Daniel Levine

Daniel Levine is the world's best-known trends expert and a trusted consultant to major companies and brands worldwide. He is regularly featured in newspapers and magazines and is often on television and radio, including CNN, NBC, and others. He is the director of the Avant-Guide Institute, a New York-based consultancy that helps some of the world's largest companies, brands, and investors profit from trends. Daniel is a frequent guest on TV and radio and was named "the ultimate guru of cool" by CNN. He leads a global team of trend-spotters who track the latest ideas and experiences around the globe, and his corporate partners include some of the world's most notable names, from General Motors, American Express, and Microsoft, to Christian Dior, Pfizer, and South African Tourism. He is the bestselling author of 11 books on trends, business, travel, and marketing, and as a keynote speaker, he has given Keynote Speaker with over 350 presentations for 37+ industries in 39 countries. 

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Tomorrow’s Trends and the Future of Almost Everything

Trends in your industry don’t operate in a vacuum. They are part of a global ecosystem that is quickly changing the way we all work, live, and play. So strap on your jetpack and get ready to explore the most valuable trends transforming your world. From transport and technology to communication and consumerism, prepare to profit from a world in flux.

Key Takeaways:

• Discover amazing new trends that will transform your industry
• Get clarity on the future of technology and how to best take advantage of it
• Be inspired by successes outside your industry that will help you innovate from within
• Learn how to profit from trends and become a trendsetter
• Impress colleagues, friends, and spouses with your newly acquired vision of the future

Trends With Benefits: What Customers Want (Before They Even Know It)

Why do some people choose to buy from you while others go elsewhere? Discover the “why” behind the buy, understand trends that are quickly changing the consumer landscape, and learn from organizations, brands, and products that are embracing trends with spectacular results. This is your opportunity to ride the waves of the future and leave competitors in your wake.

Key Takeaways:

• Spot the latest consumer trends
• Discover the ‘why’ behind the buy
• Acquire more loyal customers by aligning your messaging with their sensibilities.
• Get in front of consumer expectations.
• Become the first to profit from what your competition may only see eventually.

A.I., Myself, and I: Navigating Business Trends in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
 

Are you ready for a keynote speech that will blow your circuits? Take a mind-bending journey to our new world, where machines think, learn, and create like never before. Explore the exciting ways artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our lives and discover technologies you can use to lower costs, reach customers, and increase sales. The intelligence may be artificial, but the inspiration and value you’ll gain are as real as can be.

Key Takeaways:

• Get clarity on the future of A.I.
• Discover technologies of tomorrow you can use today
• Expand your mind and be inspired by the future
• Become the first to profit from what your competition may only see eventually.

Shaping the Trends of Tomorrow: A Hands-On Workshop “Playshop”
 

Now that you understand the basics of trends, this is your opportunity to roll up your sleeves and put your new-found expertise to work. In this intensive, interactive, and playful workshop – or “playshop” – you’ll get hands-on experience creating real, actionable products, services, and marketing initiatives. You will discover a simple methodology to create new trends-based initiatives and walk away with the confidence to implement them. Some of the world’s highest-ranking CEOs have made decisive changes in their business as a result of what they learned from this workshop.

Key Takeaways:

Learn how to seek out and recognize relevant new trends

• Discover new opportunities
• Implement profitable trends-based initiatives
• Become the go-to person for trends in your office
• Master the power of trends-based innovation