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We work with forward-thinking leaders to turn technological disruption into strategic advantage. Foresight that sharpens strategy, propositions your customers actually want, and AI prototypes you can put in front of people in weeks.
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What we do
Four ways in, from a single keynote to a working prototype. Most engagements start with one and grow into the next.
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Strategic Foresight
A practical toolkit for reading the forces shaping your market and acting on them early. Beyond trend-watching, it is a systematic way to explore what is possible for your organization, so leaders spot opportunities sooner and decide with confidence when the ground is moving.
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Proposition Design
Ideas alone do not power innovation. Process does. We immerse ourselves in the lives of your customers, co-create bold concepts, and turn them into propositions that are desirable, feasible, and profitable, while building a team that can do it again without us.
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AI & Emerging Tech
Keynotes, workshops, and discovery engagements that take AI out of the lab and into the business. Your teams leave with the judgment to tell a real opportunity from a demo, and a roadmap they can defend to a board.
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Zero to One AI
Two weeks from business problem to a working, AI-powered prototype running on your data. Not slides, not requirements. Real code in your hands while competitors are still scoping. Our think-while-building approach collapses innovation timelines from months to days.
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From our founder
Page Two · Early 2027
The World After AI
Optimism, Agency, and Our Next Chapter
The technology is not the variable. The choices are.
Ramy’s second book makes the case that the real reshaping does not begin when AI amazes us. It begins when AI becomes as ordinary as electricity, woven so deeply into how we work, learn, and connect that we stop noticing it. That is the moment that demands new thinking from leaders, and the argument that runs through everything we do here.
Ramy is also the author of The AI Product Design Handbook, the practitioner’s guide to designing AI-powered products.
Read more at theworldafterai.com
Keynotes & workshops
Bring Ramy to your stage
Ramy Nassar is a futurist, author, and the former Head of Innovation at Mattel. He has worked with more than 250 organizations on AI strategy and innovation, among them Apple, TD Bank, Verizon, New Balance, and the Government of Canada. He is an award-winning speaker at events including World Usability Congress, Mobile World Congress, and AI Everything, and teaches Design Thinking at McMaster University and Toronto Metropolitan University.
- 250+organizations
- 25years in technology
- 3languages
Selected work
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Customer-centric propositions for the climate revolution
We facilitated more than 200 customer conversations across a broad range of topics to help NB Power develop better products and services across their portfolio, including energy efficiency measures, EV charging, smart meters, and a net zero program.
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Imagining transit stations of the future
Through an immersive initiative to explore the transit stations of the future, we designed a range of value propositions centred on connectivity to deliver better passenger experiences.
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Product-led transformation that is ready to scale
Leveraging existing customer insight work, we turned raw qualitative research into a shared, cross-functional view of real customer problems, then co-designed and tested two new products as part of their digital transformation roadmap.
Why 1000 Days Out
We were corporate innovators before corporate innovation was cool
Leading companies knew they needed a new kind of leader: someone who understands that the world is changing faster than it ever has, and who also knows how to get things done inside a large organization. Working inside those organizations, we helped them become ambidextrous, innovative and excellent at execution at the same time. It is not an easy job, and sometimes a thankless one, but it taught us a great deal.
Now we share that experience with other companies. Our passion is teaching as many organizations as possible how to use customer insight to build better products, better services, and better experiences. Customers demand, and deserve, products they love. We are on the side of the customer, and we teach you how to be there too.
The approach borrows from many existing methods and shapes them into something structured and our own. We help teams build processes that use the best of design thinking and human-centred design to understand the problems customers face. We layer on strategic planning so innovation objectives support business objectives, which is what unlocks the value of an innovation program. Then we establish metrics, so the work your teams do is valuable, repeatable, and defensible.
The team
A small senior team of specialists. No pyramid, no bench of juniors learning on your budget. The people who sell the work are the people who do the work.
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Ramy Nassar
Founder
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Aileen Nandy
Customer Research and Design Strategist
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Rob Wray
AI & Business Innovation Strategist
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Vanessa Alvarado
UX/UI Designer
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Iain Montgomery
Customer Research and Innovation Strategist
What clients say
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This presentation was the first one that really helped our executive team understand how we drive AI initiatives forward and build the right metrics into our strategic technology roadmap. The outcomes will directly and positively impact the ROI of our investments into AI.
Robert BrickerTD Bank
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Ramy has a unique approach to presenting AI and emerging technologies that combines deep understanding of the topic with an undeniable enthusiasm that engages the audience in a meaningful and personal way.
Monica RadulescuTELUS
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The presentation completely transformed how our leadership team thinks about strategic planning. Ramy has a unique ability to uncover how the trends of today will shape the business environment of tomorrow. The framework he introduced helped us uncover specific ROI-driving opportunities to fine tune our strategy.
Erica SweeneyNew Balance
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