and consulted with over 300 amazing clients, including United Nations, NASA, UK Home Office, Government of Canada, United Way, Google, Microsoft, Rolls Royce, BMW China, DISCOVER, HSBC, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Young Professionals Organization (YPO), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, IDEO, Singularity University, and hundreds more.
Futurist Speaker Showreel
He works with news and media production companies to create future-focused segments and documentaries. He has advised Robert Downey Jr.’s team for the ‘Age of A.I.’ documentary series, starred in SMART DRUGS – a Futurist’s journey into biohacking, and features on CTV, Global News, Sirius XM regularly.
Nikolas is writing a chapter for a 2021 book called The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society for Bloomsbury publishing in the UK.
Future of… Keynote Series
Nikolas has tapped into his 35+ years of experience and over 300 futurist keynotes to develop specific research and insights into a number of key industries. Click through to look at his featured Future of… keynotes:
- Futures Design
- Future of Innovation and Disruption
- Future of Work
- Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Future of Water, Energy, and Food Nexus
- Future of Waste
- Future of Aerospace, Engineering and Manufacturing
- Future of Logistics and Transportation
- Future of Agriculture and Agribusiness
- Future of Finance and Insurance
- Future of Urban Planning
- Future of Metaverse and Web3 / Digital Engagement
- Future of Privacy and Security
Example Futurist Keynotes
TBM 2019: The Power of Change
UBIQUITOUS FRONTIERS: The next 50 years
Nikolas Badminton dives into the next 50 years and the technology areas that will be affecting our ubiquitously connected world and the Internet of Things (IoT). He discusses robots, augmented reality and quantum computing. He also reminds us that we are human and there needs to be an ethical and moral balance in how we create out technological reality.
2220 A New Agricultural Frontier
It’s been 150 years since the end of the ‘energy wars’, and 100 years since any war on Earth has been waged. The world has never been so unified in a mission to support all 15 billion beautiful humans to thrive.
More keynotes, TV and radio interviews can be see at Nikolas’ Youtube Channel.