+

Selected List: My Favorites

No favorites yet!

×

Item added to Favorites!

Futurists & Future Trends Speakers

Futurists study and predict the future, especially on the basis of current trends, their experience and knowledge. Their point of view can impact how companies design products or how communities run their outreach, to mention a few examples.

Our roster includes the best Futurists & Future Trends speakers, including leading experts, innovative leaders, futurologists, technology specialists and scientists from a wide array of industries, championing voices that create lasting value to your audience.

If the Future Trends speaker you're after isn't listed here, please let us know and we will book him for you.

 

Edgar Pérez

Edgar Perez is a global leader and visionary in business and technology. He delivers captivating and insightful presentations on how to spark innovation and leverage technology, from Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing to 5G and the Metaverse. A published author and former McKinsey consultant, he is a global strategist affiliated with the Ponemon Institute, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Guidepoint Global Advisors.

Geoff Colvin

Geoff Colvin is one of America's most respected business analysts, editor of Fortune magazine and moderator of the prestigious 'Fortune CEO Forums', which each year bring together the brightest minds in business.

Adam Cheyer

Adam Cheyer is a top technology speaker, AI expert, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Siri, which was acquired by Apple, and later co-founded Viv. 

Ayesha Khanna

Dr. Ayesha Khanna is a leading innovation expert advising governments and businesses on AI, smart cities, future skills, fintech, and emerging industries.

Bonin Bough

Bonin Bough is an awarded marketing expert with an illustrious career that includes C-level positions at Mondelēz International (Kraft), where he worked as the Chief Media & eCommerce Officer and PepsiCo, where he led the company’s global Digital Marketing efforts.

John Rossman

John Rossman is an unmatched authority on disruptive innovation. A former high executive at Amazon, he’s the author of The Amazon Way, in which he describes the strategies used by the behemoth of e-Commerce to reach success.

Cheryl Cran

Cheryl Cran is a respected consultant, business woman and world-class keynote speaker who specializes in the effects of new technologies and collaboration on the workplace.

Cate Trotter

Cate Trotter is an international authority on retail trends. She is the founder and director of Insider Trends, a London-based agency working on the technological developments and the future of retail.

Seth Mattison

Seth Mattison is a renowned expert, author and international speaker who shares the latest trends and transformational changes that the Digital Age and the new generations are having in the world of work.

Katarina Graffman

Katarina Graffman is an internationally recognized anthropologist. She has been a project leader within UNICEF, an advisor to companies such as H&M and Volvo Europe, and a researcher on consumer trends for the new generations.

Dr. Daniel Kraft

Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator, founder of multiple organizations and initiatives for the health and wellness sector.  

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is best known as the co-founder of Apple Computer, which helped shape the personal computer industry and continues to revolutionize our lives.

Steve Cadigan

Founder of the Silicon Valley firm Cadigan Talent Ventures, Steve Cadigan is a sought-after business advisor and expert speaker on the future of work, leadership and recruiting.

Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is a renowned digital futurist and a new economy visionary. He is a leading authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation and new ways of thinking, a public speaker and the author of the bestseller 'Futuretainment'.

Brett King

Brett King is a world-renowned financial expert, named Innovator of the Year by American Banker Magazine in 2012. King is the prolific author of Bank 2.0, a guide to the future of the industry in the Digital Age.

Vishen Lakhiani

Vishen Lakhiani is one of today’s most influential minds in the fields of education and human consciousness. Founder of Mindvalley.

Joe Toscano

Joe Toscano is a Silicon Valley influencer, an authority on ethical aspects of technology and its effect on people. He is featured in the Netflix hit "The Social Media Dilemma."

Jon Matonis

Jon Matonis is the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. A popular consultant and public speaker, he is considered the foremost authority on virtual currencies, private currencies, and burgeoning e-money instruments.

Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin is an influential American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. He has written 21 bestselling books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment

Porter Erisman

Porter Erisman is a notable entrepreneur, award-winning filmmaker and leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets. He is the former Vice President of Alibaba Group.

Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes is acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading authorities on consumer and cyber shopper behaviour, and a thought leader on Shopper Marketing, Shopper Centricity, Omnichannel and Digital Strategies. 

Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis is the visionary founder of Singularity University and the XPRIZEN Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to promote humanity’s advancement.

Robert Tucker

Robert Tucker is a renowned global futurist and innovation keynote speaker with a client list that includes over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies. Tucker is the president and founder of Innovation Resource Consulting Group.

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is a popular entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. Godin is regarded as one of the most innovative and visionary marketers of our time and has been called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Businessweek.

