Morris Misel · futurist keynote speaker · Australia
“AI is becoming ordinary now, as ordinary as gas and electricity.”
A conference keynote for Australian associations, event organisers and the bureaus who book them. I build it around your brief, and I can open your program or close it, in person anywhere in Australia or online.
On stage I show your delegates what's coming before it's trending, tell the stories that make it real, and finish with first steps they can take back to work.
Meetings & Events Australia, Tourism Australia, AICD and TAFE Directors Australia have all booked me. See what happened next
I’m Morris Misel, a business futurist and keynote speaker. Thirty years, more than 2,800 keynotes and workshops, across 160 industries in 25 countries.
Some of the organisations I've worked with
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“Morris is brilliant. But if you're reading this, chances are you already know that.”
Anton Barnett-Harris, CEO, Australian Physiotherapy Council
For conference organisers, association event managers and speaker bureaus
Your delegates have taken time away from their work, and they want to go back with something they can use. My job on stage is to show them what's coming for their part of the world before it's trending, and what it's likely to set off.
Every keynote starts with your brief and a half-hour chat about who's in the room. Then I go away and research your members' industry before I write a word, so the examples, the stories and the first steps are theirs.
On the day I can open or close the conference, run a workshop afterwards, or sit on a panel, whatever the program needs. I'm based in Melbourne and I travel anywhere in Australia, so a conference in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart or a regional town is as easy to book as one down the road.
I present online too, live on your platform.
Australian conferences and associations · with their case studies
I was already on the program when the headline international speaker couldn't fly in. With less than 18 hours' notice the organisers asked me to open the whole conference, so overnight I built Convention 2020, a keynote on what was changing for the events industry, from hybrid delivery and venue design to the economics of audience attention.
Attendees called it “inspiring,” “visionary” and “a much-needed call to evolve,” and rebookings followed. Read the MEA case study
In 2011 EEAA asked me for a keynote, and it became much more than one. I opened with Postcards from the Future: Events 2020, hosted a panel I'd briefed, then split the room into six groups, venues, organisers, suppliers and more, to map their own 2015 and 2020.
EEAA's newly appointed CEO sat in to watch, and the case study records that she still points to that session as a turning point. I went on to judge the EEAA Awards for Excellence over several years.
Tourism Australia's conference puts hotels, airlines, tour operators, government agencies and regional bodies in one room, and I was booked to open it. I gave them a map of what Australians would look for in travel, introduced HUMAND, and asked them to design tourism from the traveller outwards.
Within months, delegates who'd been in that room booked me, among them Leading Hotels of the World and Swissôtel. Read the Tourism Australia case study
My work with AFDA spans decades of keynotes, national and state AGMs and workshops, from Tasmania to Western Australia. Early on I stood up and said families would stop defaulting to religious routine and ceremonies would become personal, and AFDA kept inviting me back to build on it.
AICD brought me in twice: first for a closed-door foresight workshop in Sydney on the future of directorship, and later as a keynote panellist for its not-for-profit series in Melbourne, on what the CEO of the future will need. Read the AICD case study
TAFE Directors Australia asked whether we're preparing students for the system, or preparing the system for what students and work will become. I put vocational education to them as Australia's front door to future capability, and the keynote opened up micro-credentials, lifelong learning and learning built with industry.
Read the TAFE Directors Australia case study
More conferences and associations: IGA National Conference · Pharmacy Guild of Australia · Strata Community Association · Australian Physiotherapy Council · Events Queensland · BIG4 · Australian Cotton Conference · Institute of Public Accountants · National Speakers Association of Australia
AI keynote speaker, Australia
If your program needs something on AI, I think it's becoming as ordinary as gas and electricity, so my keynote spends less time on the fact that it exists and more on what it sets off for your members.
I follow those ripples out to who does the work and what customers expect, then on to what a member's business is for, and down to the work of the people in the room.
