Futurist Speaker
Engagements
Unlock New Growth: Visionary Insights on the Future
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Athena's captivating keynote speeches are meticulously crafted to inspire and deeply engage your audience. Dive into the evolving landscape of technology and economic trends, leaving a lasting impact on every listener.
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Empower your team’s creativity and forward thinking skills with interactive workshops and seminars. Athena conducts sessions on strategic foresight and future trends, providing practical tools and techniques for your organization.
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Athena participates in panels on various future-focused technology and economic topics, sharing her expertise and engaging in meaningful dialogue. These are tailored to different audiences, whether practitioners from planning, people, strategy or risk functions of your organization.
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Drawing on her experience at Accenture, where she developed multiple executive briefings from the CEO to all members of the leadership team, Athena has created an evidence-backed executive briefing, highlighting the threats and opportunities, barriers and success factors for leaders that want to boost their AI quotient.
Athena Peppes, a keynote speaker and futurist, transforms visions of the future into captivating, actionable insights.
With her deep understanding of economic and technological trends, Athena inspires audiences, turning complex forecasts into strategic visions that prepare organizations for tomorrow.
If you are looking for a speaker that will not only inspire but also bring the ‘so what’ for your organization, get in touch.
Meet Athena: Futurist Speaker & Technology Trends Advisor
Empowering Leaders with Strategic Foresight on Economic and Technological Futures
Discover how Athena guides global organizations with her expert insights on the future of AI, neurotechnology, space tech, economic growth frontiers and more. Dive deeper into her journey from a seasoned economist to a pioneering futurist.
Keynote topics
Keynotes can be customized and researched to address your needs and specific audience.
Featured keynote topics include:
The main economic, social and tech trends that should be on your radar are crucial for strategic planning.
What is the emerging future landscape of your sector or your function? How can you embrace the change and respond to it?
This keynote focuses on the future vision of your industry or function.
The future of your industry
Your techno-economic future
The three main technology trends that are transforming our world are AI, neurotechnology and space technology.
What new economic frontiers will these create for your organization? How can you anticipate risk while capturing value?
This keynote explores your organization’s techno-economic future.
The space-tech economy
Few of us realize how essential space technology already is to the future of many industries and its innovation potential.
Why should leaders not in the space industry care about this sector? What are the growth opportunities and emerging risks?
This keynote reveals the rise of a new space economy.
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Objective
To deliver a compelling keynote speech that educates and empowers attendees by highlighting major trends and actionable insights on the future of international development.
Outcomes
Delivered a keynote speech at the MEDA Annual Corporate Meeting, a Canadian international development organization, focusing on major trends reshaping the sector's future.
Explored topics such as the role of generative AI and broader AI applications, new funding mechanisms in the evolving economics of the sector, and the critical importance of people in embracing and shaping change.
Received a rating of 4.6 out of 5 for the speech, praised for being ‘interesting, relevant with clear messaging,’ and garnered very positive attendee feedback. Emphasized actionable insights, empowering the audience to act on the future and driving a sense of confidence and motivation among attendees.
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Objective
To leverage futures-based and scenario-based methodologies to drive strategic engagements and innovation for Accenture's clients, demonstrating the value of foresight in business strategy.
Outcomes
Developed and presented futures-based and scenario-based workshop materials at an Accenture Global Innovation Centre, leading to a $30 million strategy engagement.
Combined qualitative storytelling and visualizations with quantitative NLP-based data and trend analysis to create comprehensive workshop materials.
Engaged with C-suite of clients from diverse industries, including a major North American insurance company, an Irish energy company, a French semiconductor company, and a UK bank.
Enabled a French semiconductor client to triple its revenue and profitability through the application of the workshop methodologies.
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Objective
To educate audiences on emerging trends and help them understand the ‘so what’.
Outcomes
Regularly participating in panels, webinars and seminars, to bring a framework for understanding new trends and highlight different perspectives. Examples of panels that I have contributed to include: ‘The impact of Generative AI on Research’, ‘Tackling Challenges and Developing Resilience’, ‘Economic Productivity Crisis’ and ‘Embracing Demographic Trends to Create Value’.