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20 Trends into 2030: Are You Ready for The Massive Transformation of Just About Everything?
It's time to get your future on! In the era of acceleration, when everything is speeding up, it's difficult to imagine where we might be in 10 years. But I can do that - that's my…
Retail Transformation: A Massive Number of Disruptive Trends In Such a Short Time Span!
I spoke at the annual conference for key customers of Revionics, a company involved in the retail pricing strategy industry. During the intro, I spent a few moments to put into…
The Collapse of Attention Spans, and the Future of Packaging
Last week, I was the closing keynote speaker for an event for a group of companies that supply packaging materials and solutions to McDonald's in North America. I'll have a…
Keynote: HAVI Global Solutions, Chicago, IL : 2019 North American Packaging Supplier Summit
A conference involving the companies who supply McDonalds with product packaging. Given that, my talk took a good, hard look at the speed of change with packaging trends (active…
Keynote: Wegner Group, Elizabethtown, PA : 75th Anniversary Luncheon - The future of Food and Agriculture
This company has been in the feed business for quite some time, supporting major producers of poultry, dairy, and other aspects of the local agricultural industry. For their 75th…
Video : Is Your Brand From the Olden Days?
Is your brand from the olden days? Probably. I nailed this as a trend years ago. With that, here's a video from the vaults - March 2009, Las Vegas. I'm the opening keynote speaker…
Keynote Case Study: Revionics: Pricing Was Becoming an Intelligent Science.
I delivered a keynote for Revionics on the accelerating future of retail pricing, AI, demand sensing, margin management, customer expectations and the shift to more dynamic…
Keynote Case Study: The Wegner Group — It Is Not Grandad's Farm Anymore
At The Wegner Group's 75th anniversary event in Pennsylvania, futurist Jim Carroll took customers, farmers and agriculture executives into a world of fast science and technology…
"We Used To ...." - A Look Back at How Primitive Our World Was in 2019
Part of the art of figuring out the future comes not from looking forward, but by looking back. What that idea in mind, here's a list of things we used to do back in 2019 that we…
Keynote: Stellar Group, Phoenix: The Future of Food and Food Manufacturing Facilities
If you involved in building the next generation food processing plant for a large, global food company - you'd better understand the key trends impacting the future of food!…
19 Trends for 2019: #8 - You Are What You Eat. Soon, You'll Eat Who You Are
When four industries come together to pursue a trend, you’ve got something big happening. And that’s what’s going on as healthcare, the food industry, the agricultural and…
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