Experts & Opinion

Discover the opinions that matter and the ideas shaping our future, including on-demand webinars, videos and podcast discussions with innovative thinkers on how we can collectively shape a more positive future.

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What’s New on LS:N Global?

From shifting definitions of value to TikTok-fuelled commerce and hormone health retreats, our analysts unpack what’s new and next on LS:N Global.

Webinars

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipated webinar.

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Compostable Cosmetics

Wildsmith is setting a new standard for sustainable luxury with Vivomer, a compostable, microbe-made packaging material designed to disappear into the earth without a trace.

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Connected Healing

Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and CEO of Remedy Place, tells LS:N Global how the intersection of social wellness and technology is creating a new era of connected healing.

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Why retailers need to rewrite data collection

Fresh from Retail Week Live 2019, the title’s executive editor George MacDonald urges retailers to rethink data collection and listen to shoppers’ ...

Retail : Data : Customer Experience

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Back to basics: the future of luxury retreats

Dervla Louli Musgrave, founder of luxury booking portal Compare Retreats, on the desire for solo travel, silence and the opportunity for traditiona...

Wellness : Travel : Luxury

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Physical retail is the key to conscious consumption

Slow retail expert Rebekah Matheny on how physical stores need to nurture consumer relationships to create a socially sustainable retail culture.

Retail . : Sustainability : Retail

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How choreography could shape the future of coding

Alvin Arthur, creator of Body.processing, explains how movement is creating a new, more inclusive language for coding.

Technology : Branding : Programmable Realities

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Will biochips revolutionise finance and data-sharing?

Skin-embedded microchips will transform how we share data, gain access to spaces, travel and even protect our finances. Jowan Österlund, founder an...

Finance : Technology : Workplace

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It’s time for tech to bridge families’ digital divisions

Technology designers must create experiences that encourage future families to re-engage, converse and bond with each other.

Technology : Youth : Future Family

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How augmented reality will democratise stress therapy

Sarah Hill, CEO of StoryUP Studios, explains why mindfulness should be visually led, and why the future of media will be subliminally and emotional...

Wellness : Health : Technology

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Lyne Zein on luxury for the gender-fluid consumer

The founder and creative director of Paris-based, non-binary store L’Insane on the future luxury consumer, new communities and why the physical sto...

Luxury : Youth : Retail

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Mixed reality will reinforce retail’s human touch

UNIT9’s Maciej Zasada on why shoppers’ physical connection to real products, combined with an augmented environment, equals the perfect blend of co...

Retail : Technology : Customer Experience

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How PY1 heralds the future of mixed reality leisure

Jean Guibert, director of creation at Lune Rouge Entertainment, on the multifunctional, immersive leisure facilities emerging as key transformation...

Leisure : Entertainment : Culture

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Financial branding doesn’t need to be boring

Mervyn ten Dam, founder of Dutch creative agency Achtung! discusses B2B brand identities and why it’s vital to appeal to the mindsets of tomorrow’s...

FinTech : Advertising : Branding

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Why mid-air haptics will transform how we interact

Anders Hakfelt, vice-president of product and marketing at Ultrahaptics, explains how digital touch will revolutionise our interaction with product...

Technology : Augmented Reality : Virtual Reality

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The subcultures redefining Arab youth

Samira Larouci, editor of Arab art and culture magazine Mille World, examines emerging Middle East and North Africa (MENA) subcultures and how the ...

Youth : Fashion : Sports

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Dear brands: please stop selling us your activism

Generation Z are being targeted with empty promises of peace, love and change. Tori West explains why it’s time for brands to put their words ...

Youth : Fashion : Advertising

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Where mindful influencers are going wrong

They tell followers to reduce their use of social media but don’t appear to practice what they preach.

Youth : Social Media : Technology

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Empowering women makes perfect business sense – it’s a fact-based truth

On International Women’s Day, Jamie Holtum, strategy director at FutureBrand London, explains how female empowerment drives economic gro...

Female Futures : Technology : Finance

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How skincare can learn from the auto industry

Valentin Langen, founder of IONIQ, discusses why beauty brands should focus on cross-sector collaborations to help diversify the skin tech category.

Beauty : Health : Wellness

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Sustainability has become a luxury privilege

Virgil Abloh's reusable water bottle for Evian is indicative of luxury's new mindset – but shouldn't sustainable products be accessible and desirab...

Drinks : Sustainability : Wellness

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Keep calm and embrace intelligent furniture

How can we design technology that promotes mindfulness? Kaz Oki, CEO and co-founder of Mui Lab, envisages a more natural interface experience.

Product Design : Wellness : Technology

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Is smart apparel finally ready to go mainstream?

Aman Advani, CEO and co-founder of Ministry of Supply, explains why smart garments have previously failed, and how his science-backed fashion brand...

Fashion : Retail : AI