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Founder and CEO of Burrus Research, advisor and one of the world’s leading futurists on global trends and innovation

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Our keynote speaker Daniel Burrus is a master at tailoring his message to each individual audience as he addresses relevant trends and offers powerful, practical guidance for turning rapid technology-driven change into a competitive advantage. His captivating style blends timely and provocative insights and actionable knowledge with just the right amount of humor and motivation.

World leading technology forecaster and founder and CEO of Burrus Research

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.

He is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Toshiba, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM.

He is the author of six books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller Flash Foresight: How To See The Invisible and Do The Impossible, as well as the international best seller Technotrends.

He is also a featured writer on the topics of innovation, change and the future for CNBC, Huffington Post, and Wired Magazine to name a few.

He has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes.

He has founded six businesses, four of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s where he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty technologies that would become the driving force of business and economic change for decades to come. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology driven change and its direct impact on the business world.

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Future-Proofing Your Business: Strategies for Thriving in an AI-Driven World

With the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI, and all of the other major players jumping on the AI bandwagon, hundreds of new AI empowered tools are now available that have the power to transform the way we live, work, and play. It’s becoming increasingly important for businesses to adapt and embrace these new tool sets with an anticipatory mindset to stay both relevant and competitive. In this speech, Daniel Burrus will explore the opportunities and challenges that AI presents for businesses and discuss practical strategies for future-proofing your organization in an AI-driven world.

As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will examine the current state of AI technology and its potential impact on various industries, from healthcare and finance to retail and manufacturing. He will discuss the key drivers of AI adoption, such as improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing customer experiences.

KEY TAKEWAYS: (Customized for Each Audience)

In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books Daniel Burrus will provide specific strategies and tools for incorporating AI into your business.

In addition, Burrus will use industry examples to teach attendees how to identify the Hard Trends based on future facts that will happen and how to use those certainties, and the game-changing opportunities they provide, to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.

Using Burrus’ mastery of storytelling to illustrate examples, deliverables include:

  • How to harness new AI tools to lower costs, increase speed and accelerate growth.
  • Strategies for incorporating AI into your business operations, such as automating repetitive tasks and using AI-powered analytics for decision-making to name a few.
  • Understanding the importance of investing in employee training and development to ensure your workforce is equipped to work alongside AI technologies.
  • Emphasis on the importance of maintaining a customer-centric approach and how AI can help businesses to better understand customer needs and preferences.
  • How to use the certainty that comes from Hard Trends to accelerate both Everyday Innovation and Exponential Innovation with much lower risk.
  • A deeper understanding of the potential impact of AI on your business and practical strategies to leverage this technology to future-proof your organization.
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Harnessing AI For Your Organization: How Artificial Intelligence Can Drive Innovation and Growth

The use of Artificial Intelligence is not new, but it has recently gone from an evolutionary state to a revolutionary state with the explosion of new Generative AI tools. As this world becomes increasingly digital, incorporating Generative AI into your business strategy is critical to lowering costs as well as driving innovation and fueling growth. In this keynote presentation, Daniel Burrus will share AI tools and strategies that can be used to lower costs, increase speed, and drive new levels of innovation and growth. In addition, he will share what not to do with Generative AI tools in order to protect your digital, and real-world assets.

As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will examine the current state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities to accelerate innovation and growth. He will share a wide variety of examples of how businesses are using AI, and how audience members can benefit both today and tomorrow.

KEY TAKEWAYS: (Customized for Each Audience)

In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books, Daniel Burrus will provide specific strategies and tools for incorporating AI into your business.

In addition, Burrus will use industry examples to teach attendees how to identify the Hard Trends based on future facts that will happen and how to use those certainties, and the game-changing opportunities they provide, to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.

Using Burrus’ mastery of storytelling to illustrate examples, deliverables include:

  • How to harness new AI tools to lower costs, increase speed and accelerate growth.
  • The potential benefits AI can bring to your business and what to consider when optimizing your operations.
  • Valuable insights AI can provide in analyzing customer behavior and market trends.
  • How to use AI to gain insights into your business, customers, and industry.
  • Strategies for incorporating AI into your business operations, such as automating repetitive tasks and using AI-powered analytics for decision-making to name a few.
  • How to use the certainty that comes from Hard Trends to accelerate both Everyday Innovation and Exponential Innovation with much lower risk.
  • The ethical implications of AI and considerations in ensuring you are using this technology effectively and responsibly.
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Unlocking the Power of AI: A Strategic Approach to Harnessing AI in your business

Unlock the Power of AI and take your business to the next level with this strategy session.

