Permission-Based Innovation: How to Innovate Like a Rebel by Knowing Your Boundaries

Dave Farmer

Calling all rebels. Get ready to embrace a counterintuitive approach to preparing for the future. In this session we’ll dive into real-world examples of experience innovation haves and have nots, fails and successes, rules and exceptions, highlighting the lessons brands learned (or got burned on) and how you can know the rules so that you can break them. Leah Cotterman …

E-commerce Disruption: Selfcare Implications

Dave Farmer

E-commerce and retail overall are changing at increasing speed. The ways to market, sell, touch, service and deliver to the customer are becoming both more plentiful and more sophisticated. While this can be daunting to retail and brand leadership, it also creates tremendous opportunity. In this session, we’ll make sense of the underlying drivers of e-commerce innovation and explore how …

E-commerce Disruption: Selfcare Implications

Dave Farmer

E-commerce and retail overall are changing at increasing speed. The ways to market, sell, touch, service and deliver to the customer are becoming both more plentiful and more sophisticated. While this can be daunting to retail and brand leadership, it also creates tremendous opportunity. In this session, we’ll make sense of the underlying drivers of e-commerce innovation and explore how …

The Rise of the Anxiety Economy

Dave Farmer

While advances in technology have raised economic productivity and overall standards of living, it has also inadvertently cultivated significant social and environmental/ecological concerns, which in turn are escalating our collective and individual anxiety. The stats are scary as we consider the rise of stress, anxiety and depression-related tendencies, behaviors and illnesses, ranging from heavy alcohol consumption and mild insomnia to …

The Heart of the Possible: Transforming Healthcare Outcomes

Dave Farmer

Presenting how information collected via wearable, implantable and environmental sensors can be personalized to improve patient outcomes. Transforming how healthcare is delivered and managed using self-care devices and apps. Based on my personal experience as a long-time heart patient, athlete, and technology professionals. Heidi Dohse Sr. Program Manager: GCP Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google

Health and Wellness: A Story to be Told

Dave Farmer

In health & wellness, retailers are in the ironic role of shaking things up and creating a battle for the nation’s healthcare services dollar. They are rewriting the rules on how to deliver consumer-centered healthcare that is cheaper to build and operate and more accessible and convenient for consumers. Retailers have an opportunity to fully integrate these services into their …

The Future of Commerce

Dave Farmer

We live in a culture of consumerism and technology. In this talk, Sterling explores how we arrived at this point, the surprising future in store for us and how we can create a future which fulfills on our wants and needs. When Sterling was growing up in his family’s supermarket, the business was all about customers and all about the …