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Doing What You Love, Loving What You Do: Author & Futurist Jack Uldrich to Deliver 8 Keynote Addresses in April 2014

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 31, 2014

Finding a career that you love takes time, patience and practice. Futurist Jack Uldrich has put all of those elements into play over the past several years. And now he is having the time of his life writing and speaking about future trends.

How exactly does one become a futurist? Uldrich describes his journey as an evolution. He began his career as a naval intelligence officer, worked as a military planner in the Pentagon, and served as Governor Jesse Ventura's Director of Strategy. Clearly gifted with intelligence and insight, Uldrich has always enjoyed research and sharing his findings. Thinking at first perhaps politics was his calling, acting as the head of the Independence Party in Minnesota, Uldrich realized his family needed to come first. So he began crafting a life where he could work from home and focus on being an author, which then morphed into a high gear public speaking career that takes him all over the world.

Starting out with topics on leadership, writing books on Lewis & Clark and George Marshall, to name a few, Uldrich quickly saw that his real passion was future trends. Having become taken with nanotechnology in the early 2000s, Uldrich went to work on his book, "The Next Big Thing is Really Small." Since then, Uldrich has never looked back. In fact, he now makes his career all about looking forward.

A sample of his latest book, Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow can be viewed here.

Uldrich runs two paths simultaneously--focusing on the key features of looking forward and "unlearning." What may at first appear to be a paradox, the two concepts actually work in perfect harmony. Uldrich often quotes the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, saying, "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day." And so it goes with Uldrich's journey. He writes and speaks to a variety of industries on such topics as the Internet of Things, how to future-proof your business, and why future trends demand unlearning. Uldrich would define unlearning as, "subtracting habits and patterns that no longer serve us, in order to open our eyes to the world of possibility before us."

To that end, Uldrich has a big month ahead with the following eight engagements:

April 2: Fiatech 2014 Technology Conference & Showcase, Huntington Beach, CA

April 7: Retail Asset Protection Conference, Indianapolis, IN

April 11: Chu Vision Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN

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"Transformation Through Innovation": Global Futurist Jack Uldrich to Keynote Fiatech's 2014 Technology Conference

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Bestselling Author and Futurist Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver a keynote address at the Fiatech 2014 Technology Conference & Showcase in Huntington Beach, CA., on April 2nd. Uldrich's speech: "Foresight 20/20: Tomorrow's Technology Today" directly correlates with Fiatech's conference mission of: "Vision 2020: Value today. Advancing tomorrow." Other notable keynotes at the conference include Larry Smith, Joseph Grenny and Anirban Basu.

Uldrich, who will be speaking as a technology forecaster, will provide insights from his book, "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow" as well as his upcoming book, "Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrows Transformational Trends, Today.

On February 21st, 2014 Fiatech "adopted a three-year strategic plan to enhance global development and adoption of innovative practices and technologies for capital facilities." Chair of Fiatech's Board of Advisors, J. Peter Blake said, "Technology is advancing rapidly and we must bring these initiatives to reality quickly."

Who better to help with that process than a futurist, like Uldrich? Uldrich makes his living researching, writing and discussing the latest technological advances that can help companies like Fiatech profit by embracing the emerging technologies coming their way.

A sample of Jack's thoughts on emerging technologies can be found here in his latest article discussing the Internet of Things.

Uldrich, who speaks both nationally and internationally on a number of subjects, including change management, technology forecasting, leadership skills, and unlearning, was also recently named as the winner of a 2014 Bellwether Book Award. Keynote clients over the past few months include the American Medical Association, TEXPERS, Wells Fargo, Wilkes University Allan P. Kirby Lecture Series, and the Million Dollar Round Table in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website at: http://www.jumpthecurve.net. Media wishing to know more about the event or interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, best-selling author, editor of the monthly newsletter:The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.schoolofunlearning.com.

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Association of Professional Futurists – What Is A Futurist?

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A professional futurist is a person who studies the future in order to help people understand, anticipate, prepare for and gain advantage from coming changes. It is not the goal of a futurist to predict what will happen in the future. The futurist uses foresight to describe what could happen in the future and, in some cases, what should happen in the future.

Most people use some sort of foresight all the time - something as simple as listening to the weather forecast to prepare for the next day. A professional futurist uses formal methods to develop descriptions of possible futures. The output of a futures study may include the driving forces, assumptions, evidence or indicators of the futures. A futurist is more likely to say how or why a future could appear rather than to say what the future will be.

