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.