August Cole is an author and futurist exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of storytelling.
He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Securityat the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of the Future Project, which explores creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict, from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He works on creative futures at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. He is also a senior advisor at Avascent, an independent strategy and management consulting firm focused on government-oriented industries; he previously was writer-in-residence. August is a regular speaker to private sector, academic and US and allied government audiences.