David Houle

Future Trends Speaker

  • David Houle Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Florida, USA

  • David Houle Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Florida, USA

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Shift//Transformation: 2017-2037

A high-level look at the next 20 years. 2017-2037 will be the most transformative 20 years in human history. There will be more change than in any 50-year period in history. Reality as we know it will change. This presentation looks into the future of AI, IoT, Big Data, Energy...

A high-level look at the next 20 years. 2017-2037 will be the most transformative 20 years in human history. There will be more change than in any 50-year period in history. Reality as we know it will change. This presentation looks into the future of AI, IoT, Big Data, Energy, Transportation, 21st Century Manufacturing, the coming disruption in the Global Economy, the new imperatives for companies, and the need to face Climate Change, reinvent Democracy and Capitalism. This presentation builds on the highly popular presentations, “The Shift Age” and “Entering the Shift Age” which have been delivered on six Continents and 16 countries since 2008.

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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.

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PEAK AUTO and The Age of Autonomous Vehicles

We have entered the transition from internal combustion engines to electric ones, from driver to driverless and from ever more autos on the road to fewer and fewer. The century old definition of the auto is in the process of changing. This is a massive transformation that will...

We have entered the transition from internal combustion engines to electric ones, from driver to driverless and from ever more autos on the road to fewer and fewer. The century old definition of the auto is in the process of changing. This is a massive transformation that will not just affect transportation but will reorganize work and society. Today’s young children may never get a driver’s license.

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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 ...

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.

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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...

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.”

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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 ...

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.

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About Keynote Speaker David Houle

About Speaker David Houle…

David Houle is a futurist, thinker and keynote speaker. 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.

He writes the highly regarded futurist blog, Evolution Shift, with the tag line “A Future Look At Today.”  He publishes the free Shift Age Newsletter. During 2010 Houle was a featured contributor on Oprah.com.

He has been speaking about the future for 11 years and his influential first book The Shift Age was published in 2007. His second book, Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, written with Jeff Cobb was published in March 2011. The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America, co-authored with Jonathan Fleece, was  published by Sourcebooks in January 2012. and became a #1 best seller on Amazon in the categories of Medicine and Future of Health Care.  “Entering the Shift Age” was published by Sourcebooks in January of 2013. It is also a #1 Amazon best seller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting. Houle published the eBook  “Is Privacy Dead:  The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age” in November 2013.  His sixth book “Brand Shift:  The Future of Brands and Marketing” with co-author Owen Shapiro was published in August 2014 and was named one of the top five marketing books published in the world in 2014.

In December 2015 he published “This Spaceship Earth” with co-author Tim Rumage.  This book became the basis for Houle to found the global non-profit This Spaceship Earth, Inc. in April 2016.  The goal of this non-profit is to create “crew consciousness” as we face Climate Change.

Houle has delivered speeches to scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Houle is Futurist in Residence and Guest Lecturer at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida.   He is Honorary President and Futurist of the Future Business School of China. He is a Founding Member of The Sarasota Institute.

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“David Houle is the best conference speaker I have ever heard and I attend a conference a month.”

Diana M. Peterson

President, Auctionworks

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