From Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformations to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we live in an inspiring moment in time. An age where our machines are smarter than ever, creating new opportunities for what it means to be human…
Futurist Speaking
As recent shifts have highlighted, being future ready isn’t just about adapting for the Future of Work – we also need to better understand the ever-changing Future of Life.
Exploring shifts.
Inspiring possibilities.
Creating change.
As a Futurist living on the edge of the world in Aotearoa New Zealand, Dave Wild has presented on stages and screens across the globe from San Francisco to South Auckland to Sydney. He’s inspired and informed audiences at industry conferences, government meetings and team events for clients such as Microsoft, L’Oréal, Toyota and Red Cross.
Futurist Dave Wild inspires audiences with future insights and tools that open minds to new possibilities ahead. His engaging and uplifting approach reaches beyond stages and screens to challenge and energise audiences with keynote talks and workshop events – creating a greater future for all.
Meet Futurist Dave Wild
Internationally renowned Futurist Dave Wild is a leading expert in energising and upskilling audiences for an inspiring future…
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Futurist Dave Wild works with leaders and audiences across the globe – creating a greater future for their organisations, customers and society at large including:
Visioning with the Digital Government Leaders of the United Kingdom, South Korea, Estonia and New Zealand
Coaching Digital and Innovation Leadership Labs across sectors including Finance, Environment and Technology
Facilitating the NZ Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council to explore the Future of Work
Delivering Futurist keynote presentations on stages and screens across the world from San Francisco to South Auckland to Sydney.
Through this work with a diverse range of organisations across all levels, Dave has built deep expertise in the future-focused skills needed to confidently lead into the future.
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“Dave Wild is a genius. A futurist, strategist and provocateur. One of the things I love about his style is his ability to project thinking into the future in a pragmatic, relatable way – he connects the information to the audience, making the future relatable and relevant to their world.”
— Chief People and Transformation Officer, Mitre 10
“Dave is a high energy and thought-provoking futurist. He has an engaging style and is adept at using clear frameworks to help clients become proficient at visioning for future customer needs.”
— Chief Marketing Officer, Kiwibank
“So you think you know strategy development; leadership; innovation? Dave makes you rethink all of that with his thought-provoking insights, dynamic facilitation, boundless energy – and great sense of humour!”
— Director People and Culture, Te Pukenga
We create the future with organisations across society
from disruptive startups and social enterprises to industry leaders and government agencies
Keynote Topics
As a Creative Futurist our keynotes and workshops are always custom-designed to maximise your event’s impact. Topic options include…
The Future of Work
The Future isn’t off in the distance
– it’s evolving all around us
The way we work is changing significantly. From digital meetings to Artificial Intelligence, technology is having a profound impact on the work we do and how we do it. The changes aren’t just technology driven. As a society we’re also realising there are better ways of working. Seeking greater diversity of perspective. Developing more inclusive cultures. Collaborating to solve complex challenges.
This Futurist Keynote gives an inspiring insight into the changes ahead combined with an energising approach to the shifted environment we’re now operating in
Your audience will learn:
Critical skills needed for the Future of Work
New ways of adapting in shifted environments
How to inspire others through change
AI Leadership
Equipping Leaders and Teams
for AI at Work
AI is more than just a technology. It’s a transformative tool to elevate the way we deliver services, create efficiencies and enhance customer experiences. Using approachable and easily understood language and examples, explore leading-edge developments within AI. Dispelling common myths about the evolving technology while exploring the significant opportunities for organisations and industries. Advancing beyond AI’s typical definition of Artificial Intelligence, to leverage the power of your own leadership AI – Adaptive Intelligence.
This Futurist Keynote equips leaders and teams with new knowledge and skills for collaborating with AI in their organisations
Your audience will learn:
New developments in AI technology
Strategies for dispelling common AI myths
Leadership skills for guiding AI implementation
Megatrends
Navigate uncertainty by understanding
the forces shaping our future
Typically change doesn’t happen overnight. Even rapid shifts that seem unpredictable, have been shaped by past events. From changes in the way we live to shifts in the way we work, our future is being shaped by megatrends across society. By understanding these powerful forces, we’re better able to adjust to change and navigate uncertainty ahead. Making sense of what’s going on today while adapting for tomorrow.
