So if you are selling a product, but is transforms into some highly-connected, intelligent, Internet-of-Thing device, then the nature of your selling proposition needs to change. This association represents companies that sell a vast array of hi-tech products, and they had me deliver a keynote looking at the vast, disruptive trends occurring in the IoT era – and how it will challenge their sales role in the process!
Keynote: AEA Investors, Colorado Springs, Colorado – What Comes Next? An Inside Looks at Equity Investing
Over the years, I’ve done quite a few talks for investment groups – equity investors seeking insight on the dramatic changes occurring in the economy so that they might assess and evaluate their next investment decisions in light of disruptive growth trends. In this case, I spoke to the leadership team as well as the CEO’s of the key companies they were invested in, providing insight into where we would see the next wave of big growth opportunities emerge.
Keynote: EdNET 2016, Dallas, Texas: The Future of Career and Jobs in the Era of Knowledge Acceleration!
This association represents much of the industry which puts out traditional education content: textbooks and such. And if you are going to be providing the foundation of knowledge for the education system, you’d better have good isight into how that knowledge is changing. They invited me in for a keynote on this topic; and I took a look at the sweeping career and knowledge trends of our time: the rapid emergence of new jobs while traditional jobs disappear at a faster pace; how knowledge velocity is increasing while existing knowledge becomes obsolete in real-time; how careers for life are ending, replaced by careers driven by just-in-time knowledge.
Keynote: FM Global Regional Manager Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island: The Future of Construction, Infrastructure and Energy
What’s the future of construction? Residential and commercial buildings? We are seeing the rapid dominance of solar and wind infrastructure with battery storage technology; 3d printing in concrete; the arrival of new AI, robotic assembly processes. This organization underwrites the insurance for major construction projects, and so I was invited in for a keynote that blended the themes of construction, smart buildings and future risk into one.
Keynote: Metal Powder Industries Federation, Boston, MA – The Acceleration and Impact of New Manufacturing Methodologies and Technologies
When your industry is a primary supplier of product to various aspects of the manufacturing industry, you need good insight into the massive disruption that is sweeping your customer base. With that, the association brought me in to keynote their annual conference, with a look at the impact of 3D printing, mass customization, advanced robotics and cobotics, the acceleration of new material science and more – with a challenging message on the necessity for fast innovation in an era of accelerating change!
Keynote: YMCA Canada, Toronto, Ontario – The Future of Exercise, Fitness and Wellness
The annual meeting of the Canadian arm of this global organization needed a keynote that took a look at the key trends impacting one of their main areas of focus. They found me as a result of my keynotes for the National Recreation and Parks Association as well as the Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association, and thought I would be an ideal fit. I looked at a variety of trends, including spatial data intelligence and exercise, smart clothing, bio-hacking and other trends.
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