How to Innovate in Times of Chaos, AI & Change
You are capable of more than you think, but as a human being, you fall victim to ‘7 Traps of Path Dependency’ that block you from realizing your full potential.
Learn to think more disruptively so that you can navigate the turbulent landscape of chaos, change and the AI revolution. Leveraging insights from his award-winning books, top innovation keynote speaker Jeremy Gutsche will empower you with the strategies he’s used to help 750 brands, billionaires, CEOs and world leaders.
This innovation keynote speech will help you unlock your innovation potential, offering an unmissable opportunity to seize the future.
Unlock Your Team’s Full Potential
As a follow-up to Jeremy’s Create The Future keynote, you can add on a custom workshop, tailored to your situation. After a discovery call, Jeremy will walk you through best practices, cherry-picking from more than 40 workshop modules (and 80 hours of his masterclass content) to create the ideal experience for your needs, typically balancing educational (learning new tactics) and action (tangible plans and next steps).
Your workshop can be an efficient 2-hour add-on or a 5-day masterclass intended to tackle your greatest challenge while certifying your team as futurists.
You’ll end your innovation workshop with next steps and a driven energy to make change happen even when change is hard
Prepare Yourself to Thrive in the AI Revolution
As an AI expert and founder of Trend Hunter AI, Jeremy’s client list includes AI powerhouses like Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell and Amazon. Get an unrivaled glimpse into the future underpinned by artificial intelligence and how it will impact your own brand.
With 2 million views, Jeremy’s AI keynote speaker video is a revelation of where the world is heading. His live keynote is updated constantly to provide you with the most cutting edge glimpse into the transforming landscapes of technology, society, and business.
It’s time to prepare for the year AI changes your life, work and potential.
Get Better at Adapting & Faster at Finding Ideas
In a world where change is the only constant, Jeremy’s NY Times Bestseller-based innovation keynote will empower you to adapt swiftly and uncover ideas at an accelerated pace.
As the top keynote speaker video on YouTube, Jeremy has already inspired 12 million people with his compelling insights and strategies for innovation and change.
Most people do realize how predictable the next 10 years are going to be, based on repeating patterns and the fact we have gone through a pandemic 19 times before. There are several long term frameworks that illustrate highly predictive patterns of what happens next, impacting consumer needs, the workplace, the generations, global conflict and the competitive environment.
This was Jeremy’s most popular innovation keynote video during the pandemic, and since then, many of the predictions have become shocking true, suggesting there’s even more predictive power in what lies ahead.
The keynote overlays 3 additional long-term frameworks, including generational theory, the rise and fall of nations, and the AI-accelerated pace of change, to prove to you what comes next. This is Jeremy’s most-popular keynote in the investment industry.
CAPTURE NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND STAY AHEAD OF THE PACK
After finding success, many companies fall into a pattern of dire complacency. Their decision-makers forget about adapting and making change happen.
Enthralled with their achievements, they’re afraid to fail at something new—so they don’t even try. Once-thriving corporate cultures can quickly wilt, and the results can be deadly. Just ask Kodak, Blackberry, Blockbuster, or Smith Corona, whose leaders didn’t adapt at crucial moments of transformation.
Today, no one within a company can afford to stagnate. Each employee needs to keep pushing forward. In this powerful talk, Jeremy Gutsche shows you how to awaken, hunt, and capture those immense opportunities that others might too easily dismiss.
And, he explains how to actually make these ideas happen. Drawing on 200 interviews with CEOs, Trend hunter’s study of 250,000 innovations from a virtual focus group of 100,000,000 people, new case studies of a variety of brands, and even his family’s personal journey of entrepreneurial daring, Gutsche challenges audiences to define their core values, and guides them toward a new outlook on innovation, disruption, and adaptation.
Tactics for Disruptive Thinking and Action – Immerse yourself in a culture of high performance and change.
Jeremy’s keynote offers actionable strategies to create and foster a culture that not only embraces change but actively seeks it.
Empower your team to drive innovation and make change actually happen.
In an increasingly jaded market, how can you boost sales? How can you drive customer engagement? Having the best product isn’t enough any more.
You need to spark the kinds of conversations that lead to conversion. You need to make a deeper connection that speaks to both the needs your customers are currently facing, and the changes coming down the pike.
