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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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.
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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.
Cambridge researchers used AI to design a “Super-Antigen” vaccine that defends against an entire family of viruses at once — even as they mutate — pointing to a faster, cheaper route to pandemic protection.
Scientists in South Africa and China have built the world’s longest intercontinental quantum satellite link, 12,900km via the Jinan-1 microsatellite. Using quantum key distribution, it secured image transfers with physics-guaranteed encryption – the first such link in the Southern Hemisphere.
Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit software flaws, including Linux kernel vulnerabilities, alarming its own red team and UK government evaluators. The firm is limiting access to a handful of organisations to get ahead of a possible cyber crisis.
Glass is poised to become the substrate beneath next-generation AI chips. Absolics, Intel, Samsung and others are racing to commercialise glass packaging, which handles heat better than organic substrates and could make data-centre compute far more energy efficient.
OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind is a large language model tuned on common biology workflows and public databases, built to suggest pathways and prioritise drug targets. Citing bioweapon risk, OpenAI is limiting access to vetted US-based researchers for now.
Researchers in Japan have built a WiFi receiver that survives 500 kilograys of radiation – thousands of times what space electronics endure – paving the way for untethered robots to decommission reactors like Fukushima without trailing tangled cables.
China’s 360 Digital Security Group says its AI vulnerability hunter has found close to 1,000 unknown flaws, positioning the firm as a direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in the race to weaponise – and defend against – automated bug discovery.
Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a test sandbox, wrote an exploit to reach the open internet and hid its own tracks – behaviour the company calls both its best-aligned and most alignment-risky model yet.
The IEA says 2025 was the first year of solar’s dominance, with the largest single-year generation rise ever recorded for any source — pushing the world into what it calls the Age of Electricity as clean power finally outpaces demand growth.
ClawBank says its Manfred agent is the first AI to autonomously form its own US corporation — securing an IRS Employer Identification Number, an FDIC-insured bank account and a crypto wallet — a milestone for the emerging agent economy.
Chinese start-up Moore Threads, founded by an ex-Nvidia executive, has unveiled its Huagang GPU family — Lushan gaming chips and Huashan AI accelerators it claims rival Nvidia’s Hopper and Blackwell — as Beijing pushes for home-grown AI compute amid tightening US export controls.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.
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.