Rohit Talwar

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About Rohit Talwar

Rated #2 global futurist for 2026 in the Global Gurus rankings, I'm an award-winning keynote speaker, author, and the CEO of Fast Future. I help clients thrive on disruption, embrace complexity, understand the emerging landscape, embed AI, adopt a 'corporation zero' mindset, and shape the future. I have a passion around futureproofing and advancing ourselves, society, and business, and developing ‘ready for anything’ organisations with the ability to navigate a complex, fast changing world, and an uncertain future. A future full of shifts, shocks, disruptions, opportunities, risks. Through my work I advise leaders in business, government, and NGOs globally. Current topics include: • Grand challenges – emerging global scenarios, trends, shifts, opportunities, and risks• The future of work - corporation zero, and next generation strategies and business models• Leading the future - developing 'ready for anything organisations' • Embracing AI - Embedding practical AI solutions in our daily work • The next horizon - exponential technologies such as immersivity, 5G / 6G, and quantum. I've delivered keynote speeches and executive workshops in 80+ countries on six continents. I am the co-author and lead editor of nine books on the future. I'm known for delivering high impact, informative, entertaining, and visually powerful presentations that connect with audiences at a very personal level, inspiring mindset shifts, curiosity, and transformative action. Each keynote is fully researched and customised I am often asked to tell the story of how I ended up on Interpol’s most wanted list due to identity theft. I have undertaken over 50 foresight research studies on megatrends, the future of work and jobs, emerging technology, finance, legal, aviation, hotels, migration, and the shadow economy. I appear regularly in the media, including the BBC, Sky TV, and State TV in China, India, South Korea, Singapore, and the UAE. I have been covered times globally in national newspapers including the Financial Times, Guardian, Metro, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Times, Times of India, and Washington Post. Clients include 3M, American Express, Astra Zeneca, AXA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Bayer, Boeing, BP, BT, Citibank, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, DHL, Emaar, Etisalat, Eurapco, EY, Gartner, GE, Generali, GSK, Heathrow, HP, HSBC, Huawei, IBM, ING, Intel, KPMG, Latham & Watkins, Mastercard, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Nomura, Novartis, Panasonic, Pepsi, Pfizer, PWC, RBS, SAP, Shell, Siemens, Tata, Vodafone, VW, and The World Bank.