NEWS
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.
Read the essay – Download the report
PODCAST
ADAPT
11.2024
ADAPT
11.2024
Greg joins ADAPT hosts Jessica Mederson and Monika Serrano to explore how climate change is reshaping America's economic geography and migration patterns. They discuss why investors follow population flows rather than climate risk data, examine the cultural barriers to northern migration, challenge conventional wisdom about “climate havens,” and highlight how policy decisions, not natural forces, have shaped where Americans live and work. Most provocatively, they explore how the stability of our climate has underpinned our entire global economy – and what happens as that stability erodes.
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KEYNOTE
PLUGGED IN
10.2024
PLUGGED IN
10.2024
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
“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
ESSAY
DARABASE
07.2024
DARABASE
07.2024
“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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KEYNOTE
NAIOP I.CON EAST
06.2024
NAIOP I.CON EAST
06.2024
“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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GREG’S
WORK ARCHIVE
GREG LINDSAY
GREG
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.
Read more about topics.
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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?
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