Discover the Futures of Design with Global Trend Experts
8 Countries. 8 Experts. 1 Powerful Trend Forecasting Seminar.
What You’ll Get:
- Eight 30-minute presentations from internationally recognized experts
- PDF summaries of each talk
- A curated overview of key trends across regions—from Scandinavia and Central Europe to the Mediterranean and China
- A global lens on where design, lifestyle, and consumer culture are headed next
This event is fully online, making it accessible no matter where you are in the world.
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is designed for professionals who shape the future of products, brands, and culture:
- Designers & Product Developers
- Concept & Brand Strategists
- Marketing, Media & Communication Professionals
- Journalists & Content Creators
- Buyers & Retail Decision-Makers
Ticket price: 189 euro
Secure your access now and stay ahead of the trends shaping tomorrow.
Details about the seminars
Retail and Retailtainment
Retail, Culture, Experience, Emotions, Shopping
Stefan Nilsson
Ageless Futures
Intergenerational, Adaptive Design, Wellness, Age-Fluid, Hyper-Personalization, Silver Economy
Cecile Poignant
Vibe, Style, Aesthetic: Navigating the New Interior Identity
Home living, Interior, Lifestyle, Social media, Pop Culture, Algorithm & AI, Sustainability
Elisabetta Rizzato
Designing for Life: The Rise of Regenerative Trends
Circularity, Conscious Design, Climate Adaptation, Cultural Preservation, Innovation, CMF (Colour Material Finish)
Judith van Vliet
Positive Futures
Optimism, Digital detox, Sustainability, Regenerative, Multifunctionality, Details
Susanna Björklund
Beyond the Visual: Multi-Sensory Design, Emotive Colour & the Full Spectrum
CMF (Colour Material Finish), Moods and atmospheres, Sensorial design, Inclusivity, Health & Wellbeing
Alina Schartner
Culture of Craft
Thinking hands, Interior design, Fashion, Knit Power, Modular systems & diy, Circularity
Jan Agelink
Design Trend for Luxury Consumer in China
Luxury, Lifestyle, CMF (Colour Material Finish), Consumerism
Xiaojing Huang
Sign up for a fruitful and inspiring session today and watch it at your pace.
Our Team
The Forecast Club is a global collective of leading, award-winning trend experts — one from each country. While each member operates independently, they collaborate periodically on exclusive projects known as “Drops.”
This September 2025, the Forecast Club will unveil its first curated Drop — a distinctive release of forward-looking insights across design, colour, materials, sustainability, retail, aspirations, and cultural trends.
Alina Schartner, based in Austria, is an internationally recognised colour and interior design consultant, trend forecaster, and designer. She creates purposeful strategies, concepts, and collections for major brands. Her futures-focused approach, rooted in longevity, balances relevance, emotional and functional value, profitability, and sustainability. Alongside bespoke services, Alina shares her insights through keynotes, workshops, webinars, trend reports, and expert panels. Since 2021, she has also been the brand ambassador for RAL COLOURS, promoting colour literacy worldwide.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
Multi-sensory healing will boom by 2027: from immersive, tactile design paired with narrative fragrances and soul-nourishing sounds, to empathy postcards, emotive objects, and adaptable spaces that enhance everyday rituals and communal gatherings.
Cecile Poignant is a French prospectivist with 35 years of experience converting cultural shifts into strategic gain for global brands. Her future-scoping work tracks social, tech, and ecological signals, especially around sustainability, travel, food, and longevity, turning weak cues into practical roadmaps. In workshops she equips leadership teams with actionable frameworks that replace uncertainty with insight. Splitting teaching time between art-design schools and top business programs, she insists foresight is a shared, non-negotiable responsibility.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
By 2027, the rising need to label every emotion will guide our daily choices: from the lipstick we use, to the scent we spray, the cocktail we drink, the hue we paint a wall, making feelings the compass of everyday life.
