Business and Careers Sessions at the WorldFuture Conference

Futurists receive strong training in many of the methodologies that help organizations anticipate and plan for the future. However, few receive any training regarding how to help companies understand the business benefits of their services. This session will provide seven keys that every futurist should know to be successful in the business of being a futurist.

Innovation in a reinvented world is about sustainability and responsible return on investment.

The “New Normal” is a term first used by Roger McNamee, a well-respected technology investor, who defined it as a time of solid opportunity—if you know how to play the game.

How will people in your part of the world live, work, and think in 2025? Which values, lifestyles, and structuring institutions will prevail? Will lifestyles be more complex or simpler? Which professions will be the most highly valued, and which personality types will best adapt? What culture-based hidden assumptions define the boxes in which you think and your notion of personal identity?

Most individuals and most organizations are just a few steps away from genuinely creating the type of future they want for themselves. The challenge is that the one or two steps they miss when planning for their future may cause them to fall well short of both expectations and desires.

Members of TechCast’s panel of 100 experts discuss the project’s ongoing technology forecasts in the fields of e-commerce, energy and environment, information technology, medicine and biogenetics, manufacturing and robotics, space, and transportation.

The current business, social, and financial environments require new ways to search for and exploit emerging business and technology trends. Minitrends is a new concept that allows individuals and organizations of all sizes to identify, evaluate, and employ emerging trends of a scope and importance to provide attractive business and operational opportunities.

You believe your organization could benefit from a futures study. Now what do you do?

Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next 25 years.

Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems, but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. The challenge gives birth to an Asian economic model based on shifting of productivity from the individual to groups, ecological productivity instead of economic productivity, and a reversal to traditional Asian values, which are less materialistic than Western values.

Since March 16, 1802 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has responded to changing defense requirements and played an integral part in the development of the country.