Chris Riddell - Futurists & Future Trends - Award-Winning Human Futurist and Strategist

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Business Beyond 2030

It’s never too soon to prepare your business for the world of tomorrow. The speed of change we’re experiencing is altering every facet of our lives—and this dramatically different world requires a shift in thinking and a fresh perspective on business, leadership and our global community. So, let’s prepare ourselves today for this new world by immersing our businesses and our teams in the critical factors that have the power to affect how we do business today and how we evolve and thrive towards the future. Read less

Future Trust

For 10,000 years, trust has been the cornerstone of our civilisation, holding everything together and making people feel connected. However, with recent events contributing to the decline in levels of trust in major public and private institutions across much of the world, we need to invest in—and understand—the increasing human need for digital trust. Never has AI felt more ubiquitous than now, and with the proliferation of new trust-enabling technologies, the transformation and importance of trust in our world has never been more critical. Read less

Growth and Transformation

What are the traditional industries we are seeing rapid growth in, and what skills do we need? Read less

Human Impacts and Mega Trends

Technology is fundamentally changing us as human beings, and we now live and operate in a world that is beyond being just digital natives. Read less

Hyper Disruption

Recent events such as COVID-19 and Brexit have shown that nothing is straightforward regarding politics, government, and society. There have been significant shifts in power in both the business and government sectors due to the ever-increasing power that technology giants have gained over the last decade and the trade wars between regions and countries. As a result, future businesses must have a deeper understanding of the volatility that these new shifts have created and must learn to embrace it. Read less

Radical Innovation

In this new era of innovation, we’ll see more fundamental human problems being solved in the next two decades than have been solved in the last two centuries. In this presentation, Chris shows his audience how to identify the drivers of future trends and refresh their skills routinely to stay ahead of rapidly evolving technology. Read less

Reinvented Business

With COVID-19 being the biggest stress test for business and the global economy in living memory, it is essential that businesses find different and more innovative ways of operating, surviving, and connecting with their audiences. In this keynote, Chris explores how some of the world’s most exciting businesses have ensured that they are riding the wave of reinvention—while not being drowned in the process. Read less

Resilient Leadership

In this dynamic and fast-paced digital age, leaders must evolve their understanding of human behaviour and the human brain to create more effective leadership, better change management and drive positive behaviours. Businesses must learn how to reinvent themselves and embrace real-time decision making for the challenges ahead. Read less

The New Customer

In a post-pandemic era, it is more important than ever to deeply understand the genetic construct of your customer and their continually evolving needs. Generation Alpha—the “children of the millennials”—are already guiding many of the purchasing decisions within their families and are expected to be the longest-living and wealthiest generation to have ever lived. In this keynote, Chris explores what the customer of 2030 will look like and how they will think and behave to predict their needs even before they know what they want. Read less

Chris Riddell

Award-Winning Human Futurist and Strategist

Australia’s most sought after futurist, Chris is a renowned strategist and global emerging trend spotter for businesses and leaders in today’s disrupted world.

Chris is a recognised trend spotter and digital expert. His unparalleled insights into emerging trends and human behaviour have led him to work for some of the largest and most successful companies and brands worldwide.

As the first-ever Chief Digital Officer for MARS Incorporated in Australia and New Zealand, Chris designed the corporate digital strategy behind brands such as Whiskas, Pedigree, Wrigley, Starburst, Masterfoods, Snickers and Maltesers.

He believes that to be a futurist, you must authentically embed yourself into the very space from where true innovation and disruption is taking place, analysing future and emerging trends. For 15 years, Chris has been obsessed with the future and ‘the now’ that shapes it. Combined with his passion for data, detail and insights, he can unlock new perspectives to form a compelling case for a future that will be better than today.

Voted in the top five most inspirational keynote speakers, Chris has spoken to over 230,000 people in over 27 countries worldwide. He has changed what it means to be an inspiring speaker, and his award-winning presentations are highly acclaimed for being the most energising and immersive experiences around. He combines storytelling with customised immersive videos and exciting dialogue to leave his audiences inspired and energised for the future.

Chris is a regular on Channel 7’s The Morning Show, The Daily Edition prime time shows, and ABC 774 Radio.

He is Australia’s futurist for the leaders of tomorrow and a keynote speaker for businesses of today.

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Testimonial

Fantastic and exactly what we needed!

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Chris is obviously right across his subject matter and delivered an engaging and thought provoking presentation which certainly engaged our staff and achieved the desired outcomes, well done Chris.

Isuzu Australia

Chris Riddell is someone who engages the audience and brings clarity to the complicated. He speaks at a level that everyone understands, and his style of presenting is exciting to say the least. Digital is something that impacts us all, and is a huge part of our global future. If you want to prepare your audience for the new world ahead, my recommendation is get them to hear what Chris has to say. They'll walk away prepared and with exciting new perspectives.

Optus

Chris Riddell showed a wonderful articulation for technology and its real life use, with practical examples and none of the propeller spinning complexity and jargon that is often seen. Chris has also recently been a keynote speaker at our Telstra Retail Conference, speaking about the future of digital and how it's impacting our world. Chris was able to not only entertain and inspire but delivered on the future ways of working and the challenges faced by business leaders today. I'd highly recommend Chris for any key speaker appointments for business that are needing thought provoking discussion on how their businesses will continue in the future with technology.

Telstra

Chris Riddell was really dynamic, everyone loved his presentation.

People's Choice Credit Union

Travels From Victoria

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Speaker Topics

Business Beyond 2030

Future Trust

Growth and Transformation

Human Impacts and Mega Trends

Hyper Disruption

Radical Innovation

Reinvented Business

Resilient Leadership

The New Customer

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