SPEAKERS CONFIRMED TO DATE 


 

A

 

Tom Abeles, editor, On the Horizon, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Helena Acheson, head of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Awareness Division, Forfás, Dublin, Ireland

 

Stephen Aguilar-Millan, director of research, European Futures Observatory, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

 

Jim Alexander, director of Module Two, Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas; chair, History and Government, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas

 

Henrique Abrahao Alves, technology development engineer, Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

 

Massoud Amin, director, Center for the Development of Technological Leadership, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Jan Amkreutz, president, Digital Crossroads Consulting; author, Digital Spirit: Minding the Future, Morgan Hill, California

 

Yvonne Marie Andres, executive director, Global SchoolNet Foundation, Encinitas, California

 

Michael Aschenbach, director, Institute for Human Transformation; president, Emerging Vision Media LLC; principal consultant, Human Communication Systems; author, VISION 3000: The Transformation of Humanity in the New Millennium, East Fallowfield, Pennsylvania

 

 

 

B

 

Frank Babka, World Population Balance, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Ronald Bailey, science correspondent, Reason magazine; author, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

Denis L. Balaguer, technology development engineer, Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

 

Joel Barker, president, Infinity Limited Inc.; futurist and independent scholar; chairman, Institute for Strategic Exploration; on-screen host, Joel Barker’s Leadershift: Five Lessons for Leaders in the 21st Century, co-author, Five Regions of the Future: A Revolutionary Roadmap to 21st Century, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Vonnie Barnett, assistant director of economic intelligence, South Dakota Enterprise Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

 

Marni Mintener Barron, education consultant, Soul Tree Agency of Resources, East Lansing, Michigan

 

Raj Bawa, president, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting LLC, Ashburn, Virginia; associate editor, Nanomedicine; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

 

Don E. Beck, founder, Center for Human Emergence; co-founder, National Values Center; CEO, Spiral Dynamics Group; principal, Institute for Values and Culture; co-author, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change and The Crucible: Forging South Africa's Future, Denton, Texas

 

Corné Bekker, assistant professor of leadership studies, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia

 

Howard Benson, president and CEO, National Community Development Services, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

 

Brent Bergland, director of business development, M.A. Mortenson Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Clement Bezold, chairman of the board and founder, Institute for Alternative Futures; contributing editor, THE FUTURIST magazine, Alexandria, Virginia

 

Peter Bishop, associate professor of Strategic Foresight; coordinator, graduate program in Futures Studies, University of Houston; president, Strategic Foresight and Development, Houston, Texas

 

Tsvi Bisk, director, Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking; co-author, Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century and The Optimistic Jew: A Positive View of the Jewish Future (forthcoming), Jerusalem, Israel

 

Ralph Boelter, special agent in charge, Minneapolis Division, FBI, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Michele Bowman, managing director, Global Foresight Associates; co-host, FringeHog, Waltham, Massachusetts

 

Arnold Brown, chairman, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.; World Future Society Board of Directors; co-author, FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, New York, New York

 

Thomas Buckley, principal, Futures Strategy Group LLC; former manager, Deloitte Consulting, Washington, D.C.

 

Sandra Burchsted, founder, Prospectiva Inc., Friendswood, Texas; author, Shaping the Future; co-founder and co-producer, FringeHog, Webster, Texas

 

Harry J. Bury, adjunct professor, Organizational Behavior, Baldwin Wallace College. Berea, Ohio

 

C

 

Elizabeth Cahill, innovation and futures consultant, Global Youth Futures, Coogee Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Janine Cahill, futures consultant, Future Journeys, Coogee Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

James R. Calvin, associate professor of management, Department of Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Chris Carbone, director of research, Social Technologies, Washington, D.C.

 

Rodrigo Carlana da Silva, technology development engineer, Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

 

Marvin Cetron, founder and president, Forecasting International; former consultant to the White House from 1961-1998; co-author, Hospitality 2010: The Future of Hospitality and Travel, Falls Church, Virginia

 

David Chobar, associate professor of secondary education, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa

 

Günter Clar, director of regional strategy, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Joseph F. Coates, president, Joseph F. Coates Consulting Futurist, Inc.; co-author, 2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology; author of over 500 articles and reports to clients on the future, Washington, D.C.

 

Adam Cohen, webmaster and assistant director of technology, The New York Law School, New York, New York

 

Stan Cohen, past president, Earth Society Foundation, New York, New York

 

Tom Conger, futurist and founder, Social Technologies, Washington, D.C.

