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In this exclusive interview with the London Speaker Bureau, Greg discusses the future of cities in an era of both AI and climate change, and what this means for both organizations — which face both enormous challenges and opportunities posed by rapidly-evolving AI — and people, who are finding it easier to make friends with AIs than in real life.

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In his essay “Drones, Meals, and Automobiles,” Greg explores the delivery- and automation-driven fusion of retail and indus­trial real estate in the latest annual edition of the Urban Land Institute’s and PwC’s Emer­ging Trends in Real Estate. He’ll dig deeper into these trends in his workshop and keynote for ULI New Mexico in January — get in touch if you’d like him to do the same for your orga­ni­zation.

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Greg spoke at Tulsa Remote’s “PluggedIn,” a confe­rence dedi­cated to remote work and its ability to revitalize people and commu­nities. He revisited the city-­led “Depart­ment of Hospi­ta­lity” proposal he developed with Lev Kushner last year. (Links to their essay and previous talk below.) If you’re a mayor inter­ested in this idea, get in touch.

Read the essay – Watch Greg’s talk at WRLDCTY



Each week, Greg joins The Curbivore’s Jonah Bliss for The Courier, a podcast covering the intersection of mobility, auto­mation, and deli­very. In this episode, the pair preview Tesla’s “We, Robot” event and Elon Musk’s under­whelming appoach to autonomy.

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“Something New Under The Sun” is an essay orginally published in the 2023 book Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revo­lu­tion and the Future of Los Angeles (Rizzoli). In it, Greg sum­marizes the last decade of LA’s trans­por­tation innovation, inclu­ding unpre­ce­dented invest­ment in public transit, “micro­mobility”, “ghost kit­chens”, and cities writ­ing their own soft­ware to regulate public space.

Order the book – Read the essay





“Taken together, this twin definition of AIR — as AI augmenting the world and AR giving form to AI — points to a new trajectory for both tech­no­lo­gies that is funda­mentally urban,” Greg writes for the aug­men­ted reality adver­tising firm Dara­base, in this excerpt from his forth­coming re­port The Aug­mented City.

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“Autonomous everything” is already here — the question is, what can we do about it? That was the theme of Greg’s keynote address at NAIOP’s I.CON East, the leading event for industrial real estate. In addition to an insatiable hun­ger for data centers — and an unquen­cha­ble thirst for the ener­­gy to run them — the rise of gene­ra­tive AI will have a profound im­pact on the built environ­ment.

Read NAIOP’s recap – Listen to his post-event podcast





Greg delivered the opening keynote at DLA Piper’s 18th Global Real Estate Summit in Chicago. After debunking the urban “doom loop” myth, his talk explo­red how changes in tech­no­logy, afforda­bi­lity, and people’s desires is rema­king the both the built environ­ment and Ameri­can landscape.

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Urbanist, Futurist, Speaker
GREG LINDSAY


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ABOUT

Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker.



He is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collec­tives Lab, Arizona State Uni­versity’s Threat­cast­ing Lab, and the Atlan­­tic Council’s Scow­croft Stra­te­gy Ini­tia­tive. He was the foun­­ding chief com­mu­ni­ca­tions offi­­cer of AlphaGeo where he re­mains a senior advi­sor. Most recently, he was a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Insti­tute, where he explored the impli­­ca­tions of AI and aug­men­­ted rea­lity at urban scale.

His past speaking engagements and events include the Venice Archi­tecture Bien­na­le, Aspen Ideas Festi­val, Civic I/O summit at SXSW, the Dubai Busi­ness Forum, the World Eco­no­mic Forum, and La Con­­fé­­rence de Montréal.




SPEAKING TOPICS

The way we’ll live next in a New/­Post/­Never-Normal world.



Looking for a speaker who can help you and your orga­ni­zation make sense of the New/­Post/­Never-Normal? Greg Lindsay regu­lar­ly speaks to some of the world’s most inno­va­tive orga­ni­za­tions about the future of cities, climate, work, AI, and the future of the futu­re itself. Below is a short list of his speaking topics, and here are the details. If any pique your interest, email him. After all, there’s no time to think about the future like the present.

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Shortlist



THE WAY WE’LL LIVE NEXT
The built world implications of our
never-normal landscape.

AUTONOMOUS EVERYTHING
AI, the future, and what we
can do about it.

WHERE WILL YOU LIVE IN 2050?
Why and where a warming
world may still have shelter for us.

HOW TO WORK, TOGETHER
New forms of collaboration
in a world in which corporate silos
have cracked wide open.

WHERE THE ROBOT MEETS
THE ROAD
A future of things that drive and fly
and think for themselves.

ENGINEERING SERENDIPITY
How do we discover unknown
knowns — the things and people we
don’t know we know?



GREG’S 
SPEAKING TOPICS