Experts & Opinion

Discover the opinions that matter and the ideas shaping our future, including on-demand webinars, videos and podcast discussions with innovative thinkers on how we can collectively shape a more positive future.

RSVP: Culture-coded Retail Online Event

Join us on 19 June 2025 for an online event introducing our new retail macro trend report.

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipated webinar.

Viewpoints

Compostable Cosmetics

Wildsmith is setting a new standard for sustainable luxury with Vivomer, a compostable, microbe-made packaging material designed to disappear into the earth without a trace.

Viewpoints

Regenerative Olive Oil

Citizens of Soil, an innovative olive oil brand, is championing provenance transparency, healthy soils, gender equality and sustainable packaging at a fair price.

Viewpoints

Connected Healing

Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and CEO of Remedy Place, tells LS:N Global how the intersection of social wellness and technology is creating a new era of connected healing.

Webinars

RSVP: Optimised Odysseys: Travel and Hospitality Futures Online Event

Travel has entered a redefining age when every element must be optimised. Join us on 24 September for an overview of our latest travel and hos...

Webinars

What’s New on LS:N Global?

From resilience branding to AI-generated fragrances and the future of halal food, our analysts unpack what’s new and next on LS:N Global.

The Future Laboratory : LS:N Global : Trend Forecasting

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Cyberchondria and Its Cure

The democratisation of medical knowledge – and the spread of fake news – has opened the doors to a new kind of cyberchondria. Jay Topham, co-founde...

Design : Technology : Health

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The Ads Don’t Work for Gen Z

If brands want to genuinely connect with Gen Z, they need to dial down the ad saturation and earn their attention rather than demand it, writes for...

Advertising & Branding : Youth : Pop Culture & Media

Webinars

Innovation Debrief 2025–2026 On-demand Webinar

Explore 50 emerging signals from the margins with the minds behind our Innovation Debrief 2025–2026 report.

Webinar : The Future Laboratory : Technology

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Tactile Touchpoints

Nathalie Valmary, founder of notebook brand Louise Carmen, talks to LS:N Global about repositioning the leather journal as a personal sanctuary of ...

Design : Pop-culture & Media : Society

Webinars

Culture-coded Retail On-demand Webinar

Consumers are turning to a new generation of in-person retail experiences energised by cultural relevance and built on brand community. Watch ...

Webinar : The Future Laboratory : Retail

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Detty December’s Cultural Capital

Beyond music and parties, end-of-year festivities in Nigeria and Ghana represent a new model for cultural tourism that strengthens diasporic bonds ...

Travel & Hospitality : Youth : Detty December

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The Wellness Reset

Energy fields, somatic sensing and spiritual technologies are resetting elite approaches to wellness. LS:N Global speaks to Carlos Urrutigoity, gen...

Health : Technology : Hospitality

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Democratising Longevity

The team behind full-body scan clinic Neko Health tell LS:N Global why preventative healthcare needs a glow-up – and how design and data can reshap...

Health : Design : Longevity

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Introducing Gen Beta

2025 marks the start of Generation Beta – but it’s the parenting styles, values and cultural outlooks of Millennials and Gen Z that will define thi...

Gen Beta : Generations : Parenting

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The New Youth Club

Moot is a membership-based third space redefining UK youth clubs for a generation craving real-world connection, culture and community. LS:N Global...

Youth : Future Spaces : Gen Z

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Rehumanising 3D Design

Fashion designer Karina Bond talks to LS:N Global about redefining couture with a printing pen and bringing the human touch to 3D design.

Fashion : Technology : Sustainability

Webinars

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipa...

Webinar : The Future Laboratory : Masterclass

Webinars

May 2025: What’s New on LS:N Global?

From shifting definitions of value to TikTok-fuelled commerce and hormone health retreats, our analysts unpack what’s new and next on LS:N Global.

What's New? : The Future Laboratory : LS:N Global

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Compostable Cosmetics

British skincare brand Wildsmith and tech-bio innovator Shellworks are setting a new standard for sustainable luxury with Vivomer, a compostable, m...

Beauty : Sustainability : Design

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Regenerative Olive Oil

LS:N Global sits down with Sarah Vachon, co-founder of Citizens of Soil, an innovative olive oil brand championing provenance transparency, healthy...

Food : Sustainability : Agriculture

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Connected Healing

Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and CEO of Remedy Place, tells LS:N Global how the intersection of social wellness and technology is creating a new era ...

Health : Wellness : Hospitality

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Wearable Skincare

Fashion stylist and consultant Tallulah Harlech sits down with LS:N Global to discuss Sylva, her own functional apparel brand designed with skincar...

Beauty : Fashion : Sustainability

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Augmented Futures for Next-Gen Teens

Biomedical scientist and former White House senior policy advisor Dr Knatokie Ford sits down with The Future Laboratory's co-founder Martin Raymond...

Youth : Gen Alpha : Education