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New Technologies Call for Discussion

We live in a time of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). It is difficult to predict the future as an extension of the present, because so many things happen that are impossible to predict. Who could have predicted the COVID-19...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2023 - Innovation

Author: Noriko Kishida

November 22, 2023

Foresight and Macro-Trends

What's it about? ?The real art of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.?Join Jessica Southard, Senior Insights Leader at MARS Incorporated, in this complimentary educational webinar about emerging...

Catalogue: Webinars 2022

Authors: Stephen Kraus, Jessica Southard

Companies: MRII, Mars Wrigley

September 30, 2022

Unspoken Answers and the Power of Implied Meaning

Insight and marketing professionals are constantly asked to anticipate how changes in culture will impacttheir business. Despite billions of data-points being analysed across thousands of tools, we remainoverwhelmed with information and underwhelmed...

Catalogue: Congress 2022: 75th Anniversary

Authors: Michelle Gansle, Ujwal Arkalgud

Companies: McDonald's Corporation, Lux Research Inc.

September 26, 2022

Embracing the Avalanche of Change

Predicting, particularly when it is about the future, is difficult; This was the rather quizzical comment oncemade by Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. In our world, which is experiencing greater volatility, uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity (?VUCA?),...

Catalogue: Congress 2022: 75th Anniversary

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September 23, 2022

Embracing the Avalanche of Change

Predicting, particularly when it is about the future, is difficult; This was the rather quizzical comment oncemade by Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. In our world, which is experiencing greater volatility, uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity (?VUCA?),...

Catalogue: Congress 2022: 75th Anniversary

Authors: David Smith, Adam Riley

Companies: DVL Smith Ltd, Decision Architects

September 23, 2022

Do Androids Dream of Electric Research?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been described as 'the most profound change in human history' (Russell,2021). In this paper, the chairs of ESOMAR's Legal Affairs and Professional Standards Committees don'tpull their punches in stating how they think...

Catalogue: Congress 2022: 75th Anniversary

Authors: Judith Passingham, Mike Cooke

Company: ESOMAR

September 23, 2022

Trust me, I'm a futurist.

Catalogue: Vision and Values 2021

Author: Joanna Lepore

Company: Mars Wrigley

October 25, 2021

Brands Connect: The changing role of the insights function and job description

Debuted at the ESOMAR Insights Festival 2020, our Brands Connect series continues with its next episode exploring with insights leaders working within brands and research using organizations the opportunities and challenges they see for their...

Catalogue: Brands Connect Series

Authors: Michelle Gansle, Begonia Fafian

Companies: Mars Wrigley, The Coca-Cola Company

October 28, 2020

Stronger together: Why associations and association membership make sense in a post COVID-19 world

Are you a member of an Association? Why or why not? Tell us in a few lines in this session. Associations had to pivot quickly to provide the support researchers needed in a time of crisis. Are your Association(s) meeting your expectations? What more...

Catalogue: Insights Festival 2020

Authors: Hana Huntova, Jonathan Lai, Kim Smouter-Umans, Melanie Courtright, Laurence Miklichansky, Maurice Ndiaye

September 15, 2020