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Kate Ancketill
Business futurist and AI keynote speaker Kate Ancketill helps retail, hospitality, and consumer brands prepare for what's next, turning global trends into a clear three-to-five-year strategy. Trusted by Microsoft, Google, and Tesco, and named among BizTech's top 30 IT Influencers, she delivered NRF Big Show's trends keynote for ten consecutive years.
Kate Ancketill is a London-based business futurist who helps retail, hospitality, and consumer brands work out what matters to their customers next, and what to do about it.
For over 25 years, Kate ran GDR Creative Intelligence, the innovation consultancy she founded for more than 100 of the world's largest brands, including P&G, Tesco, and Google. She has delivered the headline trends keynote at the NRF Big Show for ten consecutive years and was named Best AI and Future Technology Speaker at the 2025 Speakers Awards.
Kate reads retail, hospitality, finance, and technology as one connected picture rather than separate industries, spotting the ideas moving from one sector into another before they become obvious elsewhere. She translates those signals into commercial strategy that leadership teams can act on immediately, without the apocalyptic warnings or blind optimism that surround most conversations about artificial intelligence.
Audiences leave with at least three concrete trends to plan around for the next three to five years, real global case studies behind each one, and practical ideas they are still applying months after the event, whatever their sector or seniority.
Book Kate to help your leadership team see past its own industry and plan the next five years with confidence.
Topics, sessions and talks
Kate Ancketill argues that projecting three to five years ahead is a skill, not a gift, built from twenty-five years of watching global markets. She dismantles the dazzling-but-directionless future-of-X talk in favour of a practical toolkit for early change detection, sharpening how boards and CMOs read weak signals before they become industry news. Kate leaves audiences with a clearer read on Gen Z and Generation Alpha as tomorrow's customers.
Kate Ancketill cuts through artificial intelligence hype to show what pragmatic, three-to-five-year enterprise capability actually looks like. Drawing on global case studies, she separates high-return AI deployment from expensive marketing gimmicks and explores how brands are using automation to remove friction without losing the human warmth that keeps customers loyal. Kate leaves leadership teams able to tell genuine commercial opportunity from noise, and to protect brand trust as personalisation and efficiency compete for the same budget.
Kate Ancketill tours the signals shaping how the next generation of customers will live, work, travel, spend and consume, drawing on field research from Seoul, Dubai, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, London and the Nordics. She sets out the specific challenges facing Gen Z and Generation Alpha, and profiles the brands already solving them. Kate shows leadership teams how to build the agile culture needed to keep adapting as those behaviours keep shifting.
Kate Ancketill spent 25 years running GDR Creative Intelligence for more than 100 of the world's largest brands, building an instinct for what moves next across industries. Winner of Best AI and Future Technology Speaker at The Speakers Awards and 10x NRF Big Show speaker, she turns global signals into next year's plan.
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