Sheryl Connelly’s 2016 TED Notes

Armed with an iPad Pro, the visual note-taker created her most incredible documentation yet

Another TED came and went back in February and it was as inspiring as ever. Sitting in the audience is an all-consuming experience which, after five straight days of talks on stage and chats in between sessions, renders one with what regulars call “TED Head”—a beautiful, hazy blend of intellectual satisfaction, sleep deprivation and hangover. The thought of processing that entire experience in to real-time …

2016 Looking Further with Ford Trend Report

Our talk with Sheryl Connelly about her insights for mobility and more

It takes three to five years to bring a new vehicle to market (like the 2017 Ford GT supercar pictured here), and changes in longterm planning require even more insight—will populations migrating to megacities want to buy cars in 20 years? Will everyone want autonomous driving cars or will they prefer mass transit? For the fourth year in a row Ford documents their findings in …

Sheryl Connelly’s 2013 TED Notes

Conference veteran and Ford futurist Sheryl Connelly shares her brilliantly illustrated synopsis

Each year we travel to Long Beach, CA for TED and each year, though armed with inspiration anew, we’d leave with scattered notes—hammered out on an iPad or illegibly scribbled alongside speaker bios in the TED program—that hardly do justice to the knowledge we’ve gleaned. That was until our friend Sheryl Connelly—Ford Motor Company Futurist, TED alum and note-taker extraordinaire—began sharing with us her illustrated …