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Future Trends in Meetings and Events: Insights from Meetings Today Contributor Scott Steinberg

Author Scott Steinberg and the cover of his new book, 'The Shape of the Future.'

Futurist speaker and frequent Meetings Today contributor Scott Steinberg has co-authored The Shape of the Future, revealing how to “design for disruption, plan for uncertainty and adapt to whatever tomorrow brings.”

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Aric Dromi Jankov

Co-authored with another top futurist keynote speaker, Aric Dromi Jankov, The Shape of the Future delves into a new approach to design thinking and strategy, revealing how to build future-proof products, services, companies, cultures and careers.

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A key element of the book is a strategic planning, design-thinking framework dubbed FORMA that helps readers plan for change to build future-proof products via five interconnected principles: flexibility, “optimizability,” resilience, modularity and adaptivity. 

Other sections detail how to transform uncertainty into advantage, mastering rebranding and reinvention, and how to upgrade your mindset to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

The book demonstrates how to craft innovative products, services and solutions that are built from the start to account for multiple possible futures, and also how to design strategies that are flexible and resilient enough to adapt to the future.

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In addition to frequent speaking engagements for leading companies, both Steinberg and Jankov—aka ADJ, a “troublemaker futurologist”—have trained thousands of business executives worldwide on how to stay ahead of the curve.

The Shape of the Future is available in print, audio and digital formats at theshapeofthefuture.com or via Amazon.com or Lulu Press.  

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Tyler Davidson | Editor, Vice President & Chief Content Director

Tyler Davidson is the vice president and chief content director for Meetings Today, which publishes the meetings industry trade magazine Meetings Today as well as MeetingsToday.com, various newsletters, webinars, the in-person Meetings Today LIVE! Hosted-buyer events and other meetings and events industry B2B channels.

 

Tyler has covered the travel trade for nearly 35 years.  In his role with Meetings Today, which recently won the prestigious FOLIO: Eddies Award for best magazine issue, Tyler leads the editorial team on its mission to provide the most in-depth meetings content in the industry. Previously, he worked as the Asia, Canada, Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. editor at Travel Weekly magazine and TravelAge West. Before joining the dual editorial staff producing destination sections for Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, Tyler was the Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland and Pacific Northwest editor at TravelAge West. He also undertook general news and feature assignments while working at the magazines. 

 

Besides reporting on the travel trade, Tyler has covered the real estate industry, held various editorial positions at the San Francisco-based national satire magazine The Nose, wrote freelance technology industry pieces and covered the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders for a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. He has a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University, where he worked in various editorial capacities on its award-winning student magazine, Prism. 

Contact: tyler.davidson@meetingstoday.com