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Nikolas Badminton

Speaker

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Futurist Speaker and Consultant, Chief Futurist at futurist.com

Nikolas Badminton is an award-winning, dynamic and innovative virtual keynote speaker and futurist consultant who shares an awe-inspiring vision of trends that shape the future to world-leading organizations and governments. He provides expertise in new technologies and promotes exponential thinking with a critical, honest, and optimistic view that empowers you to plan for today, tomorrow, and for the future.

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In the News

Nik Badminton in the media January 1, 2024

Keynote Speeches

HOPE ENGINEERING – The power to change our world

Nikolas will deliver an energetic and inspiring keynote that shows you how hope is the energy that changes our world. He will ignite curiosity and shift your mindset from what is to what if. He will share stories of cultural shifts, insights into new disruptive technologies, and strengthen strategic planning in your organization by embracing futures thinking.

Nikolas will show you how to think like a futurist and shift your mindset from what is to what if, understand global megatrends, and Explore the trends that will transform your industry – Digitization, Artificial Intelligence and automation, smart cities, privacy and security, sustainable agriculture and food supply, transportation and logistics, fintech, and more.

SUPERCHARGE INNOVATION – Uncover new opportunities, grow your business

Every organization wants to be seen as innovative, solving real world problems and leading their industry. The majority fall at the first hurdle – taking a chance and empowering their people to explore possibilities. Leading executives are now finding that the process of innovation can be revolutionized by leading with futures work to speculation on the futures ahead of us and their place in those incredible worlds.

Nikolas will show you how to build resiliency and innovation into your organization, de-risk innovation through futures work, and how to think like a futurist. Nikolas will take you through his world-leading process of futures work and show you how that supercharges innovation and strategy to deliver increased revenues and explosive growth.

EXPONENTIAL HUMANITY – Embrace new frontiers in A.I

The exploitation of data has long been the lifeblood of industrial progress since the 1980s and now we’re transcending that ability through Artificial Intelligence, augmentation, and automation. In harnessing its ability, we hope to positively affect the world and create incredible futures to drive productivity and solve some of the greatest challenges of our times.

Nikolas will show you A.I.’s transformation over time and into our futures, how our world and industries are being revolutionized, and the practical abilities and skill sets needed, for continual development and growth using A.I. capabilities.

Audience reviews:

  • Nik really knows how to immediately engage and inspire an audience. His insight, foresight and expertise is invitational in nature, where his captivating content not only leaves his audience wanting more, but inspires them in a way that energizes the growth mindset and punctuates a “WHAT IF” mentality. We loved his work. - The Walt Disney Company
  • Nik is not just an incredible presenter. He grabs the audience's attention and doesn’t let go. So many of our partners told us they had never examined the future of their business in such a thought provoking way. - Intel
  • Nik brought a provocative point of view on new large compute areas (artificial intelligence, spatial computing, sensor fusion etc.) that left the room starting to shift the way they approach future product framing. - Verizon
  • Nik came in and wowed us. He surprised many of us with his foresight and predictions and gave our audience information on subjects they didn't even realize they should be considering. The group he presented is in the business of making predictions, so for him to surprise us was inspiring. - TD Bank
  • Nik engaged our audience in a thought-provoking manner and challenged them to think differently about how our work impacts the future generations of our communities. Nik was collaborative throughout and invested in the success of our event and its audience members. - PCL Construction
  • Nikolas is delightful and easy to work with. Whether it’s to motivate your audience toward change today or imagining our future, you definitely need Nikolas at your conference. - United Way Worldwide
  • We found Nik’s comprehensive and multifaceted approach to visioning the future and its associated trends quite inspiring and insightful. - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • You wowed the crowd! Our Audience was begging for more! Super interesting, visionary and matching content, unique presentation formant & you’re a very engaging and powerful speaker. Definitely one of the big highlights during our event! Nik, you killed it!” “You wowed the crowd! Our Audience was begging for more! Super interesting, visionary and matching content, unique presentation formant & you’re a very engaging and powerful speaker. Definitely one of the big highlights during our event! Nik, you killed it! - Nicole Schwaegerl, Head of Community at Transporeon
  • Nikolas served as a dynamic host for this provocative event. Nikolas worked hard to understand the University and our intended outcomes; as a result, we engaged Nik to work with us as our strategic curator for the Waterloo Innovation Summit.

    - Senior Director Community Relations & Events, University of Waterloo
  • Nikolas was an absolute pleasure to work with from start to finish. His presentation was very well-received and we've heard only great things so far. I've attached the feedback that was submitted in the mobile app for his keynote for your reference.

    - Program Director and 2018 Committee Chair, ARMA Canada
  • Nikolas served as a dynamic host for this provocative event. Nikolas worked hard to understand the University and our intended outcomes; as a result, we engaged Nik to work with us as our strategic curator for the Waterloo Innovation Summit.

    - Senior Director Community Relations & Events, University of Waterloo
  • Nikolas’ genuine enthusiasm and knowledge of technology and industry trends made for a thought-provoking keynote to kick-off our event.

    - Director, Labour Relations Services, Metro Vancouver
  • Nikolas was completely accurate in the danger and ownership of data and how to secure it now and what the future holds.

    - Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce

Speaker Books

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and...

Speaker Biography

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker and Chief Futurist that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to create bold visions by exploring desirable futures, anticipating opportunities and risks, and strengthening strategic planning.

He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 400 leading organizations at the frontline of futures, strategy and disruption – including NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan, Verizon, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, BISCI, ISACA, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, UK Home Office, United Nations, and many more.

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth is Nikolas’ number one best selling book and has been named Top-50 Business Books of 2023 by The Next Big Idea Club, and JP Morgan Private bank’s “Next Gen Pick” for their 2023 Summer Reading List.

Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and appears in the Franklin Institute’s series ‘2050’.

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