Keynote speaker on global trends, author of 16 Futurist books - Patrick Dixon.
Media, Films, Music, TV, Radio, Print - Keynotes
The music industry post-COVID will face meltdown and chaos, then rebound.
Before the COVID pandemic Music was still a $74bn a year industry, despite digital change, and spent $15bn a year on new recordings, ut big labels were already in crisis, threatened by streaming services which already generate $8bn a year in revenues. American music revenues collapsed from $14.6 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion in 2009, but began to recover after slashing costs.
Over 50% of their revenues in some nations already come from digital streaming, which grew 45% in 2017 in the UK, with overall revenues growing by 10.6%. But then COVID-19 hit, which resulted in three big changes. Firstly, more time listening at home, and secondly complete freeze in live performances, and thirdly, great difficulty in bringing groups of musicians, writers, producers and others together to create new music.
Just before the COVID pandemic, 60% of music industry revenues were from live performances, up from 33% in 2000. And live music will return. Indeed the more virtual our lives, the greater the premium for breathing the same air as real musicians, hence buskers on the street continue to earn significant amounts if they are talented.
Despite talk of NFTs / non-fungible tokens, based on blockchains, being used to protect music copyright or in licensing, their use will be very limited over the next 5 years, mainly held back by massive energy requirements to run blockchains.
Read more: Future of the Music Industry - life beyond COVID, importance of live events, spatial audio, copyright protection using blockchain - NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), next generation streaming. Media and Music industry trends - keynote speaker
Future Trends, Economy, Markets, Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker at Seminarium Chile on Logistics, Supply Chains and Global Economy
* Patrick Dixon advises many of the world's largest corporations on global trends, including banks, insurers and governments.
What factors will shape longer term economic growth globally? What about life beyond COVID? What will be the impact of the combined economic stimulus of Central Banks?
There have been two major economic crises in the last 12 years: the banking crisis and now the pandemic crisis.
Major economic factors that will shape the next decade and beyond
Here are the major factors likely to shape the global economy over the next decade and beyond: (Article posted in April 2021 - judge for yourself how right it was.)
Read more: Future of the Global Economy Post Covid - impact of trillions of dollars of economic stimulus and wider megatrends on longer term economic growth in developed nations and emerging markets
Artificial Intelligence / Robotics / Cyber etc
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU – George Orwell’s 1984 gives a chilling picture of how technology could be used by a dictator to control millions.
But Artificial Intelligence tools available today have advanced far beyond what Orwell saw. Most governments of larger nations are using a wide range of digital tools to secretly monitor people on a very large scale.
AI is taking this to an entirely new level including instantaneous, accurate face recognition from fixed video cameras in public places, through to recognition by mobile cameras worn by police or undercover agents.
Read more: Future of Surveillance using AI - and what 2030 Artificial Intelligence will mean for privacy and freedom. Next generation state surveillance, use and abuse by dictatorships and security services as well as private companies and individuals
Banks, Banking, Financial Services Keynote Speaker
Future of Banking - Cybersecurity risks, Ransomware attacks etc - Xpedition keynote speakerWhen you combine all the power and all the weaknesses of the Internet of Things, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence / AI, together with 6 billion smartphones, computers and other smart devices, the result is a gigantic range of lucrative targets, and a potential future global emergency.
As I warned years ago, every large company in the world is now experiencing frequent, severe cyber-attacks, on their own systems or in the Cloud, whether they know or not. Much of this is linked to activity supported and encouraged by governments, attacking the economies and intellectual capital of other nations.
As we will see, over 4 billion people have already been personally affected by theft of their private details – and this is just the beginning of the security nightmare, which will drive huge investment in new security measures by all large corporations and by governments.
Read more: New Cybersecurity apocalypse driven by AI. 12 steps for every business and individual. Cyberattacks, ransomware etc will cost >$5 trillion a year by 2025. How to stop hacking, ransomware attacks, data loss, IP theft. Keynote speaker on cybersecurity
Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
COVID forced acceleration in pharma drug discovery, innovation, clinical trials and regulatory approval / licencing as well as major changes in delivery of health care. What does this all mean for the future of pharma and health care? Especially when combined with pharma impact of AI / Artificial Intelligence on drug discovery and clinical trials. Take for example the rapid growth of "virtual drug trials" - see below.
As a Physician as well as a Futurist I have worked with most of the largest pharma companies, helping them to understand the future. I have warned for over two decades of global risks from new pandemics like COVID.
So what will be the Future of Pharma beyond COVID?
Here are notes on a recent Virtual keynote on the future of pharma.
Read more: Future of Pharma and health care in an AI world. How COVID and AI accelerated pharma innovation,drug discovery, clinical trials, safety tests, regulatory approval, licensing. Impact on future drug development and future health care. Pharma keynote speaker