European Futurists Conference Lucerne: Recent Episodes

European Futurists Conference Lucerne

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe. It is dedicated to the professional needs of futurists AND long-term decision makers in Europe

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Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent Times

We have entered an age of turbulence where the certainties of the past decade will be 'unsystematically' overturned. Old...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Islamic Banking and Islamic Investment

In the midst of the current financial crisis, Islamic banking & finance stands at a crossroad. After at least a couple of decades of its close association with...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable Futures

ImaginationLancaster is a new creative research lab at Lancaster University that explores futures for people, products, places and systems....

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Future of Lifestyles

The Philips Design probe programme is a far future research initiative attempting to develop lifestyle scenarios 10 - 20 years ahead. Design "provocations" are created with the...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for Europe

The DESERTEC-project offers the opportunity to exploit the inexhaustible clean solar energy from deserts mainly by proven solar-thermal...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the Futures

Change is not constant, in fact, change is accelerating very fast. Some technologies are radically changing humanity, in general, and...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy Growth

The need for transformation beyond the turmoil is particularly acute in the „new“ member-states of the European Union, which have been hit the most...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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The Transformation of Europe: Future challenges of the Union and the States

Although deeper than many before, the current crisis may be seen as just another cycle of capitalism. The author believes,...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Is it really good to know the Future? How expectation, chance and error make the world go round

Why we can predict more and more things - new developments in probability sciences and data...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Eckard Foltin - Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AG

From Visions to Products - Future Living 2020

Bayer MaterialScience defines a strategy and taps into new business, both in existing...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Ciaran McGinley, Project Initiator EPO Scenarios for the Future, European Patent Office

Open Innovation - Do we still need Patents?

In a world where knowledge is increasingly shared and innovation...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen)

Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the Future

More than 11.000 Europeans from nine countries were asked about their views of the future in...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey

Methuselah Foundation

A True Cure for Human Aging

It may seem premature to be discussing approaches to the effective elimination of human aging as a cause of death at a...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Boulouchos

Chairman of the Board of Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich

A long-term vision for a sustainable energy system needs to address a multitude of challenges. Policy...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Anders Berntell (Anders Berntell, Executive Director Stockholm International Water Institute) - The Water Crisis

The UN, World Bank and world leaders have warned that the lack of water resources...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs, and bandits of all stripes. Since the end of the Cold War,...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Life After Wall Street –

Indicates the finance crisis the end of globalizations?

Recent turmoil in the global financial markets has often been described in the media as a tectonic shift in the...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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The 32 nodes of the Millennium Project around the world have invited voluntary participation of over 2500 futurists, business planners, policy analysts, and scholars who have participated in the...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Ian Pearson, BT - The Future of Life on Earth

Life on earth is all still based on the same shared biological life processes. This will change dramatically over the next century, as humans discover...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Dr. Peter Maskus, Acabion TM Visionary Motion and MIKOVA Systems Consulting Mobility of the 21st Century

History of mobility is easily narrated: 1800 came with the railroads. 1900 came with cars....

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Innovation occurs at the intersection of invention and insight. With the example of IBM, the presentation will describe how ICT has fundamentally changed IBM's innovation process, how it has enabled...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Random mutation and hoping for a success: that is generally believed to be quite ineffective. Experiments in the laboratory, however, show that artificial evolution becomes a sophisticated...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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In the current global condition of complexity and uncertainty where asymmetric threats prevail, Singapore has responded to the challenges by sustaining innovation on both governance and technological...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Europe is facing some rapid changes in the 21. century. How does the population see these changes, what are citizens afraid of and how do they want to live in the future? The CEO of the BAT Future...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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The architecture of global statistics has not yet provided the data access needed for optimal development of information technology.

The animation technology developed for computer games is many...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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Food for Brain Health: The Vision of NestléWhether it is performing in school or maintaining a healthy mental state, brain health is a concern applicable all the way from the very young to the very...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

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The Future of Brain, the Brain of the FutIs human nature about to change forever? Can we envisage a world where everything we take for granted about ourselves - imagination, free will, love,...

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.