Global futurist Roger Spitz helps leaders anticipate disruption, navigate AI transformation, and build resilient strategies for an unpredictable future.
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Roger Spitz is a globally recognized futurist and authority on strategic foresight, artificial intelligence, and systemic disruption. As President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco, he advises CEOs, institutional investors, and government leaders on navigating uncertainty and anticipating transformational change. Roger combines deep expertise in frontier technology with decades of experience at the highest levels of finance and strategy. A member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network and a Thinkers360 Global Top Voice in Management Leadership, he helps organizations build resilience in an era defined by accelerating disruption. Through powerful keynote presentations, Roger translates complex global trends into practical insights leaders can act on immediately.
Roger Spitz is a globally respected futurist, strategic advisor, and keynote speaker specializing in artificial intelligence, systemic disruption, and strategic foresight. As President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute (DFI) in San Francisco, Roger works closely with CEOs, institutional investors, and government leaders to help them anticipate change and navigate uncertainty.
His work focuses on preparing organizations for a world where technology, geopolitics, and economics are evolving at unprecedented speed. Roger is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network and has been recognized as a Global Top Voice in Management Leadership by Thinkers360. His perspectives are widely sought after by leaders looking to transform complexity into clarity and build resilient strategies for the future.
Roger’s foresight is rooted in a career at the forefront of global finance and frontier technology. Earlier in his career, he served as Global Head of Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at BNP Paribas. In this role, he led more than 50 transactions totaling over $25 billion.
During his time at the bank, Roger built BNP Paribas’ U.S. technology M&A platform in San Francisco and launched the firm’s European Digital Corporate Finance practice. This work placed him directly inside the technological shifts reshaping industries worldwide.
His experience advising companies on high-stakes strategic decisions gave him a unique vantage point on how disruption unfolds. Today, he brings that perspective to global organizations seeking to anticipate change rather than react to it.
Roger Spitz is known for translating complex technological developments into ideas leaders can understand and act upon. He coined the term Techistentialism, a concept exploring human agency in an era defined by intelligent machines and advanced technologies.
His insights frequently appear in global media. Roger has been featured on CNN and serves as an AI columnist for MIT Technology Review. Through his writing and speaking, he connects emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence with broader societal and strategic questions facing businesses and policymakers.
Beyond media and thought leadership, Roger is actively engaged in shaping the technology ecosystem. He is a deep-tech venture capital partner with Berkeley SkyDeck and Vektor Partners and serves within the World Economic Forum’s AI Global Alliance.
Roger Spitz is the bestselling author of five books, including the multi-award-winning Disrupt With Impact. His work provides leaders with practical tools for understanding and preparing for an unpredictable future.
One of his most influential contributions is the AAA Framework, which focuses on three essential capabilities for modern organizations:
This framework has become widely adopted among executives and decision-makers seeking structured approaches to uncertainty and rapid change.
Roger also explores how large-scale global forces are converging to reshape industries and international systems. Through the Disruptive Futures Institute’s Geopolitics Center for Grand Strategy, he helps leaders understand the intersection of what he calls the Three Gs:
Geopolitics
Geoeconomics
Geotechnology
These interconnected dynamics are redefining global competition, supply chains, innovation, and security. Roger’s work equips decision-makers with frameworks to interpret these shifts and prepare for long-term strategic consequences.
Born in South Africa and fluent in both English and French, Roger Spitz brings a truly global perspective to his work. Having lived in ten cities across three continents, he understands how technological and geopolitical change plays out across different regions and cultures.
Today he reaches audiences around the world through keynote speeches, executive advisory engagements, and media appearances. His presentations help organizations understand complex futures while providing clear strategies for action.
When you book Roger Spitz for your event, audiences gain insights into the forces shaping the future of business, technology, and society. From guiding Fortune 500 executives through transformational change to advising policymakers on AI and geoeconomics, Roger delivers the clarity and foresight leaders need to navigate an increasingly unpredictable world.
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Chief Operating Officer StartSe
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Keynote by Roger Spitz:
Geopolitical shocks, cyberattacks, intelligent systems, pandemics, and climate shifts are reshaping the global economy overnight. Change is slow, until it isn’t. Hyperconnectivity now amplifies disruption far beyond the cyclical upheavals of the past. In this nonlinear environment, the stakes are enormous – unprecedented challenges and extraordinary opportunities. Yet, traditional assumptions and backward-looking analysis have become liabilities.
We have entered the era of Metaruptions – selected as the 2026 Word of the Year by the Disruptive Futures Institute to describe the complex, self-reinforcing forces that transcend mere trends, redefine industries, and rewrite rules.
Navigating this changing world demands a fundamental Mindset Shift from fear to foresight. We must move beyond the false comfort of prediction to reclaim our agency as builders and creators. When even data and AI cannot foresee what’s coming, the future belongs not to the best analysts, but to the visionaries who challenge assumptions and reframe what’s possible.
By abandoning outdated playbooks and adopting a new operating system for uncertainty, we become shapers of tomorrow rather than its victims. Together, we’ll explore uncharted waters guided by a compass built for unpredictability.
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Artificial intelligence is redefining domains once considered uniquely human. Augmentation, automation, and cognification are transforming business. What higher-order functions will machines soon perform? And where will human judgment retain its edge?
This brings us to the Techistential era – a term coined by Roger Spitz to describe the collision of technological capabilities and existential challenges. As algorithms increasingly drive our choices, the risk lies not just in trusting machines, but in surrendering our agency, freedom, and choice. The greatest danger is not AI achieving superintelligence, but rather superstupidity – where humans think like idle machines, relying on data that cannot navigate our complex, unpredictable futures. After all, there is no data on the future.
Staying relevant in this hybrid future demands a fundamental Intelligence Shift. We must embrace shoshin (a beginner’s mind) to fuel curiosity, navigate uncertainty, and challenge every assumption. With a continuous cycle of learning, unlearning, and relearning, we foster the experimentation required to unlock creativity.
To thrive, we must reclaim our decision-making edge. While algorithms can calculate the probable, only humans can invent the impossible.
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Systemic disruptions – from geoeconomic shocks to emerging technologies – are redistributing trillions of dollars. How can you leverage our deeply uncertain world to create sustainable value? The answer lies not in prediction, but in preparation.
Roger Spitz introduces his acclaimed AAA Framework, enabling leaders to build Antifragile foundations that grow stronger with shocks, develop an Anticipatory mindset, and use Agility to bridge today’s choices with tomorrow’s possibilities. The winners will be those who anticipate and adapt. The rest risk irrelevance.
As Mike Tyson famously noted, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” In a world of relentless punches – from cyber threats to energy transitions – thriving requires us to become AAA.
We are witnessing a Greenaissance – a green revolution powered by massive innovation, capital flows, and systems-level reinvention. As sustainable becomes the new digital, it is driving fundamental shifts in business models. Leaders can unlock hidden value as industry boundaries blur and new fields emerge.
Value is created or destroyed by change. By adopting Anticipatory Leadership, you can leverage this era of interconnection. Ultimately, disruption’s impact depends on your perspective, preparation, and response.
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Designed for the world’s global financial stages, this high-demand keynote series explores the future of risk, investments, geofinance, and insurance in an era defined by the collapse of predictability. Roger decodes the paradigm shifts emerging across the boardrooms of asset managers, family offices, banks, and insurers – and the next-order implications shaping the future of global finance.
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From algorithmic intelligence and quantum horizons to synthetic biology, the next energy supercycle, and the new space economy, Roger Spitz explores the frontier domains catalyzing systemic transitions across industries and economies – redefining work and shaping the long-term trajectories of humanity.
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