Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton

BSc (Hons)ON, CANADA
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist, researcher, and media celebrity. He helps organizations, investment funds, and governments to shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF...

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist, researcher, and media celebrity. He's also the CEO of Exponential Minds, an expert advisory firm that helps organizations, trillion-dollar companies, two-hundred billion dollar investment funds, and progressive governments to shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF...

Nikolas is the futurist people call to create empowered employees, a strong culture of innovation and incredible growth that leads to more revenues and a more resilient future.

Nikolas has worked with amazing clients, including United Nations, NASA, UK Home Office, Government of Canada, United Way, Google, Microsoft, Rolls Royce, DISCOVER, HSBC, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Young Professionals Organization (YPO), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, IDEO, Singularity University, and hundreds more.

Nikolas advised Robert Downey Jr.'s team for the 'Age of A.I.' documentary series, starred in 'SMART DRUGS - a Futurist's journey into biohacking', and features on CTV, Global News, Sirius XM regularly. His mind-expanding research and opinion has also been featured on globally on BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik and Venturebeat.

Nikolas also produces conferences including DARK FUTURES, Cyborg Camp, From Now, and Future Camp. He is currently writing a chapter for a 2021 book called 'The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society' for Bloomsbury.

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist, researcher, and media celebrity. He's also the CEO of Exponential Minds, an expert advisory firm that helps organizations, trillion-dollar companies, two-hundred billion dollar investment funds, and progressive governments to shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF...

Nikolas is the futurist people call to create empowered employees, a strong culture of innovation and incredible growth that leads to more revenues and a more resilient future.

Nikolas has worked with amazing clients, including United Nations, NASA, UK Home Office, Government of Canada, United Way, Google, Microsoft, Rolls Royce, DISCOVER, HSBC, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Young Professionals Organization (YPO), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, IDEO, Singularity University, and hundreds more.

Nikolas advised Robert Downey Jr.'s team for the 'Age of A.I.' documentary series, starred in 'SMART DRUGS - a Futurist's journey into biohacking', and features on CTV, Global News, Sirius XM regularly. His mind-expanding research and opinion has also been featured on globally on BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik and Venturebeat.

Nikolas also produces conferences including DARK FUTURES, Cyborg Camp, From Now, and Future Camp. He is currently writing a chapter for a 2021 book called 'The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society' for Bloomsbury.

2050, The Brave New World

The world will change in the next 20 years more than it has in the previous 100. At the heart of that are technologies that are advancing at a pace never seen before - exponentially.

Nikolas will provide a deep dive into the key exponentially developing and growing technologies that are changing the world, including Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Robotics, Computational Systems, 3D Printing, Medicine/Neurosystems, Cybersecurity and Bioinformatics, Renewable Energy,...

Technical / Specific

The Impact of Data and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

In 2018, we are at the horizon of change and are seeing the third industrial revolution take place with advances never seen before across the digitized communications, renewable energy, and automated transportation Internet. At the heart of all of these is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

Nikolas' insights he provides deeper understanding of what the world will look like in 2030 and beyond by showing you the techniques, research, and systems that are being deployed...

Technical / Specific

Smart cities, Smarter Citizens

Over 1000 smart city pilot projects are in progress today and with this comes the implementation and rollout of renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro), self-driving vehicles (autonomous truck fleets, municipal transport, on-demand taxis, and personal vehicles), electric vehicles, the internet of things, with Big Data and Data Science at the heart of operations.

Nikolas will look at how city planning is changing along with the core technologies being deployed and will...

Technical / Specific

The Impact of Big Data, Social Media, and Privacy on Society

The Internet surrounds us, binds us together as a society, and helps us with almost all aspects of our lives. Everything seems to be in its place and useful. But, in 2019 the world is changing. Social media is both the amplifier and controller of our emotions as we go about our daily lives. Algorithms optimize every aspect of lives, and ubiquitous connections across billions of devices capture our every move.

Nikolas will help you look deeper into this new world and...

Technical / Specific

Agriculture 3.0

New ways of sustainable and innovative agricultural practices have never been needed more than they are today. In addition to farmers aiming to grow more crops, raise more livestock, and diversify we have big tech entering the game with billions of dollars of investment. The result? DIVERSITY and DISRUPTION!

Nikolas will look at where we are today, the signals of change he sees, and the innovations that will change the world. We will see a world where there will be...

Technical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

2030: The Future of Transportation and Logistics

What does the world look like in 2030? What are the tipping points that will disrupt the transportation industry? What will likely be successful and widely adopted? How will sectors and companies adapt and who will be left behind?

These are some of the core questions Nikolas will grapple with in this context-setting presentation.

Technical / Specific

Innovative Executives Workshop

The Innovative Executives Workshop is a 60 to 90 minute workshop to engage all attendees and excite them about the potential for innovation in their organization.

It's a powerful format that works well for meetings of senior executives of 20 to 50 people in size. Ideal for AGMs, Board Meetings, Executive Retreats and Private Conferences.

Attendees are divided into groups to discuss the organizations Innovation & Future Vision, Organizational Excellence, and ESG...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Futures Ignition Workshop

The Futures Ignition Workshop is a fast paced and energetic exercise that's perfect for larger groups of 80 to 250 attendees.

Attendees are divided into groups to choose the top-3 disruptive influences that will impact your business and gain pace by 2030. For each of them real business opportunities are identified that can help inform the strategic direction of the organization. Then we get creative and have the groups write epic 2030 newspaper headlines on how your organization will...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific