WorldFuture 2008:
Seeing the Future Through New
Eyes
July 26-28, 2008 • Hilton Washington
• Washington, D.C.
Preconference Courses: July 25
Professional Members' Forum: July 29, 2008
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SPEAKERS CONFIRMED TO DATE
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Tom Abeles, president, Sagacity, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota Charlotte Aguilar-Millan, founder and co-ordinator, Ipswich Time Bandits: Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom, 14 year old student, student member of World Future Society Stephen Aguilar-Millan, director of research, European Futures Observatory, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom Rosa Alegria, Millennium Node Chair, Brazil Stacey Aldrich, deputy state librarian, California State Library, Sacramento, California Jerry Allan, president, Criteria Architects, Inc.; professor of design, Minneapolis College of Arts & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota Lauren C. Anderson, FBI, assistant special agent in Charge Counterterrorism Division, New York, New York Michael Aschenbach, director, Institute for human Transformation; president, Emerging Vision Media, LLC; author, Vision 3000: The Transformation of Humanity in the New Millennium. Asia Aslam, research manager, Cisco Corporation, Santa Clara, California |
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Lawrence Baines,
professor, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Robert Baines, consultant, Admiralty Group, Mexico David Baldwin, president, Aquarian Technology Systems, Inc., Lexington, Ohio Dave Barnes, senior vice president, CIO, UPS, Atlanta, Georgia Diana Butler Bass, author, senior fellow, Cathedral College of the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.Raj Bawa, president and CEO, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting, LLC, Ashburn, Virginia; professor, Rensseler Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York Don Beck, founder, Center for Human Emergence; co-founder, National Values Center; author, Denton, Texas Craig Bettles, futurist, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia Clement Bezold, founder and chairman of the board, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia Alpesh Bhatt, founder, Koanetic Consulting, Monroe, Connecticut; professor, Psychology Department, University of New Haven, New Haven, ConnecticutPeter Bishop, assistant professor, University of Houston; president, Strategic Foresight and Development, Houston, Texas Joe Bourland, director of category management, North America, Kimberly Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin Aron Branam, Futures Studies, Austin, Texas 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 James E. Burke, manager, Futures, Forecasting, and Change Management, Northrop Grumman, Arlington, Virginia Dennis M. Bushnell, chief scientist, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia |
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James R. Calvin,
associate professor, Carey Business School, John
Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Josh Calder, director, Global Lifestyles project, Socialproject, Social Technologies, Washington, D.C. Evangeline Caridas, president, Caridas Consulting International, Houston, Texas Elizabeth Carlson, assistant executive director, National Association of Elementary School Principals, Alexandria, Virginia Kelly H. Carnes, president and CEO, TechVsion21; former deputy assistant secretary for technology policy, U S Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.Marvin Cetron, president, Forecasting International, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia; author; member, World Future Society Board of Directors Chien-Fu Chen, director, Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan Joseph F. Coates, president, Joseph F. Coates consulting Futurist, Inc. Adam Cohen, senior web architect, The New York Law School, New York, New York Stan Cohen, former president, Earth Society Foundation; member, board of directors, U.S. Club of Rome, New York, New York Terry Collins, Sydney, Australia Jose Cordeiro, founder Venezula Chapter of the World Future Society, former director, World Transhumanist Association, Chiba, Japan Edward Cornish, founder and former president, World Future Society, executive editor, THE FUTURIST, author, Bethesda, Maryland William Cosgrove, president, Ecoconsult Inc, Bai d'Urfe, Quebec, Canada Molly J. Coye, founder and CEO, Health Technology Center (HealthTech), San Francisco, California, former Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey William Crossman, author; president, CompSpeak 2050 Institute, Oakland, California |
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Irene J. Dabrowski, associate
professor, St. John's University, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Staten Island, New York Yasin Dada-Jones, served in Office of the Presidency in South Africa, chief director: Social Sector, in Policy Coordination and Advisory Service, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Scott David, partner, K&L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington Brian H. Davis, president, Environmental Advantage Law, LLPC, St Paul, Minnesota Earon S. Davis, attorney and policy analyst, Evanston, Illinois Geary M. Davis, co-founder, Lotus of the Moon Acupuncture, Arlington Heights, Illinois Wayne S. Davis, senior environmental scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency, Ft. Meade, Maryland Marie-Anne Delahaut, Millennium Node Chair, Belgium Marcos de M. Santos, executive director, The Center for Strategic Studies, Brasilia, Brazil Philippe Destatte, Millennium Node Chair, Belgium Kim C. Dine, police chief, Frederick, Maryland; former assistant chief, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C. Bill Drayton, CEO and founder, Ashoka: Innovations for the Public, Arlington, Virginia; former administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Maddy Dychtwald, executive vice president, co-founder, Age Wave, author, San Francisco, California |
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Harry Eastridge,
superintendent, Educational Service Center of
Cuyahoga County, Valley View, Ohio Amitai Etzioni, director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. Author, most recent book, Security First: For A Muscular, Moral Foreign policy, Washington, D.C. Evan M.H. Faber, student, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Chris Fair, president, Renonance Consultancy, Ltd, New York, New York William Fasano, assistant professor, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona Kevin M. Fickenscher, executive vice president, International Healthcare for Perot Systems; formerly chief medical officer at WebMD Corporation, Plano, Texas Devin Fidler, futurist, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VirginiaJoan Foltz, socio-economic analyst, Alsek Research, Chandler, Arizona Craig Fraser, director management service, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, D.C. Leon S. Fuerth, former national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore, research professor, Elliott School of Int'l Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
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Medard Gabel, CEO, BigPicture
Consulting, author, Media, Pennsylvania Nadezhda Gaponenko, Millennium Node Chair, Russia Lawrie Gardner, advisory team member, Institute for the Future@Anne Arundel Community college, Arnold, Maryland Jay Gary, director, School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia Rom Gayoso, staff engineer, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona Joel Gibbons, president, Logistic Research & Trading Co.; author, St. Joseph, Michigan Wayne Gibson, director, gifted Services, Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County, Valley View, OhioRyan Gilbert, writer, Monroe, Michigan Jerome C. Glenn, author, director, UNU Millennium Project, Washington, D.C. Ben Goertzel, CEO, Navaments LLC and Biomind LLC; director of research, SIAI, Washington, D.C. Theodore J. Gordon, author, founder, The Futures Group, senior fellow, UNU Millennium Project Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova, futurist and leader, Futures Observatory, Social Technologies, London, England, United KingdomLes Gottesman, director, General Education, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California Terry Grim, futurist, strategist, Social Technologies, Seabrook, Texas Linda Groff, professor, Political Science and Future Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CaliforniaJephraim Gundzik, former founder and president, Condor Advisers, Mammoth Lakes, California |
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William E. Halal, professor emeritus,
co-founder and trustee, Institute for Knowledge and Innovation, George
Washington University, president, TechCast LLC, Washington D.C. Anthony L. Haynor, associate professor, chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Donald Heathfield, founder, Future Map, Cambridge, Massachusetts Klaus Heinzelbecker, director, Strategic Projects, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany Steven T. Henick, director, Institute for the Future@Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland Jay Herson, senior associate, Institute for Alternative Futures and Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Paul Hewitt, executive director, Americans for Generational Equity, Washington, D.C. Mark Horstmeyer, director of college and community relations, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois Lehn Huff, head, Seabury Hall Middle School, Makawao, Hawaii Kenneth W. Hunter, senior fellow, Office of International Programs, University of Maryland, College Park Maryland Jeff Hynes, commander, Phoenix Police Department, Phoenix, Arizona John Jackson, sergeant, Houston Police Department, Houston, TexasMike Jackson, chairman, Shaping Tomorrow, Stafford, England, United Kingdom Wesley Jarmon, president, Ernest Everett Just Foundation, Inc., Largo, Maryland Jennifer Jarratt, principal, Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, D.C. John Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia Carl Jensen, professor, University of Mississippi; senior behavioral scientist, Rand Corporation Shun-jie Ji, assistant professor, Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan Peter Klerks, criminologist, political scientist, Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Kristen Koeppen, vice president-operations, RegRelief International, St. Paul, Minnesota Kelly "KJ" Kuchta, president and CEO, Forensics Consulting Solutions, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona |
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Michel Ladet, director, Sofina Ltd,
HK, Paris, France Meimi Lahti, senior lecturer, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Pori, Finland Margaret Lehner, vice president for institutional advancement, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IllinoisBernard H. Levin, head, Psychology Department, Blue Ridge Community College; commander, Policy and Planning Bureau, Waynesboro Police Department, Weyers Cave, Virginia Jeanne Belisle Lombardo, facilitator, Employee and Organizational Learning, Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona; co-founder, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona Tom Lombardo, futures professor and chair, Psychology and Philosophy, Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona; co-founder, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona; author |
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Elza S. Maalouf, co-founder and CEO, Center for Human
Emergence-Middle East, La Jolla, California David Macarov, professor, Jerusalem, Israel Michael C. MacCracken, chief scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute, former president, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, author, Washington, D.C. John B. Mahaffie, principal, Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, D.C. Michael Marien, founder and editor of Future Survey, published monthly since 1979 by the World Future Society Gary Marx, author, president, Center for Public Outreach, Vienna, Virginia Jim Mathews, Futurist Consultant, The Futures Network, Chicago, Illinois Pam McConathy, senior vice president, Pierpont Communications, Houston Texas Frank McDonough, consultant, Analyses of Future Government; former government executive with Department of Navy, Department of Treasury, Potomac, MarylandBrian McLaren, pastor and thought leader for the emergent church, author, Laurel, Maryland Curt McNamara, professor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, practicing designer Minneapolis, Minnesota John F. Meagher, project manager, TASC Futures Group, Northrop Grumman, Arlington, Virginia John Milewski, special projects director at NEWSEUM; formerly with Closeup Foundation and C-Span, Washington, D.C. Shoji Mitarai, vice president, Japan Institute of Negotiation; professor, Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan. Michael Morrell, graduate fellow, Strategic Foresight, School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia |
