Catherine D. Henry
tech Futurist, author, keynote speaker
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Biography
tech Futurist, author, keynote speaker
Catherine D. Henry is a renowned Futurist, and multi-award-winning expert in emerging technologies from the Metaverse and spatial computing to AI, enterprise innovation & Web3.
Catherine advises Fortune 500 brands on emerging tech marketing and interactive media: she specializes in Gen Z online culture.
Deploying her skills as an economist with 15 years in banking as an institutional investment advisor she identifies "megatrends," identifying future trends and how technology will transform the future of work so companies can best position themselves for success.
With an MBA in Marketing, and a Master’s degree in Economics Catherine D. Henry is known for her strategic vision - combining frontier technologies, culture, and digital anthropology. She identifies how online behaviors today will affect your business tomorrow.
A leading African American technologist, she is an inspiring, eloquent and engaging speaker whose thought leadership and business acumen add value to any event from large conferences to private, C-suite briefings.
Catherine D. Henry
The Tech Whisperer
www.catherinedhenry.com
Consulting
Helping Fortune 1000 companies stay technologically innovative, and culturally relevant so they can stay competitive.
Consulting
Cultural attention is a precious intangible asset.
It’s what drives people to your brand, raises your equity and sustains sales. It’s the buzz that keeps people wanting to be part of your brand and wondering what you’ll do next.
Leveraging a deep knowledge of brand activations across gaming and 3D platforms, the top trending gaming/retail subcultures, and gen Z and gen alpha online behaviors for your company:
AI Advisors, Virtual avatars, game worlds, brand games, web3 loyalty are a precursor of emerging subcultures that will become mainstream 5-10 years from now: are you ready?
Consulting services:
- C-Suite briefings: tech forecasting, business landscape & competitive audit and gap analysis.
- Delivering an in-depth assessment of new technologies and how they can benefit your business.
- Developing a clear strategy to help you navigate new platforms and technologies from AI to spatial and VR.
- Clarifying how your brand can be culturally relevant and effectively engage with your target customers.
Spatial Commerce Consulting
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Spatial commerce in virtual reality and gaming platforms represents a new and growing opportunity for brands to extend their presence and gain new clients. Similarly, physical experiences are in-demand, especially by young consumers who crave social experiences that they can simultaneously share online.
Let us help you design relevant, engaging experiences - online, and in-store - that drive conversion and social buzz.
Virtual Natives
Virtual Natives
How a New Generation is Using Technology to Revolutionize Work, Play, and Culture
Wiley, 2023
The definitive book on Gen Alpha, tech, media and culture.
We’re living through what is arguably one of the most exciting, confusing, and powerful social moments in the history of humanity, the shift from the Digital Age to the Virtual Age. This shift is being driven by technology, and the people who are leading it are the ones who know it best: the Virtual Natives.
Suddenly, and out of nowhere, we find ourselves bombarded from all sides by terms like Generative Artificial Intelligence, Avatars, Metaverse, VR, AR, NFTs, virtual assets, and collectibles. Crypto, DeFI, Web3, ChatGPT, and deepfakes now dominate the common lexicon.
This book will introduce you to the Virtual Native cohort and mindset, decipher their socio-cultural and economic experiences, and unpack their expectations of companies looking to engage, market, employ, or parent them.
To understand the future, read Virtual Natives.
2023-2024 Awards & Speaking Engagements
SXSW 2023, 2024
Austin, Texas
15 Seconds - Keynote
Salzburg, Austria 2023
The Economist Conference
San Jose, California
Awards
Campaign Magazine: Top 40 Americans in Media, 2023
Ad Age Magazine: Web3 Trailblazers, 2023
FastTech Intelligence
Report Series
Following is a sample of dozens of research reports
on leading technologies, all researched, written, designed, and published by Catherine D. Henry.
Links are available to download the contents
in both pdf and video formats.
Intelligence Report Series
a series of tech forecasts & reports
researched, written, designed by Catherine d. henry
Catherine D. Henry
Catherine D. Henry is one of the top global experts on emerging tech marketing and interactive media: she specializes in Gen Z online culture. A strategic advisor to Boards and executive management teams, Catherine is shaping how the world’s most successful companies will enter, market, and monetize this new media landscape.
Executive Briefing Sessions & Talks:
- Wearable Tech & AI: What to expect next.
- Spatial Commerce: What the Apple Vision Pro means for business.
- Chatbots, Avatars and...Virtual Girlfriends? How AI will change our lives.
- Relevant Retail: Interpreting your Brand for Today’s Consumers
- Brand Loyalty and Web3 Strategies for Brands & Cultural Institutions.
- Gen Z, Gen Alpha & Gaming: Identity at play
Futurist & Innovation Strategist
- Gen Z, Money & the Future of Work
- Where and How Gen Alpha Consumes Content (and what they really want!)
- Context, Content & Cultural Relevance for Brands and Institutions.
- Interactive Engagement: authentic engagement strategies, online and off.
Catherine D. Henry
tech Futurist, author, keynote speaker
-Strategic Tech Advisory
-Cultural Capital Evaluation
-Keynote Presentation
-Board Briefing
-Executive Consultation
Booking a meeting today:
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