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Key Themes That will Shape The Travel & Tourism Industry In 2022 And Beyond

Tuesday, 30th Nov 2021 at 10:00 GMT

 

Above the event

COVID-19 has changed the travel & tourism industry beyond all recognition. Innovative solutions are taking on even greater importance as companies look to improve the efficiency of their operations, while also catering to ever-evolving consumer preferences (including an increasing demand for transparency and action on ESG issues). The race to realign strategies and marketing messages has already begun but understanding the target traveler is key.

This two-and-a-half-hour virtual conference brings together the very best insight and gold-standard data and forecasts from GlobalData’s Travel & Tourism practice in order to give a definitive vision of the future direction of the industry. With a comprehensive agenda covering key strategic themes, consumer behavior, market performance, and insight into company actions to target emerging themes, this conference will enable you to see how your business fits into the big picture.

Aimed at industry practitioners, strategic thinkers and those keen to understand global trends and industry themes, our virtual conference will help you to:

• Discover the most important strategic themes your company needs to explore

• Understand the future direction of the industry, particularly from a technology standpoint

• Gain insight from underlying ‘alternative’ data from patents to company filings and hirings to understand which players are already ahead on targeting the latest themes

• Gain insight into where future innovation in both products and services needs to play in order to target these themes

Sectors Covered:

High-level coverage of travel & tourism sectors, including airlines, car rental, intermediaries, hotels

Market data across the aforementioned sectors, as well as traveler demands and flows, and spending

Agenda

Welcome & Introduction – 15 mins

Nick Wyatt, GlobalData’s Head of Research & Analysis for Travel & Tourism, will provide a brief introduction, setting the scene on the impact of five carefully selected themes on the industry.

Forecasts & Prospects – 30 mins

Travel & Tourism Analyst Gus Gardner will examine the shifts in key sectors, identifying headline opportunities by category.

Industry Insights – 30 mins

Nick Wyatt will deliver key insights into how disruptive technologies and concerns around ESG concerns are remodeling the tourism space.

Thematic Analysis – 30 mins

Nick Wyatt and Gus Gardner will together uncover the hidden insights you can extract from alternative datasets by analyzing them from a thematic perspective. They’ll be identifying key trends in which themes are being targeted effectively, trends in which they aren’t, as well as shining a light on who is making the key plays in these spaces.

Roundtable Discussion– 45 mins

The last session will be a panel discussion with Ed Thomas, Luke Gowland and David Bicknell, all key thought leaders from GlobalData’s Thematic Team. They will analyze the key themes, use cases and future strategies for businesses operating within the Travel & Tourism space in greater detail.

Conclusions & Outlook – 10 mins

Finally, Nick Wyatt will deliver conclusions on key strategic questions, furnishing an outlook for 2022 and beyond, with a final opportunity to ask questions.

Speakers

Nicholas Wyatt, Head of Research and Analysis, GlobalData’s Travel & Tourism Practice

Nick is a specialist in travel & tourism, with over 11 years of experience in research, analysis and business information. Nick oversaw the launch of GlobalData’s Travel & Tourism intelligence centre and is responsible for ensuring the design, publication and delivery of market-leading content to a diverse client base that includes DMOs, airports, hotels and consulting groups.

Gus Gardner, Analyst, GlobalData’s Travel & Tourism Practice

Gus is an analyst with GlobalData’s Travel and Tourism team and has a special interest in aviation. He has authored a wide variety of insight reports looking at key trends, themes, and changes that the “new normal” will bring through detailed analysis and research. Recent topics of research have included a series of thematic reports examining low-cost evolution, travel apps and online travel, covering the evolution, impacts, and challenges these themes have posed for the travel sector.

Luke Gowland, Analyst, GlobalData’s Thematic Research Practice

Luke is an analyst within GlobalData’s thematic research team. He has a particular interest in climate change and ESG. His role as analyst sees him author thematic reports and present at webinars covering themes such as ESG, climate change, and most recently, IoT.

David Bicknell, Principal Analyst, GlobalData’s Thematic Research Practice

David Bicknell has over 30 years’ experience in writing about and analyzing the technology sector, both from the vendor and the user perspective, both in the UK and the US. His career in technology journalism and analysis has included detailed research into IT projects and he has co-authored a book, ‘Crash’, which explored why and how IT projects go wrong. He has also co-authored a novel on the life of computer pioneer Charles Babbage.

