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While every industry watches its own competitors, Kate reads retail, hospitality, finance and technology as one connected picture, turning global signals into the strategies businesses need for the next three to five years.
A ten-time keynote speaker at the NRF Big Show in New York, Kate has delivered its flagship trends keynote for ten consecutive years. Every presentation is genuinely bespoke, built around the audience and packed with new global case studies and emerging signals.
For 25 years, Kate ran London-based business futurist consultancy GDR Creative Intelligence, acting as an innovation partner to more than 100 of the world’s largest brands, including P&G, Tesco, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Pepsi, LVMH and Coca-Cola. Named Best AI & Future Technology Speaker at the 2025 Speaker Awards and one of BizTech Magazine’s Top 30 IT Influencers in 2024, she brings a wealth of global insight to conference stages, corporate summits and executive boardrooms worldwide.
What sets Kate apart is where she looks. Rather than focusing on one industry, she looks across them all, spotting the connections between sectors that others miss. A bank learning from beauty. A retailer borrowing a loyalty mechanic from mobile gaming. A hotel’s customer journey reshaping an automotive showroom. After 25 years of tracking innovation across industries, Kate has developed an instinct for identifying which signals matter, where they are heading and what they could mean for business.
Kate cuts through both technology hype and apocalyptic predictions, translating AI and emerging trends into practical strategies leaders can act on. Her audiences leave with a clear view of what is coming, the real-world examples behind it and, most importantly, what it means for their business.
Book Kate for a sharp, practical view of the trends shaping the next three to five years, backed by global case studies and insights that challenge audiences to think differently about what comes next.
A practical toolkit for projecting three to five years ahead — built from experience, not theory.
Most future-of-X talks leave audiences dazzled and directionless. This keynote focuses on early change detection built over 25 years of global market observation.
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Cutting through tech hype to build pragmatic, 3-to-5-year enterprise capability.
Explores how consumers are evolving in the AI era — balancing personalisation and agentic efficiency against authentic human creativity and brand trust.
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How upcoming generations will live, work, travel, consume, and spend leisure time.
Drawing on global field research, Kate tours signals from Seoul, Dubai, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, London, and the Nordics — and what it means for your business.
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Kate is fantastic, brilliant, exceptional!
A great speaker, who researches trends with unique depth and is always concerned with bringing the best and richest content, customized to each target audience.
It was a fantastic event and the feedback received was incredible. She has been our best speaker to date in terms of interest and questions.