Elisabetta Rizzato, based in Italy, is an interior architect and expert in colour and trends. She created ITALIANBARK®, a trend-forward design blog founded in 2013 and recognized for its foresight in emerging trends, Italian-inspired perspective, and active global community of professionals. She also leads TRENDBARK, a trend platform that helps brands and pro apply emerging trends through tools like trendbooks, digital resources, webinars and custom services. Focused on innovation, aesthetics, and sustainability, her work has been featured in Elle Decor, Vogue Australia, and awarded by the Amara Awards.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
The pet economy will boom by 2027 and I think something big is coming, like an AI-powered dog language translator ( I will use this for sure with my two dogs 😉
Jan Agelink, based in the Netherlands, is a trend forecaster with over 20 years of experience in design, craft, interiors and fashion. He is known for making cross-disciplinary connections and translating societal and technological shifts into visual narratives that resonate. His work focuses on imaginative intelligence — using imagery to sense what’s coming before we can define it in words. Through his agency Buro Jantrendman, he creates bespoke trend presentations and forecasts for brands, retailers and creative professionals across Europe. He also curates exhibitions for design fairs, bringing together emerging and established talents to reflect the sign of the times.
What do you think will exploade in the coming years?
By 2027, modularity will move from smart solution to cultural mindset. From wardrobes to kitchens, furniture to floorplans — people are craving systems they can adapt, resize, or reconfigure based on context, climate, or mood. Modularity offers control in uncertain times, and feels both timeless and sustainable. In a world that keeps shifting, we want to own less but do more — and build futures that can flex with us.
Judith van Vliet, based in Spain, is the founder of The Color Authority and a global expert in color strategy, CMF (Color, Material, Finish) design, and trend forecasting. She helps brands across industries craft compelling and purposeful color narratives. With a background at companies like Kawasaki and Avient, Judith also served as President of the Color Marketing Group and currently hosts The Color Authority podcast. She regularly contributes her expertise in color and materials to MANERA magazine. Recognized as one of the leading voices in color intelligence, Judith empowers global brands, including Braun De’Longhi, Cosentino, and Renolit, to use color with clarity, purpose, and vision.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
For 2027, regenerative design signals a shift toward a human-focused, resilient future where digital precision and natural systems co-create rather than compete. Beauty is redefined through intentional design and material re-appropriation, challenging creatives to design not more consciously, but for soulful regeneration.
Stefan ”Trendstefan” Nilsson, based in Sweden, is one of Sweden’s and Scandinavia’s most influential trend experts. Constantly on foot, he visits fairs and world cities to scout the latest in design, lifestyle, sustainability, retail and hospitality. He looks for new colours, shapes and objects, but the main driver is to try to analyse new demands regardless of if they are for Gen Z or regular men on the street. These insights are shared in various magazines and at seminars all over the world. He is a regular contributor to magazines like Elle Decoration, Residence, Plaza as well as morning shows on TV and radio.
Trendstefan runs his own digital platform Trendstefan.se since 2006 and the trend seminar “Stora Trenddagen” since 2011. On the side he curates exhibitions both at fairs, museums and how own mobile exhibition platform Designgalleriet.
Swedish magazine Rum have listed Trendstefan as one of the most influential people in architecture and design in Sweden. Trendstefan is also the founder of The Forecast Club.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
Tiny monsters. These collectible toys that originally come from Asia will roll out all over the rest of the world. We will for sure see more of Sonny Angel and Labubu. It is of course part of the larger Kidults megatrend.
Susanna Björklund, based in Finland, is a futures thinker, trend analyst, journalist and a designer. As a Senior Lecturer she teaches emerging talents at LAB Institute of Design, LAB University of Applied Sciences. Susanna is also an international speaker and moderator for panel discussions. Susanna is known for curating and producing SIGNALS, the official trend exhibition of Habitare, the interior fair of Helsinki, 2015-2022, linking visual and societal trends.
Her passion is design and to look for changes in everything around us, to analyze and cluster those signals into thinking where the futures might be heading. Societal shifts, design for the planet and changes in consumer behaviour as well as in values are interesting ingredients for her work.
What do you think will explode in the coming years?
Everyone talks about AI, but as a counter trend we might appreciate imperfection more and see new businesses or services based on personal face to face connections.
