Jonathan Brill

Speaker // Author // Advisor

Expert on

AI
Futurist
Technology
Geopolitical
Economic
Societal trends

Fee Range

$30,000–$50,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

Don’t just watch your future happen — architect it. AI inventor Jonathan Brill is Forbes’ #1 futurist and “the world’s leading transformation architect”, according to HBR. Inc. called him a “Silicon Valley Legend” for his work as the global futurist at HP, as an inventor of AI and Metaverse technologies, and as an advisor to the Secret Service. In his talks, he brings you to the frontlines of tomorrow and shows you how to turn disruption to your advantage. Drawing from a $15 Million research program and his international bestseller, Rogue Waves, he shares how the collision of technology, geopolitical, economic and societal trends will impact your specific audience. Brill then unveils practical, innovative tools to gain from the change. He makes your future concrete with relatable stories that inspire awe, action and a new comfort with uncertainty. JP Morgan’s Head of Learning and Development said, “our executives walked away changed”. You will too.

Jonathan Brill is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. His warm style, compelling stories, and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hard-boiled executives to new ways of thinking and doing.

His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.

He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 selling economics book in China. The Economist called it, “A very important book for managers.” and Adam Grant called it, “An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” He has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 to the United States Secret Service.

His innovation consultancies have developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides and design of the US Pavilion at the 2015 World’s Fair (Expo Milano) to Taco Bell’s Gordita.

He is a frequent thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, SCMP, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, The Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He has educated corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford Universities.

He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

Speaker Videos

AI on Your Org Chart

AI is already taking over the tech space. Now, the real question is how can you use it to become a better leader? ‘Silicon Valley Legend’ Jonathan Brill has the answer…and it’s a whole lot more simple than you might think.

In a stunning behind-the-scenes tour of the world’s advanced technology labs, Jonathan demystifies AI and separates the science from the science fiction. He leaves you inspiration and the key steps to take action.

Touted as “the world’s foremost transformation architect,” by Harvard Business Review, Jonathan Brill has lived and worked on the cutting edge of both business innovation and AI for decades. Through his hard-earned expertise and insight, he’s created a proven methodology of leveraging the AI in to leadership roles, empowering organizations with the tools they need to create results instead of resistance.

Outcomes and Experiences

By the end of this transformative keynote speech, you’ll know exactly how to:

 
  • Understand why tools like AI are on the rise, as well as their role in moving business forward.
  • Cultivate the vision, values, and goals your team needs to leverage AI effectively.
  • Utilize technology to address complex issues quickly and creatively.
  • Debunk the myth of AI is replacing humans and learn how to connect more authentically than ever before.

Architect Your Future

Why try to predict the future when you can architect it? 

In this awe-inspiring journey to the frontlines of tomorrow, Jonathan Brill shows you and your team how to leverage changing societal, political, and cultural landscapes to create new avenues for opportunity. In other words, he gives you the tools you need to reshape your industry, one innovation at a time. 

As the HP’s Business Futurist, bestselling author, and celebrated inventor, Jonathan Brill is no stranger to disruptions.

Jonathan Brill has guided today’s top companies as they future-proof their operations with proven strategies to win. Now, he’s here to show you how to do the same.

Today, he’s using his repeated ability to spot disruptions and turn them into opportunities to empower the next wave of industry powerhouses. 

Touted as “the world’s foremost transformation architect,” by Harvard Business Review, Jonathan Brill has lived and worked on the cutting edge of both business innovation and AI for decades.

Through his hard-earned expertise and insight, he’s created a proven methodology of leveraging the AI in to leadership roles, empowering organizations with the tools they need to create results instead of resistance.

Outcomes and Experiences

If you’d rather not have your assumptions challenged, this is not the keynote for you. 

As a Fortune 50 business innovator, Jonathan presents compelling data and imagination-sparking insights from today’s leading organizations, leaving you with an expanded sense of what disruption really means for your business. 

By the end of this transformative keynote, you’ll know exactly how to:

  • Navigate unprecedented times with the top 10 trends you need to know about.
  • Invent your future with the transformative power of AI.
  • Learn the three actionable tools to Architect Your Future.

Strategic Luck

Most people think luck is a coincidence, a twist of fate, or a gift that some are simply born with. 

Most people are wrong.

Instead, luck is a science-based skill that your audience can get dramatically better at it — in less than an hour.

As an international best-selling author, scholar on decision-making, and principal investigator of the largest study on luck, Jonathan Brill persuasively argues that luck isn’t an option; it’s perhaps the most impactful factor of success. It’s strategic in your business and in your life.

Merging an impactful blend of heart-felt personal experiences and hard data, this keynote experience takes audiences on a journey through the four science-based methods that transform uncertainty into opportunity in nearly everything you do. By the end of your time together, Jonathan Brill will show you how to find rainbows, dodge riptides, survive meteors, and make gold, one lucky move at a time. 

Outcomes and Experiences

You and your team will be given an eye-opening look into

  • The reality of what luck is and how to create it for yourself.
  • Why luck is a must for organizations looking to survive disruptions.
  • Science-backed strategies for creating lucky opportunities, even out of thin air.