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ABOUT MATTHEW GRIFFIN
Matthew Griffin, CEO and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, keynote speaker and 13 times author, is the world’s leading authority on emerging technology, trends, foresight, and the future and deep future. His clients include royal households, G7 and G20 governments, and many of the brands you’ll use today.
MATTHEWS MISSION
I have only one mission – to democratise access to the Future and Deep Future for everyone and provide you with the mindset and tools to shape it, participate in it, and lead it. That’s why everything on this site is free and why everything is about the future.
EXPONENTS DAILY BLOG
The decisions and technologies we are making today will all play a role in shaping what our future looks like – for better or worse. As a result our future is constantly evolving. Here you can see what we’re doing today to make our future tomorrow.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session held in London Futurist and trends expert Matthew Griffin examines hundreds…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote in Athens, Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of work and AI…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session in Istanbul Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of footwear and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of our connected world and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this virtual keynote Futurist Matthew Griffin explores what happens to global business, culture, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session, which was originally presented three times at the UN COP28 in…
KEYNOTES AND PANELS: SEE AND SHAPE THE FUTURE
I have the great privilege of speaking to organisations and their audiences about the future and participating in conversations that help shape it, and while I am an eternal humanist and optimist who works hard to discover and present solutions to our world’s most pressing issues I am also a realist. Here you can play, pause, and rewind the sessions I’ve had the privilege of being involved with.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this panel session Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the impact that emerging technologies such as…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of AI and Generative AI, investigates…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this panel session futurist Matthew Griffin explores the impact that emerging technologies, both current…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this virtual keynote session for the Malaysian Securities Commission futurist Matthew Griffin explores the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote and workshop session futurist Matthew Griffin explores what the next 40 years…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin explores the next decade of aviation and how…
OPINION PIECES: LOVE IT, LOATHE IT
Everyone has their own opinions on matters and I’m no different. I believe all opinions are important and have the right to be voiced, and firmly believe in the values of debate, diversity, and open mindedness, because being closed to any of these diminishes all of us in the long run. Here you can explore some of those opinions and points of view.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand we’re worried what happens to society when AI gets smarter than…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our future will be vastly different from today’s reality so students will need all the…
WHY THIS MATTER IN BRIEF In a time when most companies focus on the short term at the expense of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most sci-fi books and movies paint a dystopian view of the future, and it’s all…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sci-fi and the future are kindred cousins, and its no coincidence that one inspires the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Pollution and other factors have hidden consequences on everything from our health to the environment,…
PODCASTS: LISTEN, LEARN, REFLECT
Technology development and societal rates of change are now so fast that often the best way to keep current with them all is via podcasts so I contribute as much as I can. You can hear all of the replays here.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DeepFakes are having an increasing impact on our society, but Synthetic Content is the real…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of work has always been a top of mind topic, but the recent…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is changing faster than many of us can imagine, and in unimaginable ways…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In spite of the negative news about the impact of AI and automation on jobs…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is changing at a faster rate now than at any other point in…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is going through an energy revolution and transition unlike anything we’ve ever seen…
FREE DOWNLOADS: MATTHEW’S BOOKS
My mission is to democratise access to the future for everyone, so all my content is free including the more than 15,000 pages of content in my Codex of the Future series of books. You can get them all free here.
FREE DOWNLOADS: emerging tech POSTERS
If you have every heard the phrase a picture paints a thousand words then these annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst posters, each of which contain hundreds of emerging technologies, paint a thousand futures. You can download them all free here.