Jim Carroll

The acceleration of AI is not just about the technology; it’s not just about ChatGPT; it’s about the AI Megatrends! The
transformative and disruptive concepts involving such things as predictive diagnostics, autonomous technologies, and
machine vision, the hyper-connectivity of intelligent devices, the integration of AI into robotics and virtualized digital twin
technologies, workforce and process augmentation technologies, virtual knowledge assistants, real-time risk monitoring, product reinvention, and transformation through embedded AI, and so much more!

These are the types of AI Megatrends that you need to understand to comprehend how your industry, profession,
association, and job and career will change. AI is already causing a massive change in every industry such as: changing the
way we diagnose and treat medical conditions; how we assess and underwrite insurance risk using sophisticated AI risk
management tools; how we manage our march to precision farming using AI-driven autonomous technologies; how we are using AI throughout retail and manufacturing for deep supply chain analysis and inventory management.

It’s vast, sweeping, transformative megatrends that will continue at a faster pace as we enter the ‘era of acceleration.’

Futurist Jim Carroll puts these realities into perspective for your organization in a fast-paced keynote or leadership meeting presentation. A highly customized, industry-specific AI Megatrent overview based on customized research specific
to your industry and organization and aligned to your unique perspective. It’s insight that matters, that is relevant and
actionable!

RIGHT NOW, you need highly relevant AI Megatrends guidance from a realistic, strategic business perspective.

Jim will help you understand:
• The AI Megatrends that are already underway, and those that are yet to come
• The disruptive and transformative context of these trends in your industry, profession, or association, based on up-
to-the-minute detailed research specific to your requirements
• Why the ‘era of acceleration’ with AI will now challenge all your assumptions about your future
• The strategic opportunities that exist with AI within your industry and organization, on a near, medium, and long-
term basis
• The significant challenges and risks that exist for the same time frame
• What leading innovators and competitors are doing to align with these fast-moving trends
• What actionable steps you can pursue so you can prepare a concise strategic plan for your organization and team
Futurist Jim Carroll will help you cut through the noise and the hype to understand what is really happening and the critical
nature of the important trends that you must pay attention to!

Your leadership team requires a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges.

That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary. Jim Carroll will provide your leadership team with a highly customized keynote presentation that will provide you with deep insight into the impact of AI on your company and your industry. For more than 30 years, leadership teams at NASA, Pfizer, the PGA, Volvo, and the World Bank have trusted Jim to provide clarity on leadership trends and strategies that matter.

You don’t need hype or hysteria – you don’t need utopian visions. You also can’t let your internal engine of skepticism defer your action. When it comes to AI, you need to have a compelling sense of urgency, but you might have an astonishing mindset of complacency. Futurist Jim Carroll will provide you with the strategic clarity on AI that you require.

What you will learn:

the two key AI trends unfolding today – generative AI (ChatGPT & LLM’s) and the ‘AI megatrends’
an overview of generative technology trends and their promise and peril, opportunity and challenge
an overview of the even more significant AI Megatrends already occurring – based on up-to-the-minute detailed research specific to your requirements
the strategic opportunities that exist with AI within your industry and organization, on a near, medium, and long-term basis
the significant challenges and risks that exist for the same time frame
what leading innovators and competitors are doing to align with these fast-moving trends
From Boards to Team Events: Jim shares his insight with small intimate groups of 15-20 (Boards, senior leadership teams) to large-scale corporate leadership meetings of several hundred people. He adapts his style to the audience – from highly interactive small group discussions to keynote presentations.

We will see more change in every industry in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 100 as transformation and disruption sweeps the world.

Every company is faced with the rapid emergence of new competitors, significant new business models, more challenging consumers, the acceleration of science, and a transition to the speed of innovation that will define their future.

How do you manage this complex new world and get ahead? By turning on your innovation engine, firing your creativity thrusters, and strapping in for a rocket ride into your faster future. You need to accelerate your ability to generate radical new ideas and transformative concepts. You need innovation creativity!

