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Roger Spitz
Roger Spitz helps leaders anticipate disruption and decide under uncertainty, from AI strategy to geopolitical risk. The former BNP Paribas technology banker created the AAA Framework and ranks #15 in Global Gurus Top 30 Futurists 2026.
Roger Spitz is a futurist and global authority on strategic foresight, artificial intelligence, and systemic disruption. He chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco and advises CEOs, institutional investors, and government leaders on anticipating and navigating disruption.
As Global Head of Technology M&A at BNP Paribas, Roger led more than 50 transactions worth $25 billion. He ranks #15 in the Global Gurus Top 30 Futurists 2026, joined the Duke Corporate Education faculty, and writes an AI column for MIT Technology Review Brazil.
Roger created the AAA Framework (Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility), which boards and executive teams use to make decisions under deep uncertainty. He coined Techistentialism for human agency in the age of intelligent machines, and his Law of Inaction framework was published by the World Economic Forum in July 2026. As a member of the Forum's Global Foresight Network, he also advises on geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Audiences leave with a mindset shift and frameworks they can use. Roger shows leaders how to anticipate disruption, make decisions when there's no data on the future, and use AI without surrendering human judgment. He delivers it with pace and humor, drawing on 500+ keynotes across six continents.
Roger Spitz brings finance-grade credibility and practical frameworks to stages that need a clear way through AI, geopolitical risk, and systemic change.
Topics, sessions and talks
Geopolitical shocks, cyberattacks, intelligent systems, and climate shifts are reshaping the global economy overnight, and backward-looking analysis has become a liability. Roger Spitz introduces Metaruptions, the Disruptive Futures Institute's 2026 Word of the Year, for the self-reinforcing forces that redefine industries and rewrite rules. He makes the case for moving from fear to foresight, because even data and AI can't predict what's coming. Audiences leave with a new operating system for uncertainty and the confidence to shape what comes next.
AI now handles tasks once seen as uniquely human, so where does human judgment keep its edge? Roger Spitz explores the Techistential era, a term he coined for the collision of technological capability and existential challenge, and warns of superstupidity, where people think like idle machines and lean on data that can't map an unpredictable future. He turns to shoshin, the beginner's mind, for habits of learning and unlearning. Audiences leave ready to reclaim their decision-making edge.
Systemic disruptions, from geoeconomic shocks to emerging technologies, are redistributing trillions of dollars. Roger Spitz introduces his AAA Framework: Antifragile foundations that grow stronger with shocks, an Anticipatory mindset, and Agility that connects today's choices to tomorrow's possibilities. He draws on the Greenaissance, the green revolution driven by innovation and capital flows, to show how industry boundaries blur and new fields emerge. Leaders leave with a practical approach to Anticipatory Leadership and sustainable value.
Predictability has collapsed across global finance, and decisions built on it are exposed. Roger Spitz, a former BNP Paribas Global Head of Technology M&A, decodes the paradigm shifts reaching the boardrooms of asset managers, family offices, banks, and insurers, and the next-order implications for risk, investment, and insurance. From geofinance to the limits of insurability, he shows where value is moving. Audiences leave with a clearer view of risks and returns in an unpredictable era.
AI is reprogramming work, truth, and how societies organize themselves. Roger Spitz, a deep-tech venture capital partner with Berkeley SkyDeck and Vektor Partners, brings foresight and investor experience to the frontiers catalyzing systemic transitions in his Critical Frontier series, from algorithmic intelligence and quantum horizons to synthetic biology, the next energy supercycle, and the new space economy. Audiences leave with a map of where industries blur, new sectors form, and long-term trajectories shift.
Roger Spitz led more than 50 technology transactions worth $25 billion at BNP Paribas, chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network and AI Global Alliance. That mix of deal-making and global forum experience suits boards, investors, and risk leaders.
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