Objectives and Intentions

The Promise of This Event

Increase your understanding of strategic foresight - what it is, isn't, why do it and what it will do for you.
Increase your capacity to practice strategic foresight - new methods and insights.
Stretch your mind; freshen your imagination.
Each participant will become a member of the Canadian network for strategic foresight.

Attract and delight the best and most creative minds in the field of strategic foresight.
Design and deliver an exceptional learning experience - participatory, edgy, grounded and relevant.
Enable Canadians interested in strategic foresight to meet, share, and engage with today's best futures researchers and foresight practitioners.
Combine professional, personal and community development.

All persons who are responsible for buying, using, practising, providing, teaching or learning any aspects of futures research and strategic foresight.
All persons who want to dig beneath the surface of our society and make sense of what is really going on.
All persons who suspect that something other than more and better planning is required in order to see, grasp and cope with societal change.

A quality experience - the conference will be limited to 100 persons.
Time to digest what you are learning - a high ratio of table group dialogues to speakers.
Long networking breaks
Surplus funds will be dedicated to developing the Canadian network for strategic foresight and its website.
Your fees include all receptions, meals and breaks during the conference.
Dietary requirements: please use the Registration Form to let us know your special needs.

Identify and engage persons and organizations from every sector and region of Canada who want to see and shape the future;
persons who are against fatalism; those who have an interest in strategic foresight, whether as buyers, users, practitioners, teachers
or students.
Nurture an effective Canadian community of interest among such persons and organizations.
Encourage and enable such persons and organizations to practice strategic foresight 2.0 at a high professional level.