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European Futurists Conference
Lucerne, Switzerland

 

MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE
Practical approaches, critical insights, emerging business models

November 22 - 24, 2006
Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, Switzerland


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Welcome to the 2nd European Futurists Conference Lucerne!

You are invited to an unique European conference during which innovators, change agents, and heads of strategy, innovation, and business development will discuss practical approaches, critical insights, and emerging business models with professional futurists - in short, Making Sense of the Future!

We again have scheduled the
Pre-Conference with a focus on new practical approaches.
It is meant for all practitioners who aim to update their toolbox to look into future challenges
and opportunities. The Pre-Conference is aimed at futurists, researchers, and! academics interested in exploring the latest research in the! futures field. A total of eight workshops will offer participants the opportunity to hear about new issues futurists will be exploring, Innovative tools, techniques for undertaking futures work, and the latest views on how future
research and practice are evolving.

The
Main Conference delivers critical insights and presents business models of the
emerging new world. It is aimed at decision makers, change agents, innovators, heads of corporate planning, strategy and innovation, and at future experts in business and public administration. The world-leading futurists will share their cutting-edge arguments and views on emerging uncertainties and paradoxes. Practical examples will demonstrate how different
organisations visualise the future with regards to strategy, innovation, and development.
Case studies of emerging business models and social practices proclaim a future
that has already begun.

Hot topic
of the Main Conference: "Upgrading Humans" "a realistic approach to how
mental enhancement through implants will make thought communication possible in the
near future" a tremendous commercial potential.

For the first time, we created an opportunity for marketers, innovators and strategists to
have in-depth alternative seminars to the Pre-Conference.
Future Seminars are selected by us but presented and set up by private partners.

For more information please visit our website: www.european-futurists.org

For registration (you may profit from an early booking discount!) please click here.

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