Matthew Griffin is recognised as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts. The award winning futurist and founder of the 311 Institute helps investors, multi-nationals, regulators and sovereign governments around the world envision, build and lead the future. Asides from being a member of Centrica's prestigious Technology and Innovation Committee and mentoring XPrize teams, he re-envisions global education and training with the G20, and helps the world’s largest organisations envision and ideate the future of their products and services, industries, and countries. Matt plays a lead role in helping the world's largest smartphone manufacturers to figure out the next five generations of mobile devices and in helping the world's largest high tech semiconductor manufacturers to predict the next twenty years of intelligent machines. Matt is described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers” and a “Young Kurzweil”. He helps bringing the future to life and to demystify the hundreds of emerging technologies that are helping visionaries and entrepreneurs to build and shape the future. He is the author of “Codex of the Future” and regularly featured in the global media, including BBC, CNBC and Discovery. Matthew’s ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of revolutionary emerging technologies on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled.