Positive Platforms for a Workable Future

Positive Platforms for a Workable Future

This week our Workable Futures Initiative hosted leading-edge thinkers from policy, platforms, social innovation, worker advocacy, philanthropy, venture capital, and academia to discuss the transformation of work and prototype possible solutions. David Rolf, SEIU 775 President and longtime worker advocate, keynoted the event. Follow the conversation at #workablefutures to see how you can be an architect of the future! More »

Positive Platforms for a Workable Future This week our Workable Futures Initiative hosted leading-edge thinkers from policy, platforms, social innovation, worker advocacy, philanthropy, venture capital, and academia to discuss the transformation of work and prototype possible solutions. David Rolf, SEIU 775 President and longtime worker advocate, keynoted the event. Follow the conversation at #workablefutures to see how you can be an architect of the future! More » Body Area Networks: The New Frontier  Wearable. Implantable. Outrageously connected. In the next decade, devices creating a new ecosystem of personal technology—Body Area Networks—will transform our lives. As we begin placing computing power in, on, and around the body, it will transform how we work, connect, and experience fun, and even shape our own sense of identity. Join our Technology Horizons program on October 21-22 for a view into this future. More » Ingredients for Food Innovation The landscape of food innovation is changing. Technology innovators turning toward food are encountering social forces like never before. Chefs and farmers are moving beyond kitchens and fields into labs and political arenas. Eaters are demanding food that tastes good and also cultivates healthy bodies and a resilient planet. Our current paradigms for thinking about the future of food no longer capture the dynamics of how change happens. On November 19, our Food Futures Lab will share its new framework for mapping food innovation and the ingredients for change. More » OUR RESEARCH: Ten-Year Forecast Technology Horizons Health Futures Lab Food Futures Lab Workable Futures Future of Learning More » FUTURE NOW BLOG: The Purple Transformation: A Human+Machine Futures Scenario Unlocking the Power of the Human Brain Synthetic Biology Meets Food Waste: Dining in 2025 More » STAY CONNECTED: VOLUNTEER for the Apocalypse Squad Follow @iftf on TWITTER Like our FACEBOOKpage Follow our LINKEDINupdates Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel Learn the tools of foresight with IFTF's Foresight Studio   FORESIGHT FOR PHILANTHROPY | NOV 17-19 Seed the next decade of social impact with strategic foresight This foresight intensive brings together our most recent research with futures methodologies to equip leaders in philanthropy with foresight-based strategy development skills to build more resilient, more nimble, and more vibrant futures for your organizations. More »   FORESIGHT PRACTITIONERS WORKSHOP | DEC 9-11 Join a cross-industry network of foresight champions Our next nuts-and-bolts training in futures methodologies and tools is in December, with more scheduled in 2016. Grow your skills in the art and science of foresight and join a network of practitioners who are advancing foresight across a wide array of industries and communities. More »   ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS FOR HEALTH | FEB 16-18 Become a health futurist with scenario planning methods An in-depth immersion into the logic of creating plausible, internally consistent forecasts to help you and your organization consider futures that are radically different from what you might assume today. Future proof your health or health care organization with us! More »   Join us at an upcoming IFTF event — open to the public!   BOOK TALK WITH JANE MCGONIGAL | OCT 20 Join New York Times bestselling author and game developer Jane McGonigal for an introduction to her new book, SuperBetter. Jane will explore what we can learn and gain by applying a gameful mindset to the toughest challenges we face. More »     SCENARIOS TALK WITH JAMAIS CASCIO | OCT 21 IFTF Distinguished Fellow and futurist Jamais Cascio will share three scenarios set a generation ahead to highlight different possibilities for how we will use body area networks when they are a mature—and invisible—part of our lives. More »     SECOND CURVE INTERNET WITH RICK WHITT | NOV 11 Explore the critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet with Google Inc.'s Corporate Director of Strategic Initiatives, Rick Whitt, in the next event in our Second Curve Internet speaker series. More »   Wanted: Environmental Futurists and Art Enthusiasts What will we wear when rising sea levels, increased temperatures, superstorms, drought, and polar vortexes become the new normal? Visit The Apocalypse Project: House of Futuresexhibition by IFTF Artist in Residence Catherine Young—open now through April 15, 2016 at our Future Gallery—to imagine environmental futures through the lens of high fashion. Want to get involved? Join the Apocalypse Squad to bring this work to more audiences. More » Looking to 2026: Announcing Next Year's Research  TEN-YEAR FORECAST: WHAT ARE THE KIDS UP TO? Exploring the business landscape through a question that has vexed people for centuries—what are the kids up to? The 2016 Ten-Year Forecast program will explore the changing horizon of worker identities, collaborative production, human settlements, and ecosystems of well-being from the perspective of the young people experiencing this change. We'll deconstruct the platforms and social inventions that will inform the business processes of tomorrow, and investigate the new habits and behaviors that organizations of all size can begin tapping into today. More »  TECHNOLOGY HORIZONS: WHEN EVERYTHING IS MEDIA A year-long exploration of the emerging technologies and strategies that are reinventing communication. The ways we collaborate, connect, and communicate will multiply and decouple from the limits of place, time, and even language. Fragmentation will accelerate as we struggle to communicate meaningful data in glanceable forms, amidst constant competition for our time and attention. Collaboration has never been more important as we’re called to work across generations, geographies, scales, and even with bots and machines. A future of tools, interfaces, and technologies could bring coherence and precision to the ways we communicate and share information and knowledge. More » IFTF.org  •  @IFTF  •  IFTF on Facebook