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Leading Authority In Global Retail & Business Futurism

Kate Ancketill Speaking Fee: $30,000 - $40,000

Leading Authority In Global Retail & Business Futurism

Speaker Profile Thumbnail for Kate Ancketill
Speaking Fee:
$30,000 - $40,000

Travels From:
LON - London (All Airports)

Primary Topic Category:
Creativity and Innovation

Secondary Topic Category:
Futurists

 

Kate Ancketill Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Kate Ancketill is a business futurist and conference speaker who helps the world’s biggest consumer-facing brands see what’s coming before it’s obvious. For 25 years she ran London-based consultancy GDR Creative Intelligence, tracking global innovation for clients including P&G, Tesco, Sephora, Microsoft, Target, Google and Coca-Cola. Where most speakers stay inside one industry, Kate reads them all as one connected picture — spotting cross-sector signals everyone else misses. Named Best AI & Future Technology Speaker at the 2025 Speaker Awards, she has delivered the flagship trends keynote at the NRF Big Show for ten consecutive years.

Kate Ancketill: The Futurist Who Sees What Others Miss. While every industry watches its own competitors, Kate reads retail, hospitality, finance and technology as one connected picture — turning global signals into your next three-to-five-year strategy. REASONS TO BOOK KATE ANCKETILL * Ten-Time NRF Keynote Speaker: Kate has delivered the flagship trends keynote at the NRF Big Show in New York for ten consecutive years. * A Genuinely Bespoke Talk, Every Time: No recycled decks. Every presentation is built fresh for the audience in the room, with new global case studies that stage won’t have seen before. * Pragmatic Strategy, Not Hype: Kate avoids both apocalyptic tech-warnings and blind Silicon Valley utopianism, translating AI and emerging trends into grounded strategy audiences and leadership teams can use immediately. GLOBAL SIGNALS, APPLIED TO YOUR BUSINESS For 25 years, Kate ran London-based business futurist consultancy GDR Creative Intelligence, acting as innovation partner to more than 100 of the world’s largest brands — including P&G, Tesco, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Pepsi, LVMH and Coca-Cola. Named Best AI & Future Technology Speaker at the 2025 Speaker Awards and one of BizTech Magazine’s Top 30 IT Influencers in 2024, she continues to bring those same signals directly to conference stages, corporate summits and executive boardrooms worldwide. What sets Kate apart is where she looks. Most speakers stay inside one industry’s news cycle; Kate reads them all as a single picture — a bank learning from beauty, a retailer borrowing a loyalty trick from mobile gaming, a hotel’s customer flow reshaping an automotive showroom. It’s not a framework or a checklist — after 25 years of paying attention across every sector at once, she simply notices the connections other people miss. Every keynote is built from the same lens — the signal, the technology making it real, and the macro forces that decide whether it lasts — and can be delivered as a 30–45 minute conference session, a webinar, a panel contribution, or a half-day interactive board briefing. As the NRF’s Martine Reardon, CMO & EVP of Content and Retail Strategy, puts it: “Kate gets among the highest feedback for speakers at the NRF Big Show every year — that’s why we’ve invited her to give the trends keynote for ten years running.” Book Kate Ancketill and your audience walks away with concrete trends for the next three to five years, real global case studies behind each one, and ideas they’re still implementing months later.
"I’ve been here as the new tech and product director and trying to do exactly what Kate said better in getting people away from 3 year fixed budgets and roadmaps and commitments to high speed test and learn. Kate's 20000 years slide was heaven for my quest!" — EasyJet "Kate's vision for the future of retail was nothing short of a masterclass in innovation and digital transformation... challenging us to think more strategically and forward-thinking." — ABF "Really enjoyed the presentation, my mind is blown! From the scary advances in robots/tech and how reliant we maybe become of them/it to personalised music in-store... Genuinely one of the most interesting presentations I’ve heard in a long time." — ASOS "Every time that I see one of Kate's presentations I walk away 'awed' at what is going on in the retail and restaurant industry around the world... the content of Kate's presentation was a true eye-opener for us..." — Development Officer, McDonald's Corporation
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