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Announcing more awards; our Future of Health Report won two Communicator Awards for Excellence!

- General: White Paper, Excellence 2024
- Features: Visual Appeal, Excellence 2024

Read the report now to explores how emerging technologies will transform our health system.

https://futureof.org/health/

Our Future of Health Report took home silver in the Anthem Awards–Partnership or Collaboration!

This award celebrates our collaboration with the Jacobs Institute and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to create a report that inspires and proactively improves our collective health futures.

Read now: https://futureof.org/health/

By 2030, a flurry of innovations will drastically change our treatment and understanding of cancer, transforming "the emperor of all maladies" to a manageable chronic disease.

The Future vs. Cancer MEDICINE IN THE 2020s IS POISED TO DEPLOY A BLIZZARD OF NEW INNOVATIONS THAT WILL TRANSFORM “THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES” INTO A CHRONIC DISEASE RATHER THAN A DEATH SENTENCE.

In our Future of Health report, we take an in-depth look at the forces shaping tomorrow's health industry, including the impacts of climate change on our health system, a rising demand for healthcare professionals, changing healthcare economics, and more.

https://futureof.org/health/

The wellness and nutrition industry is poised to explode as health-conscious people spend more time and money on everything from gym memberships to daily diets.

Learn about the changes to come in our Future of Health report.

Wellness & Nutrition THE WELLNESS CRAZE WILL EXPLODE AS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PEOPLE SPEND MORE TIME AND MONEY ON EVERYTHING FROM GYMS, DIETS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WELLNESS TOURISM TO GENETIC AND OTHER METABOLIC TESTING. WELLNESS IS A $4.4 TRILLION GLOBAL MARKET AND WILL REACH $7 TRILLION BY 2025. IMPROVEM...

Our report on The Future of Health won an Anthem Award (SILVER) for 2024!

Health - Partnership or Collaboration
Community Engagement Category

Read more about the project:
https://www.anthemawards.com/winners/list/entry/ #!health/partnership-or-collaboration/the-future-of-health/0/attention-span/460472

Thank you to all who participated in our Future of Health Boston Summit! The day was a great success filled with thought-provoking discussions and insights around what the future holds for our health system, including cancer research advancements, the extension of “healthspan”, and precision medicine.

Learn more about these topics, along with others, in the Future of Health Report.

https://futureof.org/health/

Join us at 3 ET today for the Future of Health Summit! We'll be discussing report topics including the health equity gap, the impact of politics on health, emerging tech and more!

https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/98610996181

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo Jacobs Institute

This week we're at the Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit in Binghamton diving into the innovations that are advancing our worldwide food system. Stop by and say hello!

We presented The Value, Importance and Power of Story Telling at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty's recent Together at the Table summit.

Hearing about the diverse and meaningful efforts by the attendees to tackle food insecurity gives us great hope for the future. It was a pleasure exploring ideas for bringing needed attention to their efforts.

Thanks to Molly Lanke from the United Way of Mower County who presented with our Garrett Law and Ethan Watters.

And to Hormel Foods and the Hometown Food Security Project for enabling us to share the innovative hunger-fighting efforts happening in Mower County, Minn.

Excited to announce we've won a gold Davey Award for our work on the Hometown Food Security Project Mower County Community Assessment Report!

The report is a comprehensive look at food insecurity in Mower County, MN , developed through dozens of stakeholder interviews, surveys, community listening sessions, subject matter expert input, and countless conversations.

Visit hometownfoodsecurity.org to view the report.

Airports as experiences? Extended reality vacations? The explosion of the middle-class travel industry? Our Future of Recreation, Travel and Hospitality (FoRTH) report, created in conjunction with Delaware North, explores the vast possibilities of tomorrow's leisure. View the full report:

https://www.delawarenorth.com/our-difference/future-of/

Explore our latest Future Of report to discover how we can better seize the opportunities presented by the emerging technologies of today and tomorrow to reengineer our health system with compassion, common sense and ethical clarity.

https://futureof.org/health/

Created with the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo and Jacobs Institute

Attention Span Media We are a strategy, communications, design and marketing agency creating winning strategies using aut

One of our recent works, recapping global innovation currents at Hormel Foods! Enjoy!

