18Jun

Mini Trip Report:  Helsinki and Tampere, Finland

  • 0 Comments
Sirkka Heinonen, Chair of the Helsinki Node of the Millennium Project and Mikko Dufva, President of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies brought me to Finland hosted by SITRA  (Finland’s innovation funding agency) and Finland’s Futures Research Center. Sirkka put together a great program beginning with a talk and workshop on weak signals at SITRA […]
Read More
 
18Jun

Mini Trip Report: Sofia, Bulgaria

  • 0 Comments
Mariana Todorova, Chair of the Bulgarian Node and Mihail Mihailov, CEO of Accelerise corporation brought me to Sofia to speak about “Future Smart Cities.” Mariana organized a radio interview for the main lunch time show: http://darikradio.bg/kak-izkustveniat-intelekt-ste-promena-zivota-ni.html and TV interviews – here are two in case you are curious about how The Millennium Project sounds in […]
Read More
 
18Jun

Mini Trip Report: Brussels

  • 0 Comments
The  FTA 2018 – Future in the Making conference organized by the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission brought me to Brussels to speak about The Millennium Project’s Future Work/Technology 2050 Global Scenarios and strategies suggested from workshops using the scenarios in 19 countries. There were 500+ attendees making it one of (if […]
Read More
 
08May

Grappling with the Futures conference at Harvard and Boston Universities

  • 0 Comments
Yashar Saghai, MP’s Senior Scholar courageously organized a two-day conference at Harvard and Boston Universities focused on synergies among philosophy, history, and STS (Science, Technology, and Society) scholars with futurists and foresight. The Millennium Project was a co-sponsor. There were a total of 43 presentations with speakers from 18 countries; around 70 participants joined the […]
Read More
 
25Mar

Mini Trip Report: Lima, Peru

  • 0 Comments
The CIIT Peru (Future of Mining) Congress brought me to Lima to talk about Accelerating Technological Change & Collective Intelligence to Better Plan the Mining Industries at the suggestion of Fernando Ortega, Chair of the Peruvian Node of The Millennium Project. Prior to the talk, I give Fernando and two others from the Node a training program […]
Read More
 
19Mar

Mini Trip Report: Islamabad, Pakistan

  • 0 Comments
Mini Trip Report:  Islamabad, Pakistan Puruesh Chaudhary and Shahid Mahmud co-chairs of The Millennium Project Pakistan Node put together an outstanding set of events 13-16 March and produced 7.5 min video documentary on the visit. Leaders in Islamabad: Business Summit brought me to Islamabad to keynote their conference with government and business leaders. I spoke […]
Read More
 
05Mar

Mini Trip Report: Los Angeles

  • 0 Comments
Kate McCallum, chair of The Millennium Project Arts/Media Node and Ed Lantz of Vortex hosted a live 360 streaming video presentation on the State of the Future 19.1 from the Vortex Dome in LA (most likely the only dome in the world that is live streaming 360 video). You can see the unedited version 23 […]
Read More
 
05Mar

Mini Trip Report South Korea

  • 0 Comments
A new blockchain/crypto currency company in the development stage brought me to Korea to explore future possibilities for this medium and to attend the Opening Ceremony of Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics. Very cool. I mean really, the opening ceremony was cold but not quite as bad as many expects since I was well bundles up. […]
Read More
 
20Dec

Mini Trip Report: Paris

  • 0 Comments
En route to Milan, I stopped for two days in Paris…beginning with Riel Miller at UNESCO who would like to collaborate with The Millennium Project to identify potential UNESCO futures studies chairs with university affiliations, who would be invited to a conference at UNESCO during 2018 to help document the academic field of futures studies. […]
Read More