What can a futurist do for your business? Futurists are thought leaders who study and try to predict the future based on current trends. The future is not just about technological innovations like artificial intelligence and machine learning. Futurists also make predictions about changes to data, demographics, energy, economics, and more. 

If you want to know what’s coming for your industry in the next few years, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top 10 Futurist Keynote Speakers. These futurists are popular TED speakers, bestselling authors, and company founders. They can help your business see the trends forming so you can be prepared before the future arrives. 

1) Nancy Giordano

Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist and the bestselling author of Leader. One of the world’s top female futurists, Nancy helps businesses understand how AI and machine learning are about to hit the long-anticipated exponential curve and radically shift organizations.

2) Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is a top futurist, bestselling author of Futretainment, and one of the Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World, according to Real Leaders. His “Disruptive Future” blog is read by thousands of professionals. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike focuses on the next five years in business design, human resources, data, and the Internet of Things.

3) Kevin Surace

Kevin Surace is a top innovation keynote speaker, CEO of Appvance.ai, inventor of more than 85 patents, and was Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He has been featured in over 15 TED and TEDx talks, sharing the ways machine learning and artificial intelligence can change and challenge your business.

4) Erica Orange

Erica Orange is a top futurist keynote speaker and Executive VP & COO of The Future Hunters, one of the world’s leading futurist consulting firms. In her talks, she evaluates the emerging social, technological, economic, political, demographic, and environmental trends – and identifies the strategic implications (or the “So what?”) of those trends for your company.

5) Peter Zeihan  

Peter Zeihan is a top geopolitical strategy expert and the bestselling author of The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization. Specializing in global energy, demographics, and security, Peter customizes every keynote to show each audience exactly why their world is changing fast—and how they can get ahead of it.

6) Crystal Washington

Crystal Washington is a top social media keynote speaker, author, and one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists. Crystal is well known for her ability to take complex Web, app, and social media topics and make them easy to understand and accessible for everyday people and business owners.

7) Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis is a top innovation keynote speaker, futurist, Chairman/CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Future is Faster Than You Think. Diamandis speaks about what will happen as AI, robotics, and virtual reality crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks. Audiences will come away understanding how these convergences will transform today’s biggest industries.

8) Vivienne Ming

Vivienne Ming is a top theoretical neuroscientist and was named one of the “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine. She co-founded Socos Labs, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. She speaks about AI, education, and the future of work.

9) Erik Qualman

Erik Qualman is a social media maven, technology expert, #1 bestselling author, and host of the Super U podcast. Erik speaks about the future of social networking, digital leadership, and how to become the disruptor, not the disrupted. 

10) Janelle Shane 

Janelle Shane is a machine learning expert, author, and artificial intelligence humorist. Her TED talk, “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” has over 3 million views and provides a funny and insightful look at the nature of machine learning algorithms. She explains some of the myths and fallacies of AI so you can understand the future of AI: what AI can and can not do for your business.

If you want a Top Ten Futurist Keynote Speaker to help your company, contact BigSpeak Speakers Bureau today, one of the leading business speaking agencies.

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