MATTHEW GRIFFIN FUTURIST KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, international keynote speaker, and 15 times author of the hit “Codex of the Future” series, is a world leading authority on future related Disruption, Education, Geopolitics, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability, Technology and Trends. His clients include royalty, G7, G20, and G77 governments, and the world’s biggest brands.
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FUTURE BLOGS . BOOKS . EDUCATION . FORESIGHT . KEYNOTES . PODCASTS . POSTERS … I’VE GOT YOU COVERED .
MATTHEW’S MISSION
Ever since I founded the 311 Institute, the world’s leading Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm with clients in over 100 countries, my mission has been to democratise access to the future for everyone and provide you with the mindset and tools to shape it, participate in it.
WORLD’S #1 FUTURIST ON YOUTUBE
There’s no better place to share insights into the Future than YouTube, and after years of sharing I’m now YouTube’s most followed Futurist with over 1.2 Million subscribers and 3 awards to my name.
THE WORLD’S #1 FUTURIST ON YOUTUBE
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GRAB THE FUTURE FOR FREE
My mission is to democratise access to the future for everyone, so all my content is free including the more than 12,000 pages of content in my Codex of the Future series of books. You can get them all free here.
THE DAILY EXPONENTS BLOG
WE’RE BUILDING THE FUTURE TODAY . SEE IT MADE .
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.
Lloyds Bank has used IBM quantum hardware to successfully flag a money mule hidden in transaction data, an early sign quantum computing could sharpen banks’ fraud defences.
China Post has begun deploying RobotEra humanoid robots to sort parcels at a major Guangzhou mail hub, the latest sign of Beijing’s aggressive push to automate industrial work.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses the game of Go to argue that AI pushes humans to improve rather than simply replacing them, even as the future-of-work debate intensifies.
Young Chinese professionals fearing the “curse of 35” are using AI to launch one-person companies, backed by city subsidies aligned with Beijing’s tech self-reliance drive.
Worldline, ING and Mastercard have run Europe’s first live agentic payment, with an AI agent assembling a purchase the shopper still has to approve — showing agent-led buying can clear existing bank security and authorisation.
A Walmart-backed startup, Eko, is hand-building an “AI-ready” product catalogue — photographing millions of items from every angle — so AI shopping agents like ChatGPT and Gemini can describe and sell them accurately.
Uber has capped employees at $1,500 a month per agentic coding tool after blowing its entire annual AI budget in four months — a sharp signal that enterprise AI’s return on investment is still unproven.
Enterprise AI is so expensive that CFOs are blowing annual budgets in weeks, and AI leaders say firms now openly weigh buying tokens against hiring — with smarter model routing the main escape valve.
An Indian research team proposes pairing AI with two dozen brain structures so the system develops a personality, sleeps, dreams and eventually dies — a brain-mirroring route to AGI distinct from neuromorphic computing.
Elon Musk has unveiled AI1, SpaceX’s first orbital data-centre satellite — a 70-metre-wingspan craft carrying a Nvidia-class compute payload that SpaceX wants to mass-produce and fly off Earth’s power grid, days ahead of its IPO.
Multiverse Computing ran a pretrained Llama model through quantum circuit blocks on IBM’s 156-qubit machine and cut its perplexity while adding almost no parameters — the first end-to-end “quantum enhancement” of a production LLM.
Robinhood now lets customers spin up a dedicated account and wallet for AI agents that can analyse portfolios, place trades and — via a new virtual card — make payments, with human approval and spending limits in the loop.
MATT’S KEYNOTES & PANELS
WATCH 100’S OF TOP KEYNOTES . CHANGE YOUR WORLD VIEW .
I have the great privilege of speaking to leadership teams and their conference audiences about almost every topic including disruption, education, the future, geopolitics, innovation, leadership, technology, and much more, and I share as much of this as I can. Here you can play, pause, and rewind many of the sessions I’ve had the privilege of being involved with.
OPINION PIECES
LOVE THEM OR LOATHE THEM
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.
FUTURISM 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 : POSTERS
PUT THE FUTURE ON YOUR WALL
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.