Annual Ten-Year Forecast Summit
Institute for the Future's Ten-Year Forecast Summit is our annual thought-provoking gathering on the future of society, economy, work, organizations, and technology, plus exclusive sessions for IFTF Vantage to network and share strategic insights. The Ten-Year Forecast provides experiences, tools, and networks to empower attendees to find the signals amongst the noise and build better futures for all.
2020 Ten-Year Forecast | Future Ready Organizations
This year we're diving deep 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'll be highlighting four issues critical to our collective future: climate change, equity, data governance and cybersecurity.
Our 2020 Ten-Year Forecast will be an all-online event, and as a futures research organization we're excited to push the boundaries of what's possible in this space. We're working hard to ensure that this year's experience will be a transportive journey into future possibilities, by leveraging artifacts from the future that will be shipped to each attendee, by extending the event over two weeks—September 14-25—interspersed with provocative conversations, digital immersions and applied working sessions, and by building on IFTF Vantage's proprietary digital platforms for signal scanning and community engagement.
2019 Ten-Year Forecast | The Age of Distributed Superpowers
In 2019, our Ten-Year Forecast Summit was a 2-day immersion in the extreme powers and equally extreme consequences that will define the coming decade for businesses, communities, and individuals around the world. From the ethical navigation of new technologies to the adaptation strategies of climate change, we scoured the world for power plays that will help organizations to both cultivate and responsibly wield the superpowers of the twenty-first century.
Highlights from Earlier Summits
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.