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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 12, 2014

The 2014 Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Experience being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will feature futurist Jack Uldrich as a guest speaker on February 13th and 14th. (The MDRT Experience offers one-of-a-kind information, as well as opportunities to share innovative ideas and exclusive strategies with a diverse group of the world's leading life insurance and financial services professionals from more than 450 companies in 74 countries.)

In order to enhance their mission of being "a valued, member-driven, international network of leading insurance and investment financial services professionals/advisors who serve their clients by exemplary performance and the highest standards of ethics, knowledge, service and productivity," MDRT has chosen business trends expert Jack Uldrich as a double-heading keynote speaker. Uldrich will namely be tackling the issue of how those in the life insurance and financial services industries can begin future-proofing their businesses. Other notable speakers at the event include Bill Cates, Duncan McPherson, Colleen Francis and Eric Feng.

Uldrichs particular focus on the notion of "future-proofing" will serve as a diving board for MDRT members who will be swimming amidst a sea of technological changes in the coming years. The goal of Uldrichs sessions is to deliver cutting-edge ideas, technologically savvy information and invigorating new concepts for the 6,500 members who attend his talks.

Throughout his presentations Uldrich will cover various aspects of his popular and Bellwether Award-winning new book, "Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow," and draw on his work in the field of change management. Uldrich will also draw upon ideas from his 2011 best-seller "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future."

Another goal of Uldrichs, while at MDRT, is to explain how business leaders must let go andunlearnmany of their assumptions about their fields of insurance and finance, their current business models and customers, in order to grasp the full potential within their industries in the years ahead. Additionally, Uldrich will highlight why these trends demand unlearning and discuss how participants need to embrace the concept of future-proofing in order to achieve future success. Uldrich will conclude his presentations in Malaysia by reviewing specific habits, customs, beliefs and ideas that MRDT members and leaders canand must adoptin order to fully future-proof their organizations, and thrive.

An overview of some of Uldrichs ideas can be found in this YouTube clip of his presentation, "Why Future Trends Demand Unlearning", which aired on WFYI in Indianapolis. And a synopsis of some of Uldrichs written work on information technologies can be found in this article, 10 Future Mobile Trends for CIOs to Consider Today.

In the past year, Uldrich has addressed hundreds of business and trade groups from around the world, including delivering customized keynote presentations at ten McGladrey Emerging Technology Summits across the United States, Case IH, Emerson, the Womens Food Forum, PepsiCo, United Healthcare, Boston Scientific, Southern Company, Cisco, IBM, WiPro, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and various private financial firms.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to contact Catherine Glynn.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, technology forecaster, best-selling author, editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net. He is currently represented by a number of professional speakers' bureaus, including Leading Authorities, Convention Connection, Gold Star Speakers Bureau and Executive Speakers Bureau.

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As modern technology continues to change the way humans interact with one another, businesses are being forced to adapt as well.

One expert says smartphones alone are having a "huge impact" on small businesses in a good way.

Tim Longhurst - a futurist who works with clients to examine how the world is changing - believes customers have become like cyborgs: part human, part mobile.

"For us in business, if we're not using these devices to their full potential, then we may be missing out on huge opportunities," says Mr Longhurst.

It used to be common for businesses to pay for focus groups, where people would gather to share what they wanted out of a product.

"Social media is like a massive focus group with thousands of our customers sharing that information for free," says Mr Longhurst.

"Sometimes, as small business owners, there's so much for us to be across we can feel a little overwhelmed and it doesn't occur to us that there's actually gold."

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Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) February 10, 2014

Launch Haus LLC, a local venture catalyst firm along with its co-organizers Steve Hamaker and Kari Henley announces the first ever Fort Collins Startup Week May 20-25th.

Register at http://www.ftcstartupweek.co.

Gerd Leonhard, the well-known futurist and five-time author, will kickoff the 5 day event thats slated to unite the entrepreneurial community across the Front Range of Colorado while bringing in global entrepreneurial rock stars to the local scene.

Learn more at http://www.ftcstartupweek.co/keynote.

The event will explore and celebrate success from local leading companies, provide inspiring speakers, uncover real innovation and share game-changing ideas happening in the City, State and Nation.

