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July 19-21, 2013
Hilton Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Preconference Courses: July 18-19, 2013
Professional Members’ Forum: July 22, 2013

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WorldFuture 2013 Commerce Sessions

The Future of Celebrations

Retirement. Weddings. Birthdays. What milestones will define the next horizon and how will we celebrate them? Technological innovations will intersect social changes to shift the way we highlight the extraordinary. Augmented reality, gamification, robotics, and virtual worlds will impact existing networks to drive new landscapes of interaction.

Emily Empel@localrat is a trend spotter, marketing disciple and corporate futurist, Winter Park, Florida, USA

Rateocracy: When Everyone and Everything Is Rated

Rateocracy, a future in which everyone and everything has a rating, is quickly approaching. Today we rate people, products, restaurants and places in a fragmented way. But, there are strong commercial reasons for a peer-generated, numeric rating system that allows cross-comparison. How will Rateocracy evolve and what are its implications?

Robert Moran is partner in the Brunswick Group and leads Brunswick Insight in the Americas. He frequently speaks and writes on market research and data-driven decision making, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Transforming Local Economic Development for the New Global Economy

This session will provide an update on how the economic development business is adapting to new global trends and forces in order to fulfill its mission of assisting people to have a good standard of living; governments to have adequate sources of revenue; and businesses to have good places to operate.

Mark D. Waterhouse (moderator) is president of Garnet Consulting Services, Inc., an economic development consulting firm. He is a certified economic developer, has served as chair of International Economic Development Council (IEDC); former dean of Oklahoma University Economic Development Institute (OU/EDI), president of Connecticut Economic Development Association (CEDAS), Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, USA

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

Barbara Johnson, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Scott Gibbs, is president of the Economic Development Foudation of Rhode Island, Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA

A Possibility Tour

A Possibility Tour, led by Heathervescent
With Special “Guests” Philip K. Dick, Bina48, Samuel Delaney, Stanislaw Lem, and Donella Meadows

Heather Schlegel (@heathervescent) is a futurist, technologist, and cacophonist. Schlegel is most recently known for her design futures video work with Innotribe, the Innovation Division of Swift. Known by her online presence, heathervescent, and her consultancy, The Purple Tornado, she explores the intersection of technology, culture, and identity. Schlegel's academic research focuses on the future of transactions and complementary currencies, including the impact of technology on identity creation, West Hollywood, California, USA

A Monetary System for the 22nd Century

We may want to envision a world without money, but it is highly unlikely that such a world will come about. So key questions remain: What will money be like in the year 2100, who will issue it, and who will regulate it? Who will store it, and how it will be used? …

Stephen Aguilar-Millan (@eufo) is director of research at the European Futures Observatory, a member of the World Future Society Global Advisory Council, a former board member of the Association of Professional Futurists, and president of the WFS Europe Chapter, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Read: Will We Still Have Money In 2100?

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