Future of the Auto Industry 2040. Trends impacting the auto industry, car manufacturers, truck factories. Auto industry innovation, autonomous vehicles, flying cars, vehicle ownership, car insurance AI / Artificial Intelligence.Futurist Keynote for Belron

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Future trends impact on the auto industry. New patterns of vehicle ownership, vehicle leasing and car insurance. Impact of physics / wind tunnels and human physiology on external vehicle design and internal layout. Why small innovations in care and vehicle design can have such huge impact on driver experience. Future of autonomous self-driving vehicles and other impact of AI / Artificial Intelligence on the auto industry. Why many global trends are changing more slowly than many people imagine and what is likely to change really fast in the auto industry.

How auto manufacturers will focus on owning the customer relationship: changing the vehicle transaction from sale of a car, van or truck to going on a "life journey" together. Innovation in the auto industry, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, distribution and after sales support via dealer networks or independent agencies and breakdown services. What are the future challenges for the automotive industry?  Does the automotive industry have a future?  Predictions for the automotive industry in 2030 and 2040.

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on the auto industry and road transport.

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Future of Rail in 2030: trends in rail passengers, rail freight, railway innovation. High speed rail, impact on aviation. Rail logistics and supply chain management. AI impact, Zero carbon hydrogen powered railway locomotives - Rail Trends Keynote

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Keynote for Wabtec: innovation in railroad innovation; railway locomotives, carriages, signalling, rail freight. It typically takes 5 years to take railway locomotive innovations to market, with 10 years production life and track life of 50 years, so we need to take a long term view of innovation in the rail industry. Hyper-modular approach to innovation including AI / Artificial Intelligence. Rail strategies can be overtaken by events which means leadership agility. In 2080 long distance rail freight will still be 10% lower cost than truck / road freight, and it will still be cheaper to ship containers over 5000km than by road for 500km.

And it will still also be true that 60% of manufacturing revenues in many nations will be production by companies employing less than 100 people. All these factors will shape the future of rail logistics. Expect 3.5% per year growth globally in rail investment. Expect a stampede towards carbon zero freight - eg locomotive engines running on green hydrogen. Expect huge investment in integrator technologies - whether to deliver carbon zero or to meet expectations of tomorrow's customers. Does rail have a future? What is the outlook for the rail industry in 2030? Is High Speed Rail the future? What is the outlook for rail transportation?  Video thumbnail image licensed by Shutterstock.

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on rail transport.

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Future of Aviation: Carbon Zero Planes. New fuels such as hydrogen, smaller short distance battery powered vertical take-off vehicles. Why Sustainable Aviation Fuel is not the answer to global warming. 100s of innovations such as AI will impact aviation

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The Future of Aviation - keynote at ZAL Innovation Forum Hamburg

The future of innovation in aviation will be dominated by three words: EMOTION, SPEED and SCALE. EMOTION: travel has always been driven by emotion, by the deeply rooted human desire to explore, experience, engage. 85% of humanity lives in emerging markets and most have yet to experience their first flight. SPEED: I am not referring here to supersonic air travel or space travel – both of which will continue to be exotic and unusual for the next 20-30 years. Just look instead at the speed of recovery of airline ticket sales the moment that COVID restrictions relaxed, as I predicted. And this speed is of course driven by emotion.

We will also see massive acceleration in speed of innovation across aviation in the race towards carbon zero. SCALE: the investment required to deliver a new world-class passenger aircraft is so vast that only 2-3 companies have the ability to do so. The same applies to massive infrastructure that will soon be needed to carry the world’s aviation fleet towards alternative fuels. Most board debates about the future of aviation are not about what is going to happen but are about timing...

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's new book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on the aviation industry and air travel.

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Future of the Travel Industry post COVID. Bounce-back as I predicted for Aviation. What next for tourism and business? Why the travel industry will be an engine of global economic growth. Impact of AI. Travel industry keynote speaker at Seminarium event

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Futurist Keynote by Patrick Dixon at event for Seminarium in Chile

Update in July 2022 on this April 2021 travel industry forecast.  Paris is heaving with tourists, Barcelona the same, while many flights between Europe and the US are packed to bursting. As I predicted would happen, a rapid bounce-back has taken place.

