Innovation Shouldn't Cost The Earth | AccountancyAge, Brussels | Matthew Griffin | Sustainability Keynote Speaker – Matthew Griffin

By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 20th December 2019

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

Today we can see technologies that will help us eliminate up to 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, so now it’s down to us to embrace change.

Firstly, a big thank you to the team at AccontancyAge for asking me to be this year’s keynote at their annual summit in Belgium where I was asked to discuss one of the subjects that’s closest to my hearts, namely the environmental cost of innovation and how we build a future for us all where sustainability is at the heart of everything do, and where we still have an inhabitable planet to live on.

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When we look at today’s world people could be forgiven for thinking that we are all headed down a one way road where one half of the planet is on fire while the other is underwater and being battered by increasingly powerful, but that future isn’t set in stone, yet, and today we have plenty of powerful tools at our disposal that can help us change the narrative and create a better brighter future for us and our children. Whether or not we embrace and use them though, well, that’s down to us.

See the keynote

During my keynote I discussed the environmental cost of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain, and the new tools we have at our disposal to mitigate it, and then shone a light on the various breakthroughs that collectively give us a path to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, in the long run, by over sixty percent. Although, admittedly, it’s never as straight forwards as that.

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I discussed breakthroughs that include the electrification of transportation, and new ways to produce food without the animals or farms, as well as new construction techniques and materials, and of course, last but certainly not least, new green energy generation and storage technologies. I even managed to discuss, albeit rather tongue in cheek, NASA’s new green rocket fuel…

The future is in our hands, and what kind of planet we all live on in 2050 is down to us, so I hope you enjoy the keynote, and, as always feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Described by NASA as a "Walking Encyclopaedia of the Future" and one of the world’s most in demand keynote speakers Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm, is a multi-award winning Futurist and strategic foresight expert, author, lecturer, mentor, podcast and YouTube host.

With a distinguished career running global business units at Atos, EMC, and IBM today Matthew helps leaders and titans of industry from all over the world explore the impact of the inter sections of technology, culture, and leadership, then helps them create high performance organisations that can continuously disrupt, outpace, and outthink their competition.

15 times author of the hit series the Codex of the Future series Matthew's 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 across the G7, G20, and G77, and many of the world's most recognised and exceptional organisations including ABB, Accenture, ABN Amro, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Deloitte, Dentons, Disney, Dow, EY, Google, KPMG, Lego, Microsoft, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Nokia, Paramount, PepsiCo, PWC, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, Visa, WIRED, WPP and hundreds of others.

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