Then I bring in HUMAND, which is how I sort work task by task, so for each job we ask whether a person, a machine or AI would do it best. Your delegates start from the task, and they only bring AI in where it's the best answer, so what they take back fits the work they do.
From the organisers who booked me
Morris Misel time-travelled back from the future to the year 2024 just to give a keynote at our Symposium, and it was a hit!
Sam Osborne, Education Coordinator, Strata Community Association (Vic), 2024
Some of the Australian associations and conferences I've worked with
Meetings & Events Australia, EEAA, Tourism Australia, AFDA, AICD, TAFE Directors Australia, IGA, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the Strata Community Association, the Australian Physiotherapy Council, Events Queensland, BIG4 and the Institute of Public Accountants.
30 years of foresight · 2,800+ keynotes and workshops · 160 industries · 25 countries · 14 international awards for foresight and innovation · TEDxMelbourne, 2013
I'm heard by more than a million people each year, on stage and in the media.
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Click Ask about your date and send me the event, the date, where it is, who's in the room and whether it's in person or online. I'll write back with whether I'm free, how I'd shape the keynote for your delegates, and the fee.
If you'd rather talk, the Call me button rings me.
I show your delegates what's coming for their industry before it's trending, follow the ripples out to their own work, and finish with first steps they can take back with them. It's built on your brief and my research into your members, so the stories and examples come from their world, told in plain words.
Yes. I'm based in Melbourne and travel anywhere in Australia: Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin, Canberra and regional towns.
I've spoken from Tasmania to Western Australia for the funeral directors' association alone, and in 25 countries overall. If your conference is online or hybrid, I present live on your platform.
Yes. My AI keynote treats AI as something becoming as ordinary as electricity, and spends the time on what it sets off for your members: who does the work, what customers expect, and what their business is for.
Then I sort the work task by task between people, machines and AI, which I call HUMAND.
The fee depends on the event, the date, where it is and whether it's in person or online, so there's no set price on the page. Click Ask about your date, tell me those four things, and I'll come back with the fee along with whether I'm free and how I'd shape it.
As soon as you have a date, because I can only be in one place on the day, and the research for your keynote starts after our briefing chat.
Asking early gives me more time to build it around your delegates. If your date is close, ask anyway and I'll tell you straight away.
Ask me, whatever the timing. At the Meetings & Events Australia national conference the headline international speaker couldn't fly in, and with less than 18 hours' notice I opened the whole conference with a keynote built overnight.
Send the date and I'll tell you straight away.
Yes. If you're a bureau, or you're booking through one, ask the same way: send the client, the date, the place and who's in the room, and I'll tell you if I'm free and how I'd shape it.
I'm happy to have the briefing chat with your client directly.
I'd want to know how each speaker would tailor it to your delegates, what research they'd do first, and what people will take back to work, and I'd ask for case studies from conferences like yours that say what happened afterwards. Mine are linked above, from Meetings & Events Australia and Tourism Australia to AICD and TAFE Directors Australia.
Yes, each with its own page. Retail conferences, shopping centres and suppliers are at retailfuturist.com, and schools, TAFEs and universities at educationfuturist.com.
If it’s a planning day you want for your team, that lives at immediatefutures.com.
Tell me the event, the date, where it is, who's in the room and whether it's in person or online.
I'll write back with whether I'm free, how I'd shape the keynote for your delegates, and the fee.
When Meetings & Events Australia lost its headline speaker, I opened the national conference with less than 18 hours’ notice. Read the MEA case study
I’m Morris Misel, a business futurist, keynote speaker and author. For thirty years I’ve shown people what’s coming before it’s trending, and what to do about it: more than 2,800 keynotes and workshops, across 160 industries in 25 countries.
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Morris Misel
Business Futurist · Keynote Speaker · Author · Founder, Think-Along AI
Chair & Industry Fellow, Griffith University Inclusive Futures · Member, G100 Einstein Global Future Think Tank · Top Global and APAC Voices 2026