Nikki Greenberg

Award Winning International Futurist

With masters degrees in architecture and commerce, Nikki keynotes global conferences and is the recipient of numerous international awards for her work.


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Congratulations to Nikki Greenberg

2025 Speaker of the Year

Future Trends & Technologies

by Excellent Awards Global

 

Nikki showed how there are points in time that change everything and that today, with AI being one of those; it really hit home.” 

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Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry

Keynote World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg equips leaders to proactively shape their organization’s future by navigating the major forces reshaping every industry, including AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution. Drawing on her experience leading the digital transformation of a seventy billion dollar organization, Nikki provides practical tools and a forward thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and accelerate success. Delivered in her light hearted, dynamic, and entertaining style, this keynote blends inspiration, motivation, and practical insight on how to become future ready today.

  • Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow Gain practical insights you can implement immediately while building a strong long term roadmap for the years ahead. Learn Nikki’s 5 Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in ways that drive impact, build momentum, and secure organizational buy in.
  • Technology Made Simple Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed. Nikki breaks down complex concepts with clarity, offering accessible explanations that bring your team on board. She draws from her tenure as Head of Technology Strategy for a global investment manager and shares invaluable lessons learned along the way.
  • Overcome Barriers to Change Get strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource constraints, budget pressures, and the realities of multi generational workplaces.
  • Be a Visionary Leader Discover how visionary leaders bring bold ideas to life and how you can join their ranks. Learn how to ignite inspiration within your team, shape a forward-thinking culture, and step confidently into the future.

45-60 mins

Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate

Keynote Transforming Places for Tomorrow’s World
World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a light hearted yet deeply insightful keynote that explores how to create future ready places by blending advancements in AI, robotics, and automation with a human centered approach. Drawing on her global experience as a property developer on transformative projects, she explains why the places we create today must support both current communities and future generations. Widely regarded as the world’s top real estate futurist, Nikki delivers a keynote that inspires and informs in equal measure.

  • Understanding Future Demand Drivers Gain clarity on demographic shifts and the evolving values of future customers and stakeholders. Learn Nikki’s framework for future readiness, informed by her experience leading major commercial developments and technology strategy across global portfolios.
  • AI and Emerging Tech Readiness Stay ahead of pivotal technological shifts, including AI, robotics, automation, and digital transformation, and understand their impact on people, places, and organizations.
  • Inspiring the Future of Place Discover global projects that are pushing boundaries in sustainability, mobility, mixed use development, and quality of life. These examples reveal what is possible in the next era of the built environment.
  • Actionable Roadmaps Learn how to begin future focused initiatives quickly while building a sustainable long term plan for digital transformation and AI integration. Nikki shares insights from developing digital masterplans for new multi billion dollar developments.

45-60 mins

I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.” - JN, CBRE Global Investors, London, England

Home of the Future: Smart, Green & Clean

Keynote The concept of home is undergoing a revolution. World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg will illuminate how smart technology, sustainable design, and environmental practices converge to redefine modern living spaces. You'll delve into the latest smart home advancements such as AI-driven energy management systems, IoT-enabled appliances, and the cutting-edge materials and construction techniques creating efficiencies for a cleaner planet and more sustainable homes. 45-60 minutes

Journey to 2030: How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry's Most Admired & Forward-Thinking Company

Keynote World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg's keynote equips you to proactively shape your organization's future by navigating key trends like AI, generational shifts & workplace evolution. Here she offers practical tools & a forward-thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies & drive success in the next five years. In a light-hearted, dynamic & entertaining keynote, this keynote is a combination of inspiration, motivation & practical insights in how to become future ready, today.

Key Outcomes:
Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow
Gain practical insights you can implement today while building a robust long-term roadmap for navigating the future. Learn Nikki’s 5-Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in a way that has impact, gains traction & garners organizational buy-in.

