Nikki Greenberg

Futurist Keynote Speaker & AI Thought Leader

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Fee Range

$25,000–$30,000

Travels from

NY, USA

Biography

Nikki Greenberg is a world-leading futurist and innovation strategist, focused on preparing organizations for a tech-enabled future. She helps leaders reimagine their businesses to bring them into alignment with the increasingly digitized way that people live, work and communicate today. 

She has held leadership positions with Fortune 500’s, and most recently served as the Head of Technology Strategy for Real Estate at QIC, an Australian investment manager with a $70 Billion portfolio of assets under management. She is the founder and global ambassador of Women in PropTech and former three-term co-chair of the Technology & Innovation Council for ULI in New York City. Nikki’s approach brings a balance between pushing possibilities, and practicality.

A true global citizen, Nikki has had an impressive international career that has spanned the US, Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia. Nikki has worked with global organizations including Lendlease, QIC, Brown Harris Stevens, Koichi Takada Architects, and Greenland Australia.  

Speaker Videos

Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry

Becoming Your Industry’s Most Admired & Forward Thinking Company

World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg equips leaders to proactively shape their organization’s future by navigating the major forces reshaping every industry, including AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution. Drawing on her experience leading the digital transformation of a seventy billion dollar organization, Nikki provides practical tools and a forward thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and accelerate success. Delivered in her light hearted, dynamic, and entertaining style, this keynote blends inspiration, motivation, and practical insight on how to become future ready today.

Key Outcomes

Actionable Strategies for Today and Tomorrow

  • Gain practical insights you can implement immediately while building a strong long term roadmap for the years ahead. Learn Nikki’s Five Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in ways that drive impact, build momentum, and secure organizational buy in.

Technology Made Simple

  • Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed. Nikki breaks down complex concepts with clarity, offering accessible explanations that bring your team on board. She draws from her tenure as Head of Technology Strategy for a global investment manager and shares invaluable lessons learned along the way.

Overcoming Barriers to Change

  • Learn strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource constraints, budget pressures, and the realities of multi generational workplaces.

Be a Visionary Leader

  • Discover how visionary leaders bring bold ideas to life and how you can join their ranks. Learn how to ignite inspiration within your team, shape a forward thinking culture, and step confidently into the future.

The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations

Designing Tomorrow’s Urban World Today

The world is changing rapidly, shaped by demographic shifts and breakthroughs in AI and emerging technologies. Cities sit at the centre of this transformation. They are becoming living laboratories where innovation solves today’s challenges and creates opportunities for generations to come.

In her light hearted yet insightful style, world renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg paints a vivid picture of what the world could look like in 2050 and what must be done today to prepare for it. She shares powerful examples from around the globe where advanced technologies are already reshaping how cities operate. These examples show how innovation can justify investment, improve operations, elevate liveability, and deliver long lasting impact.

This keynote empowers leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and design cities that are both technologically advanced and deeply human. Expect clear vision, practical tools, and the momentum to drive meaningful change.

Key Outcomes

Understanding the Urban Future

  • Gain insights into demographic changes, talent migration, shifting community values, and the forces that will shape cities between now and 2050.

Technology and Urban Transformation

  • Learn how AI, robotics, automation, smart mobility, and next generation digital infrastructure are reinventing city operations, customer experiences, and long term planning.

Global Inspiration and Case Studies

  • Explore cutting edge city projects from around the world that set new standards for sustainability, mobility, resilience, and mixed use development.

Actionable Strategies to Thrive in 2050

  • Discover practical steps that leaders can take immediately while building a resilient long term roadmap for innovation, digital transformation, and collaboration across sectors.

Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate

Transforming Places for Tomorrow’s World

World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a light hearted yet deeply insightful keynote that explores how to create future ready places by blending advancements in AI, robotics, and automation with a human centred approach. Drawing on her global experience as a property developer on transformative projects, she explains why the places we create today must support both current communities and future generations. Widely regarded as the world’s top real estate futurist, Nikki delivers a keynote that inspires and informs in equal measure.

Key Outcomes

Understanding Future Demand Drivers

  • Gain clarity on demographic shifts and the evolving values of future customers and stakeholders. Learn Nikki’s framework for future readiness, informed by her experience leading major commercial developments and technology strategy across global portfolios.

AI and Emerging Tech Readiness

  • Stay ahead of pivotal technological shifts, including AI, robotics, automation, and digital transformation, and understand their impact on people, places, and organizations.

Inspiring the Future of Place

  • Discover global projects that are pushing boundaries in sustainability, mobility, mixed use development, and quality of life. These examples reveal what is possible in the next era of the built environment.

Actionable Roadmaps

  • Learn how to begin future focused initiatives quickly while building a sustainable long term plan for digital transformation and AI integration. Nikki shares insights from developing digital masterplans for new multi billion dollar developments.