European Conference on African Futures
31 May 2023 - 3 June 2023

This event invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines that conceptualize the future in various ways, resembling the ambiguity of the future itself. Contributions explore practices and processes, discourses and imaginings, policies and speculations about future-making in and about Africa, by Africans and others beyond, working across different time frames and spatial dimensions. Contributions may explore expressions of agency as well as consequences of structural forces shaping future trajectories, aspirations, visions, and dreams in historical and contemporary perspective.

https://ecasconference.org/2023/

UN 2023 Water Conference
22 — 24 Mar 2023, New York
“Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development’, 2018-2028”

The Conference is convened by the UN General Assembly. The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Tajikistan, co-hosts of the Conference, are committed to make the Conference a watershed moment that will bring stakeholders from all sectors together and that will create a global momentum for accelerated implementation and improved impact to advance the broad challenges surrounding water. UN DESA serves as the Secretariat, supported by UN-Water.

https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023

IFTF Scenario Building Course
Upskill your foresight with scenario thinking

NOVEMBER 7-18, 2022 | Live-Online
APRIL 17-MAY 2, 2023 | Live-Online

In times of high uncertainty, one essential foresight method stands out—alternative scenarios.

If you want to add scenario thinking to your toolbox for foresight, design, strategic planning, or innovation leadership, this course will walk you step by step through the process of crafting visionary scenarios—one of the most rewarding, impactful, and challenging activities in a foresight practice.

This time-tested framework from world-renowned futurist Jim Dator helps sort through the chaos and complexity of world-changing moments like the Covid-19 pandemic. It provides us with the tools to organize overwhelming events, signals, and memes into four clear paths to the future—and to convert those paths to strategic action.

https://www.iftf.org/scenario-building

2023 Foresight Fellowship applications are open!

Are you working on a project that is too ambitious for legacy funders to support? Do you care about advancing technologies for beneficial long-term futures? Scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs in longevity, molecular machines, neurotech, computing, and space; we want to support you! Apply to become a 2023 Foresight Fellow: no mandatory activities; we work hand in hand with you to support you! Apply here.

https://foresight.org/foresight-fellowships/

Gen4IR Global Summit 2022

August 16-17 2022
Sun City Resort, South Africa

The Transdisciplinary Agora For Future Discussions (TAFFD's) will gather the leading futurists all over the world during the Gen4IR Global Summit in South Africa.

Currently, among the speakers of the Gen4IR conference are Ai Karaki, 4iAfrica; David Wood, futurists; Aubrey De Grey, PhD, Biomedical Gerontologist; Natasha Vita More, PhD; Jose Louis Codeiro, MIT Engineer, Immortalist; Edward Hudgins, Futurist, Human Achievement Alliance; Dr. Catherine Demetriades, Inventor of Cxai technologies and Actual Intelligence; Dr. Sarita Sharma, Author of Myriad Voices, Days V.; Ugo Chukwu, Futurist; and many more.

https://gen4ir.org/

Free self-paced course on Anticipatory Governance

The CST, in partnership with the USAID Resilient Waters Program and UNESCO Open Learning Platform, developed a free online self-paced training on “Anticipatory Governance: New ways of sense-making an navigating for uncertainty.”

Why take this online course?

• Presented by experts in futures and foresight, resilience & complexity thinking.
• Discover tools for exploring, envisioning, and planning for uncertainty.
• Takes approximately 8 hours to complete.
• Receive a certificate of completion from UNESCO and USAID.
• It’s free and self-paced.

The course is available online until 31 March 2022.

Enroll here: https://openlearning.unesco.org/courses/course-v1:RWP+01+2021_01/about