Nobody can predict the future. However, by studying the latest technology developments, social trends, and data on resource availability, it is possible to predict a range of possible futures. In turn this can allow individuals and organisations to anticipate the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and to take actions to shape the future they most desire.
In this breakfast event, futurist Christopher Barnatt returns to explore the application of future studies as a business tool. In particular he will focus on the business impact of increasing resource scarcity, rising localisation, re-distributed manufacturing, and associated new technologies.
Many large organizations are now starting to open up their planning horizons, and are increasingly working with futurists when determining their strategies. Smaller businesses should similarly no long ignore the longer-term, and Chris will show how a future studies perspective can be integrated into the strategy of an organisation of any size.
The programme:
7.45am – 8.10am Registration, breakfast and networking
8.10am – 8.15am Welcome and introductions
8.15am – 9.00am Where’s the future taking us and can we influence it? – Chris Barnatt’s views will inspire and potentially inflame!
9.00am – 9.10am Questions and answers
9.10am – 9.30am Business and University enquiries - Shop Window
9.30am Networking for those that want to stay on
The Shop Window – your chance to take the floor
Every Ingenuity Knowledge Exchange breakfast offers both business owners and people from within the University the chance to make a brief presentation to the room about something they are looking for help with.
From the University? If you have a business-facing project or want to work with local small and medium-sized businesses as part of your research, this is your opportunity to make contact with business owners who are already interested in what happens at the University and who may be interested in participating with your initiative.
From business? Sorry, but this isn’t time for a standard 60 second pitch – feedback tells us that our businesses want something different from Ingenuity. But it is your opportunity to do some research of your own, ask for volunteers for new product or service trials, to ask if anyone has any recommendations for difficult-to-find suppliers, or simply share some news that the audience might not find out about otherwise.
Email Steve Upcraft if you would like to participate in a future Ingenuity Knowledge Exchange Shop Window.
Register now to attend.