‘The future arrives at different speeds’ – a presentation by Paul Saffo in San Francisco
At the 2020 annual conference of the World Future Society in San Francisco, Paul Saffo ran a session discussing pace layer thinking and its application to foresight. Paul Saffo is a forecaster with over two decades of experience exploring the dynamics of large-scale, long-term change. He is co-founder of Discern Investment Analytics, teaches forecasting at...
World Future Society Conference – Sun’s Reflections
After the WFS conference in July we decided to each write blog posts describing the sessions we attended. You can read Hannah’s reflections and our observations from the master classes we attended here. To find out more about the conference see our website. Wendy is currently on her sabbatical and will prepare her contribution for the September issue...
World Future Society Conference Day Two – Hannah’s Reflections
This post discusses the second day of the WFS conference, Sunday 26 July 2020. You can read about the sessions I attended on day one of the conference here and about the master classes we attended here. Sun will be publishing her blog post later this week. The morning of the second day was spent preparing for...
World Future Society Conference Day One – Hannah’s Reflections
After the WFS conference in July we decided to each write blog posts describing the sessions we attended. As I was writing, I found I was struggling to contain my learning from such interesting sessions into short summaries. So I decided to split my blog post in two, one for each day of the conference....
World Future Conference Master Classes
Two days prior to the annual conference, the World Future Society offer full-day master classes. These sessions are run by leading global experts in futurism and professional foresight and are designed to provide fundamental, contextual and interactive scenario-based learning. Wendy, Hannah and Sun all attended different classes over the two days. Read below to find out...
Wise Awards are now open!!
Entries for the 2020 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards are open until January 15. The awards celebrate innovative projects around the world for their positive contributions to education and to society. Six projects will be picked in September 2020 and will each receive $20,000 (USD). You can check out previous winners here including New Zealand project Te Kotahitanga (University of Waikato). WISE is...
Notes from Demos
Following the fantastic Summit in Doha, Qatar, I have made my way to London where I had lunch with David Goodhart, director of Demos, a leading British think tank focused on power and politics. We had a great discussion about the role of think tanks in civil society and how they sit between academia and...
More Notes from WISE
‘Building a Learning World’ Session moderated by British broadcaster Jon Snow, with panelists Rakesh Bharti Mittal from the Bharti Foundation in India, Gabriele Zedlmayer from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Prof. Roberto Carneiro from the Study Center on Peoples and Cultures, Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), and Prof. Bingqi Xiong from the 21st Century Education Research Center in China. You can watch...
Notes from WISE
I am currently in Doha, Qatar for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). So far it has been a fantastic experience. Some of the videos from the day 1 sessions have already been made available on the the WISE website and I encourage you to have a look. (Pictured left to right) Anver Versi from...
World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)
I am thrilled to have been invited to this year’s World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Summit in Doha, Qatar, in mid November. The Summit is themed ‘Collaboration for Change’ and will see over 2020 prominent education, corporate, political and social leaders from over 100 countries gather to discuss ‘bold ways of improving education, exploring groundbreaking new trends and...
Report on the State of New Zealand’s Future
While Wendy was in Boston she presented this report at the World Futures Conference. [slideshare id=4769187&doc=sustainablefutureinstitute14july2020finalforweb-202020205146-phpapp01&type=d] To download this report or see more presentations please visit the presentations page on our website.
Wendy at the World Futures Conference
Wendy is off to the States for the 2020 World Futures Conference in Boston where she will be presenting on our Project 2058 progress and getting in touch with some of the foremost futures thinkers in the world. Today she got a look at the 2020 State of the Future Report. We will be updating...
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