WorldFuture 2012 Futuring Sessions

Ibon Zugasti (co-chair) is director, Prospektiker, general manager in LKS Market Research, chairman of the Millennium Project Node in Spain, chairman of the European Regional Foresight College, and National coordinator in Spain for the PREPARE Network, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Concepción Olavarrieta (co-chair) El Proyecto Del Milenio, México City, México

Jay Ogilvy, a visiting lecturer and former dean of Presidio Graduate School and the co-founder of Global Business Network, Castle Valley, Utah, USA See also

Brian David Johnson is author of Screen Future and the director of Future Casting and Experience Research for Intel Corporation, San Francisco, California, USA

Jerome C. Glenn, executive director, The Millennium Project; co-editor, Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0; co-author, 2012 State of the Future, Washington, D.C., USA

Theodore J. Gordon, senior fellow, The Millennium Project, and inventor of the Real-Time Delphi; co-editor, Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0; co-author, 2012 State of the Future, Washington, D.C., USA

Joel A. Barker is an educator and futurist with a decades-long dedication to strategic exploration. His books (from Future Edge to Five Regions of the Future), his videos (from The New Business of Paradigms to Vision and Innovation at the Verge), and his powerful strategic exploration tools (from the Implications Wheel to T.I.P.S. Teams and the Strategy Matrix) have defined a new focus of futuring skills, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

James W. Schreier is a Master Trainer for Joel Barker’s Strategic Exploration Tools, including the Implications Wheel and the Strategy Matrix. He has facilitated Implications Wheel workshops for communities, organizations, nonprofit organizations, churches, youth groups, and educational institutions, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA

Fabienne Goux Baudiment is founder of Progective Consulting, past president of the World Futures Studies Federation, and vice president of FUTUREtakes, Paris, France
Linda Groff is a professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and director, Global Options and Evolutionary Futures Consulting, Playa del Rey, California, USA
Kazuo Mizuta is an emeritus professor, Kyoto Sangyo University, vice president, Japan Future Research Center, Kyoto, Japan
Verne Wheelwright is founder and president of Personal Futures Network and author of It’s Your Future… Make it a Good One! Harlingen, Texas, USA
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Jeanne Belisle Lombardo is co-director, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Tom Lombardo is a professor and director, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Peter Jones is an associate professor, OCAD University, Toronto; senior fellow of the Strategic Innovation Lab; and founder and managing partner of Dialogic Design International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

John Cassel is a graduate student at OCAD University, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Suzanne Stein is a foresight analyst, mentor, and professor, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada Toronto, Canada

Karl Schroeder, is a foresight consultant and award-winning science fiction writer. He is the author of nine novels, Toronto, Canada.

Jonathan Resnick is a recent graduate of the Strategic Foresight & Innovation program at OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James Gelatt is a professor and program director in the Doctor of Management program, Graduate School, University of Maryland University College, Palmyra, Virginia, USA

Peter C. Bishop is an associate professor of Strategic Foresight and director of the graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston and founding board member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He specializes in techniques for long-term forecasting and planning, Houston, Texas, USA (see also)

Jason Swanson Learning Management Systems: Machines That Think, Jason is a graduate student in the University of Houston’s Future Studies program. He currently works as a Foresight Professional and Market Research Analyst for the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Josh Lindenger Locative Media: The Internet Always Knows Where You Are

Sean Daken Wireless Sensor Networks: The Internet of Things

Lisa Donchak works at Google, where she is a business strategist for Google Apps, and a research analyst for Weiner, Edrich, and Brown, where she writes strategic abstracts on trends in technology, and demography, San Clemente, California, USA