Technology Made Simple
Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed, using clear & accessible explanations to get your team on board. Nikki draws from her experience as the Head of Technology Strategy for a $70 Billion AUM global investment manager, sharing invaluable, practical lessons learned along the way.

Overcome Barriers to Change
Learn strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource allocation, budget constraints & managing multi-generational workplaces.

Be a Visionary Leader
Discover how visionary leaders turn bold ideas into reality & learn how you can join their ranks - igniting inspiration within your team & finding purpose in an ever-evolving world.

45-60 mins

Sustainability: Pioneering the Future of Urban Living

Keynote The concept of sustainable cities has transitioned from a futuristic ideal to an urgent necessity. As urban populations continue to soar, with projections showing that nearly 70% of the world will live in cities by 2050. Cities, the powerhouses of innovation and economic growth, are now at the forefront of combating climate change and ensuring a greener, more sustainable future for generations to come. Full Description 45-60 minutes

The Future Me Project

Keynote An Interactive Experience - In a Time of Disruption, Optimism is a Strategy
World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a dynamic, interactive keynote that empowers individuals and teams to take bold ownership of their future in an age of rapid transformation. Drawing on two decades of global leadership experience, she leads audiences through a series of powerful, thought-provoking exercises that reveal the long-term consequences of their current trajectory, explore the impact of even one intentional change, and unlock bold new possibilities. Blending the energy of a main stage experience with the depth of a hands-on workshop, Nikki introduces tools like to spark creativity and team-wide momentum, scenario-based decision making to build confidence in responding to uncertainty, and a Future Self Time Capsule that arrives back in your inbox a year later as a personal progress check-in. Delivered with her signature mix of foresight, humor, and practical strategy, The Future Me Project isn’t just a keynote - it’s a catalyst. For anyone ready to turn insight into action and actively design the future they want, this is one that’s not to be missed. Workshop Available

  • The Mirror Moment See the path you're currently on and the future it leads to. Then explore how a single decision—big or small—can radically alter your trajectory.
  • 3 Futures Framework Explore the default future, the daring future, and the designed future—then choose which one you’re going to build.
  • Future Opportunities Scenarios React in real-time to a set of provocative "future news" headlines, revealing your instinctive mindset—panic, pause, or pivot?
  • Build Actionable Routines Engage with emerging technologies - like generative AI, wearable tech, AR and more - to can start building future readiness into their daily routines today.

45-60 mins

The Future of Construction: Building the World of Tomorrow

Keynote Construction is transforming through robotics, AI, digital twins, smart materials, and predictive systems that elevate speed, precision, and safety. This keynote reveals how the next generation of tools and technologies will reinvent how we design, deliver, and operate the built environment. 45-60 minutes

The Future of Home Ownership: The Next Generation of Searching, Financing & Buying

Keynote From intelligent search platforms to digital lending and innovative ownership pathways, hear about how the journey to buying a home is undergoing a profound transformation driven by technology, demographics, and new economic realities. 45-60 minutes

The Future-Forward Real Estate Agent: Thriving in a Rapidly Evolving Market

Keynote The next era of real estate will reward professionals who combine technology with human insight. Discover how AI, automation, intelligent search, and new buyer behaviors are transforming relationships, service, and the path to closing. Learn what future ready professionals must do to stay trusted, relevant, and in demand.
45-60 minutes

The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations

Keynote The world is changing rapidly, shaped by demographic shifts and breakthroughs in AI and emerging technologies. Cities sit at the centre of this transformation. They are becoming living laboratories where innovation solves today’s challenges and creates opportunities for generations to come.

In her light hearted yet insightful style, world renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg paints a vivid picture of what the world could look like in 2050 and what must be done today to prepare for it. She shares powerful examples from around the globe where advanced technologies are already reshaping how cities operate. These examples show how innovation can justify investment, improve operations, elevate livability, and deliver long lasting impact.

