David Houle is a renowned futurist, speaker, and thinker. In the last eleven years he has delivered 1000+ presentations and keynotes on 6 continents and 16 countries. David offers Virtual Keynotes as a futurist in 2020.

David Houle is a futurist, thinker and keynote speaker who is regarded as one of the foremost futurist speakers in the world today.

He has keynoted numerous conferences across the country and internationally. In the last eleven years he has delivered 1000+ presentations and keynotes on 6 continents and 16 countries. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats.

Houle won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world. He is often called the “CEOs’ futurist” having spoken to or advised 4,000+ CEOs and business owners in the past eleven years.

Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. .

Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as co-executive Producer for a nationally syndicated children’s program, “Energy Express”. He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream and was nominated for an Academy Award.

As a speaker, all David's speeches deal with mega concepts that provoke audiences to think about the future and what may lie ahead. David very much likes to follow up speeches with extended Q&A and discussions and to act as a catalyst for thinking about the future as it may pertain to a specific group or company.


VIRTUAL KEYNOTES or IN-PERSON KEYNOTES
All David's Keynotes are available via live streaming virtually. Should you move your conference on-line David can keynote via broadcast quality live streaming.


MOST REQUESTED KEYNOTES
• The 2020s
The brand-new presentation about what will be the single most disruptive decade in human history. A high-level overview of transportation, energy, global finance, climate change, artificial intelligence, the massive global generational change, 21st century manufacturing and transformational medical and health discoveries will all be touched upon. Any organization that wants to avoid disruption or actual collapse will benefit from this presentation.

• Moving to a Finite Earth Economy
Based upon the influential book of the same name this presentation sets forth the answer to the question “What humanity needs to do to successfully face climate change”. It is a roadmap with metrics, technology, high-level policy and economics that needs urgent implementation. It takes a futurist to combine the three biggest trends of the next decade – the Age of Climate Change, the Age of Intelligence and the need for the Reinvention of Capitalism – into a unique, systemic recasting of the global economy from being a Growth Economy to a Finite Earth Economy. Simply put, endless growth – with an 8 billion population – no longer works on a Finite Spaceship Earth. Perhaps the most significant view on our path forward in this time of crisis and disruption.

• “This Spaceship Earth”
This is Houle’s acclaimed presentation on Climate Change, and the need for humanity to develop Crew Consciousness as the only real way to move as rapidly as possible to collectively face the single biggest threat facing all of us. Based on Houle’s seventh and most recent book of the same name, this presentation has already triggered high praise and demand. Using science, visuals and high level concepts this is the presentation that will provide the “aha” moment for audiences ans it is delivered by a globally known futurist and not a scientist or environmental activist. As Houle says: “It would be a professional dereliction of duty as a futurist to not address Climate Change. This is why I have founded: http://thisspaceshipearth.org/ to activate humanity to act as crew of This Spaceship Earth”

• Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing
This presentation is based on the book of the same name which was rated one of the top five books published on marketing in the world in 2014. Houle takes a high level look at the future of brands and the marketing of brands. After a quick look back on the history of brands, Houle discusses the waves of technology and then the current and future trends that are rapidly reshaping how brands are marketed. Not a “how to” presentation but a visionary look into what brands will have to do to thrive in this time of rapid transformation in the next 5-10 years. This presentation has been well received by professional marketing executives in a variety of industries.

• “Is Privacy Dead? The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age”
This presentation, based in part on Houle’s eBook of the same name, takes a new look at privacy today and in the future. After a quick look back at the history of privacy, Houle presents why we have lost so much of our privacy in the past decades and years and why those dynamics will continue to eviscerate personal privacy in the future. Incorporating a look at technological innovation, accelerating electronic connectedness, Big Data freedom versus convenience and the loss of the Concept of Place, this is a powerful presentation about one of the most important and topical subjects of our time.

• 21st Century Manufacturing
The centuries old definition of manufacturing is undergoing a radical change. The physical to digital revolution is now altering manufacturing, supply chains and materials. New logistics and economic models are being developed. Technological Intelligence and Robotics are rapidly taking over. Take a look into what is already happening and the vision for the future. A major economic sector entering complete transformation.

• The Age of Intelligence
We have entered the Age of Intelligence. Breakthroughs in Neuroscience, brainwave connectivity and Technological Intelligence will merge to possibly create humanity’s next evolutionary stage. There will be no aspect of society that will not be affected by this historical passage we have entered. The age of computing has been just a prelude to this new age.