Jared Weiner

Vice President
Weiner, Edrich, Brown Inc.

Jared Weiner is Vice President of Weiner, Edrich, Brown (WEB), one of the world’s leading futurist consulting firms. Jared evaluates emerging social, technological, economic, political, demographic and environmental trends in the global marketplace – and identifies the strategic implications (the “So what?”) of those trends for several of the most influential Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and public sector clients.

Jared serves on the Board of Directors of the World Future Society, the world’s preeminent futurist industry group. He also sits on American Express OPEN's Digital Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of design startup RAREculture, and the Advisory Board of the Young Luxury Marketers' Council. He frequently lectures about future trends for corporate and academic audiences, and has keynoted some of the world’s most prominent industry conferences with a focus on future-related issues.

Jared holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester, and an M.B.A. from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.

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2014 AGENDA: Day 2: Omni-Channel & Big Data Day

Monday, April 4th, 2016

09:05 How Current Trends are Shaping the New Economy and the 10 Growth Areas of Tomorrow for Business

Jared Weiner will leverage his experience as a futurist working with some of the world’s largest companies to uncover several emerging consumer trends for 2014…and beyond…that will significantly impact the future. This session will focus on the major growth areas of the emerging Metaspace Economy, and the important trends that underlie those growth areas. Together, we
will take a powerful, quick-hitting journey into the short- and long-term future to uncover the growth opportunities of tomorrow for business – specifically within digital. Among the concepts discussed, will be:

• Time as the new value proposition of the emerging economy
• The profound shift toward image-based communication
• The rise and evolution of alternative, digital currencies
• Advancements in the study of the human brain, mind and decision-making processes
• The importance of design thinking and design-inspired leadership in the development of everything