In this talk Jeremy Gutsche takes you through the hard data on the kinds of engagement that lead to sales. Drawing on case studies with millions of data points, Gutsche illustrates how chaos creates opportunity in sales, how to infectiously message your idea, how to make messages pop through the clutter, and—ultimately—how to innovate the sales process and build a culture of customer obsession.
Discover the art of creating impactful messages that stick, sell, and spread like wildfire. Jeremy’s marketing keynote, grounded in Trend Hunter’s study of 500,000 articles and big data from 3.5 billion pageviews.
This keynote is meant to make you a more powerful communicator inside your organization and beyond, with a strategic blueprint for crafting persuasive messages.
Jeremy Gutsche is an innovation strategist and bestselling author known for practical, behavior-based methods that help organizations spot opportunity and move fast. He built his reputation showing companies how to convert weak trend signals into actionable business models and growth programs. Jeremy blends research with real-world case studies to teach teams how to prototype quickly, reduce risk, and scale ideas that stick.
His keynotes and workshops emphasize the discipline of trend-driven innovation: how to observe emergent patterns, test assumptions rapidly, and systematize repeatable processes so discoveries become growth engines. He uses frameworks and hands-on exercises—often culminating in a short, prioritized roadmap attendees can execute the following quarter.
Jeremy’s speaking style is high-energy and example-driven. He focuses on tangible deliverables: prioritized opportunity lists, prototype plans, and playbooks that teams can use immediately. His clients range from startups to enterprise product and marketing teams seeking pragmatic ways to future-proof offerings and speed up decision cycles. If you want a session that leaves attendees with specific experiments to run next week, Jeremy delivers that and the muscle to keep pushing them forward.
Jeremy Gutsche, MBA, CFA, is a renowned figure in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, celebrated as a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning innovation expert.
With a reputation for delivering electrifying keynote presentations that inspire and ignite creativity, Jeremy has been dubbed by The Sun Newspaper as “one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the planet.”
As the founder and CEO of Trend Hunter, the world’s #1 trend website and innovation consultancy, Jeremy Gutsche has propelled himself to the forefront of the global innovation landscape, amassing over 3.5 billion views and successfully completing over 10,000 projects.
Jeremy Gutsche’s journey to becoming a leading authority in innovation began with a vision to help individuals and organizations unlock their potential for growth and success. Armed with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and the prestigious Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, Jeremy combines his expertise in finance and business with his innate ability to identify emerging trends and opportunities.
His passion for innovation led him to establish Trend Hunter in 2006, with a mission to empower businesses to stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
With his unparalleled expertise, dynamic speaking style, and proven track record of success, Jeremy Gutsche is the ideal choice for companies seeking a transformative and unforgettable keynote experience. Book Jeremy Gutsche through Speakers Inc and embark on a journey of innovation, growth, and success.
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A fast-paced keynote that demystifies AI mechanization, from robots and deepfakes to mind-reading interfaces, and turns emerging tech into next-step strategy for your team.
The talk opens with a provocation: many capabilities that sound futuristic already exist, from inner-voice decoding to AR-enhanced work and brain–computer interfaces. The speaker frames AI as the dominant megatrend that will touch every industry and household, urging audiences to study it regardless of technical background. He distinguishes today’s narrow AI from arriving milestones in artificial general intelligence and, later, superintelligence, noting that compute power and data are not the bottlenecks. The constraint is building systems that teach themselves effectively.
He illustrates acceleration with a metaphor: once AI passes a “dumb human” benchmark, progress to expert levels could occur extremely quickly, which is why leaders must plan beyond single-use AI tools. The keynote then spotlights combinations of AI with robotics, interfaces, bioenhancement, 3D printing, and sustainability. Current examples include delivery and hospitality robots, agricultural automation, and conversational AI that can negotiate bookings by phone. He touches on deepfakes and the blurring of human–machine boundaries, emphasizing both creative uses and risks.
Mind-interface advances move from thought-controlled games to systems that interpret subvocalized inner speech, raising questions about consent, policy, and geopolitics. Bioenhancement demos show exoskeletons and vision augmentation on the horizon. 3D printing extends from prosthetics to buildings, hinting at self-replicating robotic ecosystems.
