MATTHEW GRIFFIN FUTURIST KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, international keynote speaker, and 15 times author of the hit “Codex of the Future” series, is a world leading authority on future related Disruption, Education, Geopolitics, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability, Technology and Trends. His clients include royalty, G7, G20, and G77 governments, and the world’s biggest brands.
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FUTURE BLOGS . BOOKS . EDUCATION . FORESIGHT . KEYNOTES . PODCASTS . POSTERS … I’VE GOT YOU COVERED .
MATTHEW’S MISSION
Ever since I founded the 311 Institute, the world’s leading Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm with clients in over 100 countries, my mission has been to democratise access to the future for everyone and provide you with the mindset and tools to shape it, participate in it.
WORLD’S #1 FUTURIST ON YOUTUBE
There’s no better place to share insights into the Future than YouTube, and after years of sharing I’m now YouTube’s most followed Futurist with over 1.2 Million subscribers and 3 awards to my name.
THE WORLD’S #1 FUTURIST ON YOUTUBE
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GRAB THE FUTURE FOR FREE
My mission is to democratise access to the future for everyone, so all my content is free including the more than 12,000 pages of content in my Codex of the Future series of books. You can get them all free here.
THE DAILY EXPONENTS BLOG
WE’RE BUILDING THE FUTURE TODAY . SEE IT MADE .
The decisions and technologies we are making today will all play a role in shaping what our future looks like – for better or worse. As a result our future is constantly evolving. Here you can see what we’re doing today to make our future tomorrow.
IBM shares suffered their worst day in 25 years after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could modernise COBOL – the language still behind 95% of US ATM transactions – in quarters rather than years, stoking fears AI will erode IBM’s mainframe business.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have built ReAAP, a reconfigurable processor that pairs a smart software compiler with adaptable hardware to run deep neural networks up to 5.7x faster than a leading GPU and 3.3x faster than an ARM CPU.
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
The US Department of Defense has tapped Argonne spin-out Parallel Works to link its supercomputing centres to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle through one secure platform – speeding up the AI and simulation workloads now reshaping defence research.
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
JAXA’s eight-ounce SORA-Q sphere unfolded into a wheeled rover, drove itself across the lunar surface and beamed back images – the first real demonstration that cheap robot swarms, not lone giant rovers, could open up the Moon.
Frankfurt Airport has switched on the world’s first “solar fence” – a 2,800-metre run of 37,000 vertically mounted PV modules along Runway 18 West that powers terminals and EVs while letting the soil beneath keep breathing.
Wärtsilä has run the world’s first large-scale engine on 100% pure hydrogen, supplying Spain’s national grid and showing fossil-free, grid-connected generation is viable at scale.
Researchers warn that AI capabilities are increasingly discovered rather than designed, and that the window to understand how these black-box systems reason is closing as their influence grows.
A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
MATT’S KEYNOTES & PANELS
WATCH 100’S OF TOP KEYNOTES . CHANGE YOUR WORLD VIEW .
I have the great privilege of speaking to leadership teams and their conference audiences about almost every topic including disruption, education, the future, geopolitics, innovation, leadership, technology, and much more, and I share as much of this as I can. Here you can play, pause, and rewind many of the sessions I’ve had the privilege of being involved with.
OPINION PIECES
LOVE THEM OR LOATHE THEM
Everyone has their own opinions on matters and I’m no different. I believe all opinions are important and have the right to be voiced, and firmly believe in the values of debate, diversity, and open mindedness, because being closed to any of these diminishes all of us in the long run. Here you can explore some of those opinions and points of view.
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
FUTURISM PODCASTS
LISTEN, LEARN, REFLECT
Technology development and societal rates of change are now so fast that often the best way to keep current with them all is via podcasts so I contribute as much as I can. You can hear all of the replays here.
FREE DOWNLOADS : POSTERS
PUT THE FUTURE ON YOUR WALL
If you have every heard the phrase a picture paints a thousand words then these annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst posters, each of which contain hundreds of emerging technologies, paint a thousand futures. You can download them all free here.
