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Contact: Tim Mack
President
301-656-8274 ext. 104
Susan Echard
Vice President/Conference Operations
The World Future Society
301-656-8274 ext. 105

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Over 900 Leading Futurists to Converge on
Toronto to Discuss Strategies for Humanity’s Future.

Bethesda, MD — As part of its ongoing efforts to inspire, encourage, and lead an international dialogue on the future, the World Future Society is proud to announce WorldFuture 2006: Creating Global Strategies for Humanity’s Future, its annual conference. This exciting event, perennially referred to as "the World's Fair of Ideas," will feature more than 100 lectures, workshops, and info sessions. The conference will focus on ways to envision—and create—a future that serves the needs, desires, and goals of all humanity. Speakers at WorldFuture 2006 will include:

Joel Garreau, Washington Post writer and editor, principal of The Garreau Group, and author of Radical Evolution and Edge City: Life on the New Frontier.

Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of the best-selling book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, among numerous other titles.

Dave Mowat, CEO of the Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity) and a leader in pioneering technology innovations, products, and services in the financial services industry.

Lance Secretan, founder, the Secretan Center Inc., and former ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program, Canada.

David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Pamela Wallin, Canadian consul general to New York, founder of Pamela Wallin Productions Inc., and author of Since You Asked.

Presenters from around the globe will examine all the major trends and developments influencing the future in the fields of technology, government, the environment, values and spirituality, education, futures methodologies, and health. Specific topics for discussion will include "Achieving Universal Health Coverage, One Country at a Time," "The Diplomatic Dance: The Future of Canada-U.S. Relations," "Global Nuclear Disarmament," and "The Promise and Peril of Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics."

Thought leader Ann Coombs of Coombs Consulting Ltd. (Vancouver) will serve as the first Canadian woman to chair a World Future Society conference. "Enthusiasm is high in Canada and its largest city, Toronto, where we are anxious to showcase the city’s intellectual and cultural offerings—resources that will enrich the WorldFuture 2006 conference-going experience," she stated.

Since 1971, World Future Society conferences have served as the premier events for the world’s most important leaders and visionaries to explore the future. Previous conference attendees have included future U.S. President Gerald Ford, Tennessee’s then-senator and future U.S. Vice President Al Gore Jr., scientist and inventor Buckminster Fuller, and pioneering feminist author Betty Friedan.

WorldFuture 2006: Creating Global Strategies for Humanity’s Future will take place July 28-30, 2006, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, located at 123 Queen Street, West Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M9 Canada.

A professional Member’s Forum is scheduled for July 31st, 2006.

EDITORS: For more information about WorldFuture 2006, contact the World Future Society at 1-301-656-8274 or e-mail tmack@wfs.org. or ptucker@wfs.org. For press credentials to attend the conference, e-mail sechard@wfs.org or call 1-800-989-8274. Conference updates and schedules can be found through the World Future Society's Web site, at http://www.wfs.org/2006main.htm or call Tim Mack or Susan Echard at 1-301-656-8274.

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