WorldFuture 2012 Commerce Sessions

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

Nicole Garzino is executive director, the Center for Photographic Art. As a consultant, she leads transformative planning and program management for nonprofits, with a special emphasis in cultural organizations, creative projects, and grassroots start-ups, Salinas, California, USA

Eduardo Millet is vice president of business development, McAllen Chamber of Commerce. He is pursuing a PhD in Local Management at the University of Granada, McAllen, Texas, USA

Wade A. Den Hartog is director of affiliates and charitable partners, Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines. He works with affiliates promoting philanthropy in counties and communities throughout the state. He also assists corporate donors, nonprofit organizations, and professional advisors with gift transactions and planned giving, Sheldon, Iowa, USA

Cindy Frewen is board chair of APF, architect, founder of Frewen Architects, and adjunct professor of strategic foresight at University of Houston Futures Studies grad program, Leawood, Kansas, USA

David Broz is education and culture practice leader for Gensler a global architecture and planning firm. He has led the design of 200 education projects and has written and presented extensively on the future of the university campus, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jay Herson is on the adjunct faculty in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He has authored numerous papers and a book on drug safety in his 40 years of working on the analysis of data from clinical trials, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA

Jianbang Deng is associate professor and chair, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies(GIFS), Tamkang University in Taiwan. He specializes in China studies and the research of international migration.

Rick Smyre is president of Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA (See also)

LaDene Bowen is senior vice president of Institute for Decision Making, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

Jim Damicis is senior vice president of Camoin Associates, Portland, Maine, USA

Scott Gibbs is president of Rhode Island EDC, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Mark Waterhouse is president of Garnet Consulting, Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, USA

Howard Rasheed is the managing director of Institute for Innovation, which specializes in strategic foresight and innovation consulting. He is the inventor of the Idea Accelerator Software. He is an associate professor of management at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and author of Innovation Renaissance: 7 Strategies for Winning the Future, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Richard Pfohl is president, Navigos--The Global Institute for Leadership Development, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Niko Herlin is foresight team leader, Finpro, Finland, and former project researcher at Åbo Akademi University focusing on foresight and scenario planning, Turku, Finland

Emily Empel, graduate of the Houston Futures program, is a trend spotter, marketing disciple, and futurist, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA

Heather Schlegel, a futurist, technologist, and cacophonist; member of the Swift Innovation team, West Hollywood, California, USA

Peter Busby is managing director, Perkins+Will Canada Architects, and founder and recent chair of the Canada Green Building Council, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bob Chernow, member of board of directors of the World Future Society, is CEO of Tellier Foundation, Grafton, Wisconsin, USA