Berlin INNOVATION CONFERENCE

Our Top Berlin
Innovation Conference

New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Gutsche shares his best innovation tactics through compelling stories, collected over a span of 20 years and a 15-year keynote speaking career. Jeremy dives into stories of challenges, perseverance and triumph while highlighting relevant case studies from past and recent years.

Make sense of the world’s fastest moving trends with the 18 Megatrends Matrix from Trend Hunter. The tool is based on our 6 Patterns of Opportunity and maps trends to evergreen consumer desires, explored through a post-pandemic lens in this session.

Learn to navigate today’s changing landscape of work post-pandemic. This session dives into the recent success of hybrid work models, a direct result of changing employee priorities and expectations. We will explore notable case studies while seeing what’s next for the future of work.

Shared internalized experiences are the driving force behind generational behavior, a theme explored in our micro-segmented Micro-Generations session. We give a detailed overview of nuanced groups while exploring these groups’ response to the recent pandemic and their plans for life moving forward.

The pandemic caused consumers to embrace at-home cooking, leading to more experimentation than ever before. With elevated in-person dining on the rise again, the opposing forces of at-home and in-person experiences are changing what and how we eat and drink. This session explores how CPG, dining and flavor brands can better adapt to these shifting mindsets.

The elements of an innovator can be defined in a myriad of ways, and this session looks to music for inspiration by correlating them to the “4 elements of hip hop.” We explore innovation through the lens of DJ, MC, Breakdancing and Graffiti themes, sharing a fresh version of Trend Hunter’s Create the Future framework.

Join us and a surprise guest for a live, on-stage interview, highlighting the best innovation tactics that are explored through compelling real industry examples. We will explore how challenges lead to opportunity and how innovation can happen when and where you least expect it.

Technology is advancing faster than ever before with the acceleration of innovations like the metaverse, NFTs and AI. These technologies are becoming more commonly used by the masses while altering their lives on a daily basis. Our Superfuture session explores the long term implications of these emerging technologies and their impact on the world.