Institute For The Future

Mark your calendars now to join us for a collective journey to the
challenges and treasures awaiting us in 2031!

This year, IFTF Vantage is dedicated to interrogating the large-scale transitions that await us in the decade to come. Its goal? To better understand the emerging organizational operating landscape and ready ourselves for the transformations that lie ahead.

Across the week of September 27–October 1, we invite IFTF Vantage partners to join us at the Ten-Year Forecast Summit, where you can immerse yourself in the rich possibilities of the decade ahead. You’ll be joined by experts, peers, and foresight practitioners from industry-leading companies, civic organizations, and government agencies across the globe.

In acknowledgement of 2021's transitional nature, this year's Ten-Year Forecast Summit will push the edges of what’s possible in the emerging hybridized work environment and offer a richly interactive journey—for those coming back to the office and those continuing to work remotely.

Last year we took a deep dive into Future Ready Organizations, empowering professionals to develop and scale the foresight capacity of their businesses, institutions and communities through applied foresight techniques and learnings from peers across every sector. In the process we highlighted four issues critical to our collective future: climate change, equity, data governance and cybersecurity.

The 2020 Ten-Year Forecast was our first ever all-online multi-day summit, and as a futures research organization we were excited to push the boundaries of what was possible in this space at that time. The experience was a transportive journey into future possibilities, leveraging physical artifacts from the future shipped to each attendee, and taking place over two weeks—September 14-25, 2020. Sessions included provocative conversations, digital immersions, and applied working sessions, and built on IFTF Vantage's proprietary digital platforms for signal scanning (IFTF Future Factors) and community engagement (IFTF Vantage Point).

In 1968, IFTF's founders wrote:

We live in a period of rapid and vast change. As change quickens in tempo and widens in sweep, the risks and opportunities that confront us call increasingly for expanded efforts to lead the course of events, rather than be led by them. An awareness of the future has thus become more important to the present than ever before.

For over 50 years, Institute for the Future has helped companies, governments, and individuals think creatively and pragmatically about the future. We achieve this by developing tools and methodologies that guide and accelerate the transformation of long-term foresight into practical, near-term insight.

Partner with IFTF today and join us at our 2020 Annual Ten-Year Forecast Summit on the future of society, economy, work, organizations, and technology and help steer your enterprise, foundation, nonprofit, or agency towards the future it wants, not one that occurs by chance.