 

José Luis Cordeiro, president, Venezuelan Chapter of the World Future Society; co-founder, Venezuelan Transhumanist Association (VTA); chair, Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Caracas, Venezuela

 

Mike Crews, director of professional programs, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee, Florida

 

William Crossman, CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures; author, VIVO (Voice-In/Voice-Out): The Coming Age of Talking Computers, Oakland, California

 

 

 

D

 

Linda D’Acquisto, founder and president, Kid Curators LLC; director, D’Acquisto Consulting LLC; author, Learning on Display: Student-Created Museums that Build Understanding, Middleton, Wisconsin

 

Cornelia Daheim, project director of international research, Z_punkt GmbH—The Foresight Company, Essen, Germany

 

Tor Dahl, founder, president, and CEO, Tor Dahl & Associates; economist, consultant, and adjunct associate professor in public health, University of Minnesota; chairman emeritus, World Confederation of Productivity Science, White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He served as the Governor’s Representative on the Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs, and on the blue ribbon task force on State Health Priorities.

 

Brian H. Davis, president, Environmental Advantage Law, LLPC, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Earon S. Davis, attorney and policy analyst, Evanston, Illinois

 

Marcos Antonio de Moraes Brito, technology development engineer, Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

 

Ron Dennis, editorial board member, Social Computing Magazine; co-founder, Livemind Inc., Kaneohe, Hawaii

 

Philippe Destatte, director, The Destree Institute, Namur, Belgium

 

Tim Dolan, police chief, Minneapolis Police Department; former assistant police chief, deputy chief, inspector, and commander of the 4th Precinct (north Minneapolis); former commander of narcotics, commander of emergency response, and director of training, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Jonathan Dregni, futurist and sci-fi enthusiast, Speck Press, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

 

 

E-F

 

Kris Eide, director, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Tom Esensten, principal, Organizational Effectiveness Consulting, Ojai, California

 

Efiong Etuk, director, African Center for Creativity and Innovation in Nigeria, Blacksburg, Virginia

 

Gerald Falkowski, certified executive consultant and business coach, Better Company Consulting; co-author, Remote Control: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Virtual Teams, Rosemount, Minnesota

 

Bonnie Fink, interim director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

 

Helen Fisher, research professor and member, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; author, Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love and The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World, New York, New York

 

Jay Forrest, systems science consultant, San Antonio, Texas

 

Esther Franklin, senior vice president and director of consumer context planning, Starcom USA, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

G

 

Medard Gabel, CEO, BigPictureSmallWorld; author, Global Inc.: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation, Media, Pennsylvania

 

James Galanis, economist, eBay Corporation, San Jose, California

 

Hector Garcia, former vice president, International and Domestic Emerging Markets, Wells Fargo; former coordinator, AHANNA Forum (African, Hispanic, Asian, Native and New American communities) on civic and public policy issues; co-founder and executive director, Minnesotans for NAFTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Eric Garland, principal, Competitive Futures, Inc.; author, Future Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s Next, Washington, D.C.

 

Nate Garvis, vice president of government affairs, Target Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Jay Gary, program director, M.A. in Strategic Foresight, School of Leadership Studies, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia; foresight coach, PeakFutures, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

Rom Gayoso, economist, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona

 

Jeremy Geelan, senior vice president, editorial and events, SYS-CON Media; founder and editor-in-chief, Social Computing Magazine, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

 

Jerome C. Glenn, director, Millennium Project for the American Council for the United Nations University; co-author, 2007 State of the Future, Washington, D.C.

 

Blake Godkin, futurist, Honors Programs Office, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

 

Susantha Goonatilake, author, Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure, Colombo, Sri Lanka

 

Adam Gordon, director, The Future Studio; author, Future Savvy (forthcoming), Cardiff, United Kingdom

 

Theodore J. Gordon, senior fellow, Millennium Project for the American Council for the United Nations University; founder, The Futures Group; co-author, 2007 State of the Future, Old Lyme, Connecticut

 

Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova, futurist, Social Technologies, Washington, D.C.

 

Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, head, Research Centre for Futures Studies, Progective; president, World Futures Studies Federation, Paris, France

 

Joseph R. Greene, former director, Office of Training and Development, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Washington, D.C.

 

Linda Groff, director, Global Options Consulting; professor of political science and future studies; coordinator, Behavioral Science Undergraduate Program, California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, California  

 

 

 

H-J

 

Viviana Hall (interpreter), program specialist, Bilingual Education Office, School of Education and Human Development, SMU, Dallas, Texas

 

Arthur Harkins, professor, University of Minnesota; co-founder, Horizon Forum; co-principal, Global Leapfrog Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Carter Harkins, co-founder of Intrascopic Media inc., the interactive technology company behind planet2025.tv and CrowdAbout.us.

