This year the Youth Marketing Mega Event is please to welcome keynote speaker, Jane Buckingham. Jane is President and Founder of The Intelligence Group/Youth Intelligence established in 1996. Jane is also the author of The Modern Girls Guide to Life. Building upon quantitative and qualitative analysis, the company provides marketing consulting, trend forecasting and market research to determine today’s concerns and tomorrow’s trends. Clients of the firm include leading fortune 500 companies and entertainment companies including Levis, Microsoft, Nike, NBC, Fox and Paramount pictures. The Intelligence Group/Youth Intelligence publishes the leading trend forecasting product, The Cassandra Report™ and also created trendcentral™ which includes a daily e-mail and comprehensive Internet trend site about 12-35 year olds, covering fashion, beauty, lifestyle, technology, and entertainment.Buckingham is a regular contributor to Good Morning America, a contributing editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine, and a columnist for the New York Times Syndicate, for which she writes a weekly column on trends.