Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Ari­zo­na State University’s Threat­cast­ing Lab, and the Atlan­tic Council’s Scow­croft Stra­te­gy Ini­tia­tive. He was the foun­ding chief com­mu­nica­tions officer of AlphaGeo and remains a senior advi­sor. Most re­cen­tly, he was a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cor­nell Tech’s Jacobs Insti­tute, where he ex­plo­­red the impli­cations of AI and aug­men­ted rea­lity at urban scale.

Lindsay speaks about the future of cities, mobility, tech­no­logy, security, and work, inclu­ding appea­ran­ces at 10 Down­ing Street, the United States Mili­tary Aca­de­my, San­dia Natio­nal Labo­ra­to­ries, Orga­ni­sa­tion for Eco­no­­mic Co-oper­a­tion and Deve­lop­ment, Har­vard Busi­ness School, MIT Media Lab, and Aspen Ideas Festival.

He also speaks to companies such as Micro­soft, Deloitte, AECOM, Ford and Star­­bucks; orga­ni­za­tions like the U.S. Confe­ren­ce of Mayors and Canada Council for the Arts; mem­ber asso­cia­tions including ULI, NAHB, NAI­OP, SIOR, FIA; and uni­ver­sities such as Harvard, Yale, Prin­ce­ton, NYU, and McGill. He is often cited as an expert by The New York Times, The Washing­ton Post, The Wall Street Jour­­­nal, The Guar­dian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC Radio.

Lindsay is also a part­ner at the advi­sory firm Future­Map, and has advi­sed Intel, Sam­sung, IKEA, Audi, Hyun­dai, Tish­man Spe­yer, Brit­ish Land, André Ba­lazs Proper­ties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, along with nume­rous G20 govern­­ment entities. Pre­viously, he was urbanist-in-resi­den­ce at BMW MINI’s urban tech acce­le­ra­tor, call­ed URBAN-­X, as well as direc­tor of applied re­search at New­ Cities Foun­da­tion and foun­ding direc­tor of stra­te­gy at its mobi­lity-focused off­shoot Co­Motion. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller "Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next."

Lindsay is a two-time Jeopardy! champion -- and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson.