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Uncover the foundational steps necessary to leverage AI for innovation. Chart a course toward transformative advancements.
“Step into a future where technology and artificial intelligence remain pivotal in shaping our lives, unlocking fresh possibilities and defining a new era. After a decade driven by AI progress, we’ll delve into its ongoing influence across diverse sectors. Our event is crafted with a singular goal – to be the world’s best innovation conference – a place to learn next year’s trends from the world’s leading trend firm. Join like-minded pioneers, visionaries, and industry leaders as we converge to shape the future. Impressively, 97% of attendees rate our World Summit as the best innovation conference they’ve attended.”
- Sarah St. Jules, Chief Operating Officer, Trend Hunter
"The best, most engaging and most relevant business event I have ever attended." Chief Strategy Officer & SVP of Marketing
"Hands down, the best way to experience innovation and the future." Consumer Insight Specialist
"The best event I've ever attended, and we go to motorcycle races." Head of Sensing and R&D
"Future Festival is a concentrated dose of inspiration and insights. This event is a must-attend!" Associate Brand Manager
"No service out there captures Consumer Behavior as well as Trend Hunter" Creative Development Manager, Ideation
"Future Festival created opportunities for our team and expanded our people's thinking." CEO
"Undoubtedly the most meaningful conference I've ever attended." VP of Sales
"Any senior executive would benefit hugely from taking a couple of days and attending Future Festival." Global VP of Innovation
Our core Future Festival curriculum is brought to life by Trend Hunter's team of Futurists -- inspiring keynote speakers and workshop facilitators relied on by hundreds of the world's leading brands. Our Futurists will spark your new ideas while delivering fresh, data-driven content from our Trend Hunter machine and deep insight from delivering more than 2,000 annual custom trend reports.
Trend Hunter’s CEO, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning innovation keynote speaker and AI expert, will guide you through how to maximize your potential and innovate in times of change. As one of the world’s most sought-after keynote speakers, he has helped over 800 brands, billionaires and CEOs make change happen.
As Trend Hunter’s Chief Content Officer and the brain behind our trend sessions and workshops, she is our most requested Futurist for custom trend keynotes. With expertise in generations, she explores the evolving dynamics of Millennials, Boomers, Gen X and Gen Z, and their distinctive responses to the AI’s expanding influence.
As the Chief Client Officer at Trend Hunter, she leads the Client Relations team, curating over 5,000 custom trend reports. Specializing in the future of leisure, nightlife, and entertainment, she explores experience in the AI era and its intersection with culture.
A Senior Research Advisor and Futurist, Zahra partners with leading brands in the food, beauty, CPG, and tech industries to showcase her deep understanding of consumer behaviors across various contexts through numerous trend reports, trend sessions, webinars, keynotes and workshops.
Trend Hunter’s President, FuturistU Director, and the creator of Trend Hunter’s Innovation Assessment, helping 30,000+ professionals understand and improve their innovation processes both individually and as teams.
As Trend Hunter's VP of Sales Operations & Special Projects, he leverages his tech expertise, AI knowledge, and unparalleled enthusiasm for TH's content. In strategic internal initiatives and as a keynote speaker, he unveils AI's impact on humanity's future and our evolving relationship with technology.
As Trend Hunter's Chief Sales Officer, he drives strategy for business innovation research, development, and marketing. With experience interviewing 500+ business leaders, he uncovers innovation best practices, drawing insightful lessons from hip-hop history and applying them to internal innovation frameworks.
Trend Hunter’s VP of Client Success tailors research for 40+ brand partners, curating over 500 custom reports and conducting trend sessions for Fortune 500 firms. Her expertise lies in exploring the future of food and the interplay between human experience and AI in the food and beverage industry.
VP of Sales at Trend Hunter and FuturistU Emcee. Having interviewed 100+ global leaders in innovation, he now solves complex problems for hundreds of the world’s most influential brands.
Senior Research Advisor and Futurist at Trend Hunter. She has curated and presented over 300 custom reports, hosted a variety of webinars, and led keynotes and workshops that empower audiences with tangible solutions to create meaningful change within their organizations.
Uncover the foundational steps necessary to leverage AI for innovation. Chart a course toward transformative advancements.
