Industries · Media & Entertainment
When the audience moves first.
Content creation, discovery and commercial value are shifting together. The keynote connects AI and audience fragmentation with creativity, trust and business-model choices.

Begin with your audience
A conversation for media & entertainment.
Broadcasting, publishing, entertainment and media leaders.
Content creation, discovery and commercial value are shifting together. The keynote connects AI and audience fragmentation with creativity, trust and business-model choices. The final emphasis depends on who is attending, what they already understand, and the strategic choices your event is intended to support.
The research lens
Connect the forces that change the decisions.
- AI production and distribution
- Fragmented attention and discovery
- Authenticity, rights and trust
- New commercial models
These themes provide a direction for research, rather than a fixed set of slides. A leadership session can examine assumptions and investment priorities in depth. An industry conference can build a shared view of the changes affecting its members. A customer event can explore the future of the markets your customers serve.
From the industry brief
A possible keynote storyline.
The sample guide develops five connected movements. The emphasis and examples are refined around the actual audience and event objectives.
- 01
From broadcast scarcity to ubiquitous on-demand content
- 02
AI and the new economics of production and distribution
- 03
Audience fragmentation and agent-mediated discovery
- 04
Trust, copyright, authenticity and the value of creativity
- 05
A portfolio of experiments for the next media business model
Illustrative industry brief · 18 pages
See the proposed thinking.
The complete guide develops the client challenge, relevant forces of change, keynote direction and industry experience. It is an illustrative briefing scenario, not a quotation from an actual client inquiry; the live proposal is shaped around your audience, priorities and objectives.
Read the media & entertainment brief (PDF) ↗All 21 briefs ↗Documented media & entertainment engagements







- HMG Strategy2019 · Case study ↗
- Microsoft Canada2019 · Case study ↗
- Hitachi Vantara2018 · Case study ↗
- CCI Wireless2018 · Case study ↗
- Gemalto2018 · Case study ↗
- SOMOS2017 · Case study ↗
- Quintiq2017 · Case study ↗
- NASSCOM2017 · Case study ↗
- CDW Executive Summit2016 · Case study ↗
- The Wall Street Journal2014 · Case study ↗
- 14th Annual KIRA Awards2012 · Case study ↗
- Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers2006 · Case study ↗
- Motorola2005 · Case study ↗
The published record
Experience you can explore.
Relevant published engagements from JimCarroll.com. Cross-industry examples show adjacent markets and questions; the specific scope of each assignment is described in its original story.
- 2019
HMG Strategy: The CIO Was Becoming the Architect of the Intelligent Enterprise.
Read ↗ - 2019
Microsoft Canada: Managing Disruption And Transformation.
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Microsoft Canada FutureNow: The Whirlwind Is The New Normal
Read ↗ - 2018
Hitachi Vantara: IT Was Becoming The Business.
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CCI Wireless: Rural Broadband as Economic Infrastructure
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Gemalto: Digital Trust Was Becoming a Business Strategy.
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Nikon: A 100-Year Company Still Had to Reinvent Itself
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SOMOS: Identity Was Becoming the New Infrastructure of Communications.
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Quintiq: Complexity Was Becoming a Competitive Capability
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NASSCOM: Global Technology Leadership Meets the Next Wave of Disruption
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10 more documented media & entertainment engagements
- 2017
CommScope: Connectivity Was Becoming the Infrastructure of Everything.
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CDW Executive Summit: Agile Leadership Was Becoming an IT Imperative
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The Wall Street Journal: Disruption Was Becoming the Defining Business Reality
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14th Annual KIRA Awards: The Need For Speed Is The Need To Innovate
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The Walt Disney Company: Innovation Was Being Turned Upside Down
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Toshiba: Mobile Technology Was Rewriting Business Models
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Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers: Broadband Was Moving Into a World of Pervasive Connectivity
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Motorola: The Market Leader Was Looking at the Budget While the Future Was Arriving
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SAP America: The Real-Time Enterprise Was Becoming Possible
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BBC: Broadcasting Was Becoming Digital, Converged and More Complex
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From the research archive
Earlier thinking and historical forecasts.
- 2006The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The Future of Media
- 2017Keynote: Commscope, Dallas, Texas – The Future of Technology
- 2015Consumer Goods & Technology Magazine: 2015 Innovation Outlook
- 2012Article: "Health care’s best bet: technology"
- 2012News media: "A futurist's lookahead: JIm Carroll on key trends to watch"
- 2008Toshiba, Sydney Australia: Mobile Technology and Business Disruption
- 2008Pearson PLC: The Future of Media
- 2019Keynote Case Study: Microsoft Canada FutureNow — The Whirlwind Is The New Normal
- 2018Keynote: Gemalto, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Avoidable Negligence and the Future of IT Security
- 2017Keynote: Nikon, Tokyo, Japan - 100th Anniversary Celebration Gala Dinner
- 2017Keynote: SOMOS, Chicago, Illinois: Future of customer interaction
- 2017Keynote: Nasscom C-Summit, New York - The Hi-Tech Industry and the Next Big Opportunities
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