This keynote empowers leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and design cities that are both technologically advanced and deeply human. Expect clear vision, practical tools, and the momentum to drive meaningful change.

Understanding the Urban Future. Gain insights into demographic changes, talent migration, shifting community values, and the forces that will shape cities between now and 2050.
Technology and Urban Transformation. Learn how AI, robotics, automation, smart mobility, and next generation digital infrastructure are reinventing city operations, customer experiences, and long term planning.
Global Inspiration and Case Studies. Explore cutting edge city projects from around the world that set new standards for sustainability, mobility, resilience, and mixed use development.
Actionable Strategies to Thrive in 2050. Discover practical steps that leaders can take immediately while building a resilient long term roadmap for innovation, digital transformation, and collaboration across sectors.
45-60 minutes

Congratulations to Nikki Greenberg, 2025 Speaker of the Year: Future Trends & Technologies by Excellent Awards Global!

  • 2025 Winner: Global 100 Awards for Business Excellence in Real Estate Global 100
  • Top Women of Influence List CREi
  • Top 9 Most Influential Women in PropTech PropTechBuzz
  • Top Commercial Real Estate Influencer CREi
  • Top 5 Most Influential Women in Real Estate CIO Views Magazine
  • 2022 Urban Land Institute Luminary Urban Land Institute
  • 25 Most Influential Owners, Dealmakers, Creators & Innovators OTSO
  • Top 10 Future of Work Speaker CMI
  • Top 100 Real Estate Executive Top 100 Magazine
  • Finalist, Global PropTech Awards MIPIM & MetaProp
  • Most Innovative Brokerage with Brown Harris Stevens Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
  • Finalist, United Kingdom PropTech Awards UK PropTech Association

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Nikki Greenberg stands at the forefront as a world-renowned futurist and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, real estate technology, and innovation. Her dynamic and high-energy keynotes delve into the fusion of real space and cyberspace, emphasizing the transformative role of emerging technologies. Nikki’s mission is to not only ignite inspiration about future possibilities but also to provide actionable insights on leveraging these advancements for business growth and success.

As a digital nomad with a versatile career spanning the US, Asia, and Australia, Nikki has excelled in various leadership roles, emphasizing innovation and cutting-edge design. She has made significant contributions as the Head of Technology Strategy at QIC, an Australian investment firm, revolutionizing a $17Bn AUM real estate portfolio with tech-driven strategies. Her tenure in New York involved spearheading innovation at Brown Harris Stevens, the leading private brokerage for luxury residential developments. In Australia, she played a pivotal role in designing transformative projects with Lendlease and Koichi Takada Architects.

Nikki’s expertise and influence in PropTech and real estate innovation have been acknowledged through numerous awards, including being named a Top 9 Most Influential Woman in PropTech (2024), Top Real Estate Influencer (2023), and a ULI Global Luminary (2022). As a sought-after speaker, she frequently shares her insights on the tech-enabled future of the industry at prominent global real estate conferences.

Her leadership extends to serving as a co-chair of ULI New York’s Real Estate Technology and Innovation Council and founding Global Ambassador of Women in PropTech. Nikki’s educational background includes Masters of International Business and Architecture from UNSW, Sydney.

Currently based in New York City, this Australian national is celebrated as one of the most influential voices in the realm of AI, real estate technology, and future-focused thinking.

Discover more about Nikki Greenberg, the voice of tomorrow’s technology, at www.nikkigreenberg.com and www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-greenberg-futurist.

Journey to 2040: Leading the Future of Your Industry

Keynote World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg equips leaders to proactively shape their organization’s future by navigating the major forces reshaping every industry, including AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution. Drawing on her experience leading the digital transformation of a seventy billion dollar organization, Nikki provides practical tools and a forward thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and accelerate success. Delivered in her light hearted, dynamic, and entertaining style, this keynote blends inspiration, motivation, and practical insight on how to become future ready today.

  • Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow Gain practical insights you can implement immediately while building a strong long term roadmap for the years ahead. Learn Nikki’s 5 Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in ways that drive impact, build momentum, and secure organizational buy in.
  • Technology Made Simple Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed. Nikki breaks down complex concepts with clarity, offering accessible explanations that bring your team on board. She draws from her tenure as Head of Technology Strategy for a global investment manager and shares invaluable lessons learned along the way.
  • Overcome Barriers to Change Get strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource constraints, budget pressures, and the realities of multi generational workplaces.
  • Be a Visionary Leader Discover how visionary leaders bring bold ideas to life and how you can join their ranks. Learn how to ignite inspiration within your team, shape a forward-thinking culture, and step confidently into the future.

45-60 mins

Today to 2050: Creating the Future of Real Estate

Keynote Transforming Places for Tomorrow’s World
World renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a light hearted yet deeply insightful keynote that explores how to create future ready places by blending advancements in AI, robotics, and automation with a human centered approach. Drawing on her global experience as a property developer on transformative projects, she explains why the places we create today must support both current communities and future generations. Widely regarded as the world’s top real estate futurist, Nikki delivers a keynote that inspires and informs in equal measure.

  • Understanding Future Demand Drivers Gain clarity on demographic shifts and the evolving values of future customers and stakeholders. Learn Nikki’s framework for future readiness, informed by her experience leading major commercial developments and technology strategy across global portfolios.
  • AI and Emerging Tech Readiness Stay ahead of pivotal technological shifts, including AI, robotics, automation, and digital transformation, and understand their impact on people, places, and organizations.
  • Inspiring the Future of Place Discover global projects that are pushing boundaries in sustainability, mobility, mixed use development, and quality of life. These examples reveal what is possible in the next era of the built environment.
  • Actionable Roadmaps Learn how to begin future focused initiatives quickly while building a sustainable long term plan for digital transformation and AI integration. Nikki shares insights from developing digital masterplans for new multi billion dollar developments.

45-60 mins

I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.” - JN, CBRE Global Investors, London, England

Home of the Future: Smart, Green & Clean

Keynote The concept of home is undergoing a revolution. World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg will illuminate how smart technology, sustainable design, and environmental practices converge to redefine modern living spaces. You'll delve into the latest smart home advancements such as AI-driven energy management systems, IoT-enabled appliances, and the cutting-edge materials and construction techniques creating efficiencies for a cleaner planet and more sustainable homes. 45-60 minutes

Journey to 2030: How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry's Most Admired & Forward-Thinking Company

Keynote World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg's keynote equips you to proactively shape your organization's future by navigating key trends like AI, generational shifts & workplace evolution. Here she offers practical tools & a forward-thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies & drive success in the next five years. In a light-hearted, dynamic & entertaining keynote, this keynote is a combination of inspiration, motivation & practical insights in how to become future ready, today.

Key Outcomes:
Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow
Gain practical insights you can implement today while building a robust long-term roadmap for navigating the future. Learn Nikki’s 5-Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in a way that has impact, gains traction & garners organizational buy-in.

Technology Made Simple
Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed, using clear & accessible explanations to get your team on board. Nikki draws from her experience as the Head of Technology Strategy for a $70 Billion AUM global investment manager, sharing invaluable, practical lessons learned along the way.

Overcome Barriers to Change
Learn strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource allocation, budget constraints & managing multi-generational workplaces.

Be a Visionary Leader
Discover how visionary leaders turn bold ideas into reality & learn how you can join their ranks - igniting inspiration within your team & finding purpose in an ever-evolving world.

