Travels From United Kingdom
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AI that pays its own way – uses saving money right now
Forget ChatGPT party tricks. See how smart organisations use AI for both radical efficiency and breakthrough innovation – from eliminating grunt work to discovering impossible solutions.
Outcome: Identify AI opportunities that deliver value in weeks not years, whether that's cutting costs or creating entirely new capabilities.
Ideal audience: Leaders who want AI that transforms the business, not just the buzz.
Beyond the noise – the forces shaping your industry’s next chapter
While everyone chases headlines, the real transformation happens slowly then suddenly. Discover the structural shifts and emerging possibilities that could reshape how your industry works over the next 3-5 years – including the scenarios worth planning for today.
Outcome: Gain clarity about which long-term trends deserve attention now, while they're still emerging and actionable.
Ideal audience: C-suite executives and leadership teams planning multi-year transformation strategies.
Copy, adapt, benchmark – what the world's best operators do
The best ideas are already in operation somewhere. Discover how leading operators worldwide tackle your exact challenges – stolen brilliantly from unexpected sectors and surprising geographies.
Outcome: Take home transferable practices from world-class operators, with confidence to adapt what works elsewhere.
Ideal audience: Operations directors, innovation teams and executives who know that borrowing brilliance beats reinventing wheels.
Culture in the wild – a live safari through the digital signals shaping your industry
Take a fascinating, unexpected tour through what real people are actually doing online. From TikTok subcultures to YouTube microcommunities to Reddit rebellions, see how digital tribes are creating tomorrow's expectations today – before they hit your boardroom. Join a live safari into the niches shaping tomorrow’s customers and markets.
Outcome: Decode the online behaviours and conversations that predict what your customers will demand next.
Ideal audience: Leadership offsites, marketing teams and anyone who needs to understand where culture is heading, not where it's been.
No-theatre innovation – turning experiments into earnings
Most innovation is expensive theatre. Learn the specific techniques that separate costly innovation labs from profit-generating experimentation – with real examples of experiments with impressive results.
Outcome: Master a disciplined approach to innovation that actually delivers, with tactics for selling it internally.
Ideal audience: CFOs, COOs and senior leaders who control budgets and need innovation to show returns, not just PowerPoints.
Signals over headlines – the non-obvious PESTLE for your industry
Cut through media noise to identify the shifts that actually matter. Using structured PESTLE analysis, discover under-reported regulatory changes, demographic surprises and tech developments that will affect your decisions over the next 6-24 months.
Outcome: Walk away knowing which weak signals are about to become major forces, with clear next actions.
Ideal audience: Strategy teams, boards and senior executives who need evidence-based foresight, not fortune-telling.
Cate Trotter
Hear about the future of retail and the future of business
Cate Trotter launched two businesses in her twenties earning accolades including a Startup 100 Entrepreneur. Cate’s friendly, engaging and passionate presenting style enables her to deliver complex subjects that leave attendees with memorable and powerful takeaways.
In 2017, Cate was name one of the UK’s Top 12 Voices on LinkedIn, she is highly regarded and quoted regularly in Forbes. iQmetrix have called her one of the top 20 Global Influencers. Her retail and business insights have been utilised to deliver retail safaris across the globe.
Cate has presented to Chanel, Nike, Galeries Lafayette, EE, Johnson & Johnson, Debenhams, Jaguar, Land Rover, Levi’s, and The British Library just to name a few. She has spoken to audiences of up to 1200 people across Europe, plus has spoken at high-profile events in Chile, Miami, Chicago, Mumbai and Dubai.