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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.
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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes kids just don’t want to go to school, and now in Japan they have…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If people can walk and travel around warehouses faster they can get alot more work…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating a laser out of pure glass future lasers can be much smaller, simplified,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin and Ben Wright explore the future of AI, really…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin explores how today’s increasingly complex and disruptive world is…
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 keynote futurist Matthew Griffin explores the Future of Recycling, the industry, the innovations,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist and ex IBM Homeland security Chief Matthew Griffin lifts the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote and fireside chat futurist Matthew Griffin explores the Future of Longevity and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin explores the Future of AI and Generative AI…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin explores the impact that powerful emerging technologies, such…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is redefining human potential, human…
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 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,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A quality education not only benefits subsequent family generations but it also boosts earnings potential…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is changing faster than at any other point in human history, and that…
Technology is a blank slate, but when it is combined with human or machine based creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship it…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s get better at generating synthetic content, from art, games, and music, to imagery…
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.
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.