This Futurist Keynote provides greater understanding of industry and societal megatrends, along with strategies for leveraging the new opportunities created
Your audience will learn:
Key megatrends impacting their sector
Ways of navigating uncertainty
Strategies for leading through change
Transform the Future
Shift from fear of the unknown
to inspiring new possibilities
While many leaders aspire to disrupt out-dated conventions – the reality is most people don’t like to be disruptive. And they like being disrupted even less. Which is why so many organisations face change resistance, while the world around them shifts. Shifting this dynamic requires understanding that transformation doesn’t happen all at once with a big bang. It begins quietly on the edges with a few revolutionaries, who develop a better way. Challenging the status quo. Inspiring others forward to ultimately create change at scale.
This Futurist Keynote equips audiences with frameworks and inspirational examples for leading transformational change
Your audience will learn:
The barriers to change
New approaches for inspiring others forward
Strategies for mitigating transformation risk
Beyond Digital
Advance beyond the Digital Revolution
into the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Artificial intelligence depends on machine learning – giving computers the ability to make themselves smarter. Far more importantly, increasing our human intelligence – both as individuals and a collective society – depends on our own ability to recode. Developing new thought patterns, shifting out-dated behaviour patterns. We’re now more than half-a-century into the Digital Revolution, at the early stages of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. From robotic assistants to autonomous vehicles, this shift in dynamics is creating exciting new opportunities where digital, physical and biological systems converge.
This Futurist Keynote explores the shift beyond digital and the resulting impacts of future industrial revolutions
Your audience will learn:
What the Fourth Industrial Revolution means
How to evolve through digital transformations
Strategies for making the shift beyond digital
Create your Future
Instead of waiting for the unknown,
start creating your own brilliant future
Do you sometimes wonder what your future holds? In the search for answers, it’s easy to miss the signals of the future all around us. However no-one can foresee the future precisely. So the best way to predict the future, is to be the ones creating it. This applies across organisations, teams and for each of us as individuals. Just as we’re making the machines smarter by writing new code, we can also rewrite our own habits. Changing the way we think. Shifting the way we lead. Creating the future. Today.
This Futurist Keynote inspires and equips audiences to create a visionary future for their organisation and themselves
Your audience will learn:
How to increase confidence and clarity
Ways of energising others forward
Techniques for creating an inspired future
The Future of…
Keynote topics also include industry-specific Futurist presentations, for example The Future of Retail, The Future of Finance and The Future of Cities. All keynote presentations are custom-designed for client events, with examples of tailored Futurist topics including Lead into the Future, Flight Path into the Future, Flex your Mind, Futuready Government and Living in a Sustainable Future.
Workshop Options
Along with in-person and online keynote presentations, event formats include delegate hosting and masterclass coaching. Custom-designed to extend your event’s impact and increase delegate engagement, formats from one-hour to a full day include:
The Future of Leadership
The world has changed.
Exclusive, prescriptive, anti-tech leadership is the past. Inclusive, collaborative, digital leadership is the future.
However the future isn’t off in the distance – it’s here now. As a result, leading with impact in the modern workplace demands a new set of skills.
40% of workers’ core skills are expected to change in the next five years, due to factors such as the rapid pace of technology change.
Your group will learn:
Innovation and complex problem-solving skills
Social influence to energise others forward
Techniques for stress tolerance and flexibility
Boardroom Briefing
Futurist insights and updates for those
responsible for the future ahead
The Future of Work isn’t an event that will occur at some distant point in the future. Instead it’s a constant evolution that’s happening right here, right now. While recent times have dramatically accelerated some of these shifts, they’ve been a long time in the making and will continue to reshape how we live and work.
To see into the future with greater clarity, put your own perspective to one side and observe the world as it is today more closely. Look and listen out for signals of new ways people are actively adapting the way they operate.
Your group will:
Learn about latest trends and insights
Sense market shifts ahead of critical change
Be well positioned for impactful decision making
Futures Thinking Masterclass
The Future isn’t off in the distance
– it’s here all around us
This Futurist Masterclass equips participants with practical tools and inspirational insights to shift and adapt in uncertain changeable environments
Leveraged by leading global organisations and governments, Futures Thinking plays a crucial role in shaping strategy development.
This masterclass equips you to develop the desired future for both yourself and your organisation, while managing the current demands of the business landscape.
Your group will learn:
The neuroscience of Futures Thinking with a growth mindset
Visionary leadership by transforming fear of the future into inspired action
How to practically apply Futures Thinking frameworks and tools to current work