Industries: What Changes Next in Your Industry

“How long have you been a farmer?” asked one audience member after Jim’s keynote for a global agricultural organization. That is the level of industry depth he brings to the stage.

Manufacturing & Industrial · Financial Services · Insurance · Healthcare, Medicine & Pharma · Agriculture & Food · Technology & Enterprise AI · Other sectors

Where Jim Goes Deepest

Manufacturing & Industrial

Leading the factory of 2035, not managing the factory of today.

• Mass customization replacing make-to-stock
• Digital twins of the product and the factory itself
• AI, machine vision and cobots moving onto the line

Clients include: Caterpillar, Schneider Electric, Whirlpool, Parker, Kennametal, ASSA ABLOY.

Recent case studies: ASSA ABLOY (2024), Manufacturers Association for Plastic Processors (2024).

Visit the microsite: manufacturing.jimcarroll.com ↗ · Download the PDF briefing · Read the sector overview

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Financial Services

The branch was never the point. The future of finance is code.

• Mobile, embedded, API-driven and real-time finance
• AI moving from the back office into decision support
• Institutions learning to think like technology companies

Clients include: BlackRock, Wells Fargo, Scotiabank, T. Rowe Price, EY, Deloitte.

Recent case studies: Jenius Bank (2024), KPMG Ireland (2024).

Visit the microsite: financial.jimcarroll.com ↗ · Download the PDF briefing · Read the sector overview

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Insurance

From pricing the past to architecting risk.

• AI moving into the core of underwriting and claims
• Real-time insurance replacing historical actuarial models
• The velocity of risk outrunning the models built to understand it

Clients include: Zurich Insurance, Verisk, Chubb, New York Life, Gore Mutual.

Recent case studies: Verisk (2024), Zurich Insurance (2022).

Visit the microsite: insurance.jimcarroll.com ↗ · Download the PDF briefing · Read the sector overview

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Healthcare, Medicine & Pharma

From sick care to predictive, personalized, connected healthcare.

• Preventive medicine displacing fix-it-after care
• Gene therapy, regenerative medicine and new biomaterials
• Connected devices turning the body into a data network

Clients include: Pfizer, Genentech, Roche, Philips, PerkinElmer, Align Technology.

Recent case studies: PerkinElmer (2018), Genentech (2017).

Visit the microsite: healthcare.jimcarroll.com ↗ · Download the PDF briefing · Read the sector overview

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Agriculture & Food

Yesterday’s farm ran on daylight. Tomorrow’s runs on data.

• 24-hour farming and autonomous equipment
• Genomic crop science and soil intelligence
• Food choices reset by health, value and convenience at consumer speed

Clients include: BASF, Nutrien, Purina, Land O’Lakes, CHS, Western Growers.

Recent case studies: CPMA (2026), CattleCon (2024), Western Growers (2023).

Visit the microsite: agriculture.jimcarroll.com ↗ · Download the PDF briefing

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Technology & Enterprise AI

What AI will do to your specific business model, and how to profit from it.

• Moving from pilot purgatory to scalable AI
• AI across the supply chain and operations
• Building the skills to keep pace with the technology

Clients include: Microsoft, SAP, Cisco, Oracle, Hitachi Vantara, Toshiba.

Recent case studies: KPMG Ireland (2024), BNSF Railway (2024).

Jim has been analyzing the rise of AI for well over 10 years, with recent AI keynotes for the RCMP, KPMG Ireland, Kiewit, Icon PLC and Zurich Insurance. See all 23 recent AI keynotes →

Visit the AI microsite: jimcarroll.ai ↗

 

Other Sectors

• Construction & Infrastructure: The job site just got a brain. Microsite: construction.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing · Recent: DCA (2024), Great Lakes Construction Associations (2024)
• Energy & Utilities: The grid stopped being one-way. Microsite: energy.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing · Recent: Siemens Energy (2021)
• Retail & Consumer: The store became a showroom. Microsite: retail.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing
• Consumer Products: Your product’s shelf life just became a sprint. Microsite: consumerproducts.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing
• Food, Grocery & Restaurant: Food is fashion now. Microsite: food.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing
• Education & Skills: Skills now expire faster than diplomas print. Microsite: education.jimcarroll.com ↗ · PDF briefing · Recent: WorldSkills (2024)
• Automotive & Transportation: Dealerships, fleets and rail entering the age of software, EVs and AI. · Recent: CADA (2025), BNSF Railway (2024), Kwik Fit (2024)

Also: government and economic development (NASA, The World Bank, World Government Summit), professional services, golf and sports, associations. If your industry isn’t listed, ask: Jim has customized keynotes for more than 60 sectors.

Sector Microsites

Each industry has its own microsite with the trends Jim is watching, keynote directions and a free PDF briefing. Links open in a new tab.