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What does Covid-19 imply for retail? How do you build a successful urban farming company? And how do department stores hold their ground? Answers were provided by innovators and retail giants at the GDI Retail Summit from 10 to 11 September 2020. A summary.

A.I. will make it easier to offer tourism activities. For everyone, anytime. At the same time, the travel experience becomes even better due to more detailed feedback by smart assistants.

Robots do most of our work, scarcities are a thing of the past. This is a scenario from the GDI study "Future Skills". What skills will humans need? How will we live together in the future?

In times of government spending on an unimaginable scale, a discussion of the ideas of "Modern Monetary Theory" is more topical than ever. One of its probably most famous advocates is the US-American professor Stephanie Kelton. 

In a globalised world, composed of countries with vastly unequal mean incomes, citizenship has acquired an enormous economic value, argues economist and former GDI guest speaker Branko Milanović in a blogpost.

"Belt and Road" visualises a new Chinese world order in which the US have disappeared, says Bruno Maçães, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs. Maçães will speak at the GDI Retail Summit on 11 September 2020.

A world in abundance, where its inhabitants will still have to do without in order to save the planet. Humanities overall goal is carbon neutrality. This is a future scenario from the GDI study "Future Skills".

By 2050, we might no longer be consuming any animal products. A GDI infographic of plant-based protein producers suggests that ways will be found for people to eat a purely vegan diet without having to give up anything.

We are increasingly opting for convenience products. At the same time, the desire for fresh, organic and local products is growing. How can these two needs be satisfied simultaneously?

In Paris, the preservation of a manifold  retail landscape is a public task. Semaest, a company commissioned by the city, buys shop premises and rents them out to small retailers at favourable rates. Semaest director Emmanuelle Hoss explains here and at the GDI Retail Summit how she is protecting the shopping districts of Paris from desolation.