An expert on present and future trends

Magnus Lindkvist is a futurologist and lecturer within business intelligence and trends. He has an MSc. in Business and Economics from The Stockholm School of Economics and has studied at The School of Film, Television and Theatre at UCLA. Before founding Pattern Recognition, Magnus Lindkvist worked as a brand strategist at Differ and as a planner/account director and management group member at brand strategy agency Grow. He is the author of the book Everything We Know is Wrong: The Trendspotter's Handbook and was voted Sweden's Business Speaker of the Year in 2009.

Further qualifications

Magnus Lindkvist is an active member of TED, the world-famous trends meeting in California, as well as The Long Now Foundation. Furthermore, Magnus Lindkvist is a course director in Trendspotting and Future Thinking at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, a collaborative partnership between Stockholm School of Economics, The Royal Institute of Technology, The University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and medical university Karolinska Institute.

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