Rohit Talwar

Futurist  and award-winning speaker, Rohit Talwar inspires and educates with his unique 'how to' messages. He was profiled as one of the top 10 global futurists by the Independent Newspaper. Relevant and engaging, his messages to businesses are full of valuable and practical take-aways. Through his virtual and live speaking, executive education, research, consultancy, and publishing he advises leaders in global businesses, government, and NGOs around the world on how to anticipate and respond to disruptive change. Rohit is currently advising on how to respond to the COVID-19 disruption, prepare for a range of possible future scenarios, and develop greater resilience and anticipatory capabilities in our lives, our organizations, and our countries.

Rohit leads Fast Future Publishing - delivering a series of multi-contributor books exploring the emerging future. He is the co-author of Designing Your Future, lead editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business, and editor of Technology vs. Humanity. He is also a co-editor and contributor for A Very Human Future – Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World; Beyond Genuine Stupidity – Ensuring AI Serves Humanity; The Future Reinvented – Reimagining Life, Society, and Business; and The Opportunity at the Edge - Change, Challenge, and Transformation on the Path to 2025 . He is also working on two forthcoming books - 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years and The Future of AI – Pathways to Artificial General Intelligence.

Rohit’s primary objective is to support clients in exploring and shaping the emerging future - putting people at the centre of the agenda. He helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change. Rohit highlights the new thinking and business models being enabled by exponential technologies such as AI, blockchain, and hyperconnectivity and uses case studies to demonstrate how firms across sectors are reinventing themselves in the era of smart machines. He then explores the mindset shifts and leadership capabilities required to compete in the emerging future. Finally, he demonstrates how to harness the next waves of innovation to unleash human potential and ensure a very human future for our organisations.

His new book Aftershocks and Opportunities – Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future published on June 1st, 2020 draws on contributions from 25 thought leaders around the world to explore the emerging possibilities and risks and the resulting critical actions required to navigate our way out of the current health crisis and economic disruption.
Rohit delivers fully researched and completely customised presentations for each keynote, and has the audience spellbound with his story of ending up on Interpol’s most wanted list due to identity theft. He has undertaken a wide range of foresight research studies for clients as diverse as the UK Government, Heathrow Airport, Amadeus, and the European Commission.

Rohit has appeared on all the major international news networks and has also published widely and to high acclaim on futures, strategy and change, and has several successful books on transition, change and global disruptions in the political and economic landscape.

For the UK government, Rohit has completed the largest Horizon Scanning and Futures Programme in Europe, and he has completed the UK MoD's major study on Strategic Trends 2030, and the design and facilitation of an Accelerated Scenario Learning programme for a global pharmaceutical company.

Rohit’s in-depth research and vast real business experience helps organisations work on complex trends that are changing the way we work, and use them to their benefit.A specialist on consultancy in future trends, Rohit is able to deliver a keynote speech on agility, growth, strategy, innovation and change leadership.

A specialist on consultancy in future trends, Rohit is able to deliver a keynote speech on the following topics; Aftershocks and Opportunities, Digital Transformation, Business and Leadership, Innovation and Disruption, The Future of AI, Universal Basic Income - The Fundamentals.