The Millennium Project 2024 Planning Committee meeting took place in Monterrey on September 26-27, 2024, hosted by Tecnológico de Monterrey and sponsored by the Futures Design Lab and the Constellation of Futurists of the School of Architecture, Art, and Design. 

“The volume and quality of The Millennium Project’s impacts on futures worldwide continues to improve as evidenced by the on-line and in-person Node reports at this year’s MPPC meeting in Monterrey, Mexico“, said Jerome Glenn soon after the meeting.

After the RIBER meeting on September 24-25, 2024, public events initiated the gathering. Jerome Glenn gave a public speech on “Major Innovations Needed for the Future”, launching the State of The Future 20.0, recently published by The Millennium Project and providing critical insights into global trends and opportunities that will shape the future. The speech was followed by a round table on “El Diseño Que Viene”, with leading thinkers such as Concepción Olavarrieta, Chair of the Mexico Node, Stuart Candy, and Jerome Glenn itself. The video of the events are available here: https://live.tec.mx/videos/riber2024.

On September 26, soon after the first day of planning committee, Sirkka Heinonen gave a keynote speech for the  “Parliamentary Futures” panel, discussing the Finland experience on the topic and possibilities for improving futures education.

On September 26-27, the two days planning committee meeting was conducted by Jerome Glenn at Tecnológico de Monterrey. We launched the first day of the planning committee thinking about Ted Gordon, futures pioneer, someone for whom “problems don’t exist, they are just solutions that are not identified yet“, said Elizabeth Florescu.

The agenda of the meeting is the following, the presentations will be uploaded here in the next days. At the end of the two days, The Millennium Project, RIBER, EU-LAC Academic Forum, and TEC Monterrey also signed a declaration to cooperate for the creation of the Common Space of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation and an Agreement for the Academic Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean with the European Union (LAC-EU).

THEMP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING

September 26, 2024

9:00 Review Agenda and Short Self-Introduction
9:30 Current and recent work

• State of the Future 20.0 – by Jerome Glenn
• Futures Research Methodology 4.0 status – by Jerome Glenn
• AGI Government Phase 1, 2, and 3 – by Jerome Glenn
• State of the Future Index – by Elizabeth Florescu
• World Futures Day & Communications – by Mara Di Berardo
• UN Summit of the Future – by Jerome Glenn

11:00 Break
11:15 Current and recent work

• Red Iberoamericana de Prospectiva and Mexico Node – by Concepción Olavarrieta, Guillermo Gándara, Yadira Ornelas
• South Asia Foresight Network – by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
• Foresight Europe Network – by Nick Balcom Raleigh & Lena Tunkers

12:00 Lunch
13:00 Node Chairs reports

• Helsinki Node – by Sirkka Heinonen
• Italy Node – by Mara Di Berardo and Simone Di Zio
• Slovenia Node – by Blaz Golob
• Bulgaria Node – by Mariana Todorova
• UK Node – by David Wood
• China Node by Zhouying and Ying BAI 
• Brussels Area Node – by Philippe Destatte 

15:00 Break
15:15 Continue Node Chairs Reports

• Germany Node – by Jess Prendergast
• France Node – by Saphia Richou
• Lithuania, new upcoming Node, by Erika Vaiginiene
• El Salvador – by Tony Carbonero
• Brazil Node – by Arnoldo de Hoyos & Rosa Alegria

17:00 Adjourn – Futures Parliament

September 27, 2024

9:00 Node Chairs Reports

• Philippines Node – by Shermon Cruz
• Greece Node – by Epaminondas Christophilopoulos
• Copenhagen Node – by Martin Kruse
• Spain Node – by Ibon Zugasti
• Zimbabwe Node – by Simbarashe Nhokovedzo
• Turkiye Node – by Ufuk Tarhan

10:30 Break
10:45 Node Chairs Reports

• Chile Node – by Héctor Casanueva
• Silicon Valley Node – by Brock Hinzmann
• Venezuela Node – by José Cordeiro & Karelys Abraca

11:15 MP Priorities poll results and implementations – by Jerome Glenn
11:45 Fundraising and other administrative matters – by Jerome Glenn

12:15 Identify Small Discussion Groups
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Group Discussions
15:30 Group Discussion Recommendations
16:30 Final comments by all
17:00 MPPC Meeting Adjourn

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