Essential Keynotes for 2026: Gain a Competitive Edge

2026 Keynote Sessions: Market Opportunities, AI, Business Strategies and Latest Consumer Insights 

Gain the knowledge you need to navigate the year ahead in home + housewares! Join us for the keynote sessions at The Inspired Home Show® 2026, where you’ll hear perspectives and big-picture strategies from industry experts, with thought leadership focused on growth opportunities, the impact of AI, the latest consumer insights and color trends. 

The Future of AI: Your Business Depends On It Today

Aaron Conant, Co-Founder & Chief Digital Strategist, BWG Connect, will lead a fireside chat with Udayan Bose, Founder & CEO, NetElixir, on how AI is shaping business and e-commerce. The in-depth discussion will examine what companies need to know to optimize AI investment and prepare for a future of GenAI development an agentic commerce that has already arrived.

Tuesday, 10 March
10 a.m.

Growth Through Change: Inspiring Consumers with Proactive Disruption

2026 will require changes in the ways the home products industry thinks about growth and how companies interact with consumers who have become most focused on cost concerns and basic needs. Since consumers are not lending as loud a voice to trends right now, Joe Derochowski, Vice President & Home Industry Advisor, Circana, will discuss how marketers should take the reins and lead the consumer through inspiration and innovation. Topics will include eating behavior and the influence of GLP-1s, social shopping and the use of AI.

Tuesday, 10 March
1 p.m.

Top Trends — Survive or Thrive? Collaborative Insights to Sharpen Your Senses and Challenge Your Perceptions of the Modern Marketplace

The best defense against the unexpected is a fluid awareness of purchaser attitudes, expectations and behaviors. Tom Mirabile, Principal, Springboard Futures, who also serves as a trend strategist expert resource to IHA, will share essential new data revealing what consumers want, how they live and why they buy. Key findings will include what’s driving positive feedback, shaping customer experiences and even causing consumer exasperation.

Wednesday, 11 March
10 a.m.

Sense-Abilities — The Most Directional Color and Design Trends

To renowned color expert Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone® Color Institute and the color/design forecaster for The Inspired Home Show, success in today’s discerning marketplace is all about interpreting the lifestyles and emotional “tugs” that will lead consumers to purchase products, goods or services. Eiseman will lead a highly visual session featuring the most influential color and design directions for the upcoming year, in addition to revealing the palettes in the Pantone® View Home + Interiors 2027 forecast.

Wednesday, 11 March
1 p.m.