Program
Join us in the bar at the Fuego, Holbergsgade 14 (Homepage · Map), at 20:30 on April 24 2007 for drinks, discussion and networking.
- 8.15
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Check-in & breakfast
- Check in & breakfast
- You will be welcomed by the amusing tunes of Barbershop. The men’s chorus will provide a pleasant atmosphere for you to network and enjoy the breakfast.
Entertainment by Barbershop - 9.00
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Opening remarks
- Opening remarks
- Johan Peter Paludan (DK) and Adam Hill (UK/DK) will get the show running with reflections on the future and introduce you to the day’s events.
Adam Hill and Johan Peter Paludan - 9.15
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All dressed up but no where to go – questioning the future
- Thomas Geuken (DK), psychologist and futurist at CIFS
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Why do we need new places to go in the future?
Thomas will present the social and individual implications of being all dressed up but having no where to go. He will provide key tools and advice on how we get there and talk about what business really is meant to be, about how the new economy is based not on money but personal relations and where the first signs of the future are already revealing themselves.
Thomas Geuken - 9.50
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MIND SET: Reset your thinking and see the future
- John Naisbitt (US/AUT), world-renowned futuristic writer and the father of Megatrends
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How can MIND SET help you make the prefect framework for understanding the future for you and your company?
John Naisbitt uses mindsets to create overall pictures of the future, and at the conference he will share these and how they work with you.
John explores how mindsets generate distinct pictures of the future which will give you the frame that you can apply to your own fields of interest and endeavors in order to profit from the future.
John Naisbitt - 10.30
- Participatory break – decide your own theme:
1: Coffee & Conversation- Coffee & Conversation
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Enjoy a steaming cup of coffee while you, the speakers and experts discuss and debate where to go tomorrow and how to get there. We encourage you to take an active part in these discussions and grab the opportunity to learn. Or, you can simply enjoy the beautiful surroundings while readying your mind for the next round of inspiring presentations and workshops.
If you have any questions or topics on which you would like to know more, please contact us.
2: Tea & Talks – Speakers’ Corner- Tea & Talks
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Share your visions with your peer group from the ground or from Speakers’ Corner and make your contribution to knowledge sharing and the creation of new knowledge for you and your organization? You have the audience at your disposal – so do not miss out on putting your challenges to the future at the centre of attention.
Interested in five minutes at Speakers’ Corner? Please contact us.
3: Fruit & Fantasies- Fruit & Fantasies
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Visitors to this healthy and experimental room can indulge in ideas and physical as well as psychological vitamins.
In this place, formality will be broken down and you will be left with the energy to stimulate your imagination and make you better at creating new places to go in the future.
- 11.00
- Choose between a double presentation and two different workshops:
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The Inevitability of Craft – insight into a new economy
- Arwen O’Reilly (US), staff editor at MAKE Magazine and CRAFT Magazine
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How can alternative economies provide the answer to the need for personal input and value in a busy digital world?
It seems that many people are seeking an alternative or enhancement to the digital world. Global in scale, but personal in its origins, the new craft movement will ignite ideas that could change your world.
Arwen will talk about the increasingly interest in craft as more and more people spend their lives in front of computers in a mechanized world removed from the manufacturing of the objects that surround us.
Arwen O’Reilly
Africa – the market for corporate social opportunities (CSO)- Mads Kjær (DK), entrepreneur and chairman of Kjær Group
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How can unexplored markets mean new opportunities, while at the same time creating sustainable development for the world?
Mads is a truly passionate person who will present a compelling case for the business model of tomorrow which includes an alternative to the currently widespread CSR, which is Corporate Social Opportunity.
Mads Kjær - Workshop 1:
Strategic planning of your personal future
- Verne Wheelwright (US), former businessman and now a dedicated personal futures theorist
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When was the last time you went to a conference and the presenters talked about you and your personal life?
That is exactly what Verne is going to do as he guides you through your futures, how you can use distinct methodologies to build your next future. Verne will also discuss how you can create a personal strategic plan for the next stage of your life.
By focusing on his own three-step methodology of personal research, scenarios and the development of a strategic plan, Verne will unravel the mysteries of the kind of personal planning that impacts our lives at all stages and in all environments.