Along with manufacturing, retail and banking, the travel industry will be a fundamental engine of future globalisation, despite the huge impact of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The reason is that human beings are genetically programmed to travel as hunter-gatherers, and have an irresistible urge to explore. (Written April 2021)

And as experience showed in 2020, whenever local, national or regional restrictions ease a little, huge numbers started booking trips almost immediately.  This was all helped by global COVID passports - showing evidence of COVID infection in the past, or vaccination or very recent negative tests. 

Just as I predicted in April 2021, we are now seeing pent-up demand, as people look to spend more than usual on holidays using saved up budgets during lockdown.

Therefore, whatever happens in the current pandemic, to the global economy, or in other world events, in general terms over the next 30 years we can expect the number of people travelling each day to grow dramatically as wealth increases, and as real costs of transport continue to fall.

Consider this: 85% of humanity lives in emerging markets, and most people in the world are still dreaming of taking their first flight one day.The greatest growth in travel will be within Asia, and in people from Asia visiting outside their own region. We will see a rapid increase in the number and size of regional airports, high-speed rail networks, and new roads.

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including chapters on the future impact of AI on the travel industry including tourism.

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Future Flying Taxis? Impact of AI on Future of Urban Air Mobility driven by over 250 new companies - electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). Impact of eVTOL on the future of the aviation industry. Aviation trends Keynote Speaker

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What is the future of flying taxis?  Many are asking questions relating to Urban Air Mobility, flying vehicles, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and so on. But of course all those will depend on AI / Artificial Intelligence for flying and for route planning.  Over more than two decades I have made many accurate predictions about the aviation industry - see elsewhere on this site.  And I have advised many global aviation companies including giants such as Airbus, Dassault Falcon and several airlines.  

More than 250 companies around the world are now investing in next-generation, low-cost, electric powered flying taxis. Most Urban Air Mobility companies are small startups that you have never heard of, while the largest aircraft manufacture are also innovating in this area. The top ten UAM startups have received over $6bn in funding over the last 5 years, with successful test flights over more than 150kms between charges. 

Future of aviation industry technology, aviation jobs, aviation safety, aviation fuels. Trends in the aviation industry by 2035. Aviation keynote speaker for your event.

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on aviation and airlines including flying taxis.

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3 billion more cars on roads. Future of the Auto Industry. Robot AI drivers, next-generation electric vehicles, hydrogen, shared ownership, eVTOL flying cars, AI traffic management, road infrastructure, smart cities.Future of auto industry keynote speaker

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More than 1 billion cars are on the roads today. But we would need to see that rise to 4 billion for the whole world to have the same level of car ownership as America.

By then, almost all of them will be electric powered, and the majority driven entirely or assisted by AI / Artificial intelligence / robots. Inevitably, roads will be very congested, especially in city centres, many of which will ban private vehicles most or all of the time by 2030. Most new car owners will be in emerging markets over the next 50 years. Chinese people are driving 230 million cars, most than any other nation, 8% owned by 40,000 car rental companies. Private car ownership in China jumped from 1% to 21% from 2002 to 2019, with more than 24 million new cars now sold a year....

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Impact of COVID on strategies for Travel, aviation, transport, rail and auto industries - board strategy reviews, Futurist Keynote Speaker

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Travel industry strategies for a post-coronavirus world. As a physician by first training and a Futurist advisor / keynote speaker on industry trends and strategy to over 400 of the world's largest 2000 companies, with a proven track record of longer term forecasting over the last 25+ years, here are some guiding principles for airlines, rail companies, auto companies, hotels, leisure and hospitality industries beyond COVID. The global crisis will accelerate many pre-existing travel industry trends, Most mega trends described in my books, including The Future of Almost Everything, will continue to shape the world as before, but the COVID pandemic will bring forward the timings of many key events. Examples:

Airlines will consolidate more rapidly in Europe because of COVID, following US picture over the last decade.  Larger airlines will be most likely to be rescued by government.  Borderline-non-viable airlines will be allowed to fold. Physical retail will lose out even more to online shoppers, with big jump in online sales which will only partially reverse after the pandemic has ended.  Many Shopping Malls will struggle to re-open in developed nations. Even faster growth of virtual working and virtual teams. Faster introduction of virtual learning into college education, MBAs, Business Schools and High Schools etc.

