Nikolas Badminton

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• The AI Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit, and Growth

  What if we could look beyond the hype — with wisdom and hope — to supercharge our organization with deeply integrated AI?

  Nikolas Badminton presents the definitive AI keynote for strategic executives who want to plan for the long term. Understanding how organizations can harness AI’s capabilities inspires hope to positively impact the world and build incredible futures that solve some of the greatest challenges of our time.

  Audiences will learn AI’s role in shaping our future, how organizations are being transformed, and the shifts reshaping industries. Badminton also highlights the practical abilities and skill sets required, and how organizations can successfully integrate AI capabilities for real results.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset: Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how AI will transform companies and industries.
  • Explore AI signals, trends, and scenarios: See how AI is evolving how industries operate, and how workforces can supercharge capabilities using AI, spatial computing, and other technologies.
  • See high-hope leadership in action: Hear stories of how world-leading companies are applying AI and futures thinking to supercharge strategic decision-making.

• Hopeful Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

  What if we could explore incredible futures, channel organizational wisdom, and build hope as an energy for change?

  Nikolas Badminton shows audiences how to think like futurists and imagine hopeful futures by exploring the signals and trends transforming industries — and by shifting from what is to what if. This next-level futurist keynote will help you navigate global megatrends reshaping power dynamics and understand the forces that will influence your industry, including artificial intelligence and automation, digital transformation, data growth, spatial computing, water-energy-food resiliency, sustainable agriculture and food supply, construction, transportation and logistics, healthcare, banking and fintech, smart cities, privacy and cybersecurity, and more.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset: Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
  • Explore signals, trends, and scenarios: Review case studies and examples illustrating how your industry will evolve in the next 5, 10, and 20+ years — and identify opportunities, challenges, and risks ahead of competitors.
  • See high-hope leadership in action: Hear stories of how world-leading companies are applying futures thinking to supercharge strategic planning.

• Supercharge Innovation: Rising Above Your Competition

  What if we could create a company-wide culture of innovation that uncovers new opportunities and drives incredible growth?

  Many organizations approach innovation the wrong way. Innovation lives in every employee, every meeting, and throughout the foundation of the organization. Developing an innovative mindset means reframing how teams tackle complex challenges and envision the incredible futures ahead.

  Nikolas Badminton shows audiences how to take bold steps to build a culture of innovation and shares inspirational examples from leaders who are already doing it. Audiences will learn how to fuel new ideas across their organizations and apply futures thinking to de-risk the innovation process and create clear roadmaps for change. Badminton also demonstrates how this mindset supercharges thinking that can drive increased revenues and explosive growth.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset: Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
  • Learn innovation methods: Explore new approaches and industry dynamics that indicate how your workforce can level up its thinking and consideration of exponential technologies
  • See high-hope leadership in action: Hear stories of how world-leading companies are disrupting themselves and innovating using futures thinking.

• Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures

  What if we could gain foresight to understand and prepare for the opportunities emerging in diverse and renewable energy ecosystems?

  The energy industry is at a critical turning point. Global and domestic markets are experiencing economic shifts, growth and changing dynamics as we transform how energy is generated, distributed, and consumed. Our renewable energy economy is accelerating through policy, competition, innovation, and research ecosystems powered by data, AI, and automated systems — all of which present new opportunities for efficiency and growth.

  Nikolas Badminton shows audiences how progressive leaders embrace futures exploration and take action to plan for what comes next — from advancing energy independence and electrifying infrastructure and transportation, to pursuing global sustainability.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset: Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
  • Learn about future energy ecosystems: Explore how solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, and storage technologies combine to create new energy dynamics and business models.

• Geopolitical Technology Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

  What if we could anticipate global shifts, geopolitical strategies, and technology’s role in shaping our world?

  Advanced technologies are reshaping global power dynamics, partnerships, and strategic competition. Developments in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, global supply chains, and critical water-energy-food systems are transforming how nations and industries gain strategic advantage and rewrite geopolitical playbooks.

  Audiences will learn how climate change and decarbonization are influencing critical resource management; how global supply chains and financial systems are being realigned; how defence, space, and Arctic sovereignty are evolving; and how digital sovereignty and cybersecurity are shaping national security and power dynamics.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset: Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
  • Learn about future geopolitical shifts: See how growth in data, AI, quantum, climate technologies, and sensor ecosystems is accelerating and reshaping global power positions and economies.
  • See high-hope leadership in action: Hear stories of how world-leading energy and technology organizations are applying futures thinking to innovate and adapt.