Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he leads The Metaverse Metropolis — a new initiative exploring the implications of augmented reality at urban scale. He is also the chief communications officer at Climate Alpha, an AI-driven location-analysis platform steering investment toward climate adaptation and more resilient regions; a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He has advised Intel, Samsung, IKEA, Starbucks, Audi, Hyundai, NATO, and the United States Military Academy, along with numerous G20 government entities. He was previously the urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator — director of applied research at NewCities, and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion. He is also the co-author of the 2011 critically acclaimed international bestseller, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Greg is a two-time Jeopardy! champion (and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson).
