The Future Trends Forum is the only international, multidisciplinary think tank focused on innovation. Made up of more than 400 experts, the FTF anticipates the future by detecting trends in innovation and analyzing their impact on our society and business models.
Every year we ask our experts to detect the innovative trends that will have the largest impact on our near future. Once the trends to be discussed are chosen, our experts lend a helping hand to define the key issues to be analyzed as part of each trend and identify the key experts from around the world. This set of experts will ultimately collaborate with us to anticipate challenges brought about by each trend. After an on-site meeting in Madrid, the conclusions drawn are discussed in a forward-looking report that presents as well an overview of the trend. The report focuses on drawing conclusions about the potential impact of the trend discussed, in order to communicate pragmatic, down-to-earth knowledge to our target audience. These contents are published on our website and spread via ad-hoc conferences around Spain, seeking the goal of anticipating the future and encouraging innovation in society.
Tendencias
- 2017Business Model DisruptionSee more
In last years, we are witnessing a radical acceleration of innovation and the creation of new business models thanks to technological development. This FTF trends will explore what new business models will generate the new generation of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, Blockchains, robotics, etc.
- 2016Digital HealthSee more
This trend analyzes how the digital revolution has reached health. The expert of the Future Trends Forum analyzed this new revolution to develop a new map of digital health, with its barriers and benefits as well as identifying stakeholders involved (patients, health professionals, public service) in accelerating digital health.
- 2016
Technology and inequalitySee moreThis trend analyses the potential of technology to combat inequality in society, through the improvement of services and opportunities for all of society, whether in developed or emerging economies.
- 2015
CybersecuritySee moreThis trend analyzes the development of cybersecurity around transparency, surveillance and privacy, as it becomes a driver for new business opportunities.
- 2015The machine revolutionSee more
This trend has analyzed how new technological developments (the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, etc.) will boost employment and labor markets in the next decade.
- 2014
Big Data and human performanceSee moreThis trend analyzes the study of human behavior and its implications for individuals, business and governments from a data-driven perspective.
- 2014
The future of currenciesSee moreThis trend analyzes new innovation trends in connection with the new financial services.
- 2013The Keys for the new global balanceSee more
This trend presents the proposals of our think thank on the new flows of capital (human, financial and intellectual) that will reshape the economic landscape for decades to come.
- 2013SuperhumansSee more
This trend examines the scientific and technological progresses that increase and enhance human capabilities.
- 2012
Unemployment in development economiesSee moreThis trend discusses the problem of unemployment in developed economies.
- 2012A Road Map for increased innovation in PharmaSee more
This trend analyzes the new landscape shaped for pharmaceutical innovation with all the stakeholders involved.
- 2011
Education in the twenty first centurySee moreThis trend analyzes education as the final variable that determines future economic growth in this century.
- 2011Social TechnologiesSee more
This trend analyzes the latest technological trend that is changing our environment: the social technologies.
- 2010Internet of thingsSee more
This trend analyzes a technology that enables connecting to the net any conceivable object, thus becoming smart and offering endless possibilities.
- 2010
The art of innovation and entrepreneurshipSee moreTendencia que analiza los ingredientes necesarios para que la innovación y el espíritu emprendedor tengan lugar en nuestra sociedad.
- 2009
Cloud ComputingSee moreThis trend analyzes the cloud: a revolutionary access to technology, enabling individuals and companies to access computer services.
- 2009
Social innovationSee moreThis trend identifies the strategies to follow in order to achieve a model of social and economic organization underpinned by ethical values and sustainable development.
- 2008Mobile technologiesSee more
This trend analyzes the newfound openness of the mobile market and how it affects the supply of devices and services. It provides some clues on how to seize upcoming opportunities in the industry.
- 2008
Competing in challenging timesSee moreThis trend analyzes the new multipolar world order, characterized by a greater weight of emerging economies, and it delves into new rules of the game that will set the dynamics of markets where investors, companies, governments and consumers coexist.
- 2007New consumersSee more
This trend analyzes the causes and consequences of the singularity of global aging and immigration as new factors in trade and business trends.
- 2006Innovation: the wealth of nationsSee more
This trend defines the concept of innovation, and gives a diagnosis of the current state of affairs around the world while analyzing its implications and their influence in competitiveness and productivity.
- 2006
Energy: the challenge of demandSee moreThis trend analyzes the combination of finite resources with unstoppable demand and how a production unable to accompany the pace of consumption will produce tensions in the global economy.
- 2005NanotechnologySee more
This trend analyzes the development of the science and nanoscale engineering and its impact on society.
- 2004Personalized medicineSee more
This trend analyzes the new medical environment that will allow the progressive application of preventive and curative treatments based on genetic information.
