10 scouters from Space and Lemon trend team toured 5 tech cities. Main trends and inspirations in a 1-minute-read. San Francisco, Seattle, London, Amsterdam and Beijing. also available as video.

1. 10 scouters, 5 cities
DIGITAL INSPIRATION
From San Francisco to Beijing

2. Space and Lemon is an innovation
lab with 2 activities: digital trend
scouting and bot/AI development.
Scouting?
10 of us toured 5 cities in Fall 2018
San Francisco, Seattle, London,
Amsterdam, Beijing.

3. #1
San Francisco changed forever

4. SoftBank Vision Fund spends 100 billions

5. 240m $ invest in Brandless
Sells unbranded essentials for 3 $

6. Uber with 9.3bn $ from Softbank
A stronger than ever player
More cities, more services

7. #2
Seattle, so cool!

8. Amazon Go automatic store
Shop and leave without cashier

9. E-scooters
Bird, Skip, Lime

10. #3
London, cashless #1

11. Cafes and restaurants do not accept cash
anymore, even some McDonald’s

12. Amazon Fashion pop-up store
One product, all sizes, delivered home, no cash

13. Peloton, exercise bikes and subscription courses
Now in London
We tried, we loved the training video

14. #4
Amsterdam, the Summit of AI

15. Buzzfeed presents at World AI Summit
AI against fake users and fake news

16. Pepper by Softbank and Puppo by Unity
Robots getting smarter and anyone can teach them

17. #5
Beijing, the commerce craze

18. 7Fresh by JD is the most popular supermarket
Scan with app, 1h free delivery
Restaurant is meeting place

19. Xiaohongshu, the new “in” app
Pinterest + Instagram + Amazon, all in one

20. BingoBox
Staffless convenience store in a container
App opens door, checks out, pays

21. 10 scouters, 5 cities
DIGITAL INSPIRATION
From San Francisco to Beijing