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Exploring the Intersection of Innovation and Imagination with Futurist Monika Bielskyte

Monika Bielskyte

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Monika Bielskyte is a nomadic futurist and futures designer with expertise in immersive media, edutainment, and bleeding edge technological innovation.

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5 out of 5 stars

Monika is one of the most inspiring speakers it's been my pleasure to hear. Apart from being an orator of genius and utterly captivating in her delivery, her insights on a wide range of future scenarios are fascinating and completely thought-provoking. I can't recommend her more highly.

John Gordon - How To Academy See all references

Why you should book Monika Bielskyte for your next event

  • Expertise: Monika Bielskyte is an expert in the field of innovation, with extensive knowledge and experience in the immersive media space (XR/AI/UX) and edutainment. Her talks cover a wide range of subject matter at the intersection of science and technology and its feedback loop with social, cultural, and political realities across the world.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: Monika’s work is centered on challenging and offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes through her platform @ProtopiaFutures. She explores radically hopeful and inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability, and previously marginalized cultural perspectives. Her talks and presentations reflect this commitment to diversity and inclusion, making her an excellent choice for events that prioritize these values.
  • Impressive Client List: Monika has worked with some of the biggest names in the media, technology, and consulting industries, including Universal, Google, Nike, DreamWorks, BBC, McKinsey, Telefonica, Intel, Aston Martin, and Xerox PARC. Her impressive client list is a testament to her expertise, creativity, and ability to deliver results.
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Monika Bielskyte is a renowned nomadic futurist and futures designer who has spent the last 9 years exploring futures in over 90 countries. She specializes in prototyping culturally expansive, socially and environmentally engaged future world designs for media, technology, and cities/countries.

Why you should book Monika Bielskyte for your next event

  • Expertise: Monika Bielskyte is an expert in the field of innovation, with extensive knowledge and experience in the immersive media space (XR/AI/UX) and edutainment. Her talks cover a wide range of subject matter at the intersection of science and technology and its feedback loop with social, cultural, and political realities across the world.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: Monika’s work is centered on challenging and offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes through her platform @ProtopiaFutures. She explores radically hopeful and inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability, and previously marginalized cultural perspectives. Her talks and presentations reflect this commitment to diversity and inclusion, making her an excellent choice for events that prioritize these values.
  • Impressive Client List: Monika has worked with some of the biggest names in the media, technology, and consulting industries, including Universal, Google, Nike, DreamWorks, BBC, McKinsey, Telefonica, Intel, Aston Martin, and Xerox PARC. Her impressive client list is a testament to her expertise, creativity, and ability to deliver results.

As a futures researcher, Monika Bielskyte has been on a 9-year nomadic journey engaging with future emergence in 90+ countries. As a futurist, Monika consults at the future intersection of technology, culture & politics. As a world designer, she explores the bleeding edges of new Science Fiction universes, having been commissioned by major film productions and studios. 

Monika is currently developing @protopiafutures, a platform for research & creative collaborations challenging & offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes. Protopia prototypes visions of radically hopeful & inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability & other previously marginalized perspectives in the context of futures & foresight work. Monika’s past clients include Google, Nike, Universal, Dreamworks, Disney, BBC, Microsoft, Mexico City, Tata, MTN, among others.

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Topics:

  • Future of Cities
  • Emerging Technologies & Creativity
  • Designing the Future: The Singular Vision of Monika Bielskyte
  • How Science Fiction Influences Real Futures: Dystopia, Utopia, Protopia
  • Lessons from World Building Diversity Centered Futurism
  • Debunking Mainstream Futurist Mythologies
  • Future of Content/Media & Disinformation
  • Immersive Media Technologies: Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Reality
  • Future of UX & UI
  • Interaction of Emerging Technologies & Creativity/Culture/Politics
  • Future of Entertainment + Education (Edutainment)
  • Future of Inclusive Cities/Regenerative Urbanism
  • Metaverse
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Monika is a human switchboard of aesthetics and moods. Her capability of analyzing human emotions and translating them into clear arrows between action and look is a rare quality. Every brainstorm with her yields unique research angles and deeper understanding of nearly every combination of humanities, art & tech.

Omer Shapira - Senior Engineer, Omniverse @ NVIDIA

Hanging with Monika is like mainlining insight into possible futures at a zillion miles an hour. AR, VR, MR, how to not be confined by current thinking...she'll drop a dizzying array of ideas and supporting artwork that will take days, if not longer, to parse and comprehend. She's my homie.

Sebastian Marino - CTO at Evercoast

Mx. Bielskyte is a VR visionary, a unique and important thinker and industry motivator. She possesses a special combination of skills: design sensibility, drive for excellence, and a rapidly expanding network that is a virtual "who's who" of the VR and AR industries.

Anu Kirk - Vice President of Product at Osso VR
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5 out of 5 stars

Monika is one of the most inspiring speakers it's been my pleasure to hear. Apart from being an orator of genius and utterly captivating in her delivery, her insights on a wide range of future scenarios are fascinating and completely thought-provoking. I can't recommend her more highly.

John Gordon - How To Academy See all references

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