Ed Thomas, Research Director, GlobalData’s Thematic Research Practice

Ed Thomas is research director in GlobalData’s technology thematic research team, where he analyzes the key technology themes impacting companies in every sector of the global economy. His main areas of coverage include artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, including conversational platforms and machine learning.

Retail in Europe

Monday, 29th Nov 2021 at 14:00 GMT

 

About this event

The pandemic accelerated existing trends in retail and created new ones as consumer lifestyles and spending habits changed dramatically. Performances across sectors and channels varied with massive disruption and losses up against substantial gains. As we emerge into a post-pandemic world how should retailers plan for the new retail world? What trends and themes will impact future growth and where are the opportunities?

This three-hour virtual conference brings together pioneering insight and gold-standard data and forecasts from GlobalData’s Retail practice to give clients a comprehensive view of the European retail landscape and the strategies needed to thrive in it. With a comprehensive agenda covering key strategic themes, market and channel forecasts and trends, consumer trends, and insight into retailers’ actions to target emerging themes, this conference will enable you to plan for the future with confidence.

Aimed at retail marketers, strategy teams and those keen to understand the most influential trends and industry themes, our virtual conference will help you to:

• Discover the most important strategic themes your company needs to explore and utilize

• Understand which European countries, sectors and channels offer the greatest opportunities for expansion over the next five years

• Understand consumer behavior and the impact on retail demand and the variations across Europe

• Gain insight from underlying ‘alternative’ data from patents to company filings and hiring to understand which players are already ahead on targeting the latest themes

• Gain insight into where future innovation in both products or services needs to play in order to target these themes

Sectors covered

Total retail, clothing & footwear, food & grocery, electricals, health & beauty and home sectors, and online and offline channels

All of Europe with top-level focus on Western and Eastern Europe, and select individual countries
Strategic themes and how these need to be employed by retailers

Agenda

Welcome & Introduction – 15 mins

Led by Maureen Hinton, Global Retail Research Director of GlobalData’s Retail Business Unit, this brief introduction will focus on setting the scene in order to understand the European retail landscape in a post-pandemic world.

Forecasts & Prospects for Retail across Europe – 30 mins

Patrick O’Brien, UK Retail Research Director, Lead Retail Analyst Emily Stella, and Chloe Collins, Head of Apparel, will delve into European retail market drivers and inhibitors. Discover the impact COVID-19 has had on European Retail and forecast growth over the next five years and understand the growth potential by sector and channel (including online) across Europe over the next five years.

Industry Insights – 25 mins

Principal Retail Analysts Kate Ormrod and Honor Strachan will examine the key themes dictating future performance in retail.

Thematic Analysis – 25 mins

Thematic Research Analyst Luke Gowland will demonstrate the hidden insights you can obtain by analyzing alternative data sets from a thematic perspective. This will allow you to identify the key trends in which themes are being effectively targeted, those in which they aren’t, and discover who is making the key moves in these spaces.

Conclusions & Outlook – 30 mins

Maureen Hinton will wrap up with conclusions on key strategic questions raised throughout the conference. The summary and outlook will include the opportunity for a final Q&A.

Our speakers

Maureen Hinton

Maureen is the Group Retail Research Director at GlobalData. She heads up the global team of analysts covering all areas of retail. Her background is in the clothing retail industry including roles based in Italy and Russia. She is a member of the KPMG Retail Think Tank and has been classified as one of the top 10 global retail influencers by Vendhq.com.

Patrick O’Brien

Patrick is the UK Retail Research Director at GlobalData. He heads up the UK team of analysts and is responsible for all UK syndicated and bespoke retail content as well as global forecasting. Prior to his 10 years experience in retail analysis, Patrick was a Principal Analyst at Ovum, covering business technology, having covered the technology markets as a journalist previously.

Honor Strachan

Honor is a Principal Retail Analyst at GlobalData and has been responsible for global content and analysis across a range of retail sectors, working with major retail clients on consultancy projects as well as managing syndicated content. She now focuses on the food & grocery sector.

