Futurist Jim Carroll
The Future of Manufacturing is Here.
Are You Ready for It?
“The era of slow, incremental change is over. Today's manufacturing landscape is being redefined by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), AI-driven automation, additive manufacturing, and digital twins. In this new reality, inaction is not a strategy. Jim provides the critical foresight your team needs to navigate this disruption and build a factory of the future—today.”
Futurist Jim Carroll
KEYNOTE:
The Disruption, Transformation and
Reinvention of Manufacturing
“Collapsing product lifecycles. Artificial intelligence. The connectivity of the Industrial Internet of Things. Mass customization. Digitization, robotics, and the cloud. Design based on crowd thinking. Rapid prototyping and deployment. Faster time to market. 3D printing / additive manufacturing. Are you ready for the new world of manufacturing?”
The New Era of Intelligent Production
While some see disruption, innovative leaders see an unprecedented opportunity to capture market share. This keynote provides a strategic overview of the critical trends your organization must master, including:
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Transitioning from selling products to selling connected, data-driven outcomes.
AI & Robotics: Leveraging intelligent automation to accelerate efficiency and unlock new capabilities.
Additive Manufacturing: How 3D printing is revolutionizing prototyping, supply chains, and production.
Digital Twins: Using virtual models to optimize processes, predict maintenance, and innovate faster.
Skills Transformation: Building the agile, multi-skilled workforce required to win in the next decade.
The Challenge:
Volvo's leadership needed to align their executives and dealers with the seismic shift from selling trucks to selling connected, data-driven transportation solutions with predictive diagnostics.The Result:
Jim delivered a keynote that provided a clear, motivating, and strategic perspective on the future of the industry, accelerating their transformation.
The Challenge:
This major industrial manufacturer, a leader in motion and control technologies, required insight into the future opportunities within the aerospace, industrial, and mobile sectors.The Result:
Jim provided a keynote that detailed the future trends impacting their core markets, offering a clear vision for continued innovation and growth.
The Challenge:
PPG, a global supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials, needed to frame the future for a major leadership event.The Result:
Jim delivered a customized keynote that provided detailed insight into the trends impacting their diverse portfolio and customer base.
Futurist Jim Carroll
Author & Keynote Speaker
Trends And Innovation Expert
Futurist Jim Carroll is on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.He has been booked by CEOs of dozens of insurance organizations, worldwide, for his thought leadership on the future of the insurance industry.“I help CEOs, senior executives, and association leaders achieve their strategic objectives by aligning them with a disruptive, accelerating future. It’s actionable, powerful leadership insight based on detailed, specific industry trends – delivered within a fast-paced keynote with a compelling motivational style!”
– Jim Carroll
Keynote Overview
Collapsing product lifecycles. Mass customization. Digitization, robotics, and the cloud. Design based on crowd thinking. Build to demand, as opposed to building to inventory, business models. The role of the Internet of Things in product innovation as well as manufacturing process innovation. Artificial intelligence in design, process and research. Spatial innovation with advanced manufacturing robotics. New materials and substances that allow for a change in product development. Rapid prototyping, sketch to scale, and agility-based business models…. are you ready for the new world of manufacturing?While popular media and opportunistic politicians portray a picture of a sector in crisis, smart manufacturing executives are furiously busy with innovation, reinventing their capabilities, processes, and business models using advanced ideas, materials, methodologies, and technologies.The reality of manufacturing today is that there is a big opportunity that comes from aligning with fast-paced trends. What a time for innovation opportunity, and for insight from a great keynote that really puts all of these trends into perspective. Futurist Jim Carroll takes you on a voyage about the current and future opportunities in the world of manufacturing.Dozens of the largest manufacturing and industrial organizations in the world have engaged Jim to help them think about opportunities for innovation.Jim will provide you with a clear overview of up-to-date trends sweeping the sector based on customized up-to-the-moment research, concise case studies of successful manufacturing reinvention strategies, and a clear pathway into the innovation and reinvention methodologies being used by today’s advanced manufacturing innovation powerhouses.
