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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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.
Carbon Robotics’ new Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million images from its laser-weeding fleet, recognises plant species instantly — letting farmers target brand-new weeds in real time without any retraining.
Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos Preview model has flagged thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities — including some in every major operating system and web browser — and built working exploits autonomously, as part of a cyber-defence partnership with Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft and 40 others.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
The Pentagon is quietly funding Twenty, a stealth startup building autonomous AI agents for offensive cyber operations, as the US-China cyber arms race accelerates.
Objection, an AI platform backed by Peter Thiel, will score every journalist in the world on credibility — promising cheaper redress while alarming those who rely on anonymous sources.
McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Red-team startup CodeWall says its autonomous AI agent gained full read-write access to McKinsey’s Lilli platform in two hours — a preview of machine-speed attacks on corporate AI.
New METR benchmarks put Claude Opus 4.6 at a 14.5-hour task horizon, with AI capability now doubling roughly every four months.
A non-developer built a production-grade autonomous trading system in a day using Claude Code — exposing how thousands of identical AI models could converge and destabilise global markets faster than regulators can react.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
Sandia National Laboratories is testing NextSilicon’s reconfigurable accelerator, a chip that rewires itself to the software it runs, promising big power savings over Nvidia GPUs without costly code rewrites.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.
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.