A PRIVATE NETWORK OF LEADERS, FOUNDERS, AND CREATIVES MAKING SENSE OF AN ACCELERATING FUTURE
HOSTED & CURATED BY DAVID MATTIN.
What does it mean to be human when machines can do almost anything?
The Future Fellowship is where serious people work it out, together.
John Bottomley
Founded Greenspar.x
“Since joining the Fellowship, I've gained a much deeper read on how AI is reshaping society and met people whose curiosity keeps expanding my thinking.”
Cristina Carbajo
Researcher, Accenture
“It feels like your favourite class at school, except you're learning alongside leaders from entirely different worlds. No egos, brilliant conversation.”
Ian Wright
Founder & CEO, DIN
“Three things: leaders outside my sector, genuinely different views, and time together in person. Every one of them feeds back into my business.”
Leave every month with a clearer read on what's coming, and sharper judgement about what it means for your work, your family and your life.
Once a month, David opens with his latest sensemaking: what is happening, what it means, and what it may demand of us. Then the room takes over. Members bring live questions and decisions, and you leave with one of them unstuck, or reframed.
A personal call when you join. Ask David Anything sessions through the year. And a weekly Fellowship Note: his read on the developments that matter, so you can test your own thinking against it.
Private conversations with people working at the frontier of AI, capital, longevity, entrepreneurship and the art of living well. The story firsthand, from the people building it.
Twice a year, the whole Fellowship meets in person. We visit the startups and labs building the world we are trying to understand, then sit down for a private dinner. Most of the friendships are made there.
A private portal for members. Curated reading and resources for thinking about what comes next. And the working tools members use to shape their own questions. Between sessions, the conversation carries on in a private members' WhatsApp group.
CEO, IMEX Group
Ran IMEX Group for 23 years, the world's leading platform for the meetings industry. Oxford PPE. Inducted into the Events Industry Hall of Leaders.
Founder, Creative Business Inc. and Levvy
Serial founder in New York. Built Creative Business Inc. for the creative economy, then Levvy, a practice platform for accounting firms. Forbes contributor.
Entrepreneur, venture capitalist and non-executive director
Thirty-five years executing deals across global energy markets. Founder of Greenspar.x, battery storage in Italy. Non-executive director at Soluna. NYU Stern MBA.
Senior Design Researcher and Writer, Accenture Song
Specialises in human and planet-centred design and behavioural research. Wrote three trends for Accenture Life Trends 2026. Columnist and artist for MOLD Magazine.
Creative director and investor
Led digital and women's creative direction at adidas for seven years. Now directs innovation work in Berlin and invests at Bloomx Ventures.
Senior Fellow, AMD (retired)
Forty-two years of computer engineering at IBM and AMD, now a Tower Fellow at UT Austin. Writes and speaks on our future challenges.
Director, Bold Insight
Buddhist studies professor turned industry researcher. Works where AI, culture and human meaning meet, and sits on the board of EPIC People.
Portfolio Manager, Temporis Capital
Fourteen years as a partner and senior portfolio manager at CQS. Now runs structured and private credit at Temporis Capital. Mathematics, Imperial College.
Executive Vice President, SongDivision
Nineteen years at SongDivision, building interactive songwriting for corporate teams worldwide. Board member at IMUA. Chaired the Maui Food Bank for nine years.
A few years ago I noticed something.
Many of the most accomplished people I met, from leaders to founders to creatives, were carrying questions they had nowhere to take.
What happens to work in the age of superintelligence? How will society hold together? How can I help my children to flourish? What kind of life do I want on the other side of this?
The rooms I moved in were built for other things: deal flow and operations. None of them had space for honest conversations about the acceleration we’re living through.
Most of what gets said about it comes from two camps. One tells you abundance is on the way. The other tells you to brace for catastrophe.
A few of us wanted a place where serious people could sit with uncertainty and think it through together. So I built one.
Once a month we meet online. I open with my latest thinking, then the room takes over with live questions and real decisions.
The Future Fellowship will never have more than 150 members, and every person in it was chosen with care.
If you’re carrying real questions about the future, I’d love to find out whether this is the right room for you.
David Mattin
Founder, New World Same Humans
The Fellowship will never have more than 150 members. Joining starts with a conversation.
Our members are CEOs, executive leaders, founders, technologists, creatives and more. Tell us who you are and what you're trying to figure out.
If you look like a good fit, we'll set up a call so that we can both explore further.
If approved, the invite follows within a few days. David welcomes you with a private call before your first session.
A small number of spaces are open right now. Once they are filled we close applications until the next cohort.
Come to your first session. If the Fellowship isn’t right for you, tell us within 45 days of joining and we’ll refund your fees in full.
Candidate Requirements
Founders, investors, executives and creatives who have operated at a serious level and are carrying questions about what comes next. Most have largely solved the financial question and found something harder in its place.
You apply through the form. Rory and David read every application personally. If there may be a fit, Rory arranges a short conversation. David welcomes every new member with a private call before their first session.
£5,000 a year, excluding VAT. Monthly payment plans are available.
Membership is billed annually, but the Fellowship is not meant to be a one-year experiment. The value comes from staying with the same people for years, often a decade or more. These are relationships that compound over time.
Two hours a month, online, for the monthly session. Twice a year we meet in person in London. Expert sessions are optional, so come to the ones that interest you.
London, New York, Austin, Berlin and Maui, among others. Sessions are online, so where you live is not the constraint.
Yes. The Fellowship is capped at 150 members and every person in it was chosen carefully. What members bring into the room stays with the members.
Tell us within 45 days and we will refund you in full. The guarantee is there so the decision is an easy one.