Program (in-person Berlin)

19:00 Welcome gathering at the Westin Grand
CET
Plenarium
Globalarium
Sensorium
Laboratorium
Imaginarium
9:00
9:10
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
(Coffee)
11:30
12:00
12:30
(Lunch)
13:30
14:00
15:30
(Coffee)
16:00
plenarium 09:30-10:00
Dr. Issa H. Al Ansari
President
PMU
Keynote speaker
plenarium 11:30-12:00
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO
Keynote speaker
plenarium 10:00-11:00
Mika Aaltonen
Economist, Author and Professor (Complexity and Foresight)
Crossroads – Transformations on the Road to 2040
Keynote speaker
plenarium 14:00-15:30
Future of Democracy
Christophe Bisson
Session Chair
globalarium 14:00-15:30
Security and Preparedness
Session Chair
sensorium 14:00-15:30
SES Work/Tech 2050: A Novel Version of the Scenario Exploration System
imaginarium 14:00-15:30
Applying Improvisation to Futuring
Martin A. Ciesielski
Workshop facilitator
laboratorium 16:00-17:30
KxF: Navigating Chaos
Andreas Ligtvoet
Session Chair
Lena Tünkers
Workshop facilitator
Edda Luiza Kruse Rosset
Workshop facilitator
imaginarium 16:00-17:30
Knowing and Not-Knowing - The Role of Science in Futures
Stefan Bergheim PhD
Session Chair
plenarium 09:10-09:30
Erik F. Øverland, PhD
President
WFSF
Keynote speaker
plenarium 09:00-09:10
Prof. Helge Braun
Head
German Chancellery
Keynote speaker
plenarium 10:00-10:30
plenarium 12:00-12:30
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD
International speaker, poet, curator and activist
The Emergence Network
Keynote speaker
plenarium 16:00-17:30
Big Picture Evolutionary Futures and the Purposeful Evolution of Consciousness
Dr. Linda Groff
Session Chair
Thomas Lombardo, PhD
Session Chair
laboratorium 14:00-15:30
Psychological Futuring
Session Chair
globalarium 16:00-17:30
Human-Machine Integration
Session Chair
sensorium 16:00-17:30
Air-space Futures
Session Chair
19:00
Gala dinner at the Gendarmarie Restaurant. Reservation is required. Buy your tickets here
CET
Plenarium
Globalarium
Sensorium
Laboratorium
Imaginarium
8:15
9:00
9:30
11:00
(Coffee)
11:30
12:30
(Lunch)
13:30
14:00
15:30
(Coffee)
16:00
plenarium 09:00-09:30
Dr. Jin Canrong
President
Chinese Society for Future Studies (CSFS)
Keynote speaker
plenarium 09:30-12:30
Anticipatory Governance
Session Chair
sensorium 09:30-11:00
AI meets Futures
Session Chair
laboratorium 09:30-12:30
Participatory Futures
John A. Sweeney
Session Chair
Abril Chimal
Session Chair
Maya Van Leemput, PhD
Workshop facilitator
Bibiana Xausa-Bosak, APF
Workshop facilitator
imaginarium 14:00-17:30
Futures Literacy Laboratory
Stefan Bergheim PhD
Session Chair
Lena Tünkers
Session Chair
laboratorium 14:00-15:30
The Future is Feminist
Franziska Schönfeld
Session Chair
Alu Kitzerow
Session Chair
Melisande Rodenacker
Session Chair
plenarium 13:30-14:00
Dr. Stanza (Steve Tanza)
International award-winning digital artist
Keynote speaker
lounge 08:15-08:45
Coffee with a Futurist: Maya van Leemput
Maya Van Leemput, PhD
Futurist with a coffee
globalarium 14:00-15:30
Art and Futures
Session Chair
globalarium 09:30-11:00
Futures and Sci-fi
Session Chair
imaginarium 09:30-12:30
UNESCO Futures Literacy
Session Chair
plenarium 14:00-15:30
Futures of higher education and skills of tomorrow. A discussion on the role of HEI in reshaping generations and preparing the youth for the digital age
Dr. Faisal Al Anezi
Session Chair
globalarium 16:00-17:30
Sustainability
Session Chair
plenarium 16:00-17:30
Futures Archetypes
Session Chair
sensorium 14:00-15:30
Futures Quality and Competency
globalarium 11:30-12:30
Can the Future Escape the Past
Session Chair
sensorium 16:00-17:30
WFSF Accreditation
Luke van der Laan
Session Chair
laboratorium 16:00-17:30
Challenging Conformity
Session Chair
CET
Plenarium
Globalarium
Sensorium
Laboratorium
Imaginarium
8:15
9:00
9:30
11:00
(Coffee)
11:30
12:00
12:30
(Lunch)
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
16:30
17:30
plenarium 09:00-09:30
Esra Aydin
Spokesperson Corporate Engagement & Sustainability & *Future Head
Volkswagen Group
Keynote speaker
imaginarium 09:30-11:00
Next Generation Futures
Session Chair
sensorium 11:30-12:00
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
globalarium 11:30-12:00
The Singularity is Near! Is It?
lounge 08:15-08:45
Coffee with a Futurist: Roberto Poli
Roberto Poli
Futurist with a coffee
sensorium 09:30-11:00
Long-Term Thinking to Achieve Short-Term Goals - How Futures Thinking Empowers Organisations to Handle Today’s Uncertainty.
Session Chair
globalarium 09:30-11:00
WFSF as a 'Distributed Global Lab'
Session Chair
plenarium 09:30-11:00
Socio-economic Development
Session Chair
laboratorium 09:30-11:00
Emerging Tools
Session Chair
globalarium 13:00-17:30
German Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung Annual Meeting Online
plenarium 14:00-15:00
WFSF General Assembly (Members only, hybrid)
plenarium 15:00-16:30
WFSF Strategy Seminar (Members only, hybrid)
laboratorium 16:00-17:30
Regional Meetings
sensorium 16:00-17:30
FEN Meeting
plenarium 11:30-12:00
Bright Spot (Riel Miller)
plenarium 12:00-12:30
Conference Closing Session
imaginarium 11:30-12:00
If The World Will Never Be the Same, Will I Change Too? Anticipated Moral Orientation Change (AMOC) In Generation X Narratives of Desirable Post-Corona Futures
The program is subject to change.