One of the founding principles of the field of futures studies is the idea of personal and organizational choice. Although the future is unknown, a person can identify possibilities, select the most favorable outcomes and attempt to influence events to create a desired future.

By considering systems and human agency, futurists help identify choices that affect the future, for ourselves and future generations.

What do futurists do?

Futurists work in large and small businesses, governments and non-profits, as teachers or researchers in education, and as consultants or as permanent staff. Many futurists focus on one topic such as a technology or an industry. Other futurists study broad social changes or global problems. All futurists take a very wide view of the world in both scope and time. Futurists tend to take a much broader perspective, consider longer time horizons, and include many more factors in a study than analysts such as economists, technology specialists, social critics or political commentators.

The foundation of a good futures project is the solid understanding of the present conditions and historical influences. A futurist describes a situation using a deliberate and structured method. This process includes the surface conditions of, for example, an industry, but the futurist also studies the goals and purposes behind the industry.

The second type of scanning looks for anomalies or unusual events that may provide an indication of change or a solid piece of evidence for an emerging trend, called weak signals. Both types of scanning require futurists to be information sponges." Many futurists and organizations use structured methods of sorting and categorizing data to help sort useful information from noise.

Most get information from a wide variety of sources including newspapers, books, periodicals, scientific and trade journals, forecasts, interviews with subject matter experts, electronic media, arts and cultural trends, to name only a few. While most futurists scan broadly for background information, it is most effective when used in combination with a defined, focused framework.

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Compliance is Dead! Beyond Compliance – protecting reputation – Futurist Speaker – Video

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Compliance is Dead! Beyond Compliance - protecting reputation - Futurist Speaker
Why compliance is dead as a strategy to protect your brand. We have to go beyond compliance with regulation, because future public opinion may decide that th...

By: Patrick Dixon Futurist Keynote Speaker for Industry Conference

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Tallahassee Chamber Announces Keynote Speaker For Annual Conference

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News Release: Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce

TALLAHASSEE The Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce announces the keynote speaker for its 2014 Annual Chamber Community Conference is nationally-renowned speaker Michael Rogers, a technology pioneer, novelist and journalist whose consultancy, Practical Futurist, helps businesses and organizations worldwide think about the future. Rogers will focus his presentation on how our community can prepare for and take advantage of local, statewide and national issues going forward. The Chamber Conference takes place August 8-10 and is presented by First Commerce Credit Union.

There is so much for our community to be proud of and so many accomplishments weve achieved recently, and Michaels presentation will encourage us to not stand on our laurels, but rather continue the momentum, said Chamber and EDC President/CEO Sue Dick. I look forward to another insightful and impactful Conference, as the attendees gather to help lay the foundation for our communitys future.

In recent years Rogers has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and Time-Life to Prudential, Dow Corning, GE and Genentech. He is completing a two-year tenure as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times and also writes the "Practical Futurist" column for MSNBC. For ten years he was vice president of Washington Post Company's new media division, guiding both the newspaper and Newsweek into the new century, as well as serving as editor and general manager of Newsweek.com. After a decade as a writer for Rolling Stone, Rogers co-founded Outside magazine. He then joined Newsweek to create the magazine's technology section, earning numerous journalism awards for his work. Rogers is also a best-selling novelist whose fiction explores the human impact of technology. His five books have been published worldwide, optioned for film and television and chosen by the Book of the Month club.

Rogers is a frequent guest on radio and television and regularly addresses audiences ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, and the general public. Rogers studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University with additional training in finance management at Stanford Business School's Executive Program. He lives in New York and is at work on his next book.

The Annual Chamber Community Conference is the highlight of the business calendar each year and allows the Chamber to build on its strategic priorities and overall plan of work as well as those of its affiliate programs, including the Economic Development Council of Tallahassee/Leon County (EDC), Leadership Tallahassee, Access Tallahassee and World Class Schools.

The entire Conference agenda can be found by visiting the Chambers website at talchamber.com or by clicking HERE.

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Understanding exponentiality in a digital society: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard explains – Video

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Understanding exponentiality in a digital society: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard explains
This is an excerpt from my talk at Mobile Summit Amsterdam, see http://youtu.be/PbsqcAgsoUE Download the slides at http://www.futuristgerd.com/2013/06/21/new...

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Keynote Conference Speaker – Futurist- Packaging,Energy,Paper,Waste,Recycling,Sustainability.mp4 – Video

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