Cultural Shifts among Global Youths: Part II

Last year, Erica Orange and Jared Weiner covered a wide-ranging list of trends as it pertains to the future of global youth. They highlighted everything from the growing importance of social networking sites and virtual reality to shifting communications styles and feedback mechanisms to important demographic trends such as skewed sex ratios, an aging—and "younging"—population, and changing household formation. Join them again this year for another robust discussion on an entirely new set of trends that are currently impacting the future of our youth.

Over the past year, a new generation of young people, combined with rapidly advancing technologies, will profoundly alter the landscape of the global workforce and emerge with different skills, jobs, careers, and ways of living their lives. New subcultures of technologically adept young people have not only evolved across the globe, but also represent a new, robust and powerful market. This panel will explore and help shed light on the social, demographic, and technological shifts occurring in both today's global youth and future generations.

Who should attend: Educators, business leaders, consultants, and anyone interested in learning more about how future generations will go about organizing their work and life.

What you’ll learn: Participants will be made aware of changing trends and new strategies for meeting the challenges that the changes will create.

How this new knowledge can be applied: Attendees will gain a new understanding of how today’s youth and future generations will use technologies to communicate and work, and they will be able to plan for these new workers in their own organizations and communities.

Erica Orange, vice president, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., New York, New York

Jared Weiner, vice president, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.; board member, World Future Society, New York, New York

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