Kate Ancketill

Kate Ancketill
Kate Ancketill
CEO and Founder
GDR Creative Intelligence
Kate is a business futurist with a tech, consumer, retail and brand specialization. She contextualizes complex societal shifts and emerging technologies into big picture narratives that help business leaders plan for the 5-10 year future. For 20 years her company, GDR has been the innovation partner to corporations like Tesco, Waitrose, Target, P&G, The BBC, Sephora, Clorox and the Far East Consortium. Working across all commercial sectors and geographies, Kate road-tests her thinking with real-world companies, often at board level.

Speaking in:

Monday
January 15
12:10 pm–12:40 pm
Javits North, Level 4, Elastic Path Stage
Modern retail is rocket science - how can we deal with the complexity?
The analogue world is behind us. Only advanced tech can solve the retail challenges and turn the tide on stagnating productivity. Discover what impacts this will have on physical retail, e-commerce and sustainability, as well as consumer’s shopping behaviors. This session with futurist and trends expert, Kate Ancketill, will posit optimism for the tech-enabled future.