On sustainability, he highlights ocean plastic, overproduction, and the need for cradle-to-grave design, pointing to entrepreneurs and brands piloting solutions. He closes by translating Trend Hunter’s data-driven methods into takeaways: use machine learning to personalize, find patterns in your customer signals, and co-create AI use cases with cross-functional teams. The call to action is to embrace the pace of change, prototype sooner, and channel AI toward meaningful outcomes for customers and the planet.
00:00 Opening question and promise: what the next five years bring and what you can do
00:35 Today’s capabilities: inner-voice decoding, AR work, controller-free interfaces
02:00 Why AI is the megatrend every leader must study
03:00 From narrow AI to AGI and why that leap matters
04:10 The acceleration curve once AI reaches human-level competence
05:20 What limits AGI: not compute or data, but learning architectures
07:00 Robotics now: delivery, hospitality, agriculture, and retail use cases
08:45 Conversational agents that book real-world services
10:00 Deepfakes and identity: creative potential and societal risk
11:15 Interface shift: humanizing machines vs. practical form factors
12:30 Mind-reading and subvocal interfaces in early deployments
14:00 Consent, governance, and geopolitical stakes of neural data
15:10 Bioenhancement: exoskeletons, accessibility, and augmented vision
17:00 3D printing from products to houses and autonomous construction
18:15 Sustainability: ocean plastic, waste cycles, and circular design
20:00 Brand responses and youth values driving adoption
21:00 Trend Hunter methodology and machine learning for personalization
22:15 Using language processing to accelerate research and pattern-finding
23:15 How to start: workshops, pilots, and competitive scanning
24:30 Closing challenge: act sooner, move faster, prototype the future
25:36 End. Verified runtime 25:36.
A high-energy keynote that shows why smart teams miss big ideas, then delivers five tactics to build optionality, beat inertia, and ship real change.
The talk opens by framing today as the fastest period of change, where disruption and opportunity rise together but many teams lack tools to move. Jeremy uses a memorable story about NASA rocket booster width tracing back to Roman chariots to show path dependency.
We inherit constraints without questioning them, which blocks innovation. He then shares five lessons. First, disruption is subtle. Icons often miss breakthroughs, from Western Union rejecting the telephone to Disney and Blockbuster turning down transformational bets. Second, our brains wire for efficiency. Through myelin, repeated behavior becomes fast and comfortable, which also makes us stubborn and dismissive of new approaches.
Third, success creates traps. We keep QWERTY, resist switching costs, and say no because it feels safer. Fourth, optionality beats short-term profit. Choose actions that create more future choices, like convening collisions, running experiments, and learning with customers. He cites examples such as permission slips to fail, project funerals, and leaders who deliberately seek disconfirming news.
Finally, embrace discomfort. He profiles Tony Fadell, who left a stable role, endured setbacks, built the iPod, then founded Nest. The arc illustrates persistence, pivots, and the payoff of audacity. Jeremy closes with a set of imperatives: be open to new ideas, train your brain, break from the path, act sooner, never give up, and be revolutionary. The throughline is practical culture design that rewards dissent, increases passion, and funds experiments so innovation and change actually happen.
00:00 Context and promise: make innovation and change happen in a faster world
01:05 NASA chariot width story and the cost of path dependency
03:40 Lesson 1, subtlety of disruption, famous rejection stories and missed bets
08:10 People overestimate control, why success blinds experts
09:30 Lesson 2, neurological wiring and myelin, quick exercises to reveal habit grooves
12:45 Creative capacity on teams, tactics to develop everyday creativity
14:15 Lesson 3, traps of success, QWERTY, comfort, and why saying no feels smart
16:20 Culture barriers, assessments that surface hidden blockers
18:10 Lesson 4, optionality over short-term profit, collisions, permission to fail, project funerals
22:05 Leaders’ examples, passion, audacity, and deliberate exposure to opposing views
24:10 Lesson 5, discomfort and the Tony Fadell story, iPod to Nest
29:10 Why smart incumbents mocked the iPhone and lost
31:00 Final playbook, seven imperatives for action
33:48 End. Verified runtime 33:48.
AI strategy, robotics, bioenhancement, mind–computer interfaces, 3D printing, sustainability, change leadership.
A: Product, marketing, and innovation teams focused on growth.
Playbooks, prioritization templates, and short experiment plans.
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