In about four months, we’ll have officially made it to “the future”—at least according to the time-stamp on Doc Brown’s DeLorean in the “Back to the Future” movie series. At Nielsen’s U.S. Consumer 360 conference, we asked a panel of media industry experts to look ahead even further and answer the question: “What do you predict will change by 2020, and what will companies need to do to continue to thrive in that environment?” The panel included Brian Hughes, SVP of audience analysis at Magna Global, Reny Diaz, VP of insights and strategy at NBCU, Damian Garbaccio, chief strategy officer at eXelate, a Nielsen company, and Eric Solomon, SVP of product leadership at Nielsen. I had the opportunity to moderate the discussion and thought I would share a few takeaways. By Chris Louie, SVP Product Leadership