Futures Seminars

Futures Seminars

Rewatch our livestreamed futures seminars where our futurists and expert guests share insights on how the world of tomorrow could look

Causal Layered Analysis with Sohail Inayatullah

Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass

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Join us for an immersive Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass, led by world-renowned futurists Professor Sohail Inayatullah.

The Future of Work - Are You Ready?

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We invite you to a thought-provoking Futures Seminar with Claus Sneppen, author of the newly published book "The (R)Evolution of the Office Workspace" This webinar offers a unique opportunity to gain exclusive insights into the future of office work, where flexibility, technology, and human collaboration redefine success.

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Designing Sustainable Futures: Anticipate Better Worlds

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Learn how to anticipate and plan for sustainable futures using foresight tools and speculative imagination. Anticipating sustainable futures begins with understanding how to navigate uncertainty. This seminar will explore tools for foresight, speculative imagination, and generative technologies to enable participants to envision plausible and preferable futures.

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Hindsight-Insight-Foresight

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Understanding our future isn't about looking at isolated moments, but recognizing how our past, present, and potential futures are deeply connected. In today's rapidly changing world, this interconnected perspective is crucial—especially when exploring how we as people and our behaviors continuously evolve – in terms of how we live, work, communicate and consume.

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Securing the Future of Your Office Workplace

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The office environment for knowledge workers is currently undergoing systemic and structural changes, transitioning from a post-industrial approach to a more adaptable and digitalised one. Gain insight into the significant consequences and measures that can enhance competitiveness and future-proof the hybrid workplace for knowledge workers.

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Exploring the Future of Cybersecurity

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The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and Fortinet proudly present an event that delves into the future of cybersecurity and its potential impact on society. We brought together renowned experts and thought leaders to discuss the evolving landscape of cybersecurity and its implications for individuals and organizations.

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Design Futures

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In this seminar, we explored the role of design in shaping the future and how designers can anticipate and respond to emerging trends and challenges. Design Futures and speculative design are exciting and constantly evolving disciplines within the broader field of futures. It recognizes the powerful role that design plays in shaping the future and seeks to harness that power to create positive change.

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Causal Layered Analysis with Sohail Inayatullah

Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass

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Join us for an immersive Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass, led by world-renowned futurists Professor Sohail Inayatullah.

How to Implement Foresight in Organisations

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At the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, we experience a growing emphasis on foresight within the organisations we engage with. This trend is accompanied by a noteworthy shift towards formalizing the discipline of foresight. Foresight manifests in various organisational forms, with multiple pathways for implementation.

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Carving out a Role for Foresight in Organisations

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View this insightful webinar on "The Role of Foresight in Organizations," where we explored key questions and discussion topics that delve into the growing importance of strategic foresight in the business world. Guests in this Futures Semianr are Sabrina Sullivan and Matt Klein

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Grand Futures with Dr. Anders Sandberg

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Have you ever wondered how we might calculate the ‘size’ of the future? How might we use exploratory engineering to determine what technologies are actually plausible in the future? And with the truly long-view in mind, are there specific things humanity ought to coordinate about?

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Securing the Future of Your Office Workplace

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The office environment for knowledge workers is currently undergoing systemic and structural changes, transitioning from a post-industrial approach to a more adaptable and digitalised one. Gain insight into the significant consequences and measures that can enhance competitiveness and future-proof the hybrid workplace for knowledge workers.

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Exploring the Future of Cybersecurity

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The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and Fortinet proudly present an event that delves into the future of cybersecurity and its potential impact on society. We brought together renowned experts and thought leaders to discuss the evolving landscape of cybersecurity and its implications for individuals and organizations.

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Design Futures

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In this seminar, we explored the role of design in shaping the future and how designers can anticipate and respond to emerging trends and challenges. Design Futures and speculative design are exciting and constantly evolving disciplines within the broader field of futures. It recognizes the powerful role that design plays in shaping the future and seeks to harness that power to create positive change.

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Causal Layered Analysis with Sohail Inayatullah

Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass

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Join us for an immersive Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass, led by world-renowned futurists Professor Sohail Inayatullah.

Safeguarding Tomorrow

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Whether it’s the climate or the economy, the political actions we take today affect the lives of those that come after us, sometimes reaching many generations into the future.Should we ensure better representation for unborn generations in the present, and if so, how could we go about it?

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Visions of a Connected Future

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2023 was kicked off by a rupture in the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence. The public launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Large Language Model service, not only inspires and provokes, but also calls upon us to reflect on what human connectivity will mean in the decades to come. This Futures Seminar is dedicated to the societal consequences of such strides in AI.

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Democratising the Future (World Futures Day)

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This Futures Seminar is a discussion on how democracy can be developed to overcome the challenges of inclusion and communication that are becoming increasingly evident these years. During the event, we discuss ways in which democracy can be developed to address the many challenges we face today and to enable more communities to be heard.

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Strategic Foresight Principles

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Roundtable with world-leading corporate foresight practitioners on how to apply foresight.

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A World Pulled Apart?

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It is not difficult to imagine a future of intensified strife and conflict, but is there also a chance for a more stable equilibrium to exist between the world’s powers? This Futures Seminar is dedicated to the fractures and divisions in an emerging multipolar world order, as well as the prospects for peaceful co-existence.

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Empowering Insights on Climate Change with Mathis Wackernagel

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We invited global sustainability expert and advocate Dr. Mathis Wackernagel for a keynote and discussion on how to make sustainable futures relevant to current decisions of cities, companies, and countries.

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Causal Layered Analysis with Sohail Inayatullah

Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass

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Join us for an immersive Causal Layered Analysis Masterclass, led by world-renowned futurists Professor Sohail Inayatullah.

Futures for the Living World

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Towards a new natural state. The future of humanity is intimately entangled with and dependent on the prosperity and health of Earth’s ecosystems – for better and worse.

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Work in the Metaverse

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At this seminar with Senior Advisor & Futurist, Sofie Hvitved, we presented four scenarios for the future of the Metaverse developed. During the webinar you will hear from experts currently working on solutions towards the Metaverse on immersive technologies, new workflows, x-to-earn and the web3 economy.

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Entering the New Age of Work

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In this Futures Seminar we explored the future of work, with special focus on on knowledge work and other kinds of office-bound labour. We asked if the open-plan office heading to the grave, if the ‘end of burnout’ is in sight, and whether we might be working in virtual worlds by 2050.

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Visions & Decisions

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The Carlsberg Foundation together with the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and Voluntas launched the "Vision 2050" initiative with the goal of creating a new vision for Denmark’s future. Join us as we went behind-the-scenes of the process.

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Futures for All

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Humans have always anticipated the future. Yet, the power to influence our perspectives of which futures are (and aren’t) possible has traditionally been held by the few – whether they be politicians, professional futurists, fiction creators, or leading technology companies. So, how can we make the creation of alternative visions of the future more available to the public?

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Megatrends that Shape our Future

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The futurist John Naisbitt once said that trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are already going. This is certainly true when it comes to ‘megatrends’, the high-level structural drivers of change that will shape societies globally in the decades to come.

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