Jim Carroll was the keynote speaker at the Electronics Representatives Association (ERA) 2013 Conference, delivering a talk that ERA’s own publication recapped as a cover story titled “The ‘Fast Future’ Is Here!” Jim’s presentation explored how innovators are driving emerging markets in the global electronics marketplace, with a sharp focus on the accelerating pace of change and what it means for professional manufacturers’ representatives and their principals. ERA, which has been advancing the outsourced field sales function in global electronics since 1935, brought Jim in to challenge its membership to think seriously about market disruption and how to stay ahead of it. The talk clearly resonated — ERA chose to feature it as the lead story in its executive publication.