Dear members, Hope you and your families are safe and coping in these difficult times. The below conference might be an interesting opportunity that you can attend from wherever you are. Wishing you good health and resilience Katinka de Balogh Senior Animal Health and Production Officer Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 39 Phra Atit Road, Phranakon Bangkok 10200 THAILAND Tel: +66-26974326 Mob. +66-614123524 e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [esignature-en] ________________________________ Global foresight summit https://www.globalforesightsummit.com/?fbclid=IwAR1rkTa24QpehE6samE7LDYyTbbN6Gt1MRfgC-MgSL6OBOoqDtcLVRTDb3E The Great Pause Billions of people around the globe are under lockdown. Business as usual is not usual anymore. Governments rush to adopt imperfect policies to protect citizens and defend national sovereignty. An invisible threat has humankind under siege, attacking everything and everyone we know, and the future will never be the same again. Join for free on April 9-11th, 2020 Register Now<https://www.globalforesightsummit.com/register> The Global Foresight Summit is an open initiative to raise awareness on futures literacy and strategic foresight across government policy-makers, business leaders, strategists, innovators, scientists, and researchers will help to prepare for decision-making under uncertainty and unpredictability. The past narratives about the future did not help to manage the present crisis appropriately. Millions of people rushed to supermarkets fearing scarcity of food; media streamed death tolls as points in a football match; politicians were caught improvising and underestimating the reality; scientists were not listened anywhere around the world; countries do not share all their data about the pandemic; and, above all, sci-fi movies, books and shows in our collective imaginary helped to accelerate the fear of a dystopian world. talks We are currently working on creating the schedule and agenda for all the sessions. +N Futures: Collaborative Nexuses, Knowledge Communities, Networked Localism, & the new Social Commons Sector Tim Morgan 2020 Hindsight: How Foresight "Failed" to Prepare us for a Pandemic Yvette Montero Salvatico A Foresight Journey: Eight Key Rules That Make a Difference Ricardo Borges de Castro A Transformationalist's Guide To Saving The Future Frank Spencer After Dread Cennyd Bowles Are your futurevisions at risk? Embedding Risk and Resilience Thinking in Futures Thinking Workshops Shermon Cruz Big data and artificial intelligence in a human centered foresight approach Guillermina Benavides Chaos Theory: How to Live in Interesting Times Bronwyn Williams Covid19 both is and is not a black swan (and that's ok): futures in, through, and beyond a time of crisis John A. Sweeney Finding weak signals to design emergent futures Tomas Diez Futures Design Thinking: Speculative Design, Strategic Foresight and other ways to respond to the future Phil Balagtas Futures, Culture, and Urban Planning: Insights from research on cities across the ancient Silk Road Aditee Prabhakar How To Think About The Future During a Global Pandemic Tessa Finlev How to dance with uncertainty using Futures Thinking! Tanja Schindler Humanitarian Futures, Post-Covid and Mass Flourishing Aarathi Krishnan Kalām Puruesh Chaudhary Megatrends and postnormal times? Mikko Dufva Policimaking in Postnormal Times Jordi Serra Del Pino Policing the new normals Mike Richmond Predictions from Ignorance and the Community of Knowledge Steven Sloman Prepare Students for Tomorrow. Teach the Future Today Peter Bishop Rejuvenation Biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging Aubrey de Grey Risk and Uncertainty: how to use Intelligence and Foresight to the best advantage of your organisation Tom Burin Rocking Newton’s Cradle: How the equal and opposite forces Unleashed by Covid-19 will reorder our world Cecily Sommers Shocks, Improvisation and Complexity: An Anticipatory Systems Perspective on Using-the-future Riel Miller Spectrum of Futures: The Many Faces of Anticipation Travis Kupp Strategic foresight futures in policy-making Fátima Azevedo Ten things that surprised me when I was writing a book about the future of the world Elina Hiltunen The Dangers of Dismissing Dystopias Leah Zaidi The Four Pandemic Shifts Shaping the New Economy Nancy Giordano The Future of Now: The Path From Where You are to Where We’re Going Elatia Abate The Future of Strategic Decision-Making Roger Spitz The Living Companies: Using Foresight-Fuelled Strategy to Tame the Future Joana Lenkova The Social Footprint of Coronavirus Alexandra Whittington The failure of futures thinking Roger Dennis Trend Sensing and Activation, a look under the hood at Intel Corporation. John S. Miranda Will COVID-19 deepen social, political and generational faultlines or unify us against a common enemy? Anne Boysen c. 2019 - ?: Europe, China and the use of cycles to envision alternative futures Jorge Camacho ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the VPH-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(VPH-L,SIGNOFF);