July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012

Sessions

Poverty of the Imagination: Using the Future to Avoid a World War

This panel session will look at how futurists might be able to contribute to overcoming “poverty of the imagination” by detecting “changes in the conditions of change” that could offer an image of a better, even if radically different, future.

Riel Miller, head of Foresight Bureau of Strategic Planning for UNESCO, former senior manager, Ontario public service (Ministries of Finance, Universities, and Industry); founder xperidox (which means knowledge through experience), Paris, France, and Canada

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

Cheonsik Woo is a senior fellow at Korea Development Institute (KDI) and a vice president and director for the Department of Industry and Competition Policy. He has also served for more than two years as a senior analyst at the Office of the Secretary-General of OECD, Seoul, South Korea

Kais Hammami is an experienced international foresight professional specializing in foresight, strategy, and organizational behavior with a focus on the North Africa and Middle East region, Paris, France

Martin Rhisiart is director of the Centre for Research in Futures and Innovation and at Glamorgan Business School. Martin has significant experience of designing and delivering research projects in the areas of innovation and futures. He is the UK Node Chair for the Millennium project, Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom

Primary Care 2025

By 2025, primary care will have experienced great changes in the United States. While there is uncertainty about how much of the health reform legislation will be put into effect, there will be disruptive advances, including telemedicine, virtual care, enhanced biomonitoring, digital health coaches (Dr. Watson from IBM serving as the health advisor), and altered primary care teams.

Clement Bezold is chairman, senior futurist, and founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA); and member, Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Alexandria, Virginia, USA See also

Reimagining the Future of Global Health, Wellness, and Health-Care Delivery

Special Event

Global crises in health-care delivery, management, and financing have spotlighted what in many ways are broken systems. Rather than engineering incremental changes to largely outmoded processes and institutions, we must imagine entirely new possibilities to build a more positive future.

Robert T. Schwartz is general manager, Global Design & User Experience GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Paul Chew is senior vice president and chief Medical Officer/Chief Scientific Officer US, Sanofi, Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA

Joel Myklebust is deputy director of the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories in the Center for Devices, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Adriane Berg is founder of Generation Bold; she is the co-host of the radio show Not for Profit Exchange and a member of AGETEK, technology for the future of aging, Lebanon, New Jersey, USA

Renée-Marie Stephano is president of Medical Tourism Association (MTA), the first association in the medical tourism industry, and chief editor, Medical Tourism Magazine.

Reinventing Life: A Guide to Our Evolutionary Future

Based on the new book, Reinventing Life — A Guide to Our Evolutionary Future, this session will explore the future of evolution and the decisions that each of us makes to drive it. Humans are currently dominating the evolutionary process in mostly unconscious and destructive ways.

Jeffrey Coker, author, associate professor of biology, director of general studies, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, USA

Scenario Analysis in Public Health

This session will have presentations highlighting the use of scenario analysis in the public health realm. The focus will be on demonstrating the use of evidence-based futures planning at several levels of implementation: national, provincial/territorial/state, and community.

Jan Trumble Waddell is the senior advisor to the Chief Public Health Officer in the Public Health Agency of Canada, leads population health and foresight activities on public health issues, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Victoria Edge is an epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada. She works in population health assessment and scenario analysis related to public health issues, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Sherilee Harper is a PhD candidate and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph. Her areas of research interest include indigenous health, epidemiology, and climate change, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Scouting the Future with the Implications Wheel

In this highly experiential workshop, participants will explore a current issue of global significance using the latest version of Joel Barker’s Implications Wheel.

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

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