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Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Global futurist and Entrepreneur, Jack Uldrich will be kicking off the 2014 Allan P. Kirby Center Lecture Series. The series, which offers two lectures annually, "brings leading voices in free enterprise and entrepreneurship to the Wilkes University campus and Northeastern Pennsylvania. These forums give students and the community insight into the creative process and drive of the entrepreneur." Uldrich's talk takes place Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts.

Jack Uldrich, a former naval intelligence officer and Defense Department official, also served as the Director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning under Governor Jesse Ventura. Uldrich is a renowned business trend expert and the author of eleven books, including: The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology will Change the Future of Your Business; and Jump the Curve: 50 Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Technology. He is also the founder and "chief unlearning officer" of The School of Unlearning - an international leadership, change management and technology consultancy dedicated to helping business, governments, and non-profit organizations prepare for and profit from periods of profound transformation.

His lecture for the evening is entitled "Why Future Trends Will Demand Unlearning." He will be sharing insights from his most recent book is:" Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow", as well as highlights from "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future." A synopsis of some of Uldrichs ideas on tomorrows transformational technologies can be found in this article, 10 Game-Changing Technological Trends Transforming the World of Tomorrow.

Uldrich is a frequent speaker on the technology, change management and leadership lecture circuits, and has addressed numerous businesses, trade associations, educational and investment groups around the world. A video of his TED Talk on unlearning can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR9fdhJGxtI.) His clients include: IBM, Cisco, USAA, General Electric, Wipro, PepsiCo, United Healthcare, Southern Company, Novo Nordisk, Verizon, General Mills, Pfizer, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also a regular guest on CNBC, MSNBC and CNN, and a regular contributor on emerging technologies and future trends for a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Leader to Leader, The Futurist, Businessweek, The Scientist, CityBusiness, The Futures Research Quