Bureaus & event organisers

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.