Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

The best run business is run SAP.

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, times 13.

If you want to run with the game changangers, you're in the right place.

If you can tell, I'm very excited. This is part one of a six episode special. This is the season to be jolly and marry and look into the future.

So welcome to Coffee Break with Game Changers episode number 350 in case you're keeping count. So am I.

And this is the launch of our 2019 predictions special.

I am Bonnie D. Graham. Let me start out with an opening quote. We call it the buzz. Those

have you been listening all year long. And here's the quote from Carl Christian Stanky.

He was a Danish politician 1880 to 1973 were his dates. It is difficult to make predictions especially

about the future. Well, I want to say, well, duh, but he's not around to listen. But you know what?

We're going to try. So if you're wishing and hoping, dreaming and praying for a real-time crystal ball,

to give you a sneak peek at what 2019 just might bring for your company, your industry in the world,

we have got the next best thing.

Today is December 5th, 2018, and on five weeks coming up December 12th, 19th, January 9th, 16th, and 23rd,

that's 2019, you'll hear from more than 80,

that's right, eight zero thought leaders who are sharing their lightning fast predictions on the technologies, the strategies, and the trends that can help you grow and compete better

in 2019 and beyond. We like to call this our predictions on steroids. There you go.

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