Here is more on Coronavirus / COVID impact on business strategies for travel, transport, retail, leisure spending, entertainment etc.

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Why future rail travel will grow fast. Future of Intermodal Transport, passenger travel, rail freight, hyperloop, AI, manufacturing, logistics and supply chains. Future of high speed rail - Futurist keynote speaker. VIDEO of entire keynote and POST

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Future of rail for passengers and freight - transport keynote and article by Patrick Dixon, Futurist for HUPAC, a Swiss rail company.

Why rail transport has such an important future - saving time, costs and energy. Future patterns of passenger rail traffic, freight traffic, intercontinental transport, trams, light rail, container freight, AI linked intermodal transport (switching from truck to rail to shipping and so on), and hyperloop travel.  Rail trends have to be seen in wider context of demographic shifts, emerging markets, digital revolution, e-commerce, changes in patterns of globalisation and global trade.  New patterns of migration, manufacturing, management.  Why more will be spent on road / rail infrastructure in the next 30 years than in all of human history.

Impact of rail innovation on logistics and supply chains - including next-generation tracking, signalling, systems and controls. Does rail have a future? What is the outlook for the rail industry in 2030? Is High Speed Rail the future? What is the outlook for rail transportation?

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Travel Crazy: Future of Travel, Tourism, Corporate Travel, Aviation, Hospitality, Hotels and AI. Why Travel Industry will always be vulnerable to disruptive events. Keep focus on what matters - Futurist travel industry keynote speaker for American Express

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Here is a video of the keynote I gave on the future of travel for American Express in Moscow.  I gave a keynote on the same topic a couple of years earlier and the audience loved it so much that they asked me to return.

To make the point that video conferencing is a terrible experience compared to breathing the same air, being in the same room, they asked me to start my keynote by video link, from another room, and then walk right onto the platform, when talking about video calls and their impact on business travel.

So I recommend that you start the video around 2 minutes in - and enjoy your journey into the future....

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How we will travel and why. Future of Transport Infrastructure - need for long term government policy on travel, transport, infrastructure, rail, roads, ports and airports - Transport Keynote Speaker Comment

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Comment on the future of transport infrastructure and government policy.  

Key trends in the travel, tourism, logistics and supply chain sectors.

How government transport policies are being overtaken by events.  

OECD Transport Forum comment after keynote on future transport issues.  

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Radical Future for Travel, Transport, Cars, Aviation, rail, shipping, handling Freight, Logistics and Supply Chains - Futurist keynote video and notes

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Future of the travel industry: major trends for HUPAC client event on intermodal transport. Integration of supply chains and logistics across road, rail, sea and aviation.  Lessons from leisure travel, hotels and hospitality industry. Impact of digital on global travel industry. Sustainable transport and improving energy efficiency in transport. Future of rail transport for freight. Future of freight tracking and real time reporting. Big data, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing - impact on transportation. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon, author of The Future of Almost Everything - conference event for hundreds of HUPAC's premier clients.

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How to make Magic for your Customers - Innovation in Travel, Aviation and Rail - Future of the Travel Industry - Futurist Interview VIDEO

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How to create magic for your customers.  Brief interview at the Aviation and Transport Innovation Summit (ATIS) on the future of the travel industry following keynote for Panasonic - manufacturer of Tough Books.  Customers expect real-time updates from travel companies, airlines, hotels and so on - keeping them constantly informed about what is happening.  

That means instant flight updates, info about where your luggage is, what Gate you need for your flight, how many minutes for your flight connection, what the weather is like at the place you are flying to.  SMS is far more effective than email for these kinds of personal communications.  It's all about the customer experience, peace of mind, removing anxiety, solving problems fast.

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How hotels and transport industry will be impacted by AirBnB - travel industry keynote speaker

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Over 20 years ago I correctly predicted the gigantic impact of online marketing and sales on the travel industry - whether airlines, hotels, package holidays, business travel and so on.

And so it has turned out.  So how will the next stage in the online revolution impact hotels and the entire hospitality sector?

I recently gave a keynote on these issues to 800 CEOs of many of the world's largest and best known hotels, at a Starwoods hotel group global summit.

A key message was that small things will continue to create magic for customers, in the largest hotels, often at very low cost....

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