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European Futurists Conference Lucerne

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...

Episodes

20 of 27 episodes

Rohit Talwar (FastFuture) - Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent Times

Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent Times We have entered an age of turbulence where the certainties of th...

43:38Feb 8, 2010

Humayon Dar (CEO BMB Islamic) - Islamic Banking and Islamic Investment

Islamic Banking and Islamic Investment In the midst of the current financial crisis, Islamic banking & finance stands at a crossroad. After...

30:11Feb 8, 2010

Stuart Walker (Professor and Co-Director, ImaginationLancaster) - Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable Futures

Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable Futures ImaginationLancaster is a new creative research lab at Lancaster University that ex...

35:38Feb 8, 2010

Clive van Heerden (Senior Director Philips Design) - Future of Lifestyle

Future of Lifestyles The Philips Design probe programme is a far future research initiative attempting to develop lifestyle scenarios 10 - 2...

31:10Feb 8, 2010

Uwe Möller (Club of Rome) - Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for Europe

Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for Europe The DESERTEC-project offers the opportunity to exploit the inexhaustible clean solar ene...

26:30Feb 8, 2010

José Luis Cordeiro (Director, Venezuela Node, The Millennium Project; Teaching Fellow, Singularity University) - The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the Futures

The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the Futures Change is not constant, in fact, change is accelerating very fast. Some tech...

39:44Feb 8, 2010

Kitty Kubo (Head of Foresight Division at the Development Fund, Estonia) - Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy Growth

Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy Growth The need for transformation beyond the turmoil is particularly acute in the „new“ member-...

27:58Feb 8, 2010

Ziga Turk (Secretary General of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe) - The Transformation of Europe

The Transformation of Europe: Future challenges of the Union and the States Although deeper than many before, the current crisis may be seen...

30:14Feb 8, 2010

Matthias Horx (Zukunftsinstitut) - The Futurist's Paradox

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 - ne...

41:59Sep 1, 2009

Eckard Foltin (Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AG) - From Visions to Products. Future Living 2020

Eckard Foltin - Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AG From Visions to Products - Future Living 2020 Bayer MaterialScience defines a...

28:43Jul 27, 2009

Ciaran McGinley (European Patent Office) - Open Innovation - Do we still need Patents?

Ciaran McGinley, Project Initiator EPO Scenarios for the Future, European Patent Office Open Innovation - Do we still need Patents? In a wor...

Jul 1, 2009

Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen) - Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the Future

Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen) Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the Future More than 11.000 Europeans from nine co...

32:09Jun 1, 2009

Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey - A True Cure for Human Aging

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 effecti...

45:54May 1, 2009

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Boulouchos (ETH Zurich) - Our Energy Future(s)

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Boulouchos Chairman of the Board of Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich A long-term vision for a sustainable energy s...

32:06Apr 1, 2009

Anders Berntell - The Water Crisis

Anders Berntell (Anders Berntell, Executive Director Stockholm International Water Institute) - The Water Crisis The UN, World Bank and worl...

26:13Mar 1, 2009

Nils Gilman - The Global Illicit Economy

A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs,...

28:23Feb 1, 2009

John L. Casti and Prof. Dr. Markku Wilenius - Life After Wall Street

Life After Wall Street – Indicates the finance crisis the end of globalizations? Recent turmoil in the global financial markets has often be...

26:45Jan 1, 2009

Prof. Jerome Glenn (Director Millennium Project) - Global Framework, Future Prospects and Strategies

The 32 nodes of the Millennium Project around the world have invited voluntary participation of over 2500 futurists, business planners, poli...

31:19Dec 1, 2008

Ian Pearson - The Future of Life on Earth

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 chang...

38:46Sep 15, 2008

Dr. Peter Maskus - Mobility of the 21st Century

Dr. Peter Maskus, Acabion TM Visionary Motion and MIKOVA Systems Consulting Mobility of the 21st Century History of mobility is easily narra...

32:40Jul 15, 2008