Assess your current processes and identify areas where AI can have the most impact, whether it’s improving efficiency, enhancing customer experiences, or enabling better decision-making. Discover and predict the potential risks and challenges of implementing AI and develop strategies for mitigating these risks.

We consider your organization’s unique needs, goals, and resources. We provide guidance on selecting the right AI tools, managing data effectively, and integrating AI with existing products and services.

Our interactive approach ensures that your team is fully engaged in the planning process and that everyone’s perspectives are considered. By the end of this session, you will be equipped with a comprehensive understanding of the advantages and potential hurdles of integrating AI into your business operations.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to take your business to the next level.

*Offered in half-day, full-day, or virtual formats.

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    The Anticipatory Organization: A Proven Model To Predict Change & Create Extraordinary Results

    Based on decades of research and experience applying his Hard Trend methodology to leading companies worldwide, Daniel has identified the missing competency: Anticipation.

    Key Takeaways:

    This eye-opening and motivating presentation will teach attendees the key components of the new core competency – anticipation- and show them how to apply it to their work and life, which will accelerate both their organization’s growth and their personal success. Other notable deliverables include:

    • Identify the Hard Trends that will happen, predict disruptions before they disrupt, and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
    • Separate Hard Trends – trends that will happen – from Soft Trends -trends that might happen.
    • Learn the benefits of Everyday Innovation, solving challenges faster, and recognizing previously invisible opportunities.
    • Accelerate your organization’s growth and you employee’s personal success.

     

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    Accelerating Growth: Leading with Strategic Foresight & Certainty

    Accelerating growth requires a new way of thinking about overcoming obstacles and acting on new opportunities. All too often, changes comes from the outside in, forcing us to react by slipping into a crisis management mode, and putting out fires. This presentation is about opportunity management, identifying the driving forces of predictable change, driving growth strategies from the inside out, and taking control of our future.

    Key Takeaways

    The eye-opening and motivating presentation will teach attendees how to be prepared to capitalize on the next wave of technological change and:

    • How to overcome obstacles and act on new opportunities.
    • Avoid change being driven by a crisis management mode & “putting out fires”
    • Develop the ability to identify the driving forces of predictable change.
    • Drive growth strategies from the inside out.

     

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    Business Process Transformation: The Big Ideas That are Changing Everything

    Daniel Burrus takes the concept of looking into the future and transforms it into a new paradigm for running an Anticipatory Organization using the new tools of innovation for driving business process transformation. The Cloud, Virtualization, Mobility, and Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M) are the great enablers allowing organization to transform every business process in ways that were impossible just a few years ago to dramatically reduce costs and drive new revenue streams.

    Key Takeaways:

    In his transformative presentation, Daniel Burrus teaches how to anticipate the revolution of dematerialization, advanced virtualization, cloud services, mobility, IoT and a host of other game-changing technologies using his proven Hard Trend Methodology. Additional actionable insights include..

    • Accelerate growth by gaining new levels of agility and speed.
    • The power of data-infused internal processes.
    • Identifying cutting-edge utilities to transform functionality.
    • Transform the underlying business process of how you sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train and educate.
    • If you don’t do it, someone else will.

     

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    Leading With Strategic Foresight and Certainty

    Agility and adaptability are no longer enough! Accurately anticipating customers changing needs and technological change, provides the biggest advantage. In times of unprecedented changes and uncertainty, we need to ask ourselves what are we certain about? Strategies based on uncertainty  equal high levels of risk. Strategies based on certainty dramatically reduce risk and produce superior results.

    Strategic foresight is based on the new Science of Certainty that will take your vision to a new actionable level by identifying the events that will happen in the future. Mastering these capabilities will position your organization to be the disruptor instead of being the disrupted.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Accurately anticipating customers changing needs, as well as technological changes.
    • Strategies based on certainty dramatically reduce risk and produce superior results.
    • Learn how to use the new tools and rules of leadership to accelerate profitable growth.

