Greg Lindsay

Urbanist and Futurist

Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Arizona State University’s Threat­cast­ing Lab, and the Atlan­tic Council’s Scow­croft Stra­te­gy Ini­tia­tive. He was the foun­ding chief com­mu­nica­tions offi­­cer of AlphaGeo and remains a senior advi­sor. Most re­cen­tly, he was a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cor­nell Tech’s Jacobs Insti­tute, where he ex­plo­­red the impli­cations of AI and aug­men­ted rea­lity at urban scale.

Greg speaks frequently about the future of cities, mobility, tech­no­logy, security, and work, inclu­ding appea­ran­ces at 10 Down­ing Street, the United States Mili­tary Aca­de­my, San­dia Natio­nal Labo­­ra­to­ries, the Orga­ni­sa­tion for Eco­no­­mic Co-operation and Deve­lop­ment, Har­vard Busi­ness School, MIT Media Lab, and Aspen Ideas Festival. He’s been cited as an expert by The New York Times, The Washing­ton Post, The Wall Street Jour­­nal, The Guar­dian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC Radio.

Greg is also a two-time Jeopardy! cham­pion (and the only human to go unde­fea­ted against IBM’s Watson).