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.

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The Wellness Reset

Energy fields, somatic sensing and spiritual technologies are resetting elite approaches to wellness, according to Carlos Urrutigoity, general manager of London club Grey Wolfe.

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Democratising Longevity

Neko Health tells LS:N Global why preventative healthcare needs a glow-up – and how design and data can reshape the way we future-proof our bodies.

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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.

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-anticipated webinar.

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The next luxury market? It’s the virtual world

Unmatereality is a Singapore-based studio digitising and gamifying luxury fashion. Its founder Andy Ku discusses his plans for the era of v-commerce.

Luxury : Fashion : Technology

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Will Covid quell fashion’s ‘more is more’ mindset?

With smaller brands struggling to stay afloat and larger brands left with stock but no demand, the pandemic could push fashion toward a post-growth...

Fashion : Retail : Sustainability

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How OffLimits is redefining emotional eating

Emily Elyse Miller, founder of OffLimits, discusses disrupting the cereal category and creating a brand built around a full spectrum of emotions.

Food : Branding : Wellness

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It’s time to decolonise education, say Gen Z

Galvanised by the Black Lives Matter movement, Generation Z are using social media to (un)learn behaviours and catalyse decolonised education reform.

Youth : Education : BLM

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Raw and real: a new era for influencer marketing

A migration towards smaller influencers more deeply in touch with their audiences will shape how brands work in the years ahead.

Retail : Covid-19 : Feedback Frontiers

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Hybri’s AI models hint at phygital intimacy

Richard Donczi, president of Realic, on blurring the boundaries between real-world experiences, human desire and virtual relationships.

Technology : Neo-Kinship : AI

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Gen Z Perspectives: UK

The latest edition of our Generation Z insight series reveals British teenagers’ pioneering attitudes to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Youth : Society : Dislocated World

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Retailers must digitise fashion for the Covid era

Bruno Antunes Luis, co-founder of Gaspard + Bruno, on how hyper-real digital solutions offer untapped ways to experience and interact with products...

Fashion : Technology : Retail

Podcasts

Podcast: Devon Powers on Pandemic Futures

In the first episode of Back to the F**kture, Devon Powers discusses why forecasters failed to spot Covid-19.

Society : Podcast : Covid-19

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How Gen Z are reshaping the offline world

Young people have fashioned the digital world. Wilson Oryema, co-founder of Regenerative Futures, believes it’s time they revive offline systems too.

Youth : Sustainability : Civic Brands

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Rebranding Asian food culture

Kim and Vanessa Pham, co-founders of Omsom, discuss the importance of proudly reclaiming the integrity and identity of Asian flavours in the grocer...

Food : Marketing : Convenience

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The post-pandemic future of Beauty & Wellness

Michel Brousset, the founder and CEO of incubator Waldencast, predicts a future of hyper-local retail, bioscience beauty and safeguarded sustainabi...

Beauty : Health & Wellness : Sustainability

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Brazil’s communities are teaching brands a resilience lesson

With the government failing to meet their expectations, Brazil’s informal settlements are carving their own path through Covid-19 – and brands must...

Covid-19 : Resilience Culture : Society

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Health justice will shape our future cities

Araceli Camargo, co-founder of Centric Lab, on its work and the civil movement to address urban health inequalities and ensure future cities are he...

Architecture : Future Cities : Health

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Dear business leaders: black people are tired

As company leaders, remember your humanity, suspend your disbelief and work to become anti-racist, writes Nyasha Pitt, chair of Coventry Pride’s ...

Society : Black Lives Matter : Workplace

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Gen Z Perspectives: India

In collaboration with 31st State, our new series unearths global insights on the biggest mindset shifts among Generation Z.

Youth : Mental Health : Health

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What really matters to brands?

Instead of using the fallout from George Floyd’s murder to improve their social equity, brands need to stop and learn from the Black community to c...

Society : Black Lives Matter : Civic Brands

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Squadded recreates the mall effect online

Elysa Kahn, co-founder of Squadded, highlights the potential for the new social e-commerce solution and the difference between shopping and buying.

Retail : Fashion : E-commerce

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The post-Covid consumer: hedonistic or minimalist?

Brands and businesses must prepare for polarised responses to the pandemic as established consumer paradigms are either accelerated or abandoned.

Retail : Covid-19 : Coronavirus

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Inside the social media pantries of tomorrow

Jessica Young, founder of natural food platform Bubble, on how hype groceries and digital culture are changing our relationship with what we eat.

Grocery : Health : Digital