Greg Lindsay is an urban futurist who is presently a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Arizona State University’s Threat casting Lab, and the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He was a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the future of AI and augmented reality at urban scale in The Augmented City: Seeing Through Disruption (2024).
Prior to that, he was urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator — followed by director of applied research at Montréal-based NewCities, and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion. Additional urban foresight reports and projects include NewCities’ Now Arriving (2016) and The Millennial Dilemma (2020); The National League of Cities’ AV Futures (2018), and Cornell Tech’s The Future of Generative AI in in Architecture, Design, and Engineering (2024).
He’s been cited as an expert on the future of cities and technology by The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, and the BBC.
Greg is also a two-time Jeopardy! champion — and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson.