The World Future Society hosted its 1997 Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California, on July 17-19, 1997. More than 900 participants attended. Conference chairman was William Tafoya, founder of the Society of Police Futurists International.
The theme of the meeting was TrendWatch: Technology, Society, and Values. The meeting addressed the interplay among three of the main change drivers in the present and the future—technology, society, and values—and the implications for persons seeking to thrive—not just survive—in this period of often turbulent change.