Mike Walsh
Futurist, Innovation Expert, Author & Speaker
Mike Walsh is a futurist and innovation expert who equips leaders and organisations to navigate the digital future. Combining insights from emerging markets, disruptive technologies, and consumer behaviour, he delivers high-energy presentations that inspire innovation, strategic thinking, and practical business transformation.
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Mike Walsh is a leading authority on the digital future, best-selling author of Futuretainment and CEO of consumer innovation research lab Tomorrow. With extensive experience studying emerging markets and disruptive technologies, Mike prepares business leaders to anticipate, understand and act on the trends shaping tomorrow.
He takes an anthropological approach, scanning the near horizon for new patterns of consumer behaviour and translating these insights into actionable business strategies. His advisory work and keynote presentations provide unique perspectives on the impact of generational change, digital disruption, and breakthrough innovation on business transformation.
A global nomad, Mike draws on first-hand experience from around the world to deliver dynamic, high-energy presentations. Using original video, award-winning visual design, and compelling case studies, he equips audiences to influence the future direction of their industries. Mike has advised CEOs and senior teams from organisations including the BBC, Cartier, P&G, HSBC, Star TV, and Roche Pharmaceuticals, among others.
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AI Agents: Unleashing the Digital Workforce That Will Change Our Organisations Forever
As AI evolves from simple automation to autonomous decision-making, we stand on the brink of the most profound organisational transformation since the Industrial Revolution. This shift, driven by the emergence of AI agents capable of independent thought, decision-making, and action, will redefine everything from personal interactions to the very fabric of how businesses operate. AI Agents are not just the next step in digital transformation; they will also have significant economic and societal impacts. The question is no longer if AI will transform organisations but how quickly leaders can prepare to harness its full potential.
In this provocative keynote, Mike Walsh draws on cutting-edge research and real-world case studies to illustrate a future where companies reconfigure themselves as networks of billions of AI agents capable of tackling problems at a speed and scale unimaginable today. Walsh will present a compelling vision for how leaders can reimagine their operating models, governance frameworks, and workforce strategies to unlock unprecedented levels of agility and performance. Attendees will leave with actionable insights and a roadmap for integrating AI agents into their organisations, empowering them to thrive in an age of unparalleled innovation and disruption.
The AI-Powered Decade Ahead
AI should change what we do, not just how we do it. Over the next decade, we have a unique opportunity to fundamentally reimagine customer experiences, redesign how organisations work, and rethink how to solve problems more effectively. This is a defining moment for leaders, and our biggest risk is not machines taking over, but rather lacking ambition when it comes to the future. Many are already focused on deploying new tools and applications, rather than embracing a more radical vision for what might be possible.
Futurist Mike Walsh offers a compelling roadmap to 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation will fuel a Fifth Industrial Revolution. Technology is only part of the story; real transformation requires a new cultural operating system. The next decade will not simply be about smarter workplaces or more efficient industries. It will be a decade of reinvention, where the foundations of the modern world are reengineered through next-generation AI infrastructure and new ways of getting things done.
The Future Favors the Bold
In a world reshaped by technological breakthroughs, shifting customer behaviors, geopolitical tensions, and the rise of machine intelligence, success belongs to those who dare to adapt, experiment, and learn at scale. Incremental improvements won’t cut it. Progress demands radical reinvention—bold ideas that challenge convention, create new markets, and combine technologies in unexpected ways.
Transformation is not a checklist; it’s a journey paved by courageous decisions. It could mean championing a provocative idea, breaking a long-held rule, or hiring someone who challenges deeply held assumptions. The future isn’t an upgrade of the familiar—it’s an entirely new frontier. In an age of uncertainty, only bold leaders and even bolder teams will shape what comes next.