Get inspired about CHAOS, OPPORTUNITY & AI with Jeremy Gutsche, one of the world’s top innovation keynote speakers & chaos experts, and the #1 most-watched innovation speaker on YouTube, with over 20,000,000 views. His books and keynotes have specialized in AI for almost a decade, and in his NEW keynote, he'll explore the history of innovation and how the trajectory of YOUR innovation will evolve with AI.
Our CEO, Jeremy Gutsche, is a New York Times bestselling author who has become an advisor to over 800 brands, billionaires, CEOs & NASA, particularly focused on innovating through times of change. As one of the world's top innovation keynote speakers, he'll kick-off the innovation event with unparalleled energy. Then he'll return for a lunchtime keynote about How to Create The Future with AI.
"Gutsche is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the planet, well-regarded as the top trend-spotter in the world... the most energizing, inspiring & applicable... & I’ve heard Bill Clinton... Bill Gates... & Tony Robbins." - The Sun Newspaper
Our Chief Content Officer, one of the world's most popular speakers on trends, Armida Ascano, will help you uncover the forces impacting your business in a fast-paced and tech-driven world.
Leveraging our big data from 225,000,000 people, we’ve built the most researched, most data-driven system for identifying opportunities. This unparalleled research led us to 6 Patterns of Opportunity and the 18 most important Megatrends shaping our future.
Using this framework, you’ll learn how to apply these Megatrends and patterns to any industry, and then more specifically how the resulting Megatrends conference content can be leveraged when you return home. For continuity, the rest of the innovation conference builds upon these frameworks, deep-diving into the top Megatrends throughout the rest of the day.
Get inspired about CHAOS, OPPORTUNITY with Jeremy Gutsche, one of the world’s top innovation keynote speakers & chaos experts, in a NEW keynote, diving into how innovation and change work, including a special section on how 6-factors related to how AI will shape the world.
What great opportunity is within your grasp? Our latest book, Jeremy Gutsche's award-winning Create The future, is all about how to make innovation and change happen, particularly during times of chaos. The book, which is our textbook on innovation, features tactics for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change in an AI-driven world.
We've reached a point in time when everyone wants innovation, but most people don't know how to make it happen. In our era of rapid change, disruption, and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within your grasp. However, smart, successful people consistently miss out. We have 7 traps that keep us stuck to the path we are already on.
With 95% of Future Festival participants rating the overall caliber of attendees higher than other events, you won't want to miss out on our networking sessions. To kick off pre-event programming, this year's event will include an exclusive Futurist U welcome reception. The event will be held on Sunday, September 29th at Abrielle, located inside Downtown Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel, a refurbished, historic building. A cocktail hour will also be hosted at the venue on September 30th, welcoming all attendees with complimentary beverages and early badge pickup ahead of Future Festival.
Night one of Future Festival will also feature an unforgettable cocktail reception at the TIFF Lightbox rooftop, Malaparte, a scenic indoor-outdoor experience featuring tech components throughout and views of the iconic CN Tower.
Witness real-world applications and success stories, discovering how AI is reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities.
Presented by Trend Hunter at award-winning venue TIFF Lightbox, the 2025 Innovation Strategy Awards will take place at Future Festival World Summit on September 23-25, 2025. Spotlighting inspiring innovation tactics from the world's most successful brands, the awards are based on our renowned innovation frameworks and are sourced from conversations with thought leaders, authors and Fortune 500 CEOs.
Maximize your World Summit Experience with the Future Book and Trend report.
Lead your organization into a new era of prosperity and growth, and embrace the future with confidence during out Innovation Workshops.
Innovators Who Send Teams: Starbucks, Disney, Visa, The US Air Force, Adidas, Domino's, Aflac, Staples, Netflix, Microsoft, Red Bull, Universal, Target, Pepsi, VW, Walmart, Bayer, Honda
Maximize your potential with personalized learning, custom research and special access to the world’s #1 trend platform (now with eLearning!)
3 months of essential learning content
Learn to filter out the noise and identify relevant opportunities even in times of widespread change and disruption.