Leonard Brody

Leonard Brody is an award-winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist and bestselling author. He is considered a visionary of business and new technologies.

Marc Goodman

Marc Goodman is one of the world’s leading authorities on global security. He frequently advises industry leaders, security executives and global policy makers on the risks and opportunities of emerging technologies and has operated in more than 70 countries around the world.

Ben Hammersley

Contributing Editor to WIRED magazine and host of Netflix and BBC television series, Ben Hammersley is the inventor of the word "Podcast".

Marcus Dantus

Marcus Dantus is an innovative thinker, angel investor, academic and public speaker with broad-based expertise in operations, business development and sales. He is the founder & CEO of Startup Mexico, Managing Partner at Dux Capital, and a shark on Shark Tank Mexico.

Samir Estefan

Samir Estefan is Oracle Corporation’s Sales Director for Colombia and Ecuador and co-founder of one of the fastest growing technology blogs in the Hispanic market, Techcetera.co.

Lior Arussy

Lior Arussy is a prominent consultant, public speaker and author, considered one of the main authorities on Customer Service and Customer Experience. He has worked on designing strategies for companies such as Mercedes-Benz, SAP, FedEx, Siemens, and many others.

McNeely Kroupensky

McNeely Kroupensky is a distinguished opinion leader, author and keynote speaker on how to make business more fit for the future. 

Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell is a successful innovator, pioneer, scientist and entrepreneur founding numerous companies and has been named one of Newsweek’s “50 Men That Changed America.”

Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail is a visionary and entrepreneur of the digital era. He is the founding Executive Director of Singularity University, the prestigious school sponsored by Google and NASA.

Terry Jones

Terry Jones is a pioneer of the Digital Age that transformed the aviation and travel industry. He is the founder of Travelocity, one of the world's first and most successful traveler sites, and Kayak, the world's most popular fare comparison site.

Vito Di Bari

Vito Di Bari is one of the three greatest futurists in the World. He is hailed as the "new European guru of innovation" by the New York Times and as the "great engineering dream-maker" by Economics Nobel Prize laureate Kenneth Arrow.

Duncan Wardle

Duncan Wardle is the extraordinarily talented former Vice President of Innovation and Creativity at The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 2011 to 2017.

Jorge Ruiz Escamilla

Jorge Ruiz Escamilla is a well versed executive of the Digital Era who has held positions of high responsibility in leading companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Facebook.

Neil Harbisson

Neil Harbisson is a contemporary artist and cyborg activist, best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government.

Uri Levine

Uri Levine is a prolific public speaker, entrepreneur and disruptor. He is the co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based navigation app which was acquired by Google in 2013. 

JB Straubel

JB Straubel is a top innovation speaker, entrepreneur and visionary. Straubel is the co-founder and CTO of Tesla Motors, the world-renowned luxury electric vehicle company. 

Andrés Moreno

Andrés Moreno is a successful Hispanic entrepreneur and speaker. He is the creator and founder of the popular Open English, a leading company in teaching English online.

Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish is a renowned consultant and author, regarded as the Guru of Business Growth and Expansion, and named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Ten Brightest Minds in Small Business.

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Dhiraj Mukherjee is co-founder of Shazam, the innovative music and video recognition app, one of the 20 most downloaded apps in history.

Tim Sanders

Tim Sanders is a renowned entrepreneur, commentator and author of the Digital Era. A talented public speaker and consultant, he is also Yahoo!’s former Chief Solutions Officer and leadership coach.

Greg Stuart

Greg Stuart is a versed Digital Marketing expert and public speaker with an extensive career in advertising and marketing on the internet. He is the former CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), an organization for the online advertising industry.

Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble is one of the most respected digital futurists of the moment, recognized for the “Scoble effect”, which in the world of technology is equivalent to the Oprah effect: When Scoble thinks, the IT world listens.

Jay Alan Samit

Jay Alan Samit is considered one of the leading experts in disruptive innovation today. A dynamic entrepreneur, international speaker and author, he has worked at companies such as Linkedin, eBay, Sony Music, Universal Studios, and EMI.

Deborah Berebichez

Dr. Deborah Berebichez is a talented and multifaceted mexican woman. She is an author, a physicist, 5-language polyglot, television commentator and lecturer. She is the first Mexican woman to earn a PhD in Physics from Stanford University.

Kelly Vero

One of the world's most recognized metaverse experts, Kelly Vero is a leading futurist, game developer, and architect of the Metaverse. Chief Metaverse Officer in Aequland.

Catherine 'Cady' Coleman

Catherine 'Cady' Coleman is a daring NASA astronaut who prepared actress Sandra Bullock for her lead role in the film Gravity, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in 2014.

