Future Festival Day 2

Future Festival Day 2 featured an action-packed schedule that kicked off at the Fairmont Royal York ballroom and ended with an epic after party back at Trend Hunter headquarters. The engaging morning programming featured collaborative results-driven sessions that worked to expose overlooked patterns of opportunity for attendees and their teams.

Future Festival's series of Trend Safaris offered attendees a firsthand look at the trends that will come to define 2016. From rentable fashion to the pursuit of crafting the perfect cup of coffee, each Trend Safari adhered to a theme that linked back to Trend Hunter's 2016 Trend Report and Future Festival modules.

The immersive Trend Safaris were as follows:

A) Micro Retail
- Rent Frock Repeat (Learn the business model, and see the designer outfits, that makes rentable clothing a possibility for Canadian women)
- Indiegogo (Interact with some of the newest, and most innovative, tech pieces from Indiegogo)

B) Beer & Coffee Innovation
- Fermentations (Step into the shoes of a brewmaster by bottling your own beer or wine)
- Monarch Methods (By refining classic coffee brew methods through carefully re-designed equipment, Monarch demonstrates how to brew a perfect cup of coffee)

C) Food Culture & Graffiti
- Sushi-Making (A sushi-making lesson with Sang Kim, that focuses on a mixture of history, sushi-making and marketing for the next generation.)
- Street Food/Art (Experience Toronto's iconic Graffiti Alley while tasting some of the best street food the city has to offer.)

D) Emerging Arts & Graffiti
- Street Food/Art (Experience Toronto's iconic Graffiti Alley while tasting some of the best street food the city has to offer.)
- Analogue Gallery (Walk down Rock & Roll memorabilia lane, including some of the most iconic photos of musical legends.)

E) Virtual Reality & Entrepreneurship
- Indiegogo (Interact with some of the newest, and most innovative, tech pieces from Indigogo)
- AR/VR (Try the latest Smart Glasses and VR gear to experience first hand how AR & VR technology & trends will transform how you connect, educate & move consumers to action.)

F) Brain Reading & Sushi Culture
- Muse Headbands (Hi-Tech urban meditation, muse headbands connect with you brain's wavelengths to help you relax)
- Sushi-Making (A sushi-making lesson with Sang Kim, that focuses on a mixture of history, sushi-making and marketing for the next generation.)

G) Retail Reinvention
- Jackman Reinvents (Tour a couple reinvented retail locations with one of the world's top rebranding agencies.)

H) Sustainability & Coffee Innovation
- Monarch Methods (By refining classic brew methods through carefully re-designed equipment, Monarch demonstrates how to brew a perfect cup of coffee.)
- Sustainable Bees (This 'bee hotel' provides a sanctuary and sustainable home for pollen-producing bees in the city of Toronto.)

I) Virtual Reality & Brain Reading
- AR/VR (Try the latest Smart Glasses and VR gear to experience first hand how AR & VR technology & trends will transform how you connect, educate & move consumers to action.)
- Muse Headbands (High-tech urban meditation, Muse Headbands connect with your brain's wavelengths to help you relax.)

To catch up on the rest of Future Festival, check out our Welcome Party and coverage of Day 1.

Footage from Future Festival can also be viewed in virtual reality on the Bublcam app!