Unleashing Innovation in Global Markets From local roots to global reach, Hormel Foods innovates across borders.

Hiroshima University has developed a new innovation in food: an allergy-free egg. Learn how this advancement will pave the way to a more inclusive food culture.

Read now: https://attentionfwd.com/takes/allergy-free-eggs-created-at-hiroshima-university/

ANNOUNCING AttentionFWD Takes! Our concise views and predictions highlighting the latest trends in the food, sports healthcare and more!

Explore now: https://attentionfwd.com/takes/

With more than a century of combined experience at the frontiers of technology, business and science, our team of futurists explore the emerging forces driving rapid change across food, sport and medicine. Explore now: https://attentionfwd.com/forces-of-change/

We are happy to announce that our Future of Recreation, Travel, and Hospitality (FoRTH) report won 6 honors in the Communicator Awards, which recognize excellence in marketing and communication. Read the FoRTH report: https://www.delawarenorth.com/our-difference/future-of/

In support of Mental Health Awareness month, we want to remind everyone that the new Veterans Crisis Line is available. Vets can call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or chat live online anytime.

Let’s . They’ve earned it. Note-you don't have to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to call.

By 2040, we predict that another billion people will be flying internationally, as emerging nations—especially in Asia—are poised to mint new legions of urbanized individuals with substantially higher earning power. Where will they go?

Read this and other predictions from FORTH: The Future of Recreation, Travel and Hospitality report we created with Delaware North.
https://www.delawarenorth.com/forth/the-new-leisure-class-redraws-the-map

Our FUTURE OF YOUTH SPORTS report won Bronze at the 2022 Anthem Awards, for the category of Research Publications! The awards honor companies that amplify “voices that spark global change”.

To explore, download or order a copy of the report: https://attentionfwd.com/report-the-future-of-youth-sports/

It was a pleasure and privilege to assist in creating the Cancer Nutrition Consortium cookbook, helping make cancer treatment a little easier for those going through it (and their caregivers).

Cooking Through Treatment: A Cancer Nutrition Cookbook - Cancer Nutrition Consortium Place your order today for our first cancer nutrition cookbook featuring recipes designed by culinary and medical experts today and receive your copy as soon as it ships.

What does a cultural anthropologist do in a global food company? Our own Ethan Watters, Head of Story, was at the 3BL Media Forum "Brands Taking Stands" this week in NYC interviewing Hormel Foods' Dr. Tanya Rodriguez in a thought provoking conversation about the intersection of culture and food. Discover how the skills and critical thinking of a cultural anthropologist offer a unique perspective to understand how and why consumers buy food and the role food plays in their lives.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq1hO6HoYdM

The Intersection of Food & Culture Learn how an anthropologist uses her boots on the ground technique to discover the day-to-day habits of consumers. Sitting at the intersection of culture and...

We are far more susceptible to cultural influence than most of us like to admit. And that was true even before the rise of social media. This essay by our Ethan Watters in The New York Times unravels how this happens, and why it's important-to our current and future health.

Opinion | The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement A deep understanding of how cultural trends and psychology interact is more important than ever.

Congratulations to our colleague and FoRTH Report Executive Editor, Brandon Presser, for winning Best Travel Book in the 2022 Lowell Thomas Awards for The Far Land!

https://satwf.com/archives-2022-lowell-thomas-competition/

Watch our strategy chief and co-founder Garrett Law speak at Content Marketing World about turning deep research and strategic thinking into powerful marketing content!

He'll be joined by Jen Compton from our client, Delaware North for "Predicting the Future, for Fun and Profit."

https://schedule.contentmarketingworld.com/session/predicting-the-future-for-fun-and-profit-/886213

Announcing our latest report on the future, this one with our client Delaware North:
https://www.delawarenorth.com/forth