MONIKA BIELSKYTE

FUTURIST, PROTOPIA FUTURES

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Keynote Speaker Category: Creativity, Culture, Diversity, Female Speakers, Futurist, Innovation, Leadership, Leading female Speakers, Metaverse, Sciences, Technological Disruption, Technology,

MONIKA BIELSKYTE

Monika Bielskyte is a globally respected futurist, innovation strategist, and speculative designer whose keynotes reshape how we think about technology, culture, and society. Her presentations are designed for forward-thinking audiences who need more than hype — they need clarity, depth, and perspective.

Organisers looking to challenge conventional thinking will appreciate Monika’s ability to unpack the complexities of emerging technologies without resorting to buzzwords or tech utopias. She questions the assumptions behind our digital futures, offering alternative narratives that are inclusive, practical, and deeply human.

Monika also explores how immersive storytelling and worldbuilding can inspire collaboration and sustainable progress, helping audiences imagine futures that are not just possible — but desirable and achievable.

She’s a compelling choice for conferences, summits, and festivals that seek to provoke meaningful dialogue about what comes next.

For Monika’s Full Bio see below.

COMPELLING TOPICS THAT IGNITE CHANGE

  • The bias of science fiction in shaping today’s tech and science
  • Media and futures literacy in an era of AI-powered disinformation
  • Innovation led by disability and neurodivergence
  • Designing inclusive cities and regenerative economies
  • The real-world impact of AI: beyond myths and marketing
  • Immersive media, the metaverse, and spatial computing
  • Creativity in the age of generative AI
  • Rethinking the future of work: automation, virtual presence, and purpose
  • Resilient innovation: what remains when the hype fades.

Her talks cover the range of subject matter at the intersection of science and technology and its feedback loop with social, cultural and political realities across the world.

She has spoken on panels and presented keynotes at The Royal Society, CERN, Unesco, C2, CPH:DOX, Future Of Storytelling, Sonar, ZKM, among others. Monika has also lectured in universities around the world: OCAD, RCA, UAL, Sciarc, IoA Die Angewandte, The New School, Parsons, IIT Delhi, among others.

BIOGRAPHY

Monika Bielskyte is a futures researcher, who has been  on a decade-long nomadic journey engaging with future emergence in 90+ countries. As a futurist and futures designer, Monika consults on and prototypes culturally expansive, socially and environmentally engaged future world designs for the media industry, technology companies, and cities/countries. With expertise in the immersive media space (XR/AI/UX) and edutainment, her work consists in connecting bleeding edge technological innovation with creative visions that explore the relationship between speculative science fiction narratives (Dystopias, Utopias, &, most specifically, Protopias) & the unfolding Global Futures.

Monika’s past clients include Universal, Google, Nike, DreamWorks, World Economic Forum, BBC, Microsoft, Mexico City, McKinsey, Anonymous Content, Ridley Scott Associates, Reliance JIO, Telefonica, Intel, MTN, Huawei, TATA, Xerox PARC & Rick Owens, among others.

Most recently, Monika has been working on @ProtopiaFutures – a platform for research & creative collaborations challenging & offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes. Protopia explores visions of radically hopeful & inclusive futures centering Queer, Indigenous, Disability Justice & previously marginalized cultural perspectives in the context of futurism & foresight work. The framework of Protopia has been shaped by the urgent need for expanded futures literacy, to combat the rise of disinformation in the coming age of the increasingly immersive media.

 

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