Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is a globally recognised futurist and authority on AI, digital transformation, and disruptive innovation who specialises in translating emerging technologies into actionable business strategies. With nearly 1,000 keynote speeches delivered worldwide and a track record advising CEOs at multinational companies including the BBC, Philips, and HSBC, Mike founded Tomorrow, an innovation research lab focused on emerging technology and human behaviour. His latest book for Harvard Business Review Press, co-authored with Deloitte's Global Head of AI and publishing in 2026, redefines leadership in the age of autonomous digital agents. Through his anthropological approach to the near future, Mike equips audiences with practical frameworks to redesign organisations, leverage data-driven decision-making, and thrive amid accelerating technological change.

Mike Walsh has spent more than 300 days a year on the road for decades, travelling the world to interview innovators, entrepreneurs and corporate revolutionaries in search of the ideas that will define tomorrow's business landscape. This relentless pursuit of emerging patterns in technology and human behaviour has taken him from the streets of Shenzhen to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, gathering the insights that now shape his work as founder of Tomorrow, a global innovation research lab. With nearly 1,000 keynote speeches delivered across every continent and industry, Mike has established himself as one of the most sought-after voices on AI, digital transformation and the future of work, advising CEOs and senior leadership teams at multinational organisations including the BBC, Philips, HSBC, Richemont and Fuji­lm.

Mike's credibility stems from a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and strategic foresight that began in the 1990s as a pioneer in the digital space. After starting his career at XT3, one of the first digital consulting firms spun out from McKinsey, he launched internet.com in Australia during the first dotcom boom, building it into the country's leading technology news and events platform. He later founded and ran Jupiter Research in the Asia Pacific, tracking the early adoption of e-commerce and digital business models, and was recognised as one of Australia's "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30." His strategic expertise deepened during five years in senior roles at News Corporation, where he shaped digital strategy for their Australian newspaper and Asian television divisions. This foundation of hands-on digital transformation, combined with his anthropological approach to understanding how technology reshapes human behaviour, gives Mike a unique lens through which to interpret the rapid changes facing organisations today. His upcoming book for Harvard Business Review Press, co-authored with Nitin Mittal, Deloitte's Global Head of AI and publishing in 2026, argues that AI has evolved beyond tools and chatbots into an autonomous digital workforce capable of fundamentally transforming how companies scale, compete and create value.

Mike helps audiences move from understanding future trends to implementing practical strategies that drive real organisational change. Whether working with leadership teams on data-driven decision-making, guiding marketing departments through the shift to omnichannel customer experiences, or helping IT organisations evolve from risk management to innovation enablement, his presentations translate complex technological shifts into actionable frameworks. Audiences leave his keynotes equipped not just with inspiration but with concrete methods to redesign their business models, cultivate cultures of experimentation, and leverage emerging technologies to solve immediate challenges. By focusing on the near horizon rather than distant speculation, and by grounding every insight in real-world examples from his global research, Mike ensures that organisations can confidently navigate accelerating change and position themselves to thrive in an era where digital labour and human ingenuity must work in concert.