Emily Stella

Emily is the Lead Analyst managing the Home retail division at GlobalData. She advises major retail clients on changing market dynamics and the competitive landscape in the Home sector. Prior to joining GlobalData, Emily was a consultant in the foodservice and coffee sectors.

Chloe Collins

Chloe is the Head of Apparel at GlobalData and helps global apparel clients understand and navigate the ever-changing global apparel market through in-depth data and analysis. Before joining GlobalData, Chloe worked in merchandising for leading UK retailers.

Kate Ormrod

Kate is a Principal Retail Analyst at GlobalData with 10 years experience in retail analysis. She covers and manages a range of retail sectors and retail channels, including online and retail locations and also consumer trend tracking and surveys in the UK. She previously worked in merchandising for The Disney Store.

Luke Gowland

Luke is an Analyst specializing in the Thematic Research program at GlobalData. This program covers the themes that will impact and disrupt companies’ performances across 19 business verticals, including Retail. It helps clients to identify the important themes early, enabling companies to make the right investments ahead of the competition, and secure that all-important competitive advantage.

Forecasting the Future of Payments

Monday, 22nd Nov 2021 at 12:00 GMT

 

About the event

The past two years alone have greatly changed how we pay as consumers and businesses, accelerating trends already present in the market and pushing the cashless society ever closer to the precipice of reality. With seismic changes already underway, and more new technologies and models waiting in the wings, it’s critical for businesses to understand where the market will move in the next five years.
This two-hour virtual conference brings together the very best gold-standard intelligence from GlobalData’s Banking & Payments Intelligence Center, marrying market-leading analysis, robust predictive forecasting, and deep alternative datasets to reveal the disruptive themes, key players and growth opportunities in the payments industry.

Aimed at analysts, consultants, strategy and product teams, and those keen to grapple with global trends and industry themes, our virtual conference will help you to:

• Accurately size and forecast the payments market

• Identify the key areas of growth

• Prize apart the technology trends that will shape the future of the payments market from those that won’t

• Discover what the impact of technological change and the rolling presence of fintech will have on the market

• Identify your next key investment opportunities early and spot the next emergent unicorns

Sectors Covered:

• Ecommerce

• Blockchain

• Fintech

• Regulation

• Payments

• Mobile payments

• Online payments

• Alternative payments

Agenda

Welcome & Introduction – 5 mins

We start this event off with a brief introduction to the world of payments as it is by Bartosz Golba, Research Director at GlobalData Financial Services, as well as what you can expect from the next two hours.

Data Trends and Forecasts – 30 mins

In the second part of our comprehensive exploration of the payments industry, Sam Murrant, Lead Analyst for Payments at GlobalData Financial Services, will be sizing the payments industry across the most impactful channels, including electronic payments, paper payments, e-commerce, mobile, and real-time payments, all with an eye on their future market share within the next five years.

Sam will also be exploring current and historic consumer trends in the payments industry, alongside the impact COVID-19 has had on them, using GlobalData’s Financial Services Consumer Survey. Charting consumer behavior across channels, themes, geographies and profiles, our Consumer Survey collects responses from over 250,000 respondents to accurately gauge the headspace of the consumer in the modern financial world.

Disruptive Forces in Payments – 30 mins

Here we’ll be looking at the wider themes impacting the payments universe through the lens of our Thematic framework. Sam Murrant will be joined by George Monaghan from the Thematic Analysis team at GlobalData, where they’ll be drilling into the role technology and regulatory change play in shaping the future dynamics of the industry, what themes future players will need to tap into to ensure success, and potential unicorns in the making.

Underpinning this analysis will be GlobalData’s comprehensive alternative dataset, where patents, company filings, job analytics, M&A, and more combine to paint a picture of the future movements and disruptive themes across the spectrum of business.

Roundtable: Payments Products in 2026 – 60 mins

In our roundtable segment, we’ll be joined by Bartosz Golba, Sam Murrant, Stephen Walker, GlobalData’s Lead Analyst of Fintech, and Frederique Slevin, VP of Product Management, Retail Payments at ACI Worldwide, as they discuss the future of payments products up and down the value chain.

