July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

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

Sessions

Town Hall Meeting: the Future of Governance

What will government of the future look like at the local, regional, state, national, and international levels?

Al Youngs is a founding member of the PFI/FB Futures Working Group and former president of Police Futurists International, Denver, Colorado, USA

Richard W. Myers is a retired chief of police, charter member and past president of the Society of Police Futurists International, and member of the Futures Working Group, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Earl Moulton is a retired commander of F Division in Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Canada

Transcultural Roundtable 2012

How will people in your part of the world live, work, and think in 2025? Which values, lifestyles, and structuring institutions will prevail? Will lifestyles be more complex or simpler? Which professions will be the most highly valued, and which personality types will best adapt? What culture-based hidden assumptions define the boxes in which you think and your notion of personal identity?

Dave Stein is president, Center for Transcultural Foresight, specializes in identifying hidden assumptions in diverse disciplines, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Tiffany Pressler Tiffany Pressler is a member of the World Future Society who currently resides in Conway, Arkansas. Mrs. Pressler is an inventor and entrepreneur who teaches and models the values of leadership, accountability, ingenuity, and altruism. Her work spans the multi-faceted areas of engineering, biophysics, government, healthcare, financial markets, and education, Conway, Arkansas, USA

Jack Smith is an adjunct professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, and director, Proteus Canada Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Juanita Hardy, managing principal, Tiger Management Consulting Group, delivers intercultural training and management consulting services to public and private sector clients and serves on the boards of several art organizations, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

Unleashing Fundamental Change: Transforming Economic Development for an Economy That Does Not Exist

The ongoing economic challenges have raised questions among economic leaders regarding how long this time of great volatility will continue and when things will return to normal.

Rick Smyre is president of Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA (See also)

LaDene Bowen is senior vice president of Institute for Decision Making, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

Jim Damicis is senior vice president of Camoin Associates, Portland, Maine, USA

Scott Gibbs is president of Rhode Island EDC, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Mark Waterhouse is president of Garnet Consulting, Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, USA

Waking Up the Algorithm

Opening Keynote

For too long, computers, computational power, and even software have been thought of as cold mathematical pursuits, when in reality, the digital world is just an extension of human existence. With increasing generation of data through human activity and interaction, more complex processing and technologies are needed — but they must also be accessible.

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

When Ivory Towers Fall: The Emerging Education Marketplace

Throughout history, education has been formed around the concept of “place.” Build fancy buildings, attract world-renowned scholars, and you have a college or university. This model works well in a culture based on teaching. Over the coming years, with our hyper-connected world, we will be shifting to a learning model.

Thomas Frey is executive director and senior futurist, DaVinci Institute and author of Communicating with the Future, Louisville, Colorado, USA

Working Abroad as a Career of the Future? Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean Expatriates in China

The rapid speed of globalization, especially the economic globalization, brings not only the rapid growth of foreign direct investment but also the effect of flows of people. More and more people move across the territorial boundaries and search for a job outside of their home county.

Jianbang Deng is associate professor and chair, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies(GIFS), Tamkang University in Taiwan. He specializes in China studies and the research of international migration.

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