Theresa Schleicher is considered Europe’s leading retail futurologist. She speaks about the future of shopping, retail, and consumption. She is a futurological sparring partner for retail and commercial enterprises, the renowned Zukunftsinstitut (Future Institute), and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection.
Theresa Schleicher: “What if the basic principles of retail no longer apply in the future? What if product variety, sales, and expansion reach their limits? What if customer focus can no longer be the sole benchmark? And what if skilled workers come, but no longer from where they always came from?”
Consumption of the future? Theresa Schleicher offers an exciting outlook on the key trends in global trade and local retail.
Theresa Schleicher’s lecture topics
As a keynote speaker and data scientist, Theresa Schleicher takes to the stage to share her visions of a sustainable, data-driven world and economy.
- A world in flux due to global crises, tariffs, and supply chains: Global uncertainties call for stable platforms
What future trends and customer preferences will shape retail in the coming years? The analysis is tailored to specific industries and is updated annually.
- A desire for growth: new customer preferences in retail
A fresh, young perspective on the future of retail. The consumerism of the future is already here. We are only partially working towards it. A look at the new demands of customers.
- The city center of the future: What comes after the predicted wasteland?
Why are urban concepts no longer working? How do companies in city centers need to rethink their approach? What will change in city centers by 2040?
- Next Growth Retail 2040: Fewer laws – more sales? How Europe can prepare the market of the future for SMEs.
Future scenarios based on current research in the context of economic geopolitical trends.
- AI as a new economic factor or energy guzzler?
What if everything is technologically possible, but only 10% of new technologies make a difference? What works and what’s coming? Theresa Schleicher tells you.
- Industry check – Why do Gen Z customers like oysters in times of crisis?
Will we become real providers again in the future, or will we be interchangeable? Theresa Schleicher talks about developments, trends, and challenges for food retailers over the next 5-10 years. What products will the next generation of customers want to see on the shelves in five years? This industry-specific analysis provides a brief, concise insight into the purchasing preferences of Generations Z & Alpha.
Theresa Schleicher is considered worldwide one of the most renowned experts on the future of retail.
She has been a jury member for retail innovation awards since 2015 and is working with politicians, associations, and urban developers to promote new framework conditions for retail. As a keynote speaker, Theresa Schleicher opens up the future of retail and consumption on stage and in sparring sessions with executives.
The keywords are innovative strength, digitalization, data, and artificial intelligence. This is what the economy in the DACH region needs. We are in a time when we have to deal with the tensions between globalization, supply chain issues, political uncertainty, the shift from sustainability to broad eco-intelligence, and the speed of technology.
Retail in the changing times: What was – what remains – what is coming.
As an investor in new innovative retail start-ups, she focuses on economic resilience in fast-moving markets and on technological advances such as artificial intelligence for more ecologically and economically sustainable trade.
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