Megatrends Workshop

Workshop Objective: Leveraging methods and techniques to identify and evaluate top impacting trends in 2025.

Background: Frost & Sullivan expects 2025 to be the year of soft landing for the global economy for the first time since 2021. Declining inflation, resilient growth, and recovering trade points will create a more stable economic environment in 2025 after years of volatility. The year 2025 will see the completion of 5G advanced specifications and mark the initiation of 6G technology standardization processes, and early application testing. Further, new era of industrial evolution is expected to begin as Industry 5.0 sets in 2025. Several regions are already leading the way like the EU’s Industry 5.0 Strategy and Japan’s Society 5.0 Initiative. Nations are increasingly deploying cyber weapons alongside conventional weapons and using cyber operations to complement kinetic operations. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing into the cyber arms race is expected to significantly alter the dynamics of cyber warfare by 2025.

Why Is This Important? Frost & Sullivan’s Visionary Trends team draws on over a decade of expertise in analyzing trends and short-term signals that will most affect businesses in the near future. The Megatrends workshop allows Partners to identify and validate trends alongside our futurists, consultants, and analysts to fuel your own growth pipeline. This macro-level executive session encourages industry-agnostic and cross-functional thinking, which is critical to the innovation framework.

What Can I Expect? Our workshop session will allow participants to:

1. Leverage our BEETS framework and identify top trends in 2025 that will have a far-reaching impact across industries.
2. Analyze challenges and business implications across each trend in the short term.
3. Identify key growth opportunity areas and develop actionable mitigation strategies.

All insights, observations and actionable outcomes discussed during the session will be compiled into our annual ‘Top Trends’ research report to foster strategic future proofing.

Why Should I Attend? Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Innovation Leadership Council offers an exciting opportunity to Council Partners and Associate Partners to join a Megatrends Workshop, where we identify and analyze forward-looking trends to fuel your growth pipeline. We strongly recommend and encourage all Partners to participate in this workshop to gain access to insights about upcoming trends and effectively use them for business planning and strategy to stay ahead of the curve.