Futurist Keynote, Slovakia: Living in the Exponential Era, SlovakiaTech

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 5th November 2019

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

The future is emerging faster and is more complex than many of us can imagine which is why during this keynote I de-mystify it.

Firstly, I’d like to thank Lucia and the team for inviting me to be the keynote for this years SlovakiaTech festival held in Bratislava where robots from ABB Robotics were creating and selling art for local charities alongside students from the local university who were showing off their various breakthroughs in brain machine interface technologies.

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Entitled Mastering the Exponential Future I took the audience, which consisted of everyone from government ministers through to local businessmen and women, on a journey of the future starting with the accelerating pace of change and how to understand and predict it, and then running through the various science fiction technologies that are now science fact before diving into how all of the breakthroughs we’re seeing today will disrupt and accelerate the pace of cultural, industrial, and societal change.

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Like many of the events I attend in Eastern Europe, with the last one being in Romania, the buzz and the enthusiasm was infectious, so it was only natural that afterwards we ended up having conversations about how we build the right cultures and ecosystems to help these communities thrive on the global stage.

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As I see as I travel the world it’s often not the enthusiasm to build a better future that’s the problem – it’s connecting people to the right communities and resources so we can help them realise their full potential, but fear not I have a plan so let’s just hope that that, like all of the science fiction technologies that are becoming science fact becomes real too. Stay tuned, and now, as for me it’s on to Cyprus and Greece.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, multi-award winning Futurist and named Futurist of the Year 2024, has been described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath. One of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts Matthew is the 15 times author of the blockbuster "Codex of the Future" series, and is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer and mentor, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, Dow, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.