Future Trends 2007 Conference Edit
15% Discount for Trend Hunters

Like trends? If so, you might be interested in attending Future Trends 2007 in Key Biscayne, Miami (November 11-14).

All Trend Hunters are eligible for a 15% discount (here’s the code: SPKRM1937JG).

I’ll be delivering a keynote related to my Unlocking Cool presentation, so if you’re going to be there, let me know so we can connect.

Here’s the list of speakers:

ZEYNEP ARHON Managing Partner, Trend Desk
MARK AUGUSTYNIEWICZ Strategic Development and Analysis, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company
CAROL BAGNOLI Trends Manager, Consumer Insights, General Mills
TAL BEN-SHAHAR Professor of the largest course at Harvard University on “Positive Psychology”, Author, “Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment”
GUY BLISSETT Consumer Products Industry Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value, IBM
DALE R. BOHNERT Manager, 3M Corporate Identity, Design and Communications, 3M
JOHN BOUND Head of Innovation Development, InnovationRCA, Royal College of Art
MICHELE C.S. BOWMAN Managing Director, Global Foresight Associates
ROBIN BOYAR Senior Director, Research, Electronic Arts
JARED BRAITERMAN PhD, Leading Design Anthropologist; Principal, Giant Ant
SANDRA BURCHSTED Director, Prospectiva
LOURENÇO BUSTANI Founding Partner, Mandalah
LYNN CASEY Former Vice President, Marketing, Paramount Pictures Television; Founder, NOESIS
DR. ANDREI CERNASOV Principal Scientist, Lecturer and Innovation Champion, R&D, Advanced Technology, Honeywell International
TOM CONGER Futurist & Founder, Social Technologies
RICHARD DICKSON Senior Vice President of Marketing, Media and Entertainment,Worldwide, Mattel
RICK FAULK Chief Marketing Officer, WebEx Communications, Inc.
PIERS FAWKES Leading trends specialist; Founder,
PSFKJAVIER FLAIM CEO, Markitecture
JANIS GAUDELLI Formerly with Teen People; Founder, NOESIS
ROM WERRAN GAYOSO Staff Engineer, Strategic Capacity Planning, Intel Corporation
SIR BOB GELDOF Singer, Songwriter, Entrepreneur and Activist behind Live Aid/8
RAMA GHEERAWO Innovation Program Leader, Royal College of Art
BRUCE B. GLASRUD President, Third Sector Horizons
ILYCE GLINK Financial/Real Estate Journalist and Radio Host
JOE GOLDBERG Senior Director, Business Intelligence, Motorola, Inc.
JEREMY GUTSCHE Chief Trend Hunter, TrendHunter.com; Director, Consumer Lending Business and Innovation Imperative, Capital One Canada
CHRISTINE HASKINS Creative Process Consultant, Ideas To Go
DAN HEATH Best-selling Co-Author, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die; Director, Duke Corporate Education
AMY INNERFIELD Research Director, Consumer Insights, Scripps/HGTV
ALEXANDER ISLEY Creative Director and Partner, Alexander Isley Inc.
VALERIE JACOBS Director of Trend Analysis, LPK; Professor, Design, University of Cincinnati
ANDY JOHNSON Creative Partner, united* dsn
TIM JONES Principal, Innovaro (UK)
MARNA KAGELE Strategic Development and Analysis, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company
MIKE KALLENBERGER Consumer Intelligence Manager, Market and Business
Insights, Miller Brewing Company
KRISHNA KONERU Vice President, Satyam Computer Services
STEPHANIE KRAUS Vice President, Creative, Disney Consumer Products
SUSAN LEONARD, PH.D, Martin Frankel Associates
COLLEEN MCCLELLAN Food Insight Strategist, McCormick and Company, Inc.
CAROLYN MCKERNAN Marketing Research Manager, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)
CHARLES MOORE Head of Innovation, Reuters
MARIO NARITA Director, Narita Design
AMY J. OBERG Corporate Futurist, Kimberly Clark Corporation
JOLYNN OVINGTON GMM/VP, Merchandising, Nau
WENDY OWEN User Experience Guru; Principal, Giant Ant
PATRICK RODMELL President, Watt International
LEO ROODHART Vice President, Group Innovation GameChanger, Shell International Exploration and Production BV (The Netherlands)
JOSH RUBIN Founder, Coolhunting.com
ELLEN RYAN Vice President, Research, Scripps/HGTV
RUTH SANDO, PH.D. Cultural Anthropologist, Barbara Perry Associates
PERRY SEELERT Strategic Partner, united* dsn
STEVEN SHERMAN Director, Design, W Hotels, Starwood Hotels and Resorts
STEVE SICKEL Senior Vice President, Multibrand and Relationship Marketing, InterContinental Hotels Group
CHERYL SWANSON Principal, Toniq
TONY UPHOFF Group President, CMP Business Technology Group (BTG), publishers of InformationWeek
LUISA C. URIARTE Partner, Markitecture
RANDY VOSS Senior Global Product Development Manager, Food Stream Solutions, Whirlpool Corporation
MURAT YURDDAS Managing Partner, Trend Desk
WINSTON WARRIOR Project Echo Leader, Cox Enterprises
JENNIFER WONG Innovation Strategist, Muse
TIM WOODS President, POCO LabsE.
KINNEY ZALESNE Co-author, Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Today’s Big Changes; Former White House Fellow
MICHAEL ZEY Executive Director, Expansionary Institute; Professor of Management, Montclair State University; Author, “Ageless Nation”