Futurist Virtual Keynote: Unleashing Future Human Potential, Ingram Micro

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 16th December 2020

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Firstly, thank you to Holly and the amazing crew at Ingram Micro for asking me to be the keynote speaker for this year’s Ingram Micro ONE partner conference that was attended by over 50,000 people from all around the world where I showed how people will be able to harness today’s and tomorrow’s increasingly powerful exponential technologies to unleash their own human potential in previously unimaginable new ways to achieve even greater things and, as we teach at the XPotential University change the world. And if you’re getting de ja vu and think you’ve heard about this keynote before then you’d be right – I’ve already written about it, and what you can watch below is the long form version of that keynote that has even more futuristic content! It’s basically my “special edition” version.

Held annually the Ingram Micro ONE event is an opportunity for Ingram’s staff, customers, and partners to come together to “Imagine Next,” and see first-hand for themselves how technology is changing the world and helping them re-imagine their businesses and prospects. And even though this year the global pandemic, Covid-19, pushed the event online, it didn’t disappoint.

Watch the virtual keynote in full

While the event is normally held in Colorado in the US the pandemic meant that all four days of it had to be re-envisioned and moved online – complete with fantastic virtual stages, breakout sessions and roundtables, and behind the scenes previews. All of which was a titanic feat.

During my keynote, which was held straight after Ingram’s CEO Alain Monié, I showed all the amazing ways emerging technologies, from Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Creative Machines to Digital Humans, will help us transform business, and unleash our own exponential human potential.

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Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

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.