Vito di Bari: Futurist Speaker

Vito di Bari inspires global audiences by combining storytelling, futurism, and design to reimagine urban spaces, innovation, and connected cultural experiences.

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Highlights:
  • Vito di Bari is renowned as a futurist visionary, recognized globally for his groundbreaking insights into emerging technologies and their impact on society, business, and culture.
  • With a career spanning over two decades, di Bari has established himself as a leading authority on innovation, advising governments, corporations, and organizations on strategies to navigate the complexities of the digital age and stay ahead of the curve.
  • As a prolific author, di Bari has penned numerous books that explore the intersection of technology, design, and societal trends. 

Formats: Keynote, Workshop, Breakout Labs,

Audiences: Product and marketing teams (20–150); Conferences (100–1,200)

Outcomes:
  1. Prioritize top 3 growth experiments with measurable KPIs.
  2. Build repeatable playbooks for faster customer learning.
  3. Reduce time from idea to validated outcome.
Reviews: (2 reviews)
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  • Travels from: Miami, FL
  • **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000

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Keynote Topics:

  • VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: BEYOND CORONAVIRUS
  • FUTURIST KEYNOTE SPEAKER OF BUSINESS INNOVATION TRENDS
  • BEYOND CORONAVIRUS – Virtual
  • BUSINESS
  • MARKETING
  • ICT
  • FUTURE CITIES
  • SMART CITIES
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • HEALTHCARE
  • Next Trends Retail: A baby experience larger than life by Vito Di Bari
  • HOSPITALITY

Talent Short Bio

Vito di Bari is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading futurists, known for his ability to connect innovation, design, and cultural transformation into powerful visions of the future. A former professor at Milan Polytechnic and Executive Director of the IMI Institute for the European Union, he has worked with global institutions, cities, and Fortune 500 companies to imagine what the next decades will bring in technology, business, and society.

As a speaker, Vito is a master storyteller who makes the future feel both exciting and actionable. His presentations combine strategic foresight with creativity, giving audiences frameworks to understand where trends in AI, robotics, sustainability, and smart cities are heading. He has been a commentator for CNBC, RAI, and other global outlets, and is often described as one of Europe’s most influential voices on innovation.

Through his consulting and public speaking, Vito helps leaders identify the key shifts that will impact their industries and societies, while inspiring them to think boldly about design-driven transformation. His approach ensures that organizations not only anticipate change but also shape it to their advantage.

Vito di Bari resides in Miami, FL. He maintains a global reputation of excellence as the world’s premiere futurist, innovation strategist and inspirational keynote speaker. His charming and entertaining style leaves nothing to be desired.

Vito is the only keynote speaker who has given a TEDx Talk in five world continents. Vito is an esteemed former professor of Project Design and Management of Innovation at both the Polytechnic University and Bocconi University in Milan.

He has also served as Executive Director for the IMI Institute of UNESCO in Paris; the candidate city of Milan has chosen Vito Di Bari to be the Innovation Designer of the World Fair Expo 2015.

In 2001, Vito Di Bari has secured his visions and legacy by founding Next Media Lab – a cutting edge international research laboratory, named “Milan’s think tank” by Wired Magazine, where he currently serves as CEO. After moving to Miami Beach, Di Bari has founded Di Bari & Associates – a design studio is changing the world a neighborhood at the time through his cutting edge artistic iconic urban installations, using recent discoveries in various fields such as AR, sensors and 3D printing.

Vito di Bari is a recognized author on innovative theories, Di Bari has published a multitude of works including the books: Social Killer, Short Circuit, Web 2.0, The Future is Already Here (but we don’t know it yet), 2015, Weekend in the Future, Strategies for the Next Economy, The Digital Economy Encyclopedia, Key Words for the Net Economy, and Multimedia Management.

Di Bari has held numerous titles of professorship, including: Professor of Design and Management of Innovation at the Faculty of System Engineering of the Polytechnic University and Professor of Innovation Design at the Bocconi University in Milan; Professor of New Media Theories and Techniques at the Communication Science and Technology Faculty of the IULM University in Milan plus more.

We design the cityscapes of the future, today.
We all share the same vision: creating memorable, metaphorical, iconic art installations while implementing new materials, new technologies and brand new ideas. We design Emotional Cityscapes.

With everything we do, Vito di Bari believes that beauty will save the world, one place at a time. Vito di Bari looks at these sites as canvases waiting to be painted with emotions, becoming the pride of residents and destinations for visitors.

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