Matthew Griffin

Today there is arguably no topic larger than AI. Matthew has been a thought leader in the field for decades, working for companies including IBM and Microsoft. Since 2015, years before the likes of ChatGPT and MidJourney emerged, he has given a string of keynotes on Generative AI to clients including Accenture, BCG, Bloomberg, the UAE and UK Governments, and many others. In 2018 wrote the book on the technology, and lectured at universities including Carnegie Mellon and UCL, then in 2023 he was the first in the world to write a book using it to raise over $25,000 for charity – while at the same time helping multi-national clients such as AON, EY, and Pepsi implement and understand it.

In this keynote Matthew demystifies the world of AI, discusses what it is and what it isn’t, where the technology is headed, and explores the most exhilarating industry use cases, how we control the technology, its ethics, and how we use it for human and planetary advantage.

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• AI Bias, Ethics, and why it will never be safe
• Disrupting global industries in a day
• Preparing society for exponential change
• Strategies for building safer AI
• The Future of AI is not what you think

We live in the most complex business environment ever where changing consumer behaviors, regulatory change, and technology led disruption are permanent stalking horses, and as the average CEO tenure time halves today over 40% of CEO’s don’t think their companies will be viable in ten years time. The fundamentals of business and global markets have changed beyond all recognition, demanding new mindsets and new forms of leadership. As a serial entrepreneur and author who’s built and led multi-billion dollar business units for companies including Atos, EMC, and IBM Matthew has extensive experience navigating change and helping leaders succeed against all odds.

In this keynote Matthew gives leaders and their teams examples of how they are being disrupted and outpaced by technology and visionary competitors, opens their eyes and their minds to the new art of the possible, then arms them with the mindset and tools they need to dominate the future.

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• Building Next Gen Organizations
• Re-Imaging your organization
• Future ready culture, leadership, and strategies
• Futures Mindsets

Today disruption and change are the only constants, job automation is a near permanent stalking horse, and the concept of one job for life, and ergo the concept of the T-Shaped individual, are disappearing. To flourish tomorrow individuals need to be both adaptable and quick to learn new skills. As a leading authority on the future of education, learning and work, Matthew sits on many international government and multi-national committees and has single handedly been accredited with finding new ways to help accelerate human learning by 6 fold or more.

In this keynote Matthew shows audiences how AI is helping democratize access to education, knowledge, and skills, and how it can be used to help everyone learn any topic 6 times faster than conventional teaching.

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• New world new learning possibilities
• Realizing limitless human potential
• Technology first L&D programs
• Technology killed the T-Shaped individual
• Upskill your entire workforce in just weeks
• Why augmentation trumps automation

Today we are being told that AI will partially or fully automate up to 80% of all jobs, and we’re already seeing highly skilled highly paid jobs that many thought would be immune to automation being disrupted. Robots automated Blue Collar Work, AI is automating White Collar work so it’s no surprise that today governments and individuals alike are more worried about the future than ever before. But there are two sides to every coin. As a leading authority on the future of education, learning, and work Matthew sits on numerous government and multi-national committees and has been credited by several of them as single handedly changing the narrative from one of fear to a story of how technology unlocks limitless human potential.

In this keynote Matthew turns the narrative of the future of work on its head, taking the audience from a world dominated by fear of the future to one where their potential for growth and impact is limitless.

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• Everyone's now an expert at everything
• How to out pace and out think your competition
• Unleashing your organizations human capital
• Never make anyone redundant again
• The future workforce is W shaped
• Why redundancies are wrong

In his electrifying keynote "The Future of Artificial Intelligence 2040," world-renowned futurist and AI expert Matthew Griffin takes audiences on a mind-expanding journey into the next 15 years of exponential AI development. Blending cutting-edge insights with hard-hitting foresight, Matthew unveils how AI will evolve from today’s assistants into autonomous agents, creators, policymakers, and even scientists—reshaping economies, reengineering industries, and challenging the boundaries of human capability. With powerful real-world examples, ethical provocations, and strategic frameworks, he equips leaders with the tools and mindsets needed not just to survive the AI future—but to lead it.