Jeremy Gutsche, Keynote Speaker in Innovation, Trend Spotting and Cool Hunting

Testimonials About Jeremy Gutsche Quotes from Jeremy's work as an innovation keynote speaker, cool hunting guru and futurist. "Jeremy Gutsche is on the forefront of cool... At Trend Hunter dot com, find out what's cool before it's cool." - MTV Live "This guy, he is the king.. he knows everything before it happens. He has a HUGE website that everyone's talking about called TrendHunter.com. It's a cool website. It's one of those websites where we can all get informed about what's going to be new and what's next. " - 107.7 The End "Jeremy is a master surfer of the incoming waves of trends who can seem them coming before they hit the shores. It is an informative delight to watch him at work and to hear him speak." - Rod Beckstrom, CEO/Author/Catalyst, The Starfish & The Spider "Jeremy Gutsche, a Toronto-based trend-spotter who runs the website Trendhunter.com, is a good example of a new breed of trend-spotter who collects insights by cultivating an online community of trend-watchers around the world." - The Guardian "TrendHunter, a Toronto website, is the incubator for trend spotting and fashion trends. Jeremy Gutsche is the eagle eye who uses the blogosphere as the new 'go to'." - Global TV (2008 Trend Special) The Economist recently interviewed Trend Hunter founder Jeremy Gutsche for “The Year in 2008” issue and one of his observations made it into the Economist “Six of The Best” feature. - The Economist "I enjoyed this much more than I thought I was going to. Jeremy took a very frank and articulate appreciation of what it is to “hunt” trends in the most real and practical way. Excellent and very tangible examples. Plus one of the best looking decks of the event." - Review on GreySF.com by Mark Sanders, Resident Creative Technologist, Grey San Francisco "Jeremy's presentation was very well-received for his humor, acuity and awareness of his audience... they were nonetheless immediately engaged... Jeremy had clearly done his homework regarding the audience's needs, so his creative approach to the subject was spot on. His delivery is easy and his affability contagious... All in all, highly recommended." - Michael Adams, Editor in Chief of Hospitality Design Magazine "The highlight of the conference was without a doubt the presentation from Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter at TrendHunter.com." - William Bakker, Director of eBusiness at Tourism British Columbia Jeremy presented Unlocking Cool for our inaugural TechPoint Event (an executive retail Event for innovating customer technologies - www.techpointevent.com) His energy, perspective and ideas on innovating were the perfect kick off for our Event. Jeremy is one of the best speakers we have worked with for our business. He prepared and related to our specific audience, he captivated their attention through his style and enthusiasm and inspired their perspective with his ideas. We will look forward to continuing to work with Jeremy. - Nancy Splain, VP Connecting Point Marketing (Head of Conference) 100% rated Jeremy as good or excellent. 96% rated Jeremy's presentation as relevant or extremely relevant to their work. "The best speaker so far - inspirational, fun, funky, engaging, appealing - excellent!" "Excellent speaker, great examples, model simple & relevant. I'm inspired to take it further now!" "Great presentation. I can't wait to go back to the office and start being cool." "Great! Out of the box thinking! Refreshing!" "He's very interesting!" "Who knew being cool could be so complex? Jeremy definitely provided a few keys to help would be cool marketers unlock trends." "Great ideas for incorporating innovation into a company." "Great speaker. Interesting content." "I love the concept, being able to bring the concept of 'cool' to all types of everyday topics / products." "Excellent, but too fast. Would love to know more about Trend Hunter" "Very Innovative." "A fascinating topic and an engaging speaker." "Jeremy was a great speaker. His innovative thoughts on 'generating cool' are readily applicable to any business. A terrific addition to the CMA star line-up." "Interesting approach! A new perspective. Wishing my bosses were crazy!" "Edgy topic - fun, innovative. Keeps you interested from beginning to end." "Good presenter. Good presentation." "Really great." "Fun, interesting speaker, really like the examples." "Great. Very informative. Well paced. Good info." "Amazing leading innovation. Should have him back!!" "Fantastic presentation, excellent material, great pace & presenter." Source: CMA, FULL list of participant comments: "Jeremy is a dynamic and prolific speaker on driving innovation in organizations, and his presentation was one of the highlights of the conference." - Review on VacantReady.com by Chris Clark "Judging from comments heard after Jeremy Gutsche, his presentation has been the best yet. Jeremy has a very engaging presentation style ... and a brilliant grasp of his content." - Review on Canadian Tourism Blog "Jeremy was the highest rated speaker at the Canada-e-Connect Strategy Conference in Vancouver last November (canadaeconnect.com). Even with an amazing line-up of speakers, delegates still today tell me how much they enjoyed Jeremy's keynote speech. In addition to being a great speaker, Jeremy also happens to be an awesome guy." - Jens Thraenhart Founder & Chair, Canadian eTourism Council Host of the Canada-e-Connect Strategy Conference

Testimonials About Trend Hunter

Quotes about Trend Hunter in the media and by Trend Gurus!

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"At TrendHunter.com, find out what's cool before it's cool." - MTV Live	"It’s about the Next Big Thing, and Trend Hunter has a list so extensive—gathered by trend spotters and cool hunters all over the world—that barely two days of peeking in has moved me out of the last century all the way to the next." - "It's All There at Trend Hunter," The Globe and Mail	"Trend Hunter Rocks! I don’t see why TrendHunter.com shouldn’t be as popular as TechCrunch, Engadget, and Boing Boing and Gizmodo. " - Guy Kawasaki, Marketing Legend, Venture Capitalist, Author
"Trend Hunter is cooler than all the rest of us combined." - Stephen J. Dubner Co-Author of Freakonomics	"Trend Hunter gets you out of the blocks fast… then it’s down to you." - Kevin Roberts CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, Author of Lovemarks	"Trend Hunter is where cool lives!" - Marian Salzman Top Five Futurist in the World, Chief Marketing Officer of JWT
"Trend Hunter tells you what’s cool so that you don’t look like a jackass trying to act cool. It’s the go-to spot for people who always want to be in the know." - Louis Ramirez Senior Editor of Gizmodo	"Trend Hunter is part of my daily trend-fix" - Reinier Evers Founder of TrendWatching.com	"TrendHunter is fab for those news items that you wouldn’t traditionally find in mainstream media, but are so funky that you’ll wonder why!" - Jessamy Hawley Senior Writer, GadgetCandy
"I am rarely impressed by sites that claim to showcase trends, but Trend Hunter is the real deal! I really enjoy participating in a community of visionaries and innovators. This is the best place on the web to find out what’s new and what’s next!" - Tina Wells CEO of Buzz Marketing Group	"I love Trendhunter for what it’s trying to do, it puts trends in a form people that understand (a magazine, online) and pushes ideas out into the ether. More people need to read it. More people need to write about the ideas found there." - Piers Fawkes Publisher of PSFK	"There are new, hot ideas in the form of new products or services appearing somewhere in the world and reported on the Internet every day and there’s a buzz that’s building around this that you can sample at Trend Hunter (www.trendhunter.com)." - The Bangkok Post
"More information than you can shake a stick at." - The Gazette	"The online magazine that monitors all things fab." - The Free Press	Trend Hunter has been cited 20 times by the Financial Times in the last year. (September 2007)