page_title: Thomas Frey
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caption_attribution_description: English: Futurist Thomas Frey speaking at the 2nd Congress of Educational Innovation at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de Mexico
context_page_description: Thomas Frey is an American futurist and celebrity speaker.
  Frey is based at the Westminster, Colorado DaVinci Institute, which he founded and currently serves as the Executive Director and Senior Futurist. Prior to this, he was an engineer with IBM for fifteen years.
  He is part of the celebrity speaking circuit, having shared billing with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch. Thomas's clients are located both Internationally and in the United States, speaking to audiences of high-level government officials such as those of NASA, executives of Fortune 500 companies such as IBM and AT&T, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, and more. He has travelled to South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India, Russia, Mexico and many other countries.
  Frey has been interviewed in numerous publications such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Futurist Magazine, Morning Calm, Skylife, ColoradoBiz Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and more.
  At the Institute, he works to develop original research studies in areas not normally addressed by futurists.
context_section_description: Thomas Frey is an American futurist and celebrity speaker.
  Frey is based at the Westminster, Colorado DaVinci Institute, which he founded and currently serves as the Executive Director and Senior Futurist. Prior to this, he was an engineer with IBM for fifteen years.
  He is part of the celebrity speaking circuit, having shared billing with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch. Thomas's clients are located both Internationally and in the United States, speaking to audiences of high-level government officials such as those of NASA, executives of Fortune 500 companies such as IBM and AT&T, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company, Qwest,  and more. He has travelled to South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India, Russia, Mexico and many other countries.
  Frey has been interviewed in numerous publications such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Futurist Magazine, Morning Calm (in-flight magazine for Korean Airlines), Skylife (in-flight magazine for Turkish Airlines), ColoradoBiz Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and more.
  At the Institute, he works to develop original research studies in areas not normally addressed by futurists. He has predicted the end of traditional colleges and printed books, but not the library.
  Frey is also the author of the 2011 book Communicating with the Future along with Epiphany Z, 8 Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future, published in 2017.
caption: Frey presenting at the Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City campus
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