Is the future human-driven, machine-driven, or something in between?

Briar Prestidge is the founder and CEO of Prestidge Group, an award-winning documentary producer, a “web3 evangelist” (Forbes) and futurist, brand founder of Oltair, a futuristic gaming and avatar fashion empire on Roblox, and a metaverse board advisor to INTERPOL on their Investigations and Forensics team. She is also a board advisor to Humanity+, the Metaverse Fashion Council, and a strategic advisor for Imagin3 Studio. 

In 2016, Briar founded Prestidge Group, a leading executive personal branding, PR, and speaker relations agency – managing HNWIs, C-level executives, technology experts, celebrities, government officials, and investors, with offices in Dubai, New York, and London.

In her award-winning documentary ‘48 Hours in the Metaverse’, Briar spent 48 hours non-stop on VR and metaverse platforms interviewing 21 experts across 33 virtual worlds. The documentary featured in leading publications such as Forbes and WIRED, receiving laurels from five major US film festivals. 

Briar has a futuristic gaming empire and fashion label for avatars on Roblox called Oltair, and as one of the pioneering digital fashion designers, she showcased her first collection for avatars at the World’s First Metaverse Fashion Week on Decentraland in 2020.

She hosts the podcast of the future HYPERSCALE, and through her latest reality TV style docu-series ‘Cyborg to Be’, Briar is augmenting herself with technology; she recently got a microchip implanted with world-famous robot Sophia. She also is signing up to ‘persevere’ her body beyond death through cryonics, played chess with the first recipient of the Neuralink brain implant, is undergoing extensive longevity treatments, and is presently writing a manifesto about the future with philosopher, Natasha Vita More.

​​Briar was named as one of the ‘Top 100 Most Influential’ people in the United Arab Emirates, and has been featured across Entrepreneur, Forbes, OSN, Cosmopolitan, Emirates Women, Marie Claire, Grazia and Fast Company  in recognition of her work.

Today, Briar is on a bold journey to explore the future of humanity, where humans will be equipped with cybernetic augmentations, and where the line between human and machine will be blurred as our species realizes its full potential.  LEARN MORE ➤