The Crypto Economy Demystified
What is the crypto economy, the emergence of digital gold, trading currencies, decentralized finance, the growth of new blockchain based ventures and business models, and why the traditional corporate sector is now investing in crypto assets and partnering with crypto based ventures.
The World to 2030 and Beyond
Key drivers and scenarios shaping society and the business environment.
The new sectors and transformational opportunities emerging through advances in exponential and disruptive technologies – from AI, 5G, and crypto technology through to synthetic biology and new materials.
Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning speaker, strategic advisor, and the CEO of Fast Future, known for helping organizations understand and shape the forces rewriting business, society, and human experience. With more than 1500 keynote speeches and executive workshops delivered across 70-plus countries, Talwar brings a panoramic view of emerging trends, disruptive technologies, and the strategic choices that define resilient leadership.
He works with corporations, governments, professional services, investors, associations, business schools, and NGOs to build foresight capability and apply it to real-world decision-making. His advisory work blends scenario planning, strategic exploration, and practical frameworks that enable teams to convert future signals into investment priorities and organizational transformation.
Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning and thought-provoking speaker, strategic advisor, author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Fast Future.
He delivers keynote speeches, executive education, consultancy, research, and future-focused leadership mentoring to clients internationally.
He works with major corporations, governments, professional services, investors, associations, business schools, and NGOs to help them anticipate, prepare for and create the future. He has delivered over 1500 keynote speeches and executive workshops in 70+ countries on six continents.
Rohit Talwar 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 the recently published Beyond Genuine Stupidity – Ensuring AI Serves Humanity, and The Future Reinvented – Reimagining Life, Society, and Business. He is also working on two forthcoming books – Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business, and 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.
Rohit Talwar delivers fully researched and completely customized 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.
Rohit’s primary objective is to support clients in exploring and shaping the emerging future – putting people at the center 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 organizations.
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A 41-minute exploration of how humanity, technology, and leadership must evolve together to shape a future that is equitable, meaningful, and driven by human potential.
This 41-minute talk centers on the core idea that the future must be built around human values rather than technological momentum. Rohit Talwar begins by mapping out the forces reshaping society: automation, AI, demographic shifts, and accelerating geopolitical uncertainty. He argues that while technology is advancing at record speed, institutions and leadership models remain anchored to outdated assumptions. The result is a widening gap between what’s possible and what’s being implemented.
Talwar pushes the audience to consider future scenarios where humans flourish rather than simply adapt. He highlights the tension between efficiency-driven systems and human well-being, emphasizing that technology should augment people, not dictate their lives. His examples range from AI-enabled healthcare and personalized education to new economic models designed to distribute opportunity more equitably. Throughout the talk, he stresses the importance of imagination, long-range thinking, and ethical frameworks to guide innovation.
He also lays out a set of leadership imperatives: questioning legacy mindsets, challenging short-termism, investing in foresight capability, and building cultures that reward experimentation and empathy. Talwar calls for organizations to rethink metrics of success, shifting from productivity alone to measures of positive societal impact.
A deep dive into the disruptive technologies reshaping industries, leadership, and long-range strategy, delivered through a clear, practical, and future-focused keynote.
This 1 hour 26 minute keynote explores the accelerating landscape of emerging technologies and the strategic implications for organizations trying to stay ahead of rapid change. Rohit Talwar opens by challenging the audience to rethink their assumptions about progress, noting that exponential technologies rarely unfold in straight lines. Instead, their biggest impact comes once early experimentation gives way to scalable adoption, often catching incumbents unprepared. He frames the session around the need to strengthen foresight capability, build adaptability into operations, and prepare for multiple possible futures rather than betting on a single outcome.
Talwar walks through a series of technological domains gaining momentum, including artificial intelligence, immersive computing, blockchain, autonomous systems, advanced materials, and next-generation biotechnology. For each area, he outlines both transformative potential and the friction points organizations must be ready for. He highlights how AI will influence knowledge work, customer experience, and decision-making, while blockchain could reshape trust models and supply chains. He also underscores how automation and robotics will continue to reconfigure labor markets, pushing leaders to prepare for new skill sets and redesigned roles.
A recurring theme is the tension between technological promise and organizational readiness. Talwar emphasizes that most companies underinvest in exploring emerging tools, not because teams lack intelligence but because legacy structures slow experimentation. He encourages leaders to carve out space for scenario planning, small-scale pilots, and disciplined learning cycles that help uncover real value. He also reinforces the importance of ethics and responsibility, noting that the choices made now around privacy, bias, transparency, and societal impact will shape public trust for decades.
A fast-paced 20-minute exploration of the disruptive forces shaping leadership, innovation, and the future of work, delivered with clarity and forward-thinking urgency.
This 20-minute keynote focuses on how leaders can prepare for a world being reshaped by exponential technologies, shifting expectations, and rising complexity. Rohit Talwar opens by outlining the scale of disruption already underway, emphasizing that many industries are being transformed not by direct competitors but by unexpected players applying new business models and emerging tools. He warns leaders against assuming that gradual change will continue; instead, he urges them to prepare for sudden leaps.
Talwar highlights the increasing influence of artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, and hyperconnectivity. He discusses how these developments will alter customer behavior, economic structures, and organizational design. Rather than reacting to each new technology in isolation, he encourages leaders to build a more holistic understanding of the broader transformation ahead. His message centers on the importance of curiosity, critical thinking, and the ability to abandon outdated habits that hinder progress.
He also stresses the need for leadership cultures that reward experimentation. Talwar argues that organizations must learn quickly, test ideas cheaply, and scale only what works. He challenges conventional planning approaches, suggesting that long-term strategies must be adaptable, scenario-based, and open to radical reinvention. Throughout the talk, he emphasizes that future-ready leadership is about mindset as much as capability: staying open, asking better questions, and creating space for people to think beyond the immediate pressures of the day.
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