Workshop on Professional Foresight

8:30am Continental Breakfast - Pre-Conference Mingle

9:00am Welcome - Emily Medley (FERN Conf. Director) & Scott Aughenbaugh (CSIS Fellow and FERN Associate)

9:10am Session 1: Foresight Definitions, Tools, and Training - Current States of the Art:

• Jerry Glenn - The Millennium Project, Foresight Methods 3.0 and 2012 State of the Future (Nonprofit)
• Jay Gary - Director, Regent University MA Program in Strategic Foresight (Academia)
• Maria Andersen - Director of Learning and Research, Instructure, Canvas Network. (Business)
• John Smart - Evolutionary & Developmental Foresight, Innov. Platforms, & TINA Trends, ASF (Nonprofit)
• Shala Mills - AASCU and the Global Challenges Course, Fort Hays State University (Nonprofit/Academia)

11:00am Session 2: Foresight Use Cases and Opportunities:

• José Cordeiro - Director, Venezuela Node, Millennium Project and Faculty, Singularity University
• Marguerite Grandjean - Inst. for Alternative Futures, Future of Agriculture 2030 (Oxfam - Peru) (Business/Consulting)
• Bill Halal - GWU, TechCast.org, Technology Tracking and Forecasting Platform (Academia/Consulting)
• Sandjar Kozubaev - Senior Strategist in Economics and Design, InReality (Business/Consulting)
• Steve Steele - Institute for the Future at AACC (Anne Arundel Community College) (Academia)

12:35-2pm Lunch & Learn. Topic: Global Trends 2030 Report, National Intelligence Council

• Mike Jeffress, Director, Global and Emerging Issues, Strategic Futures Group, NIC

2pm Session 3: Supporting Foresight Culture - Practitioner Communities and Group Sharing 15 min presentations:

• Patrick Tucker - Dir. of Communications, World Future Society (Practitioner Community)
• John Mahaffie - Principal, Leading Futurists, and Past Director, Assoc. of Professional Futurists (Pract. Community)
• Lisa Badolato - Research Manager, Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) (Pract. Community)
• Susan Fant - Exec Dir, Foresight Education & Research Network (FERN) (Practitioner Community)

3:45pm Group Discussion

4:25pm Speaker Panel Q&A

4:45pm Closing Remarks: Scott Augenbaugh, CSIS and Susan Fant, FERN