1. Exciting, Data-Driven Content - With Trend Hunter, you aren't getting some random keynote speaker's creative thoughts about the future. You're getting cutting-edge insights distilled from 250,000,000 people, brought to life with one of our best innovation keynote speakers. Our disruptive innovation keynotes based on the world's most inspiring content, and we have 3 billion pageviews to prove it.
2. Actionable Takeaways - Our business is helping the world's leading innovators to create the future, so our content is deeply rooted in action. Each innovation keynote includes tactics, frameworks and next steps, based on our experience helping NASA prototype the journey to Mars and helping Google, Starbucks and Adidas outinnovate their competitors.
3. Contagious Enthusiasm - If you want to inspire the future, harness creativity and bring innovation to life, you need energy. Our innovation keynotes are designed to turn research insights into excitement so you can make innovation and change actually happen.
Chief Content Officer
Innovation Facilitator for 100+ Top Brands
One of the most popular keynote speakers on trends, Armida leads Trend Hunter’s content and Futurist Team and is one of our best keynote speakers. She has been relied upon for trend workshops and innovation keynote speeches at more than 100 of the world’s iconic brands, including: Red Bull, Domino’s, Panasonic Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Bacardi, Mastercard, Viacom, Universal and Toms Shoes. Her expertise is in getting high performance teams to think differently about their customer segmentation and opportunities. Armida joined Trend Hunter in 2010 as an editor, where she oversaw the creation of 50,000 articles and one billion views of traffic. Today she coaches our best innovation keynote speakers and develops frameworks on the future of innovation, technology, marketing, lifestyle and culture.
Chief Growth Officer
Interviewed 400+ CEOs & Innovation Leaders
As Trend Hunter’s Chief Growth Officer, Jonathon Brown is an expert in maximizing innovation potential of ambitious companies. After hundreds of interviews with global innovation leaders, Jonathon has uncovered methods for sparking creativity and systematic innovation across many industries. He shares these reusable techniques through captivating keynotes and backed by real use case examples. Jonathon started at Trend Hunter in 2012 on the editorial team, where he wrote over 1,000 articles, garnering 6 million views. Along with his keynote, Jonathon doubles as Future Festival Emcee at the world’s highest rated innovation conference. Throughout his career, he’s served as an innovation keynote speaker for clients such as Cisco and Walmart, as well as events such as The Market Research Event, Omni-Shopper, Future Trends and Back-End Innovation.
VP of Brand & Client Success
Advisor to 50+ Leading Brands
Ady Floyd is a Futurist and VP of Brand & Client Success at Trend Hunter, as well as a certified Beer Specialist and World Beer Judge. She specializes in uncovering emerging trends in food, beverage, retail, and sustainability, working with 40+ brands to develop custom research strategies. A seasoned keynote speaker, Ady has presented at Future Festival, EMA, and the CMA+SIMA Conference, as well as private workshops for Beam Suntory, Givaudan, Diageo, and Crayola.
SVP, Client Success
Author of more than 3,000 Trend Articles
Gil Cohen is one of Trend Hunter’s most broadly experienced keynote speakers on Innovation in Retail, with a background that spans trend writing, business innovation, client research and client success. As a writer, she studied trends in all categories of innovation, creating nearly 3,000 articles before becoming a research advisor to Coca-Cola, NASA, Sony, Kellogg, MTV, Bacardi and Nestle. As a Future Festival keynote speaker, she has inspired attendees at innovation events ranging from Innova-Con to Save the Children and AARP. At Future Festival’s World Summit, she is our top keynote speaker on marketing innovation and marketing creativity.
President
Project Lead for the Innovation Assessment
As Trend Hunter’s President, Jaime managed Trend Hunter’s team growth while developing culture programs and innovation assessments for many of the world’s best innovation teams. Her Trend Hunter Innovation Assessment has been taken by more than 30,000 innovation leaders who use the tool to benchmark their innovation strengths and better understand their blind spots. She’s been the keynote speaker at events ranging from the 2,000 attendee main stage at Mastercard, to executive boardrooms and innovation events for Staples, Universal, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Nissan, Domino’s, Universal, SC Johnson and AAA. Prior to her work on culture, Jaime joined Trend Hunter as an editor in 2011, where she oversaw more than 60,000 articles, attracting over a billion views.
Chief Client Officer
Managed 8,000 Custom Trend Projects
Courtney is the founder of Trend Hunter’s Client Research Team, which today has completed more than 8,000 custom trend report and workshop projects for hundreds of the world’s best innovation teams. She is a futurist and top keynote speaker for brands like Best Buy, Mastercard, Viacom, T Marzetti and 7-Eleven. In addition, Courtney has been an innovation and research advisor to Samsung, Adidas, Nestle, Disney and NASA. She is one of Trend Hunter’s top keynote speakers for clients with a need for deep trend expertise and facilitation of our premium innovation workshops. Since 2015, she has been one of our best keynote speakers on trends, and the lead Future Festival keynote speaker on Innovation in Leisure and the Future of Retail.
