For 25 years, Kate Ancketill has been the innovation partner to over 30 of the world’s largest brands, including &G, Tesco, Target, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Moet Hennessy, Costa Coffee, The BBC, Clorox and Lego. She used GDR’s professional research and strategy expertise to distil immensely complex global subjects into visually spectacular, crystal-clear narratives with actionable takeaways.
She has been featured on various podcasts, including The Rest is Money with Robert Peston and Steph McGovern; Talking Shop By Retail Sector; and Retail Gets Real.
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Kate Ancketill | Speaker
As a public speaker, Kate has experience in a variety of forms, from conference talks to webinars and live broadcasts. As a business futurist, she always delivers compelling big-picture narratives. Kate has been selected to speak for ten years at the world’s largest retail tech show, the NRF (National Retail Federation)’s Big Show.
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Kate Ancketill | Areas of Expertise
– AI For Business and Retail
– Retail Analysis and Insights
– AI Innovation
– Technology
– CX
– Hospitality
– Brands
– Business Futurism
– Consumer Trends
– Gen Z/Alpha
– Leadership
– Motivational Speaking
– Transformation
– Disruptive Business Models
– Customer Experience/UX
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Kate Ancketill | Keynotes
Why Everyone Should Become a Futurist: A practical toolkit for projecting three to five years ahead, built from experience not theory. Most future-of-X talks leave audiences dazzled and directionless. This keynote focusses on early change detection built over 25 years of global market observation.
Key Takeaways:
– Reading markets through sharpened instinct, not checklists
– A 3-5 year planning horizon for boards and CMOs
– Clearer view of Gen Z and Generation Alpha as future customers
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The Future of Consumer-Facing AI: Cutting through tech hype to build pragmatic, three to five year enterprise capability. Explores how consumers are evolving in the AI era – balancing personalisation and agentic efficiency against authentic human creativity and brand trust.
Key Takeaways:
– Separating high-ROI AI deployment from expensive marketing gimmicks
– Global case studies of brands using AI to reduce friction
– Maintaining human warmth and brand trust in an automated world
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Consumer Trends – Upcoming Generations: How upcoming generations will live, work, travel, consume, and spend leisure time. Drawing on global field research, Kate tours signals from Seoul, Dubai, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, London, and the Nordics and what it means for your business.
Key Takeaways:
– Spotting key challenges affecting upcoming generations
– Case studies on who is solving Gen Z’s problems right now
– Building agile cultures that adapt to changing consumer needs
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Kate Ancketill | Past Events and Clients
– Unitas (Wholesale): Istanbul, Türkiye
– NRF Big Show Europe: Paris, France
– Puratos (Bakery Ingredients): Chile
– Puratos (Bakery Ingredients): Panama
– Gartner: London, UK
– Retail Trends Conference: Amsterdam, Netherlands
– Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit: London, UK
– Richemont (Luxury): London, UK
– Parmenion (Investment): London, UK
– Mane (Flavours and Fragrances): Cincinnati, USA
– The Crown Estate: London, UK
– Mastercard: Zurich, Switzerland
– D-Congress
Bayer, BBC, Clorax, Coca-Cola, Costa Coffee, Google, Henkel, Lego, L’Oréal, LVMH, Marks and Spencer, Mastercard, Microsoft, Moet Hennessy, Nestlé, P&G, Richemont, Samsung, Sephora, Target, Tesco, Unilever, Waitrose.
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To check fees and availability for global retail, consumer trends futurist speaker Kate Ancketill, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289
