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Cathy Hackl.

CEO of Future Dynamics. Futurist-in-Residence at Nokia. The voice C-suite leaders trust on AI in the physical world.

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About Cathy.

Biography.

Cathy Hackl is one of the world's leading tech futurists and a veteran of Amazon Web Services, Magic Leap and HTC VIVE. She is CEO of Future Dynamics, co-founder of Journey, Futurist-in-Residence at Nokia and an external adviser to BCG's Frontier Tech Group.

She has spent a decade being early: on spatial computing, AI hardware, smart glasses, gaming and world models, robotics and agentic systems. Based between Washington DC and Dubai, she advises governments and Fortune 100 companies on the post-LLM era and the shift toward spatial, embodied, physical AI.

Cathy has advised Nike, Walmart, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton and Clinique, and built virtual worlds on Roblox and Fortnite. In 2022 she became the first person to ring the NASDAQ opening bell in physical and avatar form simultaneously on live television. She is a Newsweek Top 25 AI Visionary, has appeared on the cover of Forbes LatAm's 100 Most Powerful Women, and is the author of five books including Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution.

Her vantage point spans the US, the Middle East and global markets, and covers how technology, policy, culture and capital converge. Brands partner with Cathy when they need credibility with executives making decisions about Agentic AI, AI hardware, robotics and spatial computing now rather than later.

Cathy's presence across channels.

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LinkedIn

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What Cathy covers, and who shows up for it.

Talks About

  • Emerging Tech
  • AI Strategy & Leadership
  • Future Trends & Disruption
  • AI Automation
  • Consumer & Retail

Audience

  • C-Suite & Executives
  • Innovation & Strategy Teams
  • Government & Policy
  • Enterprise & Mid-Market
  • Consumer & Retail

Best for

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software & Technology
  • Enterprise & Fortune 500
  • Retail & eCommerce
  • Government & Public Sector

Formats available.

  • Brand partnerships

    Cathy brings the channel and the credibility. Social, newsletter, video, and more, running as long as the work needs..

    Channels & formats

    • LinkedIn

      • Video Post
      • Image Post
    • Instagram

      • Static Post
      • Reel
      • Story
  • Speaking

    Keynotes and fireside chats built around Cathy's own stories, lessons, and hard-won experience.

    Formats

    • In-Person Keynote
    • Virtual Keynote / Webinar
    • Podcast Guest
    • Fireside Chat
  • Live events

    Founder summits, product launches, and closed-door exec sessions. Cathy hosts the room, then brings it home to their own audience.

    Formats

    • Event Facilitation
    • Attendance & content
    • Hosting & moderation
    • Retreats & summits
    • Executive engagement
  • Ambassador program

    Ongoing, not one-off. Cathy takes on a small number of brand partners per year.

    Formats

    • Brand ambassador

FAQ

Questions before you brief Cathy.

How booking works, what to expect, and how we scope work with Cathy.

Cathy has his own rate card, and the cost depends on the format, the deliverables, and how long the engagement runs. A single LinkedIn video sits at a very different level to a nine-month ambassador programme. Send us your brief with what you have in mind and we'll come back with pricing for Cathy specifically.

We move quickly. Social and newsletter partnerships can go from brief to live in about a week when the diary allows, and live dates and ambassador programmes may need a little more notice. The real constraint is that Cathy gets booked up, and we deliberately limit how much sponsored work any creator runs in a given period. An audience that sees back-to-back brand posts stops trusting them, and it's your campaign that pays for that. Send us your date with the brief and we'll tell you straight away what's open.

Yes. Cathy takes in-person keynotes and live event bookings internationally, with travel and accommodation costed into the engagement. If the budget or the timing doesn't support travel, he also does virtual keynotes, webinars, fireside chats, and podcast appearances.

Cathy writes and produces his own content. You brief the message, the audience, and the non-negotiables, and he decides how it lands, because that judgement is what his audience turns up for.  Scope and usage rights are agreed in the contract, and you see the work before it goes live.

Usually yes. Cathy  may work with more than one brand in a category over time, but what matters is how it's spaced and what's agreed. We manage that actively, with exclusivity periods and gaps between competing campaigns, so your work isn't running alongside a competitor's and neither of you is paying for a diluted message. Tell us your category in the brief and we'll be straight with you about what's already committed.

Interested in working with Cathy?

Every query gets a rapid response from Cathy's manager.

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