Speaking

 

One of the best ways to discover new pathways forward is to discuss the future with others. Changeist provides speakers to do just this — engage audiences, spark new insights, shift points of view, and stretch the frame of thinking.

If your organization is looking for a speaker to set the stage for future thinking, please contact us. We can address trends impacting your industry, customers, stakeholders, or group, as well as provide ways to shake up current mindsets and uncover future opportunities, sharing our experiences, insights, and new ways to uncover more.

See just some of the areas we cover, or find out how we think.

Beyond public events, we are frequently called on to inject a future point of view into workshops and strategy sessions, providing a keynote, then participating in breakout sessions throughout the event, ensuring a future mindset in the mix.

Below is a sample of speaking topics we've addressed:

Topical Issues:

  • The Next Big Thing is Small: Rethinking the Future in a Resource-constrained World
  • Future of Emerging Markets: BRICs and Beyond
  • Future of New Media and Personal Technologies
  • Future of Transporation
  • Future of Data, Privacy and Transparency
  • Urban Futures: Changing Megacities in the 21st Century
  • Future of Communication
  • Bottom-up Innovation
  • Future of Personal Health

Ways of Seeing and Making the Future:

  • Stretching the Frame: Integrating Futures Thinking into Your Strategy
  • Design Fiction and Active Futures: Prototyping the Future
  • Design Futures: Integrating Futures Thinking into the Design Process
  • Seeing the Future Differently: Applying Observational Techniques to Trend Collection
  • How to Visualize the Future: Cretaively Mapping Insights

 

Organizing Panels and Speaking Groups

One role of Changeist is to constantly seek new connections among experts in many fields and topics. We can help assemble panels and groups to discuss special topics, utilizing our global network of experts and partners for both public events and private conferences.

Contact us to find out more.

Conferences and events we've addressed recently include:

  • LIFT 08 — Geneva, Switzerland
  • LIFT 07 — Geneva, Switzerland
  • SXSW Interactive — Austin
  • ICE 08 — Toronto
  • IDSA NED 09 — Boston
  • Mobile Tech 4 Social Change — Washington, DC
  • Mobile Tech 4 Social Change — London

We've also spoken at internal retreats, roundtables and strategy workshops for organizations such as UNICEF, BASF, Nissan, Tropicana, Pepsi, Aalto University, and the US Census Bureau.

 

What Others Are Saying

“Scott is a great observer of society, able to sense and anticipate the big trends with a rare flair. An open and insightful professional, we had the pleasure to welcome him as a speaker at LIFT08 where he gave a great speech on foresight tools and perspectives. I am looking for more opportunities to collaborate with Scott in the near future!”

— Laurent Haug, LIFT Conference

"Scott recently made the keynote presentation for the 2007 Global New Media Summit at the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). As one of the event's sponsors, I was impressed with Scott's understanding and support of the event's mission and his role as keynote. I was also impressed with Scott's ability to expand beyond the immediate themes of the event and create a broad, future-looking context for the discussions and presentations that followed. Because new media technology is a moving target, Scott's work with us was helpful and set an important tone for embracing change rather than fearing it.”

— Alex Struminger, UNICEF

“Brilliant... Scott is very insightful and driven. He is very easy to collaborate with and is an extraordinary wealth of knowledge.”

— Dawn McLeod, Johnson Controls