<p>Carroll is one of the world’s leading global futurism, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list that ranges from NASA to the PGA, Disney to Johnson & Johnson, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the National Australia Bank.</p><p>Over the last 20 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight with his events on stage, taking in his ability to inspire audiences through a combination of deep insight, on-stage humor and motivational guidance, all grounded in deep observations on future trends.</p><p>For close to 20 years, Carroll has been studying what makes companies relentlessly creative and how they ride critical fast-paced trends in order to achieve dramatic market success.</p><p>He is recognized worldwide as a “thought leader” and authority on global trends, rapid business model change and industry transformation; business model disruption and the acceleration of market change; global economic trends; and the necessity for fast-paced innovation. </p><p>Jim Carroll is an author of numerous books including: <em>Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; Surviving the Information Age. </em>He also wrote <em>The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast; Ready, Set, Done, and</em> <em>What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation. </em></p><p>Jim’s insight has been covered in countless global publications, including the<em> UK Telegraph, Dubai’s Capital Magazine, South Africa’s The Star, the BBC, Reuters</em> and <em>AP News</em>, among hundreds more. <em>BusinessWeek</em> named Jim Carroll as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity. He was also a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series,<em> The Business of Innovation</em>.</p>
Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert
<ul><li><strong>Your World in 2024 and the Future of Everything</strong></li><li>The future demands that you think BIG, be bold, and relentlessly pursue opportunity. You do that by understanding what comes next—and knowing what to do about it. Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived, with materials not yet in existence, using methodologies not yet developed—and these will be sold to consumers who do not yet know that these new products and services will become a critical part of their lives!</li><li>That’s the perspective that Futurist Jim Carroll brings to this keynote presentation—and with that theme in mind, will provide you with a customized, concise overview of the trends that matter into 2024. Artificial intelligence and machine learning; the metaverse, and virtual and augmented reality; autonomous vehicle technology; collaborative robots and the acceleration of proximity partners; pharmacogenetics and DNA-based precision medicine; the dominance of algorithms and predictive insight; green tech, microgrids, and renewables—Futurist Jim Carroll will cover it all in this fast-moving presentation.</li><li><strong>The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Robots - Promise and Peril in the Next Technological Transformation</strong></li><li>The sudden and dramatic arrival of ChatGPT has caught the imagination of the world as we sense the arrival of new opportunities, at the same time that it has fueled a sense of concern and worry. We are now firmly inn the era of the acceleration of artificial intelligence ("AI") as seen with generative text such as ChatGPT and image technologies like Stable Diffusion. But our complex new future is not just happening with AI - we are seeing the 'rise of the robots,' the maturity of industrial autonomous technologies, machine intelligence and vision systems, digital twin and augmented reality technologies, the impact of 'sensorworld,' drones and more - it's a brand new and fast-moving world.</li><li>There are a lot of fast-moving technologies - but making sense of what's real and cutting through the hype to discover real opportunities within the trends is one of the most important things you can do!</li><li><strong>The BIG Future: The Mega-Trends that Define Transformative Opportunities and Demand Bold Thinking!</strong></li><li>The future demands that you think BIG, be bold, and pursue opportunities. The only way to do this is to understand the “megatrends” that are defining our future, the disruptive opportunities they present, and the industry, skills, and business model opportunities they provide.</li><li>We are now seeing so much change that our new reality is this: companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived, with materials not yet in existence, using methodologies not yet developed - and these will be sold to consumers who do not yet know that these new products and services will become a critical part of their life! </li><li>Are you ready to pursue a BIG future? Do you understand what comes next and what you need to do about it? Based on his BIG Trends series featured on his Web site, Jim takes you into a dramatic new future involving accelerating scientific discovery, rapid knowledge sharing, accelerated methodologies, and dramatic industry transformations.</li><li>You will come away with new strategic leadership insight that will help you see disruptive trends, focus on opportunities, unlock creativity, enhance your speed, accelerate innovation and deliver on growth opportunities!</li></ul>