So much of what we take for granted today has only just been invented, some of it by Eva – she founded the world’s first Internet Cafe, where David Bowie and Gary Barlow learned about the Internet. Cyberia became a successful chain that she sold before joining Top Shop in 1998 as launch MD of their fledgling ecommerce activity in the days before payment platforms. Whilst at Top Shop, she launched the world’s first mobile ecommerce solution (WAP based). Eva has an extraordinary track record of spotting and exploiting trends. These days she works at The Retail Practice, where she helps brands, on and offline, to understand what is coming next. Spotting trends is pretty easy if you know how. Using that knowledge is different – there’s one thing you really need to understand if you are going to capitalise on the future.

1. Trend Spotting for
business & pleasure

2. CyberCafe Cyberia (London, Paris,
Tokyo, Bangkok, Manila)
1994

3. Creating Digital Version of Topshop
@ZOOM (MD of JV of Arcadia and Daily Mail)

5. DunHumby (TESCO) – From 2 bln
pounds valuation to zero in less
than 12 months

6. “Our data collection tech is ahead of our algorithms”
Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute,
Wikimania 2014

7. 16 Petaflops later - > Barbecue Summer anyone?

8. “The Future
is invented,
not
predicted” Physicist, Dennis
Gabor, inventor
of holography

9. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
Innovative LongShots
Building Ecosystems

10. Artaud
Lanier VLP
1984
Larealitevirtuelle 1938

11. AR Tele-presence at catwalk in Tate
@TOPSHOP FEB 2014

12. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
Augumenting Dior in-store

13. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
VR in Hilfiger shop

14. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
BeyondStore
CathKidstoneVRonly

15. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
Design yourkitchen

16. @ThomasCook 2015 Bluewater – Holidays in Egypt

17. Training – AR by Virtuix for Army use
@VIRTUIX

18. @ Virtuix
Omni
L
A
B
Cut theFat–VRforhealth

19. Gesture control + see your hands in
VR
@pebbles

20. PAINTINGS COMING TO LIFE
@SportWatchVR

21. Google/NY
T
L
A
B
Mobile Futures

22. @ THE
TRP
L
A
B
Grabble–Thumbshopping
NEW
ERGONOMICS
OF “SWIPE
RIGHT FOR
YES”

23. L
A
B
Solving Returns–3D Scan

24. Google/NY
T
L
A
B
Contactless v ApplePay
Contactless -
1.2 bln pounds
Dec 2015(VISA)

25. L
A
B
HotJar for Stores
Preparation
for staff-less
stores

26. Google/NY
T
L
A
B
Colocation for everyone
Hydro66

27. CONSUMER TECH and DEVICES
DRIVE B2B TECH ADOPTION
INTERFACE CHANGES – VR AND
TINDER -THUMB ERGONOMICS
ALT ENERGIES FOR
DATACENTES TO CUT COSTS
1
2
3

28. HAPPY INVENTING !”