Director of Special Projects
Interviewed 200+ CEOs & Innovation Leaders
As Trend Hunter's Director of Special Projects, Sean Watson wears many different hats. Whether helping Fortune 500 brands refine their approach to innovation through our Patterned Thinking workshop, or outlining ways a tech startup can get ahead through his Futuristic Tech presentation, Sean approaches public speaking with the mission to inform the mind and inspire the imagination. He has honed this skill through his extensive background at companies like Rogers, Bertelsmann and American Express.
As Trend Hunter's resident tech specialist, Sean has run private keynotes and innovation sessions with brands such as Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Google. His expertise is in getting highly knowledgeable teams to employ a new perspective of the trend content they deem relevant to them, consequently encouraging them to reset and rethink their approach to innovation.
Senior Research Advisor
Through her years of work with leading food, beauty, CPG and technology brands, Zahra provides a profound grasp of behaviors and preferences, which she effectively communicates to resonate across various contexts. Within her multifaceted role, she facilitates client trend reports, presentations, workshops and webinars. At the heart of Zahra’s methodology is an unwavering commitment to deliver the core of the consumer psyche. She immerses herself in essential consumer insights and emerging trends, with a portfolio of 600+ custom-crafted trend reports, and a passion for understanding consumer and generational trends.
Senior Research Advisor
Jennifer Kang, a Senior Research Advisor and Futurist at Trend Hunter, excels in delivering pioneering ideas that push industry boundaries and provoke sector disruption. She creates and presents custom reports, webinars, and keynotes on emerging trends and consumer insights. Working closely with clients like Mattel, Coca-Cola, and Bayer, Jennifer ignites creativity and strategic thinking. Her approach goes beyond conventional consultancy; she immerses herself in each client's unique challenges, crafting tailored solutions that resonate profoundly and drive sustainable growth. By fostering a culture of innovation and strategic foresight, she empowers organizations to navigate complexities with confidence.
VP, Sales
Mark is sought by industry giants like Google and Disney to inspire leaders on future trends and innovation. Praised for his captivating presence, he has won international communication awards and serves as VP of Business Development at Trend Hunter, the top trend-spotting database. Mark guides clients like Constellation Brands, Diageo, and Panasonic in navigating future trends and fostering innovation. Beyond his office role, he keynotes at global Future Festivals, discussing topics such as Innovation Tactics and Future Technology. Join him on a journey of discovery and transformation, where the only constant is change.
Account Executive & Client Strategist
Amanda Gray is a behavior change expert with two decades of experience in coaching, wellness, and teaching Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). She specializes in helping individuals and organizations unlock their full potential by identifying uncharted opportunities through TrendHunter’s proprietary innovation and trend frameworks. As an innovation expert and workshop facilitator, she blends behavioral science, NLP strategies, and market foresight to equip businesses and leaders with the tools to anticipate shifts, adapt quickly, and stay ahead of disruption. Her passion lies in optimizing performance, driven by a deep understanding of human behavior and innovation, and the goal of encouraging audiences to think bigger, act faster, and turn uncertainty into a competitive advantage.
Extend your learning with the support & expertise of a Trend Hunter Advisor
Trend Hunter’s Advisor services are a fantastic complement to our innovation keynote speeches. Our team of dedicated Advisors act as an extension of your organization, curating custom trend reports and helping you apply them to your business. Whether you’re interested in learning more about a topic addressed during your Futurist presentation or about something else entirely, our Advisors provide insight and support to help you further your education.
Turn an inspiring innovation keynote into action & understanding
A HIGH PERFORMANCE METHOD OF IDEA DISCOVERY - Our keynote speakers anchor their wisdom in our big data, trend frameworks and proven method of idea discovery. Increase your ability to find overlooked opportunity and extract better thinking from your teams.
6 PATTERNS, 36 SUBPATTERNS & 18 MEGATRENDS - Deeply understand the most impactful forces shaping our world. Our examples are discovered from our analysis of more than 3 billion views and the interests of more than 250,000,000 people. To make sense of all the noise, we map all insights to the patterns and megatrends that are statistically most likely to shape our future.
If you really want to take your culture to the next level, supercharge your innovation keynote speech with an overview of your company’s culture in comparison to other top innovators. Every attendee will get their own 7-10 page innovation assessment, archetype, strengths and blind spots. Plus, you will get an overview of your entire team, which can be used to customize the innovation keynote speech and frame the basis for your innovation workshop.
Inspire attendees with custom trend reports, workshop materials & videos
Most of the top innovation keynote speakers are inspiring but lack takeaways & next steps. Since Trend Hunter’s entire business is built upon action, we curate custom reports for attendees to keep, extending the impact of your session beyond the actual workshop. In addition, trend and innovation keynotes can be customized with company-centric workshops and facilitated ideation sessions.