45-60 mins

Sustainability: Pioneering the Future of Urban Living

Keynote The concept of sustainable cities has transitioned from a futuristic ideal to an urgent necessity. As urban populations continue to soar, with projections showing that nearly 70% of the world will live in cities by 2050. Cities, the powerhouses of innovation and economic growth, are now at the forefront of combating climate change and ensuring a greener, more sustainable future for generations to come. Full Description 45-60 minutes

The Future Me Project

Keynote An Interactive Experience - In a Time of Disruption, Optimism is a Strategy
World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a dynamic, interactive keynote that empowers individuals and teams to take bold ownership of their future in an age of rapid transformation. Drawing on two decades of global leadership experience, she leads audiences through a series of powerful, thought-provoking exercises that reveal the long-term consequences of their current trajectory, explore the impact of even one intentional change, and unlock bold new possibilities. Blending the energy of a main stage experience with the depth of a hands-on workshop, Nikki introduces tools like to spark creativity and team-wide momentum, scenario-based decision making to build confidence in responding to uncertainty, and a Future Self Time Capsule that arrives back in your inbox a year later as a personal progress check-in. Delivered with her signature mix of foresight, humor, and practical strategy, The Future Me Project isn’t just a keynote - it’s a catalyst. For anyone ready to turn insight into action and actively design the future they want, this is one that’s not to be missed. Workshop Available

  • The Mirror Moment See the path you're currently on and the future it leads to. Then explore how a single decision—big or small—can radically alter your trajectory.
  • 3 Futures Framework Explore the default future, the daring future, and the designed future—then choose which one you’re going to build.
  • Future Opportunities Scenarios React in real-time to a set of provocative "future news" headlines, revealing your instinctive mindset—panic, pause, or pivot?
  • Build Actionable Routines Engage with emerging technologies - like generative AI, wearable tech, AR and more - to can start building future readiness into their daily routines today.

45-60 mins

The Future of Construction: Building the World of Tomorrow

Keynote Construction is transforming through robotics, AI, digital twins, smart materials, and predictive systems that elevate speed, precision, and safety. This keynote reveals how the next generation of tools and technologies will reinvent how we design, deliver, and operate the built environment. 45-60 minutes

The Future of Home Ownership: The Next Generation of Searching, Financing & Buying

Keynote From intelligent search platforms to digital lending and innovative ownership pathways, hear about how the journey to buying a home is undergoing a profound transformation driven by technology, demographics, and new economic realities. 45-60 minutes

The Future-Forward Real Estate Agent: Thriving in a Rapidly Evolving Market

Keynote The next era of real estate will reward professionals who combine technology with human insight. Discover how AI, automation, intelligent search, and new buyer behaviors are transforming relationships, service, and the path to closing. Learn what future ready professionals must do to stay trusted, relevant, and in demand.
45-60 minutes

The World in 2050: Preparing Cities for Future Generations

Keynote The world is changing rapidly, shaped by demographic shifts and breakthroughs in AI and emerging technologies. Cities sit at the centre of this transformation. They are becoming living laboratories where innovation solves today’s challenges and creates opportunities for generations to come.

In her light hearted yet insightful style, world renowned futurist Nikki Greenberg paints a vivid picture of what the world could look like in 2050 and what must be done today to prepare for it. She shares powerful examples from around the globe where advanced technologies are already reshaping how cities operate. These examples show how innovation can justify investment, improve operations, elevate livability, and deliver long lasting impact.

This keynote empowers leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and design cities that are both technologically advanced and deeply human. Expect clear vision, practical tools, and the momentum to drive meaningful change.

Understanding the Urban Future. Gain insights into demographic changes, talent migration, shifting community values, and the forces that will shape cities between now and 2050.
Technology and Urban Transformation. Learn how AI, robotics, automation, smart mobility, and next generation digital infrastructure are reinventing city operations, customer experiences, and long term planning.
Global Inspiration and Case Studies. Explore cutting edge city projects from around the world that set new standards for sustainability, mobility, resilience, and mixed use development.
Actionable Strategies to Thrive in 2050. Discover practical steps that leaders can take immediately while building a resilient long term roadmap for innovation, digital transformation, and collaboration across sectors.
45-60 minutes

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