Roger Spitz

Roger Spitz's official speaker topics are listed below:

• Governance & Leadership: Anticipatory leadership, and the futures of boards and organisations.
• Technology & Society: The impacts of technology on society, media, information, and the future of work.
• Finance & Investment: Evolving financial landscapes, including investments, asset classes, and insurability.
• Professions & Work: The futures of education, careers, and work in the age of AI.
• Humanity & Wellbeing: Exploring the futures of health, ageing, and the human condition.

Catalysing Positive Tipping Points through Agency, Foresight, and Storytelling

Many efforts to address our global crises rely on grim narratives emphasising a bleak future if we fail to act. Yet, we often neglect the power of optimistic narratives that highlight informed opportunities to drive positive transformation. In this inspiring keynote, we will explore how agency, storytelling, and systems thinking are powerful tools that can create impactful pathways toward transformative tipping points. 

Humanity stands at a crossroads. Roger Spitz says, “Everything in our world is constantly evolving—except our organisations, strategies, and governance structures.” Drawing on insights from Roger’s bestselling book Disrupt with Impact, we’ll explore the power of informed optimism in shaping futures. The audience will leave with practical frameworks for embracing uncertainty and using storytelling to create virtuous inflection points that catalyse transformation across systems.

Change Is Slow Until It Isn’t: Anticipating Unpredictable Futures

The future of prediction is not about AI or data but imagination. In a world where disruption has become a steady state, it’s time to rethink the fundamentals of underlying change. Welcome to the end of trends.

To contrast metatrends, Roger Spitz introduces the concept of “metaruption,” a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions that cause widespread effects, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself. We’ll also examine why predictions fall short in today’s UN-VICE environment (UNknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex, and Exponential). Rather than chasing fleeting trends, the audience will learn to prioritise signals over noise and embrace foresight. Together, we will explore uncharted waters with a compass calibrated for the unpredictable.

The Future of AI and Decision-Making in an Era of Systemic Disruption

Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing into domains once considered exclusively human. While humans have long excelled at decision-making, our advantage may be waning. As Roger Spitz explores in his “Techistentialism” concept, technology fundamentally reshaped our existence and decision-making. 

Automation, cognification, decentralisation, digitisation, and virtualisation alter every aspect of our lives. How can humans enhance their capabilities to remain relevant as AI advances? What higher-level functions are machines capable of, and how quickly are they learning? What strategies can we adopt to thrive in a world where AI increasingly influences decision-making? You’ll leave this keynote with actionable tools and a mindset shift to succeed in a future where human cognition and AI are inseparable.

Anticipatory Leadership: Harnessing Disruption for Sustainable Value Creation

How can you leverage our deeply uncertain, complex, and disruptive world to create sustainable value? Systemic disruptions will redistribute trillions of dollars, presenting opportunities for immense value creation. Those who cling to business as usual will face value destruction. 

Disruption’s impact hinges on your perspective, preparation, and response timing. As such, Roger Spitz introduces his renowned AAA Framework, which equips leaders to build Antifragile foundations, develop an Anticipatory mindset, and leverage Agility to bridge short-term actions with long-term goals. Participants will learn how the true power of innovation lies not in its ability to disrupt but in its potential to inspire and unlock new possibilities. This session will provide actionable insights and frameworks for harnessing disruption as a springboard for creating sustainable value. 

The Next Chapter of Digital Disruption: Industries Blur, New Fields Emerge

The boundaries between industries are rapidly dissolving and spilling over. From agriculture to construction, sectors are converging, fusing, and transforming. Previously separate verticals now collaborate within new ecosystems, defying traditional classifications. The future is hybrid; this liminal world has no industry boundaries. 

Known for his unique keynote talks, Roger Spitz blends exclusive research and insights from the Disruptive Futures Institute with real-world case studies from his strategic foresight practice, Techistential. This impactful presentation will help leaders, investors, and analysts adopt new perspectives on evaluating companies and industries. Through the Disruptive Thinking Canvas™, Roger provides a practical roadmap for imagining, inventing, and prototyping the futures we want, where the magic happens as industries converge and new fields emerge.

• 2024 - Won the Harvey Chute Best Business Book Award for Disrupt with Impact
• 2024 - Expert Advisor, World Economic Forum Global Foresight Network
• 2024 - Published bestselling Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
• 2023 - Appointed to the Board of Lux Carbon Standard (Brazil's first carbon credit certifier)
• 2022 - Appointed to the AI Council of the Indian Society for Artificial Intelligence
• 2020 - Co-founded Disruptive Futures Institute
• 2019 - President of Techistential
• 2017 - Managing Director, BNP Paribas TMT Advisory (Americas and West Coast M&A)
• 2016 - Built BNP Paribas Technology Investment Banking franchise in EMEA
• 2010 - Launched BNP Paribas Digital M&A Studio
• 2002 - Joined BNP Paribas as Managing Director for Technology & Digital M&A Advisory