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Renowned for making complex societal shifts and emerging technologies relatable for any audience.

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 10 years running.”

Martine Reardon

CMO and EVP of Content and Retail Strategy, NRF (former CMO, Macy’s)

“Kate is fantastic, brilliant, exceptional! A great speaker, who researches trends with unique depth and is always concerned with bringing the best and richest content, customized to each target audience.”

Romano Pansera APAS

“Fascinating and scary — 9.25/10 (highest of all speakers).”

James Goad Owen James Events · A Meeting of Minds conference
Kate Ancketill at NRF ’25

“One word kept coming up again and again when attendees were commenting on your session — WOW!”

Claire Knott Conference Director, The Retail Bulletin Conference

“Kate you were a pure joy to hear from thank you so much for spending the day with us.”

Julia Darvill MD, Puratos

“It was a fantastic event and the feedback received was incredible. She has been our best speaker to date in terms of interest and questions.”

Fleur Copping Fujitsu
Kate Ancketill at House of Retail

“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. Please can you sign me up to email updates?”

Sally Ritchie Programmatic Operations Executive, ASOS

“A lot of highly relevant insights and examples. Feedback suggests this was the best engagement at Elkjøp so far.”

Elkjøp Electronics

“Great speech at the Switzerland Mastercard summit. Very inspiring, thank you!”

CEO, Bluewin

“If there’s one futurist I consistently return to when it comes to retail, it’s Kate Ancketill. I’ve had the pleasure of listening to Kate four times at NRF Big Show, and each time her session has been one of my absolute highlights.”

Per Ljungberg Svenskhandel

“Most people judge speakers by a polished profile and a three-minute showreel. They see it and think, “Wow, they look great.” Listening to Kate Ancketill live at LABS Hogarth House reminded me how little substitutes for seeing a speaker in-person. Her expertise was immediately apparent. And while she has a strong speaker reel, it doesn’t compare to hearing her work a room live. All great speakers are like this. It was useful to have that reaffirmed so clearly.”

Adam Levitt Founder, Covered Speakers Bureau

“We’re looking back on an incredible event. The responses from our guests have been amazing, and that’s also thanks to your presentation.”

House of Retail Event by First Impressions

“It was an honor to have you as our speaker at today’s webinar. Thank you so much for the wonderful presentation. The feedback from our audience was extremely positive: Highly interesting, extremely exciting, presented in a very charming way, great presentation — just to name a few. Once again, thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us.”

Messe Frankfurt Exhibition

“I’m reaching out with a warm thank you once again for your fantastic contribution to Unlock 2025 in London this past March. Your talk was not only insightful and energizing, but it also sparked many great conversations among our attendees — your vision of the future of retail continues to resonate deeply with our community.”

Akeneo

“I am from Brazil, the leader of one of the delegations, we are the biggest international delegation in NRF and everybody loves to listen to and learn with Kate. She is one of the Best speakers at NRF. We ask to put her on the main stage as a Keynote speaker. Hope that this happens for the next year.”

Lu Carmo Delegation Leader, Brazil
Kate Ancketill speaking in the Netherlands
Kate Ancketill on stage at NRF Nexus
Kate Ancketill delivering a keynote

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