Get a personalized innovation experience with 5-10 pages of custom insight about your innovation archetype, how you innovate, your strengths and your blindspots. The innovation conference keynotes will dive deeper into what this means, but you'll leave the conference with personalized insight and if you bring a team to the event, you can get an organizational assessment to compare your team's behaviours and composition to the world's top innovators. The end result is to make this more than just a conference on innovation, but rather a training program with a remarkable level of personalization.
Before and after the conference, PRO and VIP ticket holders will have the opportunity to meet with one of our innovation experts one-on-one. They can walk you through your individual or team innovation assessment, help you problem-solve using Trend Hunter frameworks, or steer you towards inspiration for your next big project.
Many of the activities are designed for teams, leading you to specific outputs for your own brand. Don't worry, you will still get a chance to network with other people... but for the workshop, it's better to have a team. These clients send groups of 6 or more: Starbucks, Disney, Visa, The US Air Force, Adidas, Domino's, Aflac, Staples, Netflix, Microsoft, Red Bull, Universal, Target, Pepsi, VW, Walmart, Bayer, Honda
How pro can you go? This year's World Summit program offers new experiences for VIPs, and a 5-day FuturistU Masterclass option to get certified as a futurist!
Our business model is curating custom trend reports for 1,500 of the world's leading brands. This year, we completed more than 2,000 custom reports for aggressive brands looking to win in 2025 and beyond, and the #1 category has been: AI. It’s time to immerse yourself in the future, and disrupt before you are disrupted.
Monday, September 22nd - Friday, September 26th
Become a futurist, taking your skills to the next level with our immersive FuturistU program. You’ll still get to be part of the World Summit epic trend day, tech party and networking events, but you’ll be learning in a smaller group in a focused 5-Day program that walks you through our full innovation strategy curriculum with a private stream of workshops and coaching from Jeremy Gutsche and our Futurist Team.
WANT HIGHER ROI FOR YOUR BRAND? BRING 6 PEOPLE - If you really want to convince your boss, push for 6 people and you will get a private table so that you can apply the learnings to actual solutions, tactics, next-steps and pitches for your company, instead of an assigned case study.
YOUR CURRICULUM & OUTCOMES - This program works through the full cycle of innovation, working through dozens of our best innovation workshops, best practices and tactics. You’ll learn while applying each tactic to your capstone project. Half of each day is content and half is an applied set of structured workshops, leading to your new business case and perfect pitch.
YOUR EXCLUSIVE PERKS - You'll kick off your experience with an exclusive welcome event on Sunday, September 21st, a prime networking opportunity featuring Trend Hunter's Futurist Team and fellow Masterclass cohorts. On September 22nd, you'll gather for a second cocktail hour with early badge pickup for the upcoming Future Festival. This program also includes an intimate dinner and graduation ceremony to celebrate your journey.
"One of the things about Future Festival is to understand that every aspect of the organization can benefit from it, whether they are in product development, marketing, consumer insights, research operations, because the idea is to think differently." Sr. Manager, Consumer Insights Marketing & Analytics, Disney
"The five day Masterclass was awesome. We were able to take what we learned that first day, blend it in with the awesome high energy keynote conversations that were happening, and then on the back end, we were really able to have some time to process and think through the kinds of applications of what we learned while building as a team." Digital Strategy and Management - Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
"We really enjoyed the connection - connection with industry and the weaving in of the regular Future Festival World Summit experience into this new Masterclass opportunity. They really married the experiences with the best of both worlds." Director, Northern Michigan University (SISU)
Exclusive Trend Safaris for FuturistU Masterclass participants
Learn about the latest trends shaping the future with immersive Trend Safaris - a hands-on experience exclusively curated for FuturistU Masterclass attendees. From mixology lifestyle to VR movement, this year's Trend Safaris will highlight Toronto's coolest innovations, and will also include a networking component.
Future Festival was designed for industry leaders who are ready to break through chaos. Content is aimed at Managers, Directors, VPs, and C-Level execs from all industries.
Future Festival World Summit is located in Toronto, Canada. All dates and other event locations for our in person events are listed on FutureFestival.com
Because innovative thinking is better shared. At Future Festival, you will be excited by trends and undiscovered opportunities. These are best shared with your group.
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