Global Futurist Summit
Definition:
The Global Futurist Summit is a high-level thematic international gathering organized by Futurale Collège as part of its Futurale Foresight Forum platform.
Its goal is to bring together strategic foresight practitioners and strategic anticipation experts from five continents several times a year to explore a major issue, challenge, or topic on a global scale.
These forums aim to develop tailored scenarios, test new methodological approaches, and produce concrete recommendations for international decision-makers, organizations, and institutions.
Each edition focuses on a single topic, allowing for in-depth work and collaborative reflection based on multiple and intercultural visions.
Objectives:
- Explore a global topic by mobilizing the best expertise in strategic foresight.
- Identify the trends, weak signals, and potential disruptions that will influence this area in the future.
- Test and experiment with new foresight methods, approaches, and tools.
- Co-construct development scenarios and strategic roadmaps tailored to the chosen topic.
- Foster international cooperation among foresight practitioners, researchers, decision-makers, and innovators.
- Strengthen the recognition and legitimacy of foresight as a global strategic discipline.
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Formats:
The forum adopts an international, interactive, and experimental format, including:
- Plenary conferences with international foresight practitioners and experts.
- Thematic roundtables bringing together different cultural and sectoral viewpoints.
- Collaborative workshops for methodological experimentation (scenarios, design fiction, horizon scanning, participatory foresight, artificial intelligence and foresight, etc.).
- Methodological innovation sessions to present and test new tools.
- Networking and co-creation spaces to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Collective debriefs to share results and recommendations.
Benefits:
- Global vision: Exchanges between international experts on common issues facing humanity.
- Methodological innovation: Testing new approaches, methods, and tools.
- Strategic impact: Concrete recommendations usable by decision-makers and institutions.
- Cultural diversity: Integration of varied perspectives from different geopolitical and socioeconomic contexts.
- Deliverable production: Reports, scenarios, tested methodologies, and tool sheets.
- Discipline reinforcement: Greater visibility for foresight on the world stage.
First Global Futurist summit – Theme
“What Future for Foresight? What Place for Foresight in the Future?”
This inaugural forum will address:
- New methods and emerging approaches in foresight.
- The impact of technologies (AI, big data, simulation, immersive visualization) on foresight.
- Interdisciplinary integration (social, environmental, economic, political sciences).
- The place of foresight in international governance and public policy.
- The ethical and cultural challenges for foresight in the 21st century.
Deliverables
- International report on the future of foresight.
- Toolbox of innovative methods identified and tested.
- Foresight scenarios on the theme.
- Strategic recommendations for international decision-makers and institutions.
Forum Panel Program
Panel 1:
One-Day Session – Hybrid Format (in-person + online)
Morning
08:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Welcome of participants – Welcome coffee (in-person) and connection of online participants
9:00 AM - 09:20 AM
Official opening by the President of Futurale Collège and a guest of honor
09:20 AM - 09:50 AM
Official opening by the President of Futurale Collège and a guest of honor
09:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Roundtable 1: “New approaches and methods for anticipating the future”
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Workshop 1: Mapping new foresight practices around the world
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Quick debrief and discussion with participants
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch Break
Panel 2: Afternoon
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Thematic conference: “Foresight and Artificial Intelligence: allies or rivals?”
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Workshop 2: Co-construction of scenarios for foresight on the forum’s theme
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Coffee break
03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Roundtable 2: “What is the place of foresight in global governance?”
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Workshop 3: Developing strategic and methodological recommendations
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Official closing and announcement of the next International Foresight Practitioners Forum
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM
Networking cocktail and bilateral meetings