Futures Week is an annual virtual event that allows participants to explore the future. This year the event is about “Cultivating futures”. A range of events will be hosted to discover possible disruptions on the horizon, confront our ways of thinking about them, and learn how foresight can prepare us for the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Once again, the online portion of Futures Week – on May 7 and 8 – is open to the public. Everyone is welome from public servants, foresight practitioners to anyone with a future-focused mindset.
Some of the scheduled sessions include:
Tuesday May 7th:
- Indigenous futuring: Right relations and futures thinking
- Disruptions on the horizon: Events and circumstances Canada may need to prepare for
- Real versus fake: A sense-making crisis
- Future Lives Transformed life courses
- Global demographic shifts: Aging populations and the global economy
Wednesday May 8th:
- Innovations reshaping our society: Emerging technologies
- Foresight on AI: International public sector perspectives
- Navigating the AI frontier: Uncertainties shaping societies
- AI and the climate crisis: Solution or drain
- The commercialization of biological data: DNA for sale
The event is hosted by Policy Horizons Canada.