Disruptive Technologies

Trend Lecture What's On 2024

Rarely has the world changed so much in such a short time and how do we move on from now? What will be the trends of 2024?

The new tech paradigm

Tech trends define and drive much of the development in the world around us. Advances in extended reality (XR), wearables, biotechnology and not least AI are intertwined to create a new paradigm that fundamentally changes the conditions for organizations. In this lecture, you will gain knowledge and insights about our coming tech paradigm.

Scenario planning – The art of preparing for an unknown future

In this lecture we present the grounds for scenario planning and some of the most important tools for linking scenarios to strategy and implementation.

Megatrends to watch

What mega trends do you need to keep track of to future-proof your strategy? Megatrends are long-term changes in areas such as climate, demography, technology, urbanization and globalization that set the conditions for the society and business landscape of the future.

Future of turism

The new AI-powered world – how it affects businesses, professions and people

In December 2022, humanity took a giant leap towards the next generation's internet. Free access to the artificial intelligence ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is truly groundbreaking and will likely have historic impacts.

The Future Food System: Drivers, Trends and Challen

From Malthus to Food Innovation: A Journey Towards the Fourth Food Revolution

Strategic Visitor Industry Development as a Tool for Sustainable Placemaking

Explore possibilities for your city's development. Discover how planning of tourism and the visitor industry can stimulate strategic sectors and create a sustainable economy for your residents. Secure the future of your municipality by investing in a comprehensive solution – where sustainable growth meets economic and social success.

Millennials and Generation Z

Increase your knowledge of today's youth, often called Generation Z and Alpha, with a lecture packed with solid data and thought-provoking reflections. Kairos Future shares 30 years of youth research, updated with the latest insights and phenomena that are important for understanding today's youth.

The Future Workplace

New values among the workforce, new technology that allows other ways of working and new demands on financial profitability and efficiency leads to offices and workplaces changing fundamentally.

Ambidexterity – efficiency and innovation intertwined

This lecture highlights the challenges behind successfully creating an innovative organisation that also manages to deliver efficiently to today’s customers.

5 ingredients of innovation

This lecture presents five ingredients that all organisations looking to strengthen their innovative power need to have in place.

The Future of Travel

The travel and tourism industry faces important challenges in the years to come. What are the important trends affecting change from now to 2025?

The Future of Industry Innovation

Innovation in Heavy Traditional Industry is threatened by bold platforms being smarter and quicker, and more in how to reshape markets and actors, than necessarily in pure technology. Do I need to be big, smart or fast or everything at the same time to succeed?

The Future of Technology 2050

We will help you to understand the big picture for the future, concepts and potential developments in different areas, and the different uncertainties around the tech change.

Future experiences

The branch of tourism offering experiences is booming, and the next ten years will see it mature. What will change on the way?

The Future of AI and Machine Learning

This conference is interesting for everybody interested in one of the most hot tech temas, AI. Since we will showcase from basic level to advanced level, this conference can be adapted to the audience.

The Future of Manufacturing

Find out the latest trends in manufacturing in order to inspire for future competitive knowledge.

Lunch and Learn

The Future of Cities and Regions

The development of modern society is moving towards a T-economy where thought capital is the driving factor of production.

The Worklife of Tomorrow

Based on Kairos Future work life and generation shift studies, this talk presents results relating to how, where and what we will want to work with in the future.

Future opportunities in tomorrow's consumer landscape

What are the upcoming consumer trends in your industry?

The Baby Boomers

The generation usually referred to as baby boomers, born between 1945 and 1954 are on the march. What do they make of their freedom as seniors?

T-Economy and Municipalities

In this lecture, we focus on external trends and shifts that affect municipalities.

Disruptive Technologies

Industry after industry is witnessing a fundamental change in their arena. What impact does this have in your organization or business?

The Future of Leadership

The lecture highlights differences linked to views on leadership between people born in the 70's and the 80's, as well as values and lifestyles trends among young people, labor market trends, etc.

The future society towards 2030

What are the biggest societal challenges towards 2030? How will global trends develop and change the world and which consequences will that bring for society and your industry?

The innovation gap – the challenge of the future

The lecture highlights what really matters when it comes to innovation and what that means for how we should think about and work with specific innovation forward.

7 trends reshaping worklife, competence and leadership

In this lecture we present the seven trends that will have the greatest impact on worklife, leadership and teamwork in the coming 5-10 years.

21st Century Management – Leadership and Innovation in the Thought Economy

The lecture highlights the success factors to succeed in the Thought economy and what it means for your branch.

Personal transportation in the future

Things are afoot in the field of personal transportation. How will things look in 2025? What about 2040?