David Brin has keynoted events like IBM's World of Watson and GE's Whitney Symposium, offering "big picture" perspectives on artificial intelligence — the science, ethical quandaries and context for it all.  He will also cover what the future of augmented & virtual reality will bring, including new ways to interface, plus its use in creating vivid portrayals in fiction. David will also examine:

• Space and Aviation: What's on the near, intermediate... and far horizons?

• Bio-tech: Will we transform ourselves, other species, our planet?

Audiences seem eager to explore wide possibilities — dark and bright — for what challenges may confront us in the years ahead. Avoiding pat answers and sensationalism, David Brin covers a broad range of plausible tomorrows, both near and far, with the common theme that there will be change. The future will be what we make of it.

Brin achieved international note with his famed book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? Hence David is often asked to speak of consult on matters security, privacy and the age of intrusive surveillance in our lives. As cameras get smaller, cheaper and more mobile — and new threats crowd in all around — is Big Brother on the horizon? Or will new technologies empower private citizens in unexpected ways? Against the popular trend of panic and secrecy, Brin urges calm, candor and openness, all the way to testifying in the U.S. Senate.

Because he has achieved success in several arts and sciences, David Brin is often asked how to spot opportunities and trends, and best take advantage of them... plus how to catch the mistakes we always kick ourselves for missing. He points out some of the ways we're already doing this... and a few tricks to enhance the trend. He also provides groups with Corporate Creativity Exercises designed to spur creative thinking, by challenging CTOs and others to work together in an ad hoc team, analyzing a major problem and fleshing out a solution in just 48 hours.