 

Peter Hayward, program director, Masters of Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

 

Klaus Heinzelbecker, director of strategic projects, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany

 

Rodney Hill, university professorship in teaching excellence, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

 

Dion Hinchcliffe, founder and chief technology officer, Hinchcliffe & Company, Alexandria, Virginia

 

Andy Hines, adjunct professor, future studies, University of Houston; director of consulting, Social Technologies; author, Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, Washington, D.C.

 

Joel Hodroff, founder and CEO, DualCurrency Systems; founder and former co-chair, Responsible Minnesota Business; selected as the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year by Minnesota’s Finance and Commerce Magazine, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

George Hofheimer, chief research officer, Filene Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin

 

Viki Holton, principal researcher, Ashridge Business School; co-author, Teams Succeeding in Complexity, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

 

Nat Irvin II, founder, FutureFocus 2020; executive professor of future studies and assistant dean of MBA student development, Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University; member, World Future Society Board of Directors, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

 

John Jackson, sergeant, Houston Police Department, Houston, Texas

 

Pam Jones, program director, Ashridge Business School; co-author, Teams Succeeding in Complexity and Managing for Performance, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

 

Daniel Michel Judkiewicz, managing director, Xland, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

 

K

 

Ted Kahn, president and CEO, DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc.; fellow, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, Cupertino, California   

 

David Keenan, president and COE, Small Technology Consulting, Eagan, Minneapolis

 

Peter Kennedy, founding principal, Futures Strategy Group LLC; former senior manager, Deloitte Consulting, Glastonbury, Connecticut

 

Richard Kirby, executive director, Stuart C. Dodd Institute for Social Innovation; chair, World Network of Religious Futurists; co-author, The Leadership of Civilization Building: Administrative and Civilization Theory, Symbolic Dialogue, and Citizen Skills for the 21st Century, Edmonds, Washington

 

Kristen Koeppen, RegRelief International, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Montgomery Kosma, management consultant, Washington, D.C.

 

George Kubik, president, Minnesota Futurists; former federal strategic futurist and assistant regional director for strategic planning, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Kelly “KJ” Kuchta, president and CEO, Forensics Consulting Solutions, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona

 

 

 

L

 

Meimi Lahti, senior lecturer, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Pori, Finland

 

Michel Ladet, former vice president, RISC International, Paris, France

 

Jim Lee, student, Future Studies graduate program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

  Hank Lederer, senior associate, Institute for Molecular manufacturing, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Bernard H. Levin, head of psychology department, Blue Ridge Community College; commander, Policy and Planning Bureau, Waynesboro Police Department, Weyers Cave, Virginia

 

Mats Lindgren, founder and CEO, Kairos Future; co-author, Scenario Planning: The Link Between Future and Strategy, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Jeanne Belisle Lombardo, education coordinator, Rio Salado College, Phoenix, Arizona

 

Thomas Lombardo, futures professor and faculty chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and Integrated Studies, Rio Salado College; author, The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought, Tempe, Arizona

 

José Refugio López, consultant, Vision Web, Aguascalientes, Mexico

 

Steven Lovink, social entrepreneur, founder and president, Oklanet2025 Network;

founder and president Planet2025 Newtwork; and co-founder Institute for Environmental security; and founder and president TransGlobal Ventures, Inc. Washington, D.C.

 

M

 

Curt McNamara, senior electrical engineer, Logic Product Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Timothy C. Mack, president, World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland

 

Michael Marien, founder and editor, Future Survey, LaFayette, New York

 

Gary Marx, president, Center for Public Outreach; author, Future-Focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow’s Realities and Sixteen Trends: Their Profound Impact on Our Future, Vienna, Virginia

 

Jim Mathews, consulting futurist, The Futures Network LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Gloria McCall, vice chancellor, Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), Versailles, Kentucky

 

Honorable John W. McDonald, chairman and co-founder, Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy; former ambassador to United Nations Affairs, Arlington, Virginia

 

Thomas R. McFaul, professor of ethics and religious studies emeritus, North Central College; author, The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village: The Role of the World Religions in the 21st Century, Naperville, Illinois

 

Peter H. Mettler, professor of societal science and sociology of planning and technology, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany

 

Brenda Miller, chief global strategist, New Crotona, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Rex Miller, futurist, business leader, strategic consultant, and communications expert; author, Millennium Matrix, Southlake, Texas

 

Karen Moloney, director, Moloney Minds Ltd., London, United Kingdom

 

Pedro Morales, president and CEO, Grupo CIMA Internacional (CIMA Group International), Bogota, Colombia

 

John Moravec, doctoral candidate, University of Minnesota; coordinator, Urban Leadership Academy; co-founder, Horizon Forum; co-principal, Global Leapfrog Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Sharon Drew Morgen, trainer and change consultant, Decision Connection; author, Selling with Integrity, Austin, Texas

 

Jim Morris, senior partner, Bristlecone Learning, LLC; author, The Five Insights of Enduring Leaders, Pagosa Springs, Colorado

 

Rowena Morrow, lecturer, Strategic Foresight Program, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

 

 

 

N-R

 

Claire A. Nelson, development futurist, Inter-American Development Bank; founder, The Futures Forum, Washington, D.C.