From what the products of tomorrow will look like, to how the money will be moved around the globe in the next five years, this group of industry experts will be bringing their decades of experience to dissect the future trajectory of the products pushing the envelope in the payments market.

Conclusions & Outlook for 2022

In this, our last segment of the day, our analysts and guests will be drawing upon their experience and research as they have their last say on the key markets for growth in the sector, as well as the technological, macroeconomic and regulatory themes disrupting the space.

We’ll also be giving attendees the exclusive opportunity for a Q&A session with our market-leading analysts, who will be answering any questions from the floor as they pertain to the payments business.

Our Speakers

Sam Murrant, Lead Analyst for Payments, GlobalData Financial Services

Responsible for overseeing all Payments content on the GlobalData platform, Sam brings nine years of payments analysis experience to the heart of GlobalData’s payments strategy. From designing the annual Financial Services Consumer Survey, to coordinating payments-based consulting projects, he focuses on the use-case for the end-user to disentangle the payments landscape.

Stephen Walker, Lead Analyst for Fintech, GlobalData Financial Services

As Lead Analyst for Fintech at GlobalData Financial Services, Steve oversees all fintech and Thematic content across the GlobalData platform. His research covers all areas of digital transformation strategy with a particular focus on disruptive new business models. Prior to GlobalData, Steve spent time at Forrester and Corporative Executive Board (CEB), and within Strategy roles at Lloyds bank.

Frederique Slevin, VP of Product management, Retail Payments at ACI Worldwide

Fred Slevin has over 20 years of experience managing payments software products for banks and intermediaries. Having joined ACI in 2006, she now leads the Retail Payments Solution Management team which leads the solution’s technology and business evolution, as well as defining and enabling the solution’s go-to-market strategy in the field of universal connectivity.

Bartosz Golba, Research Director, GlobalData Financial Services

Bartosz heads up the Financial Services division at GlobalData and is responsible for the product development strategy, quality of delivery and robust methodologies across their Financial Services content – covering Banking and Payments, Wealth Management, and Insurance. Prior to GlobalData Bartosz worked in the industry as a private banker at Getin Noble Bank for a number of years.

George Monaghan, Thematic Analyst, GlobalData

George Monaghan is an Analyst in GlobalData’s Thematic Research Team, which he joined after completing his bachelor’s degree at Durham University. In this role, George has evaluated and interpreted the themes proving most disruptive in the world of business, including AI, IoT and ESG. His comments on cryptocurrency have been featured in Bloomberg, Reuters and The Economic Times.

Mapping the Strategic Direction of Global Packaged Foods

Thursday, 11th Nov 2021 at 14:00 GMT

 

About the event

While the effects of the pandemic still affect the day-to-day lives of food marketers, longer-term strategic impacts must also be assessed. Consumer values and consumption behaviors are set for permanent revision in the wake of COVID-19 – directly affecting at-home food consumption occasions around the world. The race to strategically realign strategies and portfolios to country, category and channel targets has already begun, but knowing what those targets should be is key.

This two-hour forty-five-minute virtual conference brings together the very best insight and gold-standard intelligence from GlobalData’s Consumer practice to provide a definitive vision for the packaged food industry. With a comprehensive agenda covering strategic themes, consumer trends, market and channel performance, and insight into companies’ playbooks, this conference will enable you to see how your business fits into the bigger picture.

Aimed at food marketers, strategic thinkers and those keen to understand global trends and industry themes, our virtual conference will help you to:

• Discover the most important strategic themes your company needs to know about

• Understand the future direction of key meal and snacking categories and the channel dynamics that will affect them

• Understand the global market share that emergent consumer behaviors represent

• Gain insight from ‘alternative’ data sets, including patents, company filings and hiring trends, to understand which industry players are tuned into the most impactful themes affecting the consumer landscape

• Pinpoint in what direction future products and services need to head in to target the themes which have the biggest potential to change the industry

Sectors Covered:

• All packaged food sectors

• How packaged food is aligned to key at-home consumption occasions

• Where key consumer behaviors, as they’ve been affected by the pandemic, interact with packaged food market data

Agenda

Welcome & Introduction – 15 mins

Before we launch into the conference proper, Piers Berezai, Research & Analysis Director of GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices, will be giving a brief introduction into just how the global pandemic has forced a widespread redefinition of the packaged food marketing landscape.

