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Construction & Infrastructure · 2018
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Keynote: IRU World Congress, Muscat, Oman : The Acceleration of Trends and Transportation into 2025
What's the future of highways and infrastructure in the era of electric self-driving vehicles? It's hard not to underestimate the seismic change that is underway : one day we will…
Keynote: American Residential Services, Las Vegas, NV : The Connected Home Opportunity
It's the RotoRooter folks! They had a meeting of all of their franchise contractor representatives from across the country, and the goal was to put into perspective the trends…
Keynote: Bathfitter, Montreal, Quebec - The Future of Home Renovations
What a wonderful event and a unique situation. This is a franchise oriented organization focused on unique solutions for bathroom renovations, and they invited me in for a talk…
Daily Inspiration: "To get to the future, you must invest in the future!"
“To get to the future, you must invest in the future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll This was the theme that was relentless behind my talk yesterday in Montreal for a major home…
Keynote Case Study: Bath Fitter — Staying Successful When Home Renovation Changes Around You
In October 2018, Jim Carroll delivered a highly customized keynote for Bath Fitter's annual franchise meeting in Montréal. The established bathroom-renovation business had the…
Keynote: Mississippi Economic Development Council, Biloxi, MI - Where's the Growth? Economic Development in Our Faster Future!
Over the years, I've done a lot of talks for groups of economic developers on the overall theme, "Where's the growth?" I cover a wide variety of trends that are driving future…
Trend: The Future of Intelligent Roads and Intelligent Highway Infrastructure
This morning, I have a situation where a client is considering me to headline an event in the road building industry. I'm encouraging them to get on the phone with me to help them…
Keynote: Trapeze Group, Nashville, TN : Urban Transit in the Era of Self-Driving Electric Vehicles
Self-driving busses and the electrification of urban transit. The emergence of seemingly crazy ideas like the Hyperloop. Massive infrastructure challenges in the fact of fast…
Keynote: National Fire Protection Association, Las Vegas, NV : Managing Accelerating Risk
The organization, representing the part of the fire industry most involved with safety and other standards, needed a fast 20 minute TED style opening keynote that would focus on…
Keynote: Hitachi Ventara, Phoenix, AZ - Yottabits and Planck Constants: Disruptive, Accelerating Technology
I do LOTS of client events for tech companies - in fact, I've been speaking at these events since 1994, when none other than Digital Equipment Corporation booked me to headline a…
Keynote: CCI Wireless, Calgary, Alberta : Economic Development and 21st Century Infrastructure
Rural communities need broadband access, and this organization is working to provide it throughout this Canadian province. In was brought in to speak to their annual general…
Keynote: Partners in Building, Houston, Texas - The Future of Residential Construction - AI, Robotics and Disruption
This company is one fo the most successful, established luxury home builders in the Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee markets. The CEO wanted to find someone to come in to speak to…
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