 

Daniel Nelson:  co-founder of Intrascopic Media Inc., developer of Innertoo.com, Planet2025.tv, and CrowdAbout.us.

 

Hameed Nezhad, professor, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Mark Niles, student, Future Studies graduate program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

 

Rolf Nordstrom, director, Upper Midwest Hydrogen Initiative, Great Plains Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Deborah Osborne, crime analyst, Buffalo Police Department, Buffalo, New York

 

Jack Park, research scientist, SRI International; founder, TopicSpaces.org, Menlo Park, California

 

Shashi Parulekar, Asia Pacific market development manager, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Troy, Michigan

 

David Paxson, president, World Population Balance, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Wayne Pethrick, senior design strategist, Concept Studio, Pitney Bowes, Inc.; co-author, Future Frequencies, Shelton, Connecticut

 


Mylena Pierremont,
senior vice president consumer marketing, Philips Consumer Electonics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Kerry Ramirez, student, Future Studies graduate program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

 

Karolyn Rancourt, North America Representative, Development Economic Western Switzerland (DEWS), New York, New York

 

Monika Mitchell Ressler, chief executive, The Ressler Mitchell Group; co-founder, The Center for Good Business; co-author, Spiritual Capitalism: How 9/11 Gave Us Nine Spiritual Lessons of Work and Business, New York, New York

 

Peter Ressler, chief executive, The Ressler Mitchell Group; co-founder, The Center for Good Business; co-author, Spiritual Capitalism: How 9/11 Gave Us Nine Spiritual Lessons of Work and Business, New York, New York

 

Jonathon Richter, associate researcher, Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

 

Carol D. Rieg, national director, Future City Competition, Alexandria, Virginia; board member, Maryland Transportation Authority, Gaithersburg, Maryland

 

Jeff Russell, CIO and vice president of strategic development, The Members Group, Clive, Iowa

 

 

 

S

 

 

Robert Salmon, former vice president, L’Oreal, Valais, Switzerland

 

Alison Sander, director, Center for Mining and Sensing the Future, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Boston, Massachusetts

 

Joseph Schafer, associate professor, Center for the Study of Crime, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Jason Siko, student, Future Studies graduate program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

 

Simeon Simeonov, technology partner, Polaris Ventures; former vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect, Macromedia (now Adobe), Boston, Massachusetts

 

Michael Skoler, executive director, Center for Innovation in Journalism, American Public Media, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Rick Smyre, president, Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina

 

David Pearce Snyder, consulting futurist, The Snyder Family Enterprise; lifestyles contributing editor, THE FUTURIST, Bethesda, Maryland

 

Marianne Solomon, executive director, Future Problem Solving Program International, Melbourne, Florida

  Cecily Sommers, president, The Push Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

John Spady, executive vice president, Forum Foundation, Seattle, Washington

 

Richard Spady, president and co-founder, Forum Foundation; co-author, The Leadership of Civilization Building: Administrative and Civilization Theory, Symbolic Dialogue, and Citizen Skills for the 21st Century, Seattle, Washington

 

Gene Stephens, lead instructor of executive leadership course, South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy; distinguished professor emeritus, Criminal Justice Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

 

Gregory Stock, president, Signum Biosciences, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey; director, Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California; co-author, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future

 

Kay E. Strong, associate professor of economics; director, Initiatives for the Future (IF), Bowling Green State University-Firelands, Huron, Ohio

 

 

 

T

 

Anna Tavis, founder, Talent, Leadership, and Organization Effectiveness, New York, New York; former director of learning and development, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut

 

Yu-Ying Teng, lecturer, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Patrick F. Terry, founder, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Washington, D.C.

 

Charles Thomas, founding principal, Futures Strategy Group LLC; former vice president, The Futures Group Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut

 

Dewey Thorbeck, adjunct professor of architecture; director, Center for Rural Design, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; founder, Thorbeck Architects Ltd., Minneapolis, Minnesota