Jim Carroll

Keynote Speaker

Jim Carroll's Biography

Jim is the world’s leading global futurist, trends and innovation expert, with a massive global blue chip client list. Over the last 25 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight with his events on stage. His clients include NASA, Disney, Mercedes Benz, the World Government Summit organized by the Prime Minister of the UAE, BASF, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the National Australia Bank, and hundreds more.

Jim has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of industries, associations, professions, companies and individuals. People have shared his insight with highly energized presentations in Tokyo, Zurich, Dubai, Munich, Palm Springs, Sydney, Cayman Islands, Los Angeles, Miami, Costa Rica, London, Nassau, Sao Paolo, Munich, New York, Vancouver, Stockholm, Budapest; everything from small Board-level sessions with 12 people; to high level CEO leadership meetings to 7,000 person conference keynotes.

Leading global futurist, innovation expert and keynote speaker Jim Caroll shares his views on everything from the future of finance and agriculture to healthcare and self-driving cars. How to realign and rethink our future to stay ahead? Disruptive innovation and much more.

AI Megatrends: Beyond ChatGPT
How AI is Redefining Your Industry, Profession, Company and Career - And What You Need To Do About It!

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, realtime 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 in order to comprehend how your industry, profession, association, and job and career will change. AI is already causing 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 which 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, is relevant, and actionable!

What you need RIGHT NOW is 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 on 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 orgranization 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!

ChatGPT, The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the Arrival of the Personalized Knowledge Butler
Promise and Peril in The Next Technological Transformation

Here's what you need to know - it's pretty certain you won't find your job being replaced by AI, but it might be replaced by someone using AI, particularly with ChatGPT and other similar LLM (Large language model) technologies!

In this fast moving keynote, Futurist Jim Carroll takes a look at the short-term trends sweeping the world today as ChatGPT and other technologies come to change the nature of the way we search, learn, interact and think. It's a new era of human-knowledge augmentation through the emergence of personalized knowledge butlers; an acceleration in just-in-time knowledge through on-demand knowledge robots; the arrival of the always-available knowledge servant. The fact is, we are in the midst of the biggest knowledge revolution in the history of mankind since the arrival of the Internet - and it is occurring at a speed that is staggering. You need to cut through the hype, filter the noise, and get a clear - and up to the moment - strategic overview of what is happening in real-time

You don't need to understand how ChatGPT and other LLM ("large language model") systems work - you need to understand the impact they will have. Making sense of what's real and cutting through the hype to discover real opportunities within the trends is one of the most important things you can do! This is not a time to get caught up in 'fast FOMO' - 'fear of missing out' - nor is it a time to ignore the speed of what is occurring. There are significant implications to the sudden arrival of artificial intelligence and other trends, from very real business model disruption to unique legal and copyright issues, education, knowledge, and workforce skills challenges, as well as the emergence of disruptive new industry competitors and accelerated new product development and innovation opportunities. The scope of what these technologies represent is increasing because the pace of their evolution is now moving faster than fast.

What does this mean to you and what do you need to do? Jim will provide you actionable strategies on how to stay ahead in the AI knowledge race; insight on some of the most powerful tools emerging in this new AI knowledge universe; actionable strategies to continually enhance your just-in-time knowledge skills through AI; and how you can align your skills, atittude and personal motivation factory to align wtih this new era of high-velocity change.

In this highly customized keynote, prepared specifically for your company, industry, or association based on up-to-the-minute research.

Jim will help you understand:

• the challenges and opportunities behind these trends within your industry and organization
• the disruptive impact on your business and operations or upon your industry or association members
• the strategies you should be thinking about to align with the new realities they present
• the key strategic action plans designed to get your team moving forward, balanced with a realistic assessment of the timing of specific trends and how they will unfold.

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!