IFTF Foresight Essentials
IFTF Foresight Talks
Moderated one-hour sessions filled with tips, insights and first-hand experience, IFTF’s Foresight Talks spark rich dialogue among futures thinkers from leading organizations as they discuss how to navigate today’s global turbulence — and transform challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Foresight Talks are free, open to all, and ideal for graduates of IFTF’s Foresight Training program. Each session includes a period for questions from the audience, and is archived below. Foresight Talks will be offered quarterly.
Experiential Futures for Social Transformation
Tuesday, April 28th at 9:00am Pacific Time
Institute for the Future will host Dr. Stuart Candy, Director of Situation Lab, Associate Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and Fellow of The Long Now Foundation, for a free and public-facing webinar about how designing fragments of possible futures can help create social and organizational change. Professor Candy will share some of the methods that he has devised and employed with communities, learners, and institutions around the world.
Stuart Candy (@futuryst) is an educator, strategic facilitator and designer whose practice aims to amplify collective foresight using media, games and live interventions. A pioneer of experiential futures practices (including immersive scenarios, design fiction, speculative and critical design, design futures, etc), he has spent a decade and a half collaboratively developing approaches and tools to make design more foresightful and foresight more designerly, and bringing them to learners, leaders, and audiences around the world. He is co-creator of award-winning imagination game The Thing From The Future (2nd ed, 2018), and co-editor of the landmark open access collection Design and Futures (2019).
Building the Nation’s First Lab to Explore the Future of Social Work
Tuesday, May 19th at 9:00am Pacific Time
The new National Social Work Education Health Futures Lab will “create opportunities for social workers to come together and envision a world that they would like to be in, while building the skills to help get there,” says Portland State University’s Professor Dr. Laura Nissen, principal investigator of the new lab. Join IFTF’s free webinar with Dr. Nissen, PSU Presidential Futures Fellow and IFTF Research Fellow, and learn how she's spearheading significant research projects “on issues related to the future such as technology use and impact, climate change, and related topics.”
From the Archives of Foresight Talks
On Thursday, March 12th, Institute for the Future, together with EDHEC Business School's Dr. René Rohrbeck, hosted a free and public-facing webinar about how organizations can use foresight tools and methods to drive organizational transformation, strategic innovation, and desirable futures. Dr. Rohrbeck discussed methods that he and his team have developed and their learnings from 15 years of benchmarking firms on corporate foresight.
On Thursday, February 20th, Institute for the Future, together with The World Bank Group's Rachel Alexandra Halsema, hosted a free and public-facing webinar about how she's applying foresight and design thinking in her role at the ITS Technology & Innovation Lab and what impact it has on the organization's global work.
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, Institute for the Future hosted a free and public-facing webinar with award-winning design futurists and the instructors of IFTF's new Design Futures Training, Dr. Jake Dunagan and Jacques Barcia, about why it's important to create full-bodied experiences of the future in order to truly immerse people in your vision.
On Wednesday, December 11th at 9:00am Pacific Time, Institute for the Future, together with the US Forest Service's David Bengston and Jason Crabtree, hosted a free and public-facing webinar about how they're developing and applying foresight methods and thinking to help forest planners, managers, and policy makers anticipate and prepare for change.
On Thursday, November 14, Institute for the Future hosted a free webinar with Director of Games Research & Development, Dr. Jane McGonigal, about how she's pushing the futures thinking field from niche to mainstream by way of her new massively open online courses, which invite the public to game out hard-to-anticipate futures together.
On Thursday, September 19th, Institute for the Future, together with Nestle's Global Consumer Insight and Market Intelligence Manager, Dimitri Gerebtzoff, hosted public-facing webinar about what it's like to sense early trends at one of the world's leading food companies. Join us to talk about how Dimitri manages his global network of trend sensers and how he transforms trends into business opportunities and products.
On July 24, 2019 Institute for the Future, together with Stanford University d.school's Designer in Residence Lisa Kay Solomon, hosted a free and public-facing webinar about the intersections and applications of design and futures thinking.
From March 19, 2019.
Institute for the Future, together with Microsoft Envisioning Team's Ming-Li Chai and Harald Becker, hosted a free webinar for the public about what it's like to make the future in one of the world's leading tech companies
Foresight Essentials
Calendar of Upcoming Trainings
- March 24-26, 2020, Washington, DC (postponed, new date TBD)
- June 23-25, 2020, Palo Alto, CA
- September 1-3, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
- October 6-8, 2020, Manchester, New Hampshire
- November 10-12, 2020, Munich, Germany
- December 1-3, 2020, Palo Alto, CA
Design Futures Training
- July 8-9, 2020, Palo Alto, CA
- October 13-14, Palo Alto, CA
About IFTF Foresight Essentials
Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures organization. Its training program, IFTF Foresight Essentials, is a comprehensive portfolio of strategic foresight training tools based upon 50 years of IFTF best practices. IFTF Foresight Essentials cultivates the mindset and skillsets that enable individuals and organizations to foresee future forces, identify emerging imperatives, and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF Foresight Essentials is uniquely customizable for businesses, government agencies, and social impact organizations.
Interested in learning more about our webinars and trainings?
Contact our team here:
Neela Lazkani | nlazkani@iftf.org