- Workshop 2:
Corporate guidelines for strategic foresight
- Andy Hines (US), director of consulting and organizational futurist at Social Technologies
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Andy will host a commercially-driven workshop where he will work with you to explore how foresight can help deliver the insight so much in need in today’s organizations and the world at large. He will help you to know how to define important guidelines for carrying out a successful strategic foresight project.
The workshop will deliver concrete, practical suggestions on how applying foresight can add value to your organisation.
- 12.00
- Lunch
- 13.00
- Choose between a presentation and two different workshops:
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The PANGAEA society – the efficient community of contrasts
- Tina Monberg (DK/UK), lawyer, psychotherapist and mediator
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How can we build up long-lasting relations in business life instead of risking loss of trust in commercial conflicts?
Tina will demonstrate that it can be a practical and workable reality. She will elaborate this assertion through her latest attempt to alter global mindsets (The Pangaea Initiative) in the search for alternative futures. The Pangaea Initiative combines the consideration of the individual with consideration for the community in a vibrant, new approach to conflict solving in the world of tomorrow.
Tina Monberg - Workshop 1:
Strategic planning of your personal future
- Verne Wheelwright (US), former businessman and now a dedicated personal futures theorist
-
When was the last time you went to a conference and the presenters talked about you and your personal life?
That is exactly what Verne is going to do as he guides you through your futures, how you can use distinct methodologies to build your next future. Verne will also discuss how you can create a personal strategic plan for the next stage of your life.
By focusing on his own three-step methodology of personal research, scenarios and the development of a strategic plan, Verne will unravel the mysteries of the kind of personal planning that impacts our lives at all stages and in all environments.
- Workshop 2:
Corporate guidelines for strategic foresight
- Andy Hines (US), director of consulting and organizational futurist at Social Technologies
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Andy will host a commercially-driven workshop where he will work with you to explore how foresight can help deliver the insight so much in need in today’s organizations and the world at large. He will help you to know how to define important guidelines for carrying out a successful strategic foresight project.
The workshop will deliver concrete, practical suggestions on how applying foresight can add value to your organisation.
- 14.00
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Smart Spaces – physical spaces and creative thinking
- Richard Watson (AUS), CEO of the Global Innovation Network, founder of the NowAndNext website
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Have you ever found the time to think about the best places to think? And if so where did you do it? What did you think about?
Richard Watson helps us understand the relationship between physical spaces and creative thinking, so you will be able to create the best environment for innovation and development. Watson explores the smart places you want to go tomorrow.
Richard Watson - 14.45
- Participatory break – decide your own theme:
1: Coffee & Conversation- Coffee & Conversation
-
Enjoy a steaming cup of coffee while you, the speakers and experts discuss and debate where to go tomorrow and how to get there. We encourage you to take an active part in these discussions and grab the opportunity to learn. Or, you can simply enjoy the beautiful surroundings while readying your mind for the next presentation.
If you have any questions or topics on which you would like to know more, please contact us.
2: Tea & Talks – Speakers’ Corner- Tea & Talks
-
Share your visions with your peer group from the ground or from Speakers’ Corner and make your contribution to knowledge sharing and the creation of new knowledge for you and your organization? You have the audience at your disposal – so do not miss out on putting your challenges to the future at the centre of attention.
Interested in five minutes at Speakers’ Corner? Please contact us.
3: Fruit & Fantasies- Fruit & Fantasies
-
Visitors to this healthy and experimental room can indulge in ideas and physical as well as psychological vitamins.
In this place, formality will be broken down and you will be left with the energy to stimulate your imagination and make you better at creating new places to go in the future.
- 15.15
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Humour – a way to create capacious communication
- Karen-Marie Lillelund (DK), communication consultant
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How can humour make your business more successful? Shouldn’t everyone focus on having fun when working, in the future?
Everyone loves to laugh. But how does laughter help us to reduce stress, generate new ideas and most importantly to communicate more effectively through ridding ourselves of the tendency to slip into automatic responses to everyday situations at work, at home and in our social life?
You will experience how Karen believes we can reassert the benefits and profitability of intimacy and thereby stimulate our minds and spirits to free ourselves from our unconsidered options and unquestioned opinions.
Karen-Marie Lillelund - 16.00
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Final remarks
- Final remarks
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And so what? Where to go from here?
Thomas Geuken (DK) and Adam Hill (UK/DK) will contribute with their impression of the conference and how the focus on specific places can be useful for you and your business in the future.
Thomas Geuken & Adam Hill