Insights September 8th, 2016

We know that airports can be drab places to while away the time before our flights or during long connections – but our own Vancouver airport is trying to do better by welcoming the future through its doors.
CKNW’s resident futurist Nikolas Badminton dreamed up a whole bunch of cool features that YVR could include, as a way to inspire them as they plan for the future. Craig Richmond, CEO of YVR Airport also joins the conversation. You can listen to it here or see below.

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Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that researches, speaks, and writes about the future of work, how technology is affecting the workplace, how workers are adapting, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. He appears at conferences in Canada, USA, UK, and Europe. Email him to book him for your radio, TV show, or conference.
 

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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