“He wants all of us to treat transformative technology as something we’ll incorporate into our everyday lives rather than something that will radically change the way we live. I think Nick is right” - Kara Swisher
Nick is an accomplished public speaker who has delivered keynote addresses to audiences all over the world.
While his presentations often focus on the future, they reject the allure of predictions and forecasts, the formulaic comforts of methods and frameworks and the hollow pomposity of buzzy, corporate jargon. Instead, Nick’s talks are intentionally provocative, designed to challenge assumptions and inspire people to truly reconsider how they think about the future.
He proposes ways of thinking about the future as an extension of the present - a world shaped by human hands and inhabited by people much like ourselves. Nick encourages audiences to approach the future with greater rigor, tenacity, imagination and care, and empowers them to become more discerning consumers and critics of the endless stream of future propositions being presented to us all.
Selected Appearances
Creativity Flow - Laguna Beach 2025
Engage Conference with Kara Swisher - Seattle 2025
Google Ads Leadership - Mountain View 2025
Apple Digital Innovation Team - Cupertino 2025
Stylus - London 2025
Royal College of Art - London 2025
Sunday Papers Live - London 2025
Nothing® Design Studio - London 2025
Yorkton Studios - London 2025
Map / Universal Design Studio - London 2025
The Conduit Club - London 2025
California College of Arts - San Francisco 2025
Interintellect - San Francisco 2025
World Design Congress, closing keynote - London 2025
LINK Dutch Digital Day - Amsterdam 2024
Rabobank, The Future Mundane - Utrecht 2024
NextM, keynote address - Stockholm 2024
Stanford Graduate School of Business - California, 2024
Universidad de Diseño y Tecnología - Madrid, 2024
Gitex, keynote address - Dubai, 2023
California College of the Arts - San Francisco, 2023
LINK The Next Web - Amsterdam, 2023
Nike Digital Futures Summit - Oregon, 2023
University of Applied Arts - Vienna, 2023
Harvard & Stanford MBA Climate Summit - California 2023
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation - Tel Aviv 2022
In conversation with Aldo Cibic - Shanghai 2022
Berkeley University - MDES commencement speech - California 2022
BMW Designworks - Los Angeles 2022
IKEA Digital Days - LINK - Copenhagen (remote) 2021
Google - LINK - San Francisco 2020
Emerging Practices Conference - Shanghai 2019
Pan-Tongji Design Week - Shanghai 2019
Worldz, Cultural Masters - Los Angeles 2019
FUTURES, Smithsonian Museum - Washington DC 2019
Casper - San Francisco 2019
Worldz, Cultural Masters - Los Angeles 2018
Primer Conference, keynote speaker - Berkeley 2018
PTTOW summit - Los Angeles 2018
Mercedes Benz - Frankfurt Motor Show - Germany 2017
IDSA awards - Detroit 2017
Partly Broken Spaces - San Francisco 2016
Interaction 15 - San Francisco 2015
dConstruct - Brighton 2015
It’s Grim up North’, IDSA - California 2014
IDEO - An Evening of Design & Fiction - San Francisco 2013
Emerge conference - Arizona 2013
Interesting North - Sheffield 2010
For writing projects, Nick is represented by Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton and Zoë Pagnamenta at Calligraph.
For public speaking, Nick is represented by Macmillan Speakers Bureau, and Deborah Rey-Burns at Propela.