Nextatlas webinars: insights on AI, market research & trends

We identified Somatic Intelligence as one of the key trends for 2026 in our annual trend report, where consumers are shifting from thinking to feeling, relying on the body’s instinctive signals as the new source of truth and value in an AI-saturated world. This joint webinar with Sara Roversi of the Future Food Institute explores the new somatic intelligence emerging in the food world. From gut feeling to embodied knowledge, it examines why the next food revolution starts below the mind, how intuition and visceral awareness

The essential cultural shifts set to define 2026 — revealing the emerging forces reshaping consumer meaning, behaviour, and expectation in an era overwhelmed by algorithms and AI-driven sameness. Our annual trend webinar takes a radically new approach: powered by our proprietary LLM-driven discovery architecture, we surface signals still unfamiliar to the market, concepts growing rapidly at the edge of language and far beyond traditional trend radars. Designed to give brands first-mover advantage, we translate these ‘unknown

As the food service industry evolves rapidly, Barilla developed ChefAtlas with Nextatlas to better understand emerging trends by analysing digital conversations among professional chefs. This session from the Esomar Trend Horizons in Washington DC explores how combining AI-driven analysis with human expertise can reveal rich, real-time insights and how these methods could apply across industries beyond food.

In today’s food landscape, consumers are overwhelmed: conflicting nutrition advice, UPF hysteria, and a flood of “expert” opinions mean every meal feels like a test. This constant noise is fuelling anxiety, second-guessing, and ultimately, exhaustion. Our CEO, Luca Morena, and Sara Roversi, founder of the Future Food Institute, explored how to turn complexity into clarity, and how Nextatlas' TasteOS tools can guide your brand to anticipate what consumers are truly hungry for.

Design and technology are reshaping the home into a smart, sustainable, and emotionally supportive space. Paolo Lorini of Midea and Erich Giordano of Nextatlas explore emerging trends in home appliances, from AI-driven comfort to resilient, human-centered design for the future of living.

As AI takes over skill-based tasks, taste is becoming humanity’s ultimate differentiator and a new must-have skill. Strategy Lead of Quality Meats Creative, Joe Burns, and Nextatlas CEO, Luca Morena, explored two crucial questions: How do we curate good taste within ourselves? And how do we help our clients to have the right taste?