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Claire A. Nelson, social
sector, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. Pavel Novacek, Millennium Node Chair, Czech Republic Kenneth L. Nichols, associate professor, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Jonathan Peck, president, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia Enrique Peña Nieto, governor, State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico Scott Preston, CIO, Fulbright and Jaworski LLP, Seattle, Washington Amy J. Oberg, corporate futurist, Kimberly Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin Concepción Olavarrieta, Millennium Node Chair, Mexico John Oldfield, director of partnership development, Water Advocates, Washington, D.C. Erica Orange, associate, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., New York, New York Pradnya S. Parulekar, program manager, Helix Corporation, Troy, Michigan Sashi Parulekar, Asia Pacific market development manager, Parker Hannifin Co, Troy, Michigan Jonathan Peck, president, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia Enrique Pena Nieto, governor, State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico Mylena Pierremont, vice president, Royal Philips, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsHoward Rasheed, founder, Institute for Innovation; associate professor, Business Department, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Carrie Rathsack, assistant director, Bowling Green State University's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Maumee, Ohio Scott Reif, futurist, Social Technologies, Washington, D.C. Marsha Rhea, president, Signature i, LLC, Alexandria, Virginia Carol D. Rieg, national director, Future City Competition, Alexandria, Virginia; member, Maryland Transportation Authority, Gaithersburg, Maryland Sheila R. Ronis, director, MBA/MSSL Program, associate professor, Walsh College, Troy, Michigan William Rowley, COO, senior futurist, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia |
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Robert Salmon, former vice president,
L'Oreal, Valais, Switzerland Richard S. Seline, CEO and principal, New Economy Strategies, LLC, Washington, D.C. Rima Shaffer, Shaffer Synergistics, Inc., Washington, D.C. Maureen Sherer, assistant director, Institute for the Future at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland Karlin Sloan, founder and CEO, Karlin Sloan & Company; author, Oak Park, Illinois John Smart, president, Acceleration Studies Foundation, Mountain View, CaliforniaDelos Smith, president and chief economist, Delos Smith & Associates, professor, Fordham University, New York, New York Rick Smyre, president, Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina David Pearce Snyder, principal partner, Snyder Family Enterprise Mei-Mei Song, assistant professor, Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan John Spady, deputy citizen councilor coordinator, Seattle, Washington; executive vice president, Forum Foundation, Seattle, Washington Armando Stavole, retired colonel, Italian Air Force, general manager, VMT, LTD, Rome, ItalyStephen F. Steele, professor, sociology and Futures Studies, Institute for the Future@AACC, Arnold, Maryland Gene Stephens, professor emeritus, Univeristy of South Carolina: charter member, Police Futurists Intl, member;FBI Futures Working Group, Columbia, South Carolina Karlheinz Steinmüller, scientific director, Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company, Koln, Germany Kay E. Strong, associate professor of economics, Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio |
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William Tafoya, retired special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, professor, National Security Program, University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Mohan K. Tikku, author; director of Centre for Future Studies, India; Node co-chair of the Millennium Project; regional editor of Future Takes, New Delhi, India Paul Tinari, director, Pacific Institute for Advanced Study, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada Mike Treder, executive director, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, Brooklyn, New York Jim Trinka, technical training director, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Washington D.C. Rachel Tubman, student, Futures Studies University of Houston, Houston, Texas Elissa Tucker, senior researcher, Hewitt Associates, Lincolnshire, Illinois Thomas Valone, president and founder, Integrity Research Institute, author, Beltsville, Maryland |
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Les Wallace, president, Signature
Resources, Ince Montressa L. Washington, senior managing consultant, IBM Global Services, Baltimore, Maryland Edie Weiner, president, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.; co-author, FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, New York, New York Verne Wheelwright, founder, Personal Futures Network, Harlingen, Texas LaVerne Williams, CEO, Environment Associates, Houston, Texas James T.C. Wright, professor, University of Sao Paulo, head, Future Studies Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil Jamie Wright, CEO, The Wright Touch, Houston, Texas Al Youngs, professor, University of Phoenix, president, The Youngs Group, member FBI Futures Working Group, Lakewood, Colorado" Mariann Zanardo, managing director, environmental futurist, RegRelief International, St. Paul, Minnesota Michael Zey, professor, Montclair State University, Morristown, New Jersey
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