José Ángel Gurría

World-renowned authority on global affairs, José Ángel Gurría was Secretary General of the OECD ( 2006-2015) as well as Treasury Secretary and Foreign Relations Secretary of Mexico.

Sophia

Created by Dr. David Hanson, Sophia is the world's very first humanoid celebrity that has conquered audiences with a captivating, interactive look at the awe-inspiring potential of AI and robotics. 

Andres Velazquez

Renowned Mexican cybersecurity expert who has collaborated with Interpol, the UN and the US Secret Service in the investigation of cybercrimes. Andrés Velázquez is president and founder of MaTTica, the first Digital Research laboratory in Latin America.

José Morey

José Morey, M.D. lives where cutting-edge technology meets lifesaving medicine. He has worked as a consultant for companies like IBM and NASA and serves as the Chief Medical Innovation Officer at Liberty BioSecurity.

Tan Le

Tan Le is a top innovation and business keynote speaker, technology entrepreneur, author, and founder and CEO of EMOTIV.

John Ellis

John Ellis is a top technology and futurist virtual keynote speaker, best-selling author, software expert, and former Head of the Ford Developer Program with Ford Motor Company.

Michael McQueen

Michael McQueen is a bestselling author of eight books and trends forecaster helping organisations and leaders stay one step ahead of disruption.

Daniel Sieberg

VP of Public Relations, Huawei USA, Daniel Sieberg is an Entrepreneur & Strategic Advisor for Developing Technologies. He helped to build the News Lab at Google.

Alicia Asín

CEO and co-founder of Libelium. Alicia Asín is an expert keynote speaker in Internet of Things, AI and smart cities.

Adolfo Fernández Sánchez

Adolfo Fernández Sánchez is Head of Commerce Strategy, Global Customer Solutions at Google & Expert on Retail, Consumer Goods & Lifestyle, and Digital Communications at the World Economic Forum.

Shivvy Jervis

Futurologist and Broadcaster, Shivvy Jervis is an Award-winning Industry 4.0 Futurist. Named one of Britain's female Role Models of the Year for 2020 and a four-time national awardee.

Randi Zuckerberg

Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, and Emmy-nominated tech media personality. She is the former CMO of Facebook and sister to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling is a creative visionary, producer, philanthropist, technology trailblazer, author, entrepreneur and public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Not Impossible, an organization that develops creative solutions for today’s problems.

Julie Rice

Julie Rice is an extraordinary entrepreneur, best known for co-founding the fitness phenomenon SoulCycle. 

Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta is a top business keynote speaker, consultant, Harvard Business School Professor, and the award-winning author of Managing Customers as Investments, and Driving Digital Strategy.

Joel Barker

Joel Barker is a visionary futurist, father of the concept of paradigm shifts in the corporate world.

Dr. James Canton

Dr. James Canton is a Fortune 500 consultant, leading global futurist and social scientist who has garnered a massive global audience with an ever-increasing demand for his speeches.

Ian Khan

Ian Khan is a Forbes contributor and Featured Technology Futurist on CNN. He is a highly sought-after emerging technology expert and keynote speaker.

Daniel Marcos Hadjópulos

Daniel Marcos is the global CEO, along with Salim Ismail, of ExO Education, a company that seeks innovation in organizations by implementing the methodology of the book Exponential Organizations.

Francisco Ceballos

Francisco Ceballos is one of the pioneers of e-commerce in Mexico, having run two unicorns in Mexico, MercadoLibre and Despegar, on their way to IPO in New York.

Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is an outstanding entrepreneur, venture-capital pioneer and technology speaker. He is the chief evangelist of Canva and Apple veteran.

Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell is a renowned futurist, speaker and expert commentator on Consumer Technology Trends. Riddell the first ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for MARS Incorporated in Australia and New Zealand.

Sebastian Tonda

Sebastian Tonda is an expert in Digital Marketing with a bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies by Universidad Iberoamericana. He co-founded Flock, a leading digital & creative agency in Mexico.

Haley Van Dyck

Haley Van Dyck is the co-founder of the United States Digital Service, a new "start-up" inside the White House building services for the American people that work better and cost less. 

Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg is an award winning pioneer in robotics and artificial intelligence. He’s also an Engineering professor at UC Berkeley and a popular keynote speaker.

Chris Barton

Chris Barton is a top entrepreneur and keynote speaker, co-founder and former Board Director of Shazam, and an extraordinary expert in mobile apps.

Byron Reese

Byron Reese is a renowned futurist, lecturer and entrepreneur of the Digital Age who brings his experience as a technologist, his passion for history, and his proven business acumen to illuminate how today’s technology can solve many of our biggest global challenges.

