Shivvy Jervis
Boards have committed to AI before they have decided what it is for. Pilots multiply, vendors crowd the agenda, and the gap between what the technology can do and what the organisation should do with it widens. Leaders need a credible read on which shifts matter, on what timeline, and which ones are noise.
Shivvy Jervis is a technology forecaster and founder of FutureScape 248 who helps senior teams separate the AI and emerging-tech shifts that will reshape their industry from the ones that will not.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Shivvy Jervis
- A forecaster who has worked through Microsoft, the United Nations, Salesforce, Lenovo and the UK Government’s digital division, briefing each on where digital, AI and neuroscience advances are heading next.
- A second specialism in applied neuroscience, covering drive, stress and persuasion, which gives her sessions a behavioural dimension most technology speakers cannot offer.
- A broadcaster’s craft built across CNN, Reuters and a Discovery Channel documentary, so she can hold a leadership audience for a keynote and run the full event around it.
- Recognition from Forbes (Trailblazer), Management Today (Champion of Change) and Britain’s Women of the Year, anchoring her credibility outside the speaker circuit.
- Sustained focus on human-centred technology rather than tool demos, which lands with audiences asking how to deploy AI without losing the workforce in the process.
Biography highlights
- Founder of FutureScape 248, a social innovation and forecasting consultancy launched in 2017.
- Former CNN broadcast journalist; presenter of a two-part Discovery Channel documentary on the future of cities.
- Forecasting work conducted for Microsoft, the United Nations, Salesforce, Lenovo and the UK Government’s digital division.
- Named a Trailblazer by Forbes, one of Britain’s Women of the Year, and a Champion of Change by Management Today.
- Two long-running streaming video series on technology and innovation with a reported audience of 14 million.
- Recognised by the World Economic Forum and cited by CNN as one of the most trusted voices on technology.
Biography
Most boards now sit between two pressures on technology. There is a brief to “do something with AI” arriving from above, and a workforce asking what any of it means for their job. The reading they need is editorial, not vendor-led.
That is the gap Shivvy Jervis works in. As founder of FutureScape 248, the forecasting consultancy she launched in 2017, she has briefed Microsoft, the United Nations, Salesforce, Lenovo and the UK Government’s digital division on what is plausible, what is hype, and what is close enough to commit capital to. The frame is consistently human-centred: not what the technology does, but what it changes about how people work, decide and buy.
A second strand of her practice draws on applied neuroscience, covering drive, stress and persuasion at work. That gives her keynote a behavioural dimension that most technology speakers cannot match, and it lands with audiences who are wary of pure futurism. The output is editorial in tone, built from years as a broadcast journalist with CNN, Reuters and Discovery Channel.
Her recognitions sit outside the bureau circuit, including Forbes Trailblazer, Britain’s Women of the Year, and Champion of Change from Management Today. The reason senior buyers commission her is more specific than awards. She translates the noise around AI and emerging tech into the small number of shifts a leadership team needs to act on.
Key speaking topics
- Artificial intelligence and human-centred deployment
- Forecasting and emerging technology
- Digital transformation and the future of work
- Applied neuroscience for performance and decision-making
- Cybersecurity, privacy and data ethics
- Innovation strategy in regulated industries
Ideal for
- Boards and executive teams setting AI and digital strategy
- CHROs and transformation leads handling workforce response to AI
- Innovation, digital and customer experience leadership
- Industry conferences seeking a forecaster who can also host
Audience outcomes
- A clear read on which AI and emerging-tech shifts will affect the audience’s industry on a near-term horizon.
- A behavioural lens on adoption, covering how people respond to AI in their work and what that means for change plans.
- Specific examples from her work with Microsoft, the UN, Salesforce, Lenovo and UK Government, used as reference points rather than case studies.
- A vocabulary leaders can use internally to separate hype from substance in vendor and pilot decisions.
Talks
A working read on where augmented intelligence is genuinely useful in the enterprise and where the hype outruns reality.
Key takeaways:
- Where AI is changing decision-making, customer interaction and operations across named industries.
- How to assess vendor claims and pilot outcomes against a forecaster’s frame rather than a marketing one.
- A human-centred deployment model that treats workforce response as part of the technology decision.
A behavioural session on the brain mechanics behind motivation, pressure and influence in senior teams.
Key takeaways:
- The drivers of sustained performance under load, drawn from current behavioural research.
- Practical levers leaders can use to manage stress at team and individual level.
- How persuasion and decision-making work in high-stakes commercial settings.
An industry-specific forecast on the technological, structural and behavioural shifts most likely to reshape the audience’s sector.
Key takeaways:
- The named shifts most relevant to the audience’s industry over the next planning horizon.
- The signals to watch and the ones to discount.
- Where leadership attention and capital are most likely to be wasted, and where they are most likely to compound.