The City of Fort Collins is pleased to participate in this event, which will help highlight many of the small businesses and entrepreneurs in our community and help them connect with resources, said SeonAh Kendall, the Citys Economic Policy and Project Manager, who works with businesses on retention and expansion.

This event is not only at the right time, following Boulder Startup Week May 12-16th, its in the right place according to the 2013 study by the Kauffman Foundation which named Fort Collins number 2 of its Top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density.

Fort Collins Start Up Week is slated to highlight everything entrepreneurial in Northern Colorado, from leading-edge tech to social innovation, maker labs to music, tasty hops to leaps in bioscience, and some of the coolest and quirkiest main street establishments anywhere in the country said Chris J Snook, Organizing Chair and Co-Founder of Launch Haus, LLC. Were blessed to have the week culminate with the unprecedented size and energy of the Blue Ocean Enterprise Challenge.

Fort Collins Startup Week tracks include: Capital Access, Design Thinking, Talent, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, & Public Policy. Stay tuned as the panelists and session leaders reveal their content for the program.

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According to Peter C. Bishop, Ph.D., there is a hole in the educational curriculum that has been there for a long time. He believes the digital revolution has accelerated change to a point where society must get better at anticipating and influencing what lies ahead. And, in his opinion, the way to do that is to include futures thinking in all of education.

"My vision is that we teach the future as we do the past," he told educators in his keynote address to the 48th Annual Conference of Association for the Advancement of International Education(AAIE) in Boston on Feb. 8, 2014.

Bishop announced to conference attendees that he has formed an organization called Teach the Future (www.TeachTheFuture.org) to tackle this mission. He hopes to sign up educators and community partners who are interested in joining the movement to teach futures thinking in schools, or to encourage others to do so.

Bishop has been teaching foresight and futures studies for over 30 years, primarily as the Director of the University of Houston's Master's program in Foresight. Since he recently retired from that full-time position, he now has the time to pursue a dream he has been nurturing for many years.

"It's not necessary for educators to mount a separate course to teach the future," he says. "It's not even necessary to spend more time teaching the future. Using futures thinking in any subject is a natural way to teach the skills teachers want their students to learn anyway."

Bishop has conducted a number of pilot projects over the years to demonstrate methods of teaching students the concepts of strategic foresight. In 2010, the Center for Houston's Future kicked off its Scenarios 2040 initiative to explore the long-term possibilities for America's fourth largest city. Last year, they enlisted Bishop as a Center Fellow to develop a curriculum in futures studies with an emphasis on scenario planning for high school students. As a first step, Bishop taught a course at Emery High School in Southwest Houston using the Center's scenarios. At the end of the term, the students presented their findings to the Center staff.

"The students clearly got the message about the high stakes," says Catherine Clark Mosbacher, CEO and president of the Center for Houston's Future.

About Peter C. Bishop, Ph.D.

Bishop is president of Strategic Foresight and Development, a firm that offers training and facilitation in strategic foresight (long-term forecasting and planning). He delivers keynote addresses and conducts seminars around the world on the future for business, government and not-for-profit organizations. He also facilitates groups in developing scenarios, visions and strategic plans for the future.

Bishop's client list includes IBM, The NASA Johnson Space Center, Nestle USA, the Shell Pipeline Corporation, the Defense and Central Intelligence Agencies, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Houston's Future and many more.

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February 7th, Educational Trends Expert and Futurist, Jack Uldrich will speak at the 48th Annual AAIE Conference. Uldrich will be addressing their theme of "Eyes on the Future: Future Trends and Foresight Education."

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 06, 2014

From Thursday, February 6, to Sunday, February 9, the Association for the Advancement of International Education will be holding its 48th Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The keynote address will be given on February 7th by noted futurist and author, Jack Uldrich.

This year's AAIE conference theme of "Eyes on the Future: Future Trends and Foresight Education" will be addressed by Uldrich as he shares insights from his latest book, "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow," and highlights from "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future."

During his presentation, Uldrich will focus on the practice of unlearning as a key concept, (a video of his TED Talk on unlearning can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR9fdhJGxtI.)

