Our Top Seattle
Innovation Conference

Name: Future Festival Seattle
Start: 2020-02-03
End: 2020-02-03
Location: Regal Meridian & 4DX

On February 3rd, join the top innovators in Seattle to explore future trends & prepare for the years ahead.
97% rate it higher than any other innovation conference.

50-100 Top-Tier Innovators

Innovation +
Trend Keynotes

1:1 Meetings +
Assessments

After Party &
Networking

Trend Report Platform
+ Takeaways

YOUR NEXT
LEVEL

Innovation Keynote Speaker Jeremy Gutsche

Our Seattle Innovation Conference is an exclusive event that takes all of the essential information from our three-day festival in Toronto and packs it into one accelerated program. Over the course of one action-packed day, you will learn about future trends, key consumer insights, and disruptive innovations that will cause major industry shifts. We will help you stay ahead of competitors and anticipate these changes with our groundbreaking frameworks and workshops.” – Jeremy Gutsche, CEO & NY Times Bestselling Author

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2020 Tour Schedule - Theme: Innovating Through Chaos

50 - 100 Attendees

Stream Our Virtual Event

100 - 200 Attendees

1000 Attendees

WHAT'S DIFFERENT?
Our 1-day innovation conferences are immersive, takeaway-focused training events

COST-EFFECTIVE 1-DAY vs.DAYS AWAY FROM WORK

100+ DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS vs.OUTDATED MATERIAL

DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATIONS vs.TAKE-YOUR-OWN NOTES

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENTS vs.GENERIC CONTENT

ONE-ON-ONE ADVISOR TIME vs.LACK OF FOLLOW-UP

ENERGETIC & ACTIONABLE vs.RANDOM & OUTDATED

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Our Seattle Innovation Conference

Future Festival’s Seattle Business Conference will begin with a comprehensive overview of the 6 Patterns of Opportunity and the 18 Megatrends that are currently shaping consumer insights. The rest of the day will be filled with highly curated sessions that will explore future trends and pinpoint overlooked opportunities. The innovation conference will end with an immersive Future Party and you will go home with $4,000 worth of practical takeaway materials.

"FutureFest is like a concentrated dose of inspiration and insights. This event is a must-attend!" – Assoicate Brand Manager

"The Trend Hunter team has an amazing ability to take reams of data and examples and crystallize into one key A-ha. Very helpful to get to what is important. I found myself saying "wow" the whole day."
– Insights Department Leader

Why visit? We’ll suggest more than a dozen hands-on experiences for after the Seattle Innovation Conference wraps up

The Seattle Business Conference will take place in the heart of the city’s downtown core. Known as a hotbed for innovation and home to Fortune 500 brands such as Amazon, Starbucks, and Microsoft, the city is the perfect place to see future trends and shifting consumer insights in action. In fact, Seattle is often cited as one of the best places to observe pilot projects and new products in their early days.

Looking to discover trends and innovation in Seattle?
If you’re unfamiliar with the Seattle area, attending Trend Hunter’s one-day Seattle Business Conference is the perfect opportunity to spend some time exploring. While major sights such as the Space Needle and Pike Place Market are likely to top any to-do list, be sure to check out other innovative hotspots across the city. This includes well known spaces such as the Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room, pioneering social change incubators such as The Collaboratory, or local haunts such as Stonington Gallery.

Plus, explore a dozen other unique Seattle spots for future trends in our Future Festival business conference book!

Innovation Conference Locations

Regal Meridian & 4DX

1501 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

Jeremy Gutsche

Courtney Scharf

Jonathon Brown

Gil Haddi

Blaine Aberdeen

Speakers Videos & Content Samples

Schedule for Seattle 2020

Morning

Breakfast + Registration

Pre-Book Launch + Super Future Keynote

Break

Forecasting Micro-Generational Desire

Rewriting the Rules of Retail

Lunch

Afternoon

Presentation - SAP

Cracking the Leisure Code

Marketing in the Crisis of Authenticity

Break

Fireside Chat with HeroX

Future-Proofing Work Culture

Innovating Through Ritual

Networking + After-Party

7:30 am

Breakfast + Registration

8:40 am

Pre-Book Launch + Super Future Keynote

10:20 am

Break

10:50 am

Forecasting Micro-Generational Desire

Generational thinking gets an update through a new approach to segmentation. Deep-dive the Micro-Generations to uncover the answer to what today’s consumer truly desires and why.

11:40 am

Rewriting the Rules of Retail

Inspect the motivations behind consumers’ purchasing behaviors and what it means to offer a purposeful retail experience. What can you do to become more customer-centric?

12:10 pm

Lunch

1:10 pm

Presentation - SAP

1:35 pm

Cracking the Leisure Code

To learn what consumers really want, look no further than what they do in their free time. Find out what motivates consumer leisure choices and what they mean for your business.

2:05 pm

Marketing in the Crisis of Authenticity

Explore how marketing has changed to reach an age where traditional tactics no longer exist. What is the best way to capture the attention of a consumer who craves authenticity?

2:35 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Fireside Chat with HeroX

3:40 pm

Future-Proofing Work Culture

Deep-dive the new definition of work/life balance using Trend Hunter’s Innovation Assessment. What does today’s consumer – perhaps even your own employees – consider a good corporate culture?

4:10 pm

Innovating Through Ritual

Explore case studies of how the most innovative people productionize out-of-the-box thinking within their teams. Are our imagined orders helping or hurting innovation? How can you create new ones?

5:00 pm

Networking + After-Party