Ed Barlow is a futurist, specializing in healthcare and medical industries. Ed helps organizations to create the future's purpose: to enhance an understanding of the future and the influences which will affect personal, professional, organizational, and community settings.

Jeff Bauer is a Trend Expert Specializing in Healthcare. With 35 years as a professor and consultant, Dr. Bauer is a nationally recognized expert on key trends that shape the future of health care.

Trend researcher and economist Alan Beaulieu, a senior analyst, economist and a principal of the Institute for Trend Research (ITR®) since 1990. Mr. Beaulieu has been consulting and advising companies throughout the US, Europe, and Japan on how to plan for and prosper through the business cycle.

Brian Beaulieu has been an economist with the Institute for Trend Research since 1982, serving as its Executive Director since 1987. At the Institute, he has been engaged in applied research regarding business cycle trend analysis and the utilization of that research at a practical business level.

Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. He is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social, and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

A leading global futurist, trends and innovation expert with a massive blue chip client base, Jim Carroll is a frequent keynote speaker at major events and conferences, dinners, awards presentations and PR launch events worldiwde - small management get togethers of 20 people, or Las Vegas events with an audience of 3,000+. He also delivers highly customized insight for small, CEO/Board/senior management leadership sessions.

Dr. Lowell Catlett is a Regent’s Professor/Dean and Chief Administrative Officer at New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. An exciting futurist, his knowledge of technologies and their implications on the way we will live and work is addressed in his varied and upbeat presentations. Dr. Catlett works on behalf of corporate and association audiences internationally, presenting his take on trends in healthcare, agriculture, the environment, education and more. His latest talk addresses the current state of the economy- and what's in store for businesses down the road.

With intelligence and clarity, Dr. Chimerine examines the issues and trends of current and future economic situations and how they will directly affect your organization, industry, or geographic region.

Dr. D. Jeffrey Dietrich is a senior analyst for the Institute for Trend Research. He provides economic forecasts with 98% accuracy so companies can improve their performance and profits.

With nearly 30 years’ experience, medical consultant and healthcare keynote speaker Joe Flower has emerged as the premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world.

Peter C. Fusaro is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. As a keynote speaker, Fusaro is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental issues.

The dean of Yale School of Management, author and columnist on global management for BusinessWeek, Jeffrey Garten served as U.S. commerce under secretary from 1993 – 1995. Jeffrey Garten speaks about the countries with the fastest growing economies, those who have begun to rewrite the rules of power and economic influence around the world. Jeffrey Garten provides the latest on the changing global economy - then reveals the corporate strategies needed to increase profits.

Health Futures’ Jeff Goldsmith is an active advisor to and investor in small innovative companies working in active health management. These firms have in common that they are developing tools for helping health systems, employers or health plans achieve changes in health outcomes for patients, subscribers or ordinary citizens by using state of the art clinical information technology.

 

Through his consulting, keynotes and workshops, Scott Klososky helps executives gain an understanding of the trends that are driving new technologies to be powerful tools, and also gives practical examples from real life organizations that are leveraging these tools to win in their markets.

William Knoke is founder and President of the Harvard Capital Group, specializing in raising venture capital, private placements, mergers and acquisitions and preparing companies for initial public offerings. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, (MBA) and Stanford University (BA Economics, cum laude). Knoke is also the author of "Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century" and "The Tipping Point".

Ian is an internationally known author, consultant, and speaker specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

Erik Peterson is a specialist on demography and population, and speaks on geopolitical and country risk assessment; international trade and finance; international business strategy and global strategic planning.

Leading Authority on Healthcare Economics / Professor of Political Economy at Princeton Uwe E. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968, where he is a James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Rising through the ranks from assistant professor of economics to his current position, he has taught courses in both micro- and macro-economic theory and policy, accounting for commercial, private, non-profit, and governmental enterprises, financial management for commercial and non-profit enterprises, and health economics and policy.

Having served 11 years as Chairman of the Investment Advisory Board of a $22 Billion trust fund, Don Reynolds' success resulted in his being appointed by George W. Bush as Pension Board Chairman with oversight of $120 Billion in Pension & Trust Funds. He understands how important personal accountability and bottom line performance is, and the need for decision makers to have a clear vision of future trends and events in order to make successful long term strategic decisions.

For more than 30 years, author and keynote speaker Jack Shaw has been a leader in assessing the impact of technology on business strategy. Jack Shaw helps organizations increase revenues, cut costs, improve service, and maximize the productivity of their people by implementing advanced business practices and improved business processes.

David L. Smith has the education, experience and proven track record to reassure audiences he knows what he is talking about. A Dartmouth- and Stanford-trained economist, futurist and market strategist, Smith’s views have intrigued audiences for 24 years in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan. A seasoned, compelling speaker, Smith’s informative and entertaining presentations provide stimulating, thought-provoking economic and financial insight, accurate forecasts and profitable strategies highly customized to meet the needs of diverse audiences.

Rohit is an award winning speaker, entrepreneur, specialist advisor and strategic change agent. He was nominated as one the top ten global future thinkers by the UK’s Independent newspaper. He is the founder of the think tanks Fast Future and Global Futures and Foresight.

Economic futurist Jeff Thredgold has been helping people understand the tangled maze of the economy and financial markets for more than three decades. With a unique ability to "cut though the fluff," he leads his audience on a slightly irreverent, up-to-the-minute "tour" of the economy, financial markets, education, government, and a sneak preview of the future.

The true measure of a business forecaster is the combination of a depth of knowledge, keen foresight, and breadth of perspective. Bob Treadway possesses those attributes after nearly two decades of working with exceptional clients in a wide cross-section of industries and a personal regimen of staying broadly informed, deeply knowledgeable, and highly practiced in the fields of strategy and forecasting.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker, and best-selling author. His books include the best-selling, The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, and the award-winning, Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition. His latest book is The Exponential Executive: Eight Essential Elements for Exploiting the Emerging Economy.

Brian Wesbury is Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors LP, afinancial services firm based in Lisle, Illinois and serves on the Board of Advisors to First Trust Capital Partners, an affiliated private-equity firm. The Wall Street Journal ranked Mr.Wesbury the nation’s #1 U.S. economic forecaster in 2001 and USA Today ranked him as one of the nation’s top 10 forecasters in 2004.

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture- digital ethnography.