Uldrich will also provide an overview of how technological change and enhanced mobility is rapidly shifting the expectations and behavior of students, teachers, parents and administration, thereby upending long-standing educational models. Throughout the presentation, Uldrich will use vivid analogies and memorable stories, and videos and games drawn from a wide spectrum of industries, to ensure his message of change is both inspirational and applicable.

A sample of some his ideas on the future of education can be found in this chapter, The Future of Higher Education: A Cloudy Forecast from his latest book Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow.

In the past year, Uldrich has addressed dozens of educational groups and associations, including customized keynote presentations for Indiana University, The Council of Great Lakes Schools, The University of Minnesotas Carlson School of Business, Educational Services of America, Belmont University, The Chief Learning Officers Summit, The Minneapolis Public School System, The Teaching and Technology Conference, The League of Innovation, The California League of Middle Schools, The American Technical Education Association and the 2013 European Association for International Education's annual conference, in Istanbul. Uldrich has also addressed a number of major, non education-related corporations and institutions on the topics of future trends, change management and unlearning, including Cisco, IBM, PepsiCo, United Healthcare, Case IH, Guardian Life Insurance, WiPro, and General Electric.

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Twelve Common Types of Foresight Thinking

Social Types

1. [Preconventional futurist]. One who thinks about the future in relation to self (ego, personal vision), but without either concern for or broad understanding of the norms and conventions of society.

2. [Personal futurist]. One who uses foresight to solve problems primarily for themselves, within the conventions of society, and whose current behavior is oriented to and influenced by their future expectations and plans.

3. [Imaginative futurist]. One who habitually develops future visions, scenarios, expectations, and plans in relation to self and others, knowing but sometimes breaking the conventions and norms of society.

4. [Agenda-driven futurist]. One who creates or works toward top-down developed (received, believed) ideological, religious, or organizationally-preferred agendas (sets of rules, norms) and their related problems, for the future of a group.

5. [Consensus-driven futurist]. One who helps create or work toward bottom-up developed (facilitated, emergent), group-, communally-, institutionally- or socially-preferred futures.

6. [Professional futurist]. One who explores change for a paying client or audience, who seeks to describe and advance possible, probable, or preferable future scenarios while avoiding undesirable ones, and who may seek to help their client or audience apply these insights (manage change).

Methodological Types

7. [Critical futurist]. One who explores, deconstructs, and critiques the future visions, perspectives, and value systems of others, not primarily to advance an agenda, to achieve consensus, or for payment, but as a methodology of understanding.

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 06, 2014

From Thursday, February 6, to Sunday, February 9, the Association for the Advancement of International Education will be holding its 48th Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The keynote address will be given on February 7th by noted futurist and author, Jack Uldrich.

This year's AAIE conference theme of "Eyes on the Future: Future Trends and Foresight Education" will be addressed by Uldrich as he shares insights from his latest book, "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow," and highlights from "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future."

During his presentation, Uldrich will focus on the practice of unlearning as a key concept, (a video of his TED Talk on unlearning can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR9fdhJGxtI.)

Uldrich will also provide an overview of how technological change and enhanced mobility is rapidly shifting the expectations and behavior of students, teachers, parents and administration, thereby upending long-standing educational models. Throughout the presentation, Uldrich will use vivid analogies and memorable stories, and videos and games drawn from a wide spectrum of industries, to ensure his message of change is both inspirational and applicable.

A sample of some his ideas on the future of education can be found in this chapter, The Future of Higher Education: A Cloudy Forecast from his latest book Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow.

In the past year, Uldrich has addressed dozens of educational groups and associations, including customized keynote presentations for Indiana University, The Council of Great Lakes Schools, The University of Minnesotas Carlson School of Business, Educational Services of America, Belmont University, The Chief Learning Officers Summit, The Minneapolis Public School System, The Teaching and Technology Conference, The League of Innovation, The California League of Middle Schools, The American Technical Education Association and the 2013 European Association for International Education's annual conference, in Istanbul. Uldrich has also addressed a number of major, non education-related corporations and institutions on the topics of future trends, change management and unlearning, including Cisco, IBM, PepsiCo, United Healthcare, Case IH, Guardian Life Insurance, WiPro, and General Electric.

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 Catherine Glynn.

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

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