Future of Toys / Retail Trends. The more virtual and digital our world, the more parents will want to encourage physical, creative, learning toys like Lego. Report from Legoland - Futurist Retail keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. VIDEO

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Future of toys - and why many parents are going retro for their children - with booming sales of traditional toys. Lessons from history of Lego and reasons for Lego success. Retail trends, toy shops, child games, construction toys, early learning, child development. Future of educational toys. Consumer trends and impact on traditional retail. Video blog from Legoland, Billund, Denmark by Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon

"We need to understand how middle class parents think and feel, and how that will continue to change rapidly over the next few years. Today's generation of parents are bombarded continually with online opinions and advice and this is a highly stressed group of people, who are so much wanting the very best for their own children. Educational, simple and creative toys are going to continue to be really important to parents as antidotes to an iPad / video / online gaming world."

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How we will travel and why. Future of Transport Infrastructure - need for long term government policy on travel, transport, infrastructure, rail, roads, ports and airports - Transport Keynote Speaker Comment

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Comment on the future of transport infrastructure and government policy.  

Key trends in the travel, tourism, logistics and supply chain sectors.

How government transport policies are being overtaken by events.  

OECD Transport Forum comment after keynote on future transport issues.  

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Future of Retail, Shopping Malls, Mobile Customers, Home Delivery in Greece - e-commerce trends and impact on traditional retail. Futurist Retail Keynote Speaker - VIDEO and FEATURE

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Future of retail: Futurist keynote speaker for Lambda Developments event in Athens on future of retail in Greece. How retail spending is changing. Future of shopping malls, supermarkets, out of town stores, convenience stores, markets in Greece. Impact of mobile and e-commerce on omnichannel customers. Location based marketing.  Global e-commerce trends. Mega-chains will dominate retail growth across Greek cities, in traditional retail and online. In many EU nations, 70% of all retail spending is already in just four or five retail chains, and across the EU as a whole, 50% of all food sales take place in just ten chains. National price wars will become regional price wars. Sales by chains in the EU will continue to grow fast – 25% growth over the last 14 years, but their retail floor space has grown at twice that rate, so their productivity has fallen....

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Futurist Speakers - how to become a world-class keynote speaker who predicts industry trends, challenging and entertaining at the same time. Magazine INTERVIEW

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Interview with Futurist Speaker Patrick Dixon by Bitrix Blog - with updates (February 2019)

So, how does one become good at spotting future business trends, to become a world-famous Futurist speaker?

As a Futurist speaker working with over 400 of the world's largest multinationals, I have been forecasting trends for corporations for almost 20 years. The method I use is to read very widely, learn from every person I meet about their own changing world, travel extensively, spend time with innovators in the world’s greatest companies, and always ask radical questions about what could happen in future. 

All great Futurist speakers focus on hundreds of longer term trends which have been changing relatively slowly over the last three decades, and which will drive huge business opportunities over the next two decades, and then combine these with a very detailed view of the client's own business.  

But that is not enough: world-class Futurist speakers need to have passion, conviction and the ability to read every audience at the speed of light, feeding them life-changing, astonishing insights in an entertaining and highly-memorable way.

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World's Best Futurist Speakers - how they create audience magic - comment by Futurist speaker Patrick Dixon on audience engagement, how to ensure maximum keynote impact. VIDEO

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How to create magic for audiences as a Futurist speaker and event organiser.

Entertain, provoke, challenge, be interactive and engaging.

Secrets of world-class venues.

Lessons from superbly staged global event for Janssen Pharmaceuticals, by Futurist speaker Patrick Dixon.

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Why 25% of all deaths in Netherlands now caused by doctors deliberately killing people - euthanasia / mercy killing boom. Impact on your own family, life expectancy and future health care. Keynote speaker - VIDEO

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25% of all deaths in Netherlands in 2017 were killings of patients by doctors, at their own request - up from 12% in 2013.

Most are dying in medically induced coma with the express purpose of killing the patient: unconscious for many days, with no food or water - so their hearts stop because of severe dehydration - 32,000 died this way in 2017. Why so many are requesting euthanasia, and what it all means for future of health care.

Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist keynote speaker, advisor to global pharma companies and hospice-trained cancer physician.

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Why future rail travel will grow fast. Future of Intermodal Transport, passenger travel, rail freight, hyperloop, manufacturing, logistics and supply chains. Future of high speed rail - Futurist keynote speaker. VIDEO of entire keynote and POST

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Future of rail for passengers and freight - transport keynote and article by Patrick Dixon, Futurist for HUPAC, a Swiss rail company.

Why rail transport has such an important future - saving time, costs and energy. Future patterns of passenger rail traffic, freight traffic, intercontinental transport, trams, light rail, container freight, intermodal transport (switching from truck to rail to shipping and so on), and hyperloop travel.  Rail trends have to be seen in wider context of demographic shifts, emerging markets, digital revolution, e-commerce, changes in patterns of globalisation and global trade.  New patterns of migration, manufacturing, management.  Why more will be spent on road / rail infrastructure in the next 30 years than in all of human history.

Impact of rail innovation on logistics and supply chains - including next-generation tracking, signalling, systems and controls.

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How to spot the best investment and business opportunities. Learn secrets of a professional Futurist with 25 year track record, advising over 400 global companies on major trends and innovation - 20 part, 5 week video course

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I've put together a 20 part, 5 week online course for business leaders and managers.

Lessons I have learned over the last 30 years, researching global trends.

I've worked with over 400 of the world's largest corporations, often sharing platforms with their CEOs at their most important global events.

You can have the greatest strategy ever known, but if the world changes in directions you do not expect, you will simply end up going even faster in the wrong direction.

Here are 20 secrets of all world-class Futurist - just about everything you need to become an expert forecaster, all packed into one 5 week programme.

How to read the signs of the times, and apply them to specific industries in a reliable way.

How to make sense of media overload, and make sensible forecasts for the next 5-10 years.

How to be a professional Futurist or trends analyst.

How to avoid common errors when making predictions.

Why most debates on the future are about timing, not the trends themselves.

You may be in marketing, management, banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail or health care - discover common principles for making sense of your future.

And the greatest test for you of all is this: do the course, start making some predictions to yourself about what you think is ahead, and benchmark yourself against what actually develops.

You will rapidly begin to see areas where you are starting to score high and areas you need to work on.

Take a look at my Future Secrets Course.

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