Forecasts & Prospects – 30 mins

The second part of our comprehensive examination of packaged food, Piers Berezai and Katie Page, Content Director, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices, will be examining the shifts in key consumer super-categories and channels that have resulted from the significant recalibration of consumer preferences.

Piers and Katie will also be unpicking the headline opportunities that these recent behavioral shifts have prompted across the global market.

Industry Insights – 30 mins

Our Analysis Director for the Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices, Ramaa Chipalkatti, will then be running through the key themes changing how consumers behave and interact with their product choices on a global level.

With these changes in consumer behavior comes the need for industry to adapt to a plastic hierarchy of consumer preferences, so stay tuned for how industry can adapt to the market.

Thematic Analysis – 30 mins

In this section of our conference, Dr Lil Read from the GlobalData Thematic Analysis team will be taking you through the alternative datasets which lay brimming with market information to those with the power to see it. From patents, to company filings and M&A deals, unpick the themes set to cause a major splash in packaged food.

Lil will also be identifying which players are tapping into these wave-making themes with success, and who aren’t – listing the winners and losers in this exciting space, as well as any key plays being made.

Future Products & Services – 30 mins

Bringing all this data together to enhance product development is our next session, in which Senior Analysts for the Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices, Lia Neophytou and Jenny Questier, will be examining the key strategic actions major players will need to take to develop successful products and services for the future market.

Lia and Jenny will be running through how Product Managers can develop their processes to target the key themes affecting the industry, future-proofing their future investment in a turbulent market.

Conclusions & Outlook – 10 mins

In this penultimate segment, our analysts will be drawing together their research on the future state of the packaged food market to come to a series of actionable conclusions.

What is the market outlook now, what themes and forces are poised to have the most impact, and who are the players keying into the trends that will shape the market for the next decade – acquire all the information you’ll need to go to market.

Q&A

Last, but not least, is the exclusive chance to field questions to our market-leading analysts. For the last part of our conference, we’ll be opening the field to questions from the audience, as they apply to the topic at hand.

Our Speakers

Piers Berezai; Research and Analysis Director, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices

A specialist in Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail, Piers has over 20 years of experience in research, analysis and business information. Prior to joining GlobalData, he was instrumental in the creation and development of Datamonitor’s New Consumer Insight proposition.

Ramaa Chipalkatti, Analysis Director, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices

Ramaa manages the publication schedule for GlobalData’s Innovation Intelligence Centre, using her industry insight to ensure that quality standards are maintained throughout the syndicated platform. In addition to creating research and analysis, she also helps create GlobalData’s proprietary consumer survey research program. Ramaa has presented at several international industry conferences and is regularly quoted in trade publications.

Lia Neophytou, Senior Analyst, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices

Lia is the Senior Analyst responsible for analyzing the consumer behavior catalyzing innovation across the FMCG space. Lia has presented at industry conferences including in-cosmetics Global and her views on the FMCG landscape have been quoted in several industry publications including Forbes, Vogue Business, and Cosmetics Design Europe.

Katie Page, Content Director, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices

Katie oversees all aspects of the syndicated research agenda, as well as contributing to bespoke client consulting projects. Her expertise covers primary research, consumer insights analysis, market assessment, and product innovation tracking, skills she has previously used at Greencore plc, Sainsbury’s, and a retail operations consultancy. She holds an MA from the University of Oxford.

Jenny Questier, Senior Analyst, GlobalData’s Consumer, Foodservice, and Packaging practices

With nearly ten years’ experience in FMCG, Jenny has used her considerable skills at GlobalData to create and develop global content and consulting projects to identify and understand key trends in consumer behavior. Jenny’s key areas of interest lie in researching emerging consumer groups, with recent topics of research included the myriad impact of COVID-19 on consumers and their lifestyles.

Dr Lil Read, Analyst, Thematic Research

Dr Lil Read is an Analyst in GlobalData’s Thematic Research team, which she joined in October 2020 after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. In her role she has covered the themes making the largest impact across the world of business, assisting in the syndicated research process on topics such as AI, ESG, and IoT. Her areas of specialist interest include semiconductors and social media.