     

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    Accelerating Innovation: Using Hard Trends and Exponential Technology

    Technology is continually changing the rules of competition, rendering many traditional business strategies and processes obsolete. Emerging technologies provide opportunities for creating new, high margin products and services, as well as enable companies to gain new levels of speed, agility and cost savings. In addition, they all us to de-commoditize current products and services.

    Identifying and understanding the challenges and opportunities that new technologies create has become a key business imperative, however, this can prove a daunting task in the modern marketplace.

    Key Takeaways:

    In this eye-opening presentation, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Burrus identifies specific technologies that will directly impact you and your industry. He will share how dematerialization, virtualization, advanced mobility, product intelligence, advanced networking, interactivity, gloablization and convergence can be used to drive innovation and advantage as you develop new products, services and customer experiences. Additional deliverables include…

    • Identifying emergin technologies relevant to your business/industry.
    • How to leverage these technologies to sustain long-term growth.
    • How to transform decision-making to incorporate innovation.

     

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    Using Hard Trends to Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage

    Technology-driven exponential change has created a unique tipping point, one filled with disruptive problems as well as amazing new opportunities. There are many new tools and strategies that can be used to transform the customer experience, grow brand loyalty in amazing new ways, increase consumer engagement, and accelerate the results.

    By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, you can accurately anticipate technology-driven disruptions before they disrupt, problems before they happen so that you can pre-solve them, customers’ needs before they express them, and game-changing opportunities before the competition. Mastering these capabilities will position your organization to turn digital disruption and change into an advantage.

    Key Takeaways:

    • How to overcome organizational obstacles and act on new opportunities
    • How to position you organization to turn digital disruption and change, into an advantage.
    • Identify problems before they happen so that you can pre-solve them, customers’ needs before they express them, and game-changing opportunities before the competition.
    • Develop the ability to identify the driving forces of predictable change.

     

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    Transforming Retail with Strategic Foresight and Certainty

    There are new tools and strategies that can transform the customer experience, grow brand loyalty in amazing new ways, increase consumer engagement, and accelerate the results of omnichannel marketing.

    What do Apple, Warby-Parker, Amazon, and a host of other e-commerce brands that are opening retail brick-and-mortar stores know that most retailers don’t know? The good old days of retail are ahead of us.

    By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, you can accurately anticipate technology-driven disruptions before they disrupt, problems before they happen so that you can pre-solve them, customers’ needs before they express them, and game-changing opportunities before the competition. Mastering theses capabilities will position you and your organization to turn disruption and change into an advantage.

    Key Takeaways:

    • How to identify Hard Trends encroaching on retailers.
    • Finding marketing channels embedded in e-commerce.
    • Transforming brand communication practices.
    • How to accurately anticipate customer needs before they express them.

     

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    Transforming Healthcare with Technology-Enabled Innovation

    We are standing at the base of a mountain of technology-driven change within the sphere of Healthcare. Wireless telemedicine, point-of-care transactions, e-enabled disease management, home diagnostics, the virtual hospital, e-enabled customer choice, e-enabled assisted living, e-communities of practice, just-in-time training, and procurement service providers are just a few of the many areas that can be used to accelerate a positive transformation in healthcare.

    Understanding the new opportunities that will result is essential in determining a clear course of action.

    Technology will never replace doctors and nurses, but it will provide them with more data-driven insights and actions. A combination of data and technology will enable doctors to achieve their desired results faster, and empower patients with the knowledge of the their own bodily state. Navigating these Hard Trends will lead you to the future of modern healthcare in a digital age.

    Key Takeaways:

    In this innovative and though-provoking presentation, Daniel Burrus guides the audience through the seemingly infinite development of Healthcare innovation. Despite the vast resources and contributions to the fields of science and technology, there is still great opportunity in this industry.. which also indicated that there is room for disruption. Burrus will provide the concepts need to anticipate the coming change in pharmaceuticals, medical computing, and consumer health technology that will position you and your organization as a future leader in this space. Valuable insights include…

    • The role of Healthcare in mass digital transformation.
    • Solutions for tomorrow’s personalized patient experience.
    • Technology’s impact on Health Care administration.
    • Avoiding disruption amongst Healthcare tech production.
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