In this keynote, futurist and innovation expert Jim Carroll shares the innovation and creativity insight that he has gained through three decades of a relentless focus on what turns organizations into high-velocity innovation and creativity heroes. None other than NASA has invited Jim in – twice – to share his insight on innovation strategies. Disney – a creativity superhero – invited him in for a keynote on the opportunities that come from rethinking creativity. The World Bank engaged him for a talk that linked fast-moving future trends to the need for accelerated innovation and fast thinking.

Jim’s keynote will share with you the key elements of his imaginary but powerful “Masters in Business Imagination” curriculum – a structure of 10 key leadership strategies, actions and structures that will help you envision opportunity, think differently, and act quickly.

Launch yourself into the faster future with this unique, high energy creativity focused keynote from global futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll!

Business model disruption. The rapid emergence of new competitors. The challenging impact of social media. Rapid prototyping and the global idea machine. The digitization of everything and the impact of hyper-connectivity. Rapid technological change. All of these trends — and more — require that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their innovation efforts.

They can do so by learning what the world’s leaders are doing with their innovation efforts. For over 30 years, Jim Carroll has had the opportunity to study what makes some organizations excel at the concept of innovation while others do not. He has carefully cataloged their approaches, attitudes, leadership styles, and strategies into a concise overview that is the secret sauce of innovative thinking.

World-class innovators possess a relentless focus on growth, continually transitioning their revenue source, and solving customer problems before the customer knows it’s a problem. They focus on upside-down innovation by sourcing innovation ideas through their customers. They concentrate on ingesting fast ideas; checking their speed focusing on corporate agility; and focusing on long-term wins through constant incremental improvements. They know that skills partnerships are a key success factor. Most importantly, world-class innovators aren’t afraid to back away from big ideas. They know that right now is a great time to make bold decisions and to take decisive advantage to forge aggressive new paths against their competitors.

While everyone else wallows in aggressive indecision and organizational sclerosis, world-class innovators know that it is a great time to do great things!

In this keynote, Jim Carroll will provide you with unique insight into what these world-class organizations and high-caliber leaders are doing, to position themselves for a future in which the velocity of change is the new normal, acceleration is the reality, agility is the core, and adaptation is the necessity!

“Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived using methodologies not yet in existence with materials not yet invented based on ideas not yet imagined by people who do not yet know they are inventing tomorrow, today.” That’s the context for tomorrow – a future that will be here sooner than you think. What are you going to do to turn the trends of tomorrow into the opportunities of today?

We live in a time of massive challenge, and yet one of massive opportunity. We’re faced with deep and complex issues involving the environment, health care, water and food. At the same time, every industry is faced with upheaval, disruption and change. There are massive changes underway all around us – it’s pretty clear that we are moving to a world of 24-hour farming based on autonomous technology and virtual agriculture; a time of healthcare that is more focused on fixing you before you are sick rather than after; one in which we underwrite insurance based on real-time analytics rather than looking back in time. A time in which most cars and trucks are electric, rather than being based on gas and diesel; one in which most of the world’s population lives in cities, not urban areas; a time when we do more construction offsite instead of onsite; in which more of our energy is coming from small, local community energy microgrids instead of big centralized energy utilities, with the majority of that energy coming from renewables instead of gas, coal and nuclear; a world in which more and more of our food is grown in vertical farms instead of traditional farms.

In this context, it’s clear that we will see more change in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 100 – every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors, new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other trends! The art is discovering the opportunity in the trends, the growth in the ideas, and the future in the reality!

Once you do that, you need to align yourself to the big opportunities of today through bold, transformative thinking; take the small-scale steps today to align yourself to this future, and focus on a culture of speed and agility that can help you to get there at the right time! You need to think about transformation, not just innovation!

In this keynote, Jim outlines his simple but transformative structure with deep insight into what it takes to master the new, complex volatile world, by embracing the chaos, thinking transformation not innovation, mastering the timing of trends, and accelerating forward-oriented growth opportunities. The new model for going forward in the era of accelerating change: Think big, start small, and scale fast!