Matt O’Neill

Matt O’Neill is a globally recognised futurist, keynote speaker, and author who has delivered over 300 talks across four continents.

With a career rooted in entrepreneurship and innovation, Matt empowers leaders and teams to navigate rapid technological change with practical strategies and future-ready thinking. His engaging keynotes blend personal stories, powerful visuals, and interactive experiences, leaving audiences equipped to turn insights into action.

Matt O’Neill has worked with organisations across diverse industries, from delivering the keynote at the Ocean Outdoor Creative Competition, a major event in the Digital Out of Home industry, to speaking at CWT’s Future of Business Travel and Meetings conferences in the US and Europe. He has also consulted with the British Board of Film Classification on future strategy and innovation. His two bestselling books, The Future is Now and Future Hackers, have sold over 20,000 copies worldwide.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Matt speaks passionately on topics of AI, innovation, human-machine teaming, productivity, future skills, leadership, exponential thinking, creativity and the evolving workplace. His keynotes combine cutting-edge technology with human insight, equipping audiences to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Some of his speaking topics include.

Becoming Superhuman!

“Becoming Superhuman” gives everyone the tools they need to make sense of the new world of AI in the workplace – fast. You’ll discover how AI can revolutionise business and supercharge our productivity while giving us flexibility and freedom. We’ll explore killer AI prompts and discover a wealth of exciting AI tools (they’re launching every day). And we’ll look at the human side too: we’ll develop a synthesising mindset to be open to change and prepare for success in an AI world. This keynote is ideal for entrepreneurs, CEOs, HR leaders and CXO leaders who are interested in exponential productivity, human-machine teaming and building a 21st century work-life balance.

What You’ll Gain: All the insights, tools and techniques you need to supercharge your productivity.

You Can’t be Future Proof, but You can be Future Ready

“Future Ready” is the ideal introduction to a changing world. With constant social and digital upheaval, everyone can benefit from being resilient, curious and future-ready. In this exciting keynote, we’ll explore this new world – and how to get comfortable and productive in it. We’ll learn how to work together across generations and skills; and discover the tools which will supercharge our abilities and give us the freedom to have more fun. Everyone will come away energised and with new perspectives on their future careers (no matter their age or experience!). This keynote is perfect for leaders, entrepreneurs, public sector heads and anyone else who recognises that future productivity will only come when everyone is aligned with our rapidly-changing world.

What You’ll Gain: Everything you and your team need to succeed in an accelerated and sometimes challenging work environment.

Future Ready for 2030: The Skills We’ll Need For Work

“Future Ready for 2030” is based on a simple belief: that success in the coming decade will be built on embracing human collaboration with AI in seamless harmony. In this keynote, instead of competing with machines (or indeed fearing them), we’ll discover how to partner with them to boost productivity and innovation. We’ll cover emerging AI capabilities whilst also highlighting the timeless human skills – creativity, ethics and emotional intelligence – that will matter most in years to come. AI gives us a new set of tools and skills from which we can all benefit. With a little openness to change, we can all excel at work and discover new abilities to take into the rest of our lives, too.

What You’ll Gain:A roadmap to success in a dramatically different workplace, where the cost – breaking down old ways of working – will lead to transformative benefits – more productivity, challenge and enjoyment.

Ideas to Impact : A Hands-On Innovation Session

“Ideas to Impact” is an interactive, fully customisable keynote where the  audience become active creators rather than passive listeners. Guided by AI, our attendees collaborate across disciplines and tackle real-world challenges, taking raw ideas and working them through into actionable solutions. It’s a hands-on innovation lab, using the power of human/AI collaboration to delivering tangible outputs that you can put to work immediately. Ideal for entrepreneurs, leaders, departments and teams, this session will leave you inspired, equipped with new creative strategies, and perhaps most importantly, ready to embrace an AI-assisted future with confidence.

What You’ll Gain: An end-to-end experience from ideation and validation through to creation where everyone discovers the value of AI in meaningful context, in a safe but enthrallingly fast-moving way.

Leading the Future

“Leading the Future” is the indispensable resource for leaders, C-Suites and managers to lead from the front in our changing world. Instead of relying on old and increasingly irrelevant playbooks, you’ll learn how to cultivate adaptability, empathy, and creativity – qualities that resonate with today’s evolving workforce. Designed for current and future leaders, and CEO/MD/board-level executives, this keynote will show you how to integrate AI into daily leadership practices, how to understand the expectations of emerging generations in our workforce, and the approaches to foster for management excellence. The result: a forward-looking leadership style that inspires, motivates, and equips teams for success in our AI-driven world.
What You’ll Gain: The tools, frameworks and strategies to lead with confidence, integrating AI, creativity, and empathy to inspire teams and meet the expectations of today’s workforce

BESPOKE KEYNOTES AND WORKSHOPS

As an event speaker, I have created industry-specific content for numerous sectors. That includes retail, manufacturing, construction, software, financial services, and more.

Some recent examples of Bespoke talks include –

Client: Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
Topic: The Evolving Workplace: FM and the Future of Work

Client: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield`
Topic: Inventing the Future of Retail: Ideas to grow our business with (Seminar for Account Managers)

Client: Randstad Risesmart
Topic: Being Future Ready: Strategies to thrive in an era of Uncertainty

Client: Alibaba
Topic: The Future of Leadership: Managing in the AI Era

Client: Ocean Outdoor (Creative Competition)
Topic: Creativity and Digital Out of Home: How to be Future-Ready!