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I, The Company of 2040 | Accenture, Paris | Matthew Griffin | Leadership Keynote Speaker
The companies and startups of the future will be very different from today's, so during this keynote I dive into the rabbit hole.
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Griffin, M. (2019) 'I, The Company of 2040 | Accenture, Paris | Matthew Griffin | Leadership Keynote Speaker', 311 Institute, 13 December. Available at: https://www.311institute.com/futurist-keynote-paris-i-the-company-of-2040-accenture/ (Accessed: 1 October 2026).
Firstly, thank you to the team at Accenture for inviting me to be their keynote speaker at the annual Accenture Technology Symposium in Paris, France, where I was given the opportunity to showcase how companies in the year 2040 will develop products, operate, and scale, and where other executives discussed how they’re preparing their own organisations today for the “technology fuelled lightening-like speed of change” in what Accenture refer to as the Post-Digital era.
During the event we had the honour of hearing from C-level executives from organisations including Airbus, Bayer, BP, Sanofi, Thales, and Veolia, to name but a few, and how they are helping their organisations navigate and prepare themselves for a world where the rule books of the past increasingly no longer apply, and where science fiction like technologies become commonplace.
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Against this backdrop I discussed the rise of fully autonomous, omni-present, holocratic organisations that can disrupt global industries in just days, not months or years, that are run by inter-connected AI’s and “Digital Human” avatars. And, going further into the rabbit hole, I then went on to show the audience how these autonomous companies will be able to share experiences and knowledge ingested and “learned” from global scale information and sensor networks via Hive Minds in order to grow and thrive, as well as how they’ll also be able to draw on the experiences and knowledge of previous human CEO’s and board members who’ve immortalised themselves in avatar form.
From there, bearing in mind we had a lot to pack into just forty minutes, I showed the audience new ways to accelerate their own rates of hardware and software innovation by anywhere between a thousand fold and hundreds of millions fold, with examples, and quickly discussed the implications that AI’s that self-code, self-design, self-evolve, and self-replicate will have on them and organisations of the future.
This was the clip reel from the previous Accenture keynote in Portugal
And the result of all this? Well, in my opinion I think we need a new word for fast because the pace of change in the future will be insane by today’s meek standards.
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Matthew Griffin Founder, 311 Institute
Matthew Griffin is a multi-award winning Futurist and expert in Disruption and Innovation, Geopolitics, Leadership, and Technology, who NASA have described as a "walking encyclopaedia of the future" and a "futurist Polymath."
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Matthew Griffin is a multi-award winning Futurist and expert in Disruption and Innovation, Geopolitics, Leadership, and Technology, who NASA have described as a "walking encyclopaedia of the future" and a "futurist Polymath." 15-time best selling author of the "Codex of the Future" series, Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working with royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77 governments, NGOs, and multi-national mid and mega cap firms to help them explore, shape, and lead the next 50 years of business and society.
An award-winning YouTube creator with over a million followers, with an unrivalled global reach and impact, Matthew is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, lecturer, and mentor who collaborates with global leaders through the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to shape pivotal initiatives such as the UN’s AI for Humanity program, the United Nations Conference of the Parties (UN COP), and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
As the former Global Head of Cloud, National Security, and Enterprise Sales for companies including Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, Matthew has a proven track record of building multi-billion dollar business units and turning failing divisions into market leaders. His ability to identify, analyse, and communicate the implications of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends is unparalleled, and his insights are trusted by many of the world’s most respected organisations, including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi, Coca-Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Dow Jones, EY, Google, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, Siemens AG and Siemens Energy, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, Walmart, Workday, Worldpay and many others.
Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.
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Source: first published by the 311 Institute on 13 December 2019. Cite as: Griffin, M. (2019). I, The Company of 2040 | Accenture, Paris | Matthew Griffin | Leadership Keynote Speaker. 311 Institute. https://www.311institute.com/futurist-keynote-paris-i-the-company-of-2040-accenture/
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