5th European Consumer Trend Conference EN

Kurt Aeschbacher
Trained economist, journalist, Swiss TV presenter.
Since 1986, has developed and presented his own formats “Citytrends”,
“Grell Pastell” and, since 2001, a talk show: “Aeschbacher”. He will
guide you through the conference programme.

Kate Ancketill
Managing director of GDR Creative Intelligence. Studied political sciences. Worked for Amnesty International before joining GDR in 1997. GDR specialises in design innovation, experimental marketing, trend analysis and forecasts.

David Bosshart
CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, one of Europe’s leading think tanks for business and society. The focuses of David Bosshart’s work are trade, consumption, management and social change.

Norbert Bolz
Professor of Media Studies at the Technical University of Berlin and a key pioneering thinker on cultural developments. The most outspoken provocateur in the German-speaking countries, he is a philosopher and author, and much in demand as a trend analyst.

Wendy Liebman
Founder and CEO of WSL Strategic Retail, a firm well known for studying and predicting consumer shopping behaviour. WSL combines astute observations of retail with consumer research to predict where shoppers will be shopping in the next few years.

Nicole Lüdi
Senior Researcher at the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
Focuses on consumer behaviour, sustainability, leisure and tourism.
After graduating in political sciences, Nicole Lüdi worked as a project
manager in the market research department.