One of the world’s leading manufacturers of robotic equipment for use on the factory floor, they hold an annual customer event at their main facility in Iowa. This turned out to be my only keynote – so far – delivered at dinner right on the factory floor! My talk took a look at all the trends providing for opportunity in the way we conceive, design and manufacture products. Rapid prototyping and iterative design, 3D printing, Factory 4.0, advanced materials, robotics and robots, and more.
Keynote : The Future of Energy, Accenture Global Energy Summit – San Francisco, California
This global firm invited Jim Carroll to give the opening keynote for this critical global summit of key clients and partners. Jim challenged the audience of global energy and utility executives to think about the speed of deployment of renewables, new microgrid technologies, electric vehicles, and electrified roads, and the massive disruption of the energy sector.
“There are people who are making big bold bets, big bold decisions, we are going to change the world and we are going to do things differently.” From his opening keynote for the 2012 Accenture International Utilities and Energy Conference in San Francisco.
T. Rowe Price, Baltimore: Annual Investment Symposium – “Where’s the Growth?”
It’s 2011: the hangover of the global economic collapse of ’08 is still pounding away at the minds of many. This global investment firm had me come in as the closing keynote speaker for their annual symposium to help the audience understand that we live in a time of unparalleled opportunity and potential for growth. My talk covered the gamut of trends, from industry realities, disruptive growth, the impact of young upstarts destroying the business models of old laggards and much more. One of many global investment firms and wealth management organizations that I’ve spoken to over the years.
World Pharma Congress, London, England – The Future of Medicine: Targeted, Precise, Individaulized!
I was invited in to open this global congress of pharma executives, with a talk about the reality of 21st century medicine. I built my talk around my ‘healthcare 2025’ theme, taking a look at the accelerating of genomic science, the impact of personal medical device connectivity, the virtualization of hospitals, and rapid advances in diagnosis and treatment as a result of fast moving science. The big issue for the industry? Reconciling the speed of scientific change up against the necessity and reality of regulatory process!
American Chemistry Council, Nashville, Tennessee – Innovation In the Era of Acceleration of Markets and Products
As of this moment in time, there are about 19 million known chemical substances, but the number is doubling every 13 years. The miracle of exponential math leads us to 80 million by 2025, and 1 billion by the year 2100. What’s it mean? It was the discovery of one single new chemical substance that allowed Apple to miniaturize the hard drive for the original Apple iPod – a new multi-billion dollar market. That’s the reality of new market and product innovation, and it was these types of disruptive trends that I covered in my opening keynote for this organization, one of the largest scientific organizations in the world. Innovative organizations align themselves to fast, disruptive trends and turn them into opportunities!
Society of Manufacturing Engineers IMX Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada – The Future of Manufacturing
Two events at one. I spoke at dinner for over 300 senior manufacturing executives – and was seated beside the ex-CEO of Porsche. The next morning, an opening keynote for 3,000 manufacturing engineers. Both talks covered the massive trends impacting the sector and providing unparalleled opportunity, including 3D printing, robots and ‘cobots,’ new materials, intelligent product capabilities, rapid prototyping and iterative design.
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