Jonas Kjellberg

Jonas Kjellberg is a prolific entrepreneur, tech start-up investor and author. He is known for his outstanding work at Skype, where he was managing director from 2003 to 2007.

Scott Dadich

Scott Dadich is an award-winning editor, filmmaker and designer of new technologies. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED, a well-respected magazine among the tech crowd.

Jürgen Klaric

Jürgen Klaric  is an American professor, writer, speaker and researcher in neuromarketing and neuro innovation. 

Patty McCord

Patty McCord is an inspiring Workplace Innovator, Culture and Leadership Consultant and Former Chief Talent Officer and the architect of Netflix’s enviable business culture.

Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa is a recognized entrepreneur, academic and author who has his finger on the pulse of the technological changes that are transforming the world. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University.

Ray Wang

Ray Wang is a distinguished analyst, public speaker and the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends.

William Taylor

William Taylor is a best-selling author, celebrated entrepreneur, and groundbreaking thinker who shows organizations and their leaders how to compete, innovate, and win. He made his name as co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company, one of the most influential magazines of the last two decades. 

Mohan Sawhney

Mohan Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, consultant and speaker in strategic marketing, innovation and new media. Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business.

Andrew Rasiej

Andrew Rasiej is a futurist, speaker and civic and social entrepreneur. Rasiej is the founder of Personal Democracy Media, an organization doing work on how the intersection of technology, politics and civil society is empowering new levels of citizen engagement.

Brian Solis

Brian Solis is the Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. He is a globally recognized independent digital analyst and anthropologist, and one of the most respected authorities in the world on digital transformation and social media for business.

David Pogue

David Pogue is a visionary ex-columnist on Personal Tech for the New York Times and one of the most followed and respected voices in the industry of Information Technology.

Rod Beckstrom

Rod Beckstrom is a well-known cybersecurity authority, Internet leader and expert on organizational leadership. He is the founding Director of the U.S. Government's National Cybersecurity Center.

Santiago Bilinkis

Santiago Bilinkis is an entrepreneur and technology expert; he was co-founder and CEO of Officenet, the largest office supply company in Argentina and Brazil, acquired by Staples in 2004.

Pau Garcia-Mila

Pau Garcia-Milà is a young and successful Spanish entrepreneur and communicator who is a prime example of entrepreneurship in the Digital Age.

David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott is an acclaimed marketing and business strategist, entrepreneur, investor and advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 12 books, including Fanocracy and The New Rules of Marketing and PR.

Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest is a cyber-illusionist, tech innovator, magician, and corporate entertainer that combines magic and tech to produce amazing illusions that have dazzled and surprised audiences all over the world. Tempest is also a Directors Fellow at the prestigious MIT Media Lab.

Gerardo Jiménez Sánchez

Gerardo Jiménez Sánchez is a renowned Medical and Biotech Executive who has over 20 years of successful Senior Management experience in the biotech, genomics, healthcare, pharma and personalized medicine industries.

Andreas Weigend

Andreas Weigend is the former Amazon Chief Scientist. He specializes in understanding the behavior of people and customers on the Internet.

Martin Lindstrom

Martin Lindstrom is a legendary expert in Marketing and Branding. Lindstrom has been named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine and has also been included in the prestigious Thinkers50 list.

Christer Holloman

Christer Holloman is an experienced digital business change consultant, author of Amazon bestseller 'The Social Media MBA' series and credited as “One of London’s Most Influential Individuals Within New Media” by The Evening Standard.

Ori Brafman

Ori Brafman is a renowned expert on organizations and leadership and a regular speaker for Fortune 500 companies and the US Government. He is the co-author of the best-seller "The Starfish and the Spider" which looks at the effect the digital age has had on decision-making.

Alexander Blass

The grand prize winner of the Daily Record’s Top Innovator of the Year Award, Wharton and Oxford-educated Alexander Blass is one of today’s top innovators and sought after speakers. 

Daniel Burrus

Daniel Burrus is an outstanding futurist, business strategist and author. He is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a consulting firm that helps companies understand how the technological, social and business forces converge to create new opportunities. Burrus is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the acclaimed Technotrends.

+

Selected List: My Favorites

No favorites yet!

×

Item added to Favorites!

Contact

USA

infousa@smartspeakersweb.com

Smart Speakers USA Corp
9595 Six Pines Dr.
Suite 8210
The Woodlands, TX 77380

Latin America

logo internacional mobil

Members of 

IASB 2

 

 

 

MPI nav logo

With offices in: √Boston  √Raleigh  √Houston  √Mexico City  √Bogota  √Santiago de Chile