Manufacturing Clients
Customized Insight
When you work with Futurist Jim Carroll, you get more than a keynote.You get deep research, practical insight and actionable strategies.Let's start with this simple fact: Jim knows that it's your event. He is there to share his insight in a way that is relevant for your leadership team or audience. Jim prepares his keynote or talk with that fact first and foremost in his mind.With 33 years of providing opening and closing keynotes, Jim has become globally recognized for his effort to go above and beyond in providing you insight that is extensively researched, carefully crafted to your requirements, and delivered in the compelling motivational style for which he is known worldwide.Jim's insight is based on proven research and facts. His typical process involves accessing key articles, research papers and more from Dow Jones Factiva, the world's largest and most sophisticated deep research service. He'll often access upwards of 1,000-2,000 articles and reports specific to your industry and the topic at hand.His insight is customized, practical, actionable - and highly relevant.In that way, he is the unique topic expert that you need for your event.
A Proven Strategic Innovation Framework for Your Leadership Event
Jim Carroll will provide you with the detailed, extensively researched, highly customized manufacturing oriented disruptive trends and innovation insight that you need – on the future trends & innovation topic you require within your specific niche.He is known globally for his ability to provide concise, detailed insight for offsite CEO or CxO leadership events, and has been doing this for close to 30 years.His talks are based on extensive, original research, specific to your issues, strategies and leadership requirements.Jim offers strategy, insight, reality – not hype.This is what we will bring to your meeting or event.
Why Jim Carroll?
For 30+ years, Futurist Jim Carroll has been on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.Jim Carroll is the futurist that CEOs trust. His global client list demonstrates that they seek his accumulated 30 years of experience, wisdom, and insight, developed by the time he has spent with some of the leading organizations in the world.Jim’s leadership keynote will align you to your disruptive, accelerating future by providing detailed, specific industry trends. It’s powerful leadership insight delivered in a compelling and motivational style!You know you need to align to a world that is faster, more complex, and that demands resilience. You need deep insight into the trends that will impact you and the strategies that you can pursue to align with them. You need to inspire your leadership team and members to get moving. That’s how Jim Carroll will help you.Don’t just take Jim’s word for it. Join other leading organizations like NASA, Pfizer, The World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, and even Disney, all of whom arranged for Jim’s insight for a global leadership event or customer meeting – and came away empowered with new insight to take on our faster, more complex world.
Global Manufacturing Leaders Turn to Jim Carroll For Leadership Insight
As a futurist and innovation thought leader for 30+ years, Jim has headlined dozens of manufacturing association events, as well as being invited in by CEOs of manufacturing leaders worldwide for an iinteral leadership meeting.A few examples? Jim recently keynoted the IMX – Interactive Manufacturing Exchange Congress in Las Vegas with an audience of over 2,000 senior manufacturing executives, and the BigM Manufacturing Summit in Detroit, as well as the American Manufacturing Summit in the same city. Jim’s other manufacturing and industrial clients include dozens more, including • Magna International • United Technologies • Camstar Systems • Genesis Systems Robotics Siemens • PPG • Chrysler • Caterpillar • and many, many more.
Customer & Client
Event Keynotes
Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before.That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events.
It’s an opportunity to tell their story, position their products, outline their value proposition, and build relationships.Futurist Jim Carroll helps organizations deliver their key strategic message at these customer or client user group meetings with a highly customized keynote based on detailed industry and issue research.
CEO / CxO
Leadership Events
Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future.A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts.Jim is known for his presentations at these events which involve highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, a global track record, and detailed industry experience!
Extensive Thought Leadership Insight
Jim has been sharing his insight on manufacturing trends through his blog since 2002.In it, you will find dozens of posts about the leading disruptive trends, technologies, concepts and strategies that are redefining the sector.He also shares extensive insight on his two main websites.
30+ YEARS OF CEO-LEVEL LEADERSHIP INSIGHT
Your issues are critical; your leadership meeting is important; your success with your event is mandatory.You need a battle-tested proven expert who can deliver concise trends-oriented leadership insight.
he has 30+ years of well-honed stage presence and style
he has an established reputation as a thought leader with very detailed, extensive, industry-specific insight
he has been booked by CEOs worldwide, based on his reputation for delivering insight that is well-researched, fact-oriented, and forward-oriented.
Don’t trust your critical leadership to inexperience – because experience matters!
