Thomas Frey

Thomas Frey is an American futurist and celebrity speaker.
Frey is based at the Louisville, Colorado DaVinci Institute, which he founded and currently served as executive director and senior analyst. 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 Guiliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch. Most of his work is 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. However, he has traveled to India, Russia and Mexico to present.
Frey has been interviewed in numerous publications such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, US News and 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.