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FAST COMPANY @ SXSW
03.2025

Greg flew to Austin for South by Southwest, where he helped lead a “threatcasting” workshop with conference participants and the United States Conference of Mayors; hosted sessions at the Fast Company Grill for Lumen, Williams, and Wise (above); and led a fireside chat at Midwest House with Michigan’s chief growth officer Hilary Doe on retaining and attracting talent to the Great Lakes State. Video and links coming soon.

REPORT
GLOBAL FORESIGHT 2025
02.2025

The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security has published its annual “Global Foresight 2025” report crowdsourcing the forecasts of more than 350 foresight professionals. Greg co-authored three scenarios set in 2035: “The Reluctant International Order;” “China Ascendant,” and “Climate of Fear.” Each represents the challenges the world faces as American leadership recedes and climate catastrophes intensify.

Read the scenarios

ESSAY
CITY TECH
02.2025

The Lincoln Institute’s Rob Walker asked Greg to contribute the afterword to his new book City Tech: 20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape. Greg’s distillation of the themes and lessons highlighted in the book ends with a call to action:

“If the last decade of urban tech has been a dress rehearsal, then the curtain is now rising on the most momentous decade of change most cities have ever had to face. ‘Technology is the answer, but what was the question?’ the British architect Cedric Price famously asked. Finally it is our turn to formulate what we demand from our technologies, versus the other way around.”

Read Greg’s afterword

AUDIOBOOK
THE AUGMENTED CITY STORIES
02.2025

In conjunction with The Augmented City, his landmark report for the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute on the promise and perils of AI and augmented reality at urban scale, Greg commissioned the award-winning author Madeline Ashby to write a collection of short stories illustrating the report’s ﬁndings.

Those stories have been collected as an audiobook—alternately read aloud by Madeline and Greg—and published on YouTube, with illustrations by Nana Rausch. For best results, listen while perusing the report.

Download the report – Listen to the stories

WEBINAR
FAST COMPANY + ELASTIC
01.2025

“What are the expectations for AI in 2025? How do C-suite leaders employ practical strategies for integrating AI into existing workflows without impairing operations? And how do organizations identify genuine opportunities (and avoid common pitfalls) amid the growing AI hype?

On behalf of Fast Company, Greg led a discussion featuring Matt Minetola, CIO of Elastic, Rick Rioboli, CTO of Comcast Connectivity and Platform, and Cynthia Stoddard, CIO of Adobe, to learn about what’s next from AI and how to gain a competitive edge in a time of rapid transformation.

Watch the video – Ask Greg to do the same for you

REPORT
THE AUGMENTED CITY
12.2024

“What is the next disruptive technology to reshape the public realm, and how can cities better anticipate its effects upon arrival?” asks Greg’s groundbreaking report on the implications of augmented reality at urban scale, The Augmented City. Comprising two years of research and foresight, this timely call to action lands just as Google rejoins Apple and Meta in the race to overlay their proprietary technologies on reality itself.

Read the report, listen to podcasts with No BS Bureaucracy’s Mark Wheeler and Mike Sarasti or The New Urban Order’s Diana Lind, watch a Webinar with inCitu’s Nick Kaufmann, or listen to Madeline Ashby’s accompanying stories.

ESSAY
EMERGING TRENDS IN
REAL ESTATE 2025
11.2024

In his essay “Drones, Meals, and Automobiles,” Greg explores the delivery- and automation-driven fusion of retail and industrial real estate in the latest 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 2025. Get in touch if you’d like him to do the same for your organization.

Read the essay – Download the report

INTERVIEW
LONDON SPEAKER BUREAU
11.2024

In this exclusive interview with the London Speaker Bureau, Greg discusses the future of cities in an era of AI and climate change, and what this means for both organizations—which face 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. Get in touch if you’d like to have him speak to your organization.

Watch the interview

PODCAST
CBC IDEAS
11.2024

Given the span of human history, the city is a relatively recent invention, about 6,000 years old. By 2050, about 70 per cent of the world's populations will be living in cities. Yet climate crisis and rising sea levels, along with wildfires, mass migrations and geopolitical volatility bracket the viability of the city as we know it. So what does the city of the future look like? CBC IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed spoke with Greg and two additional experts on the future of the city at the Provocation Ideas Festival in Stratford, Ontario, which was later broadcast on the CBC and re-broadcast on Maine NPR.

Listen to the podcast

KEYNOTE
PLUGGED IN
10.2024

Greg spoke at Tulsa Remote’s “Plugged In,” a summit 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. If you’re a mayor interested in this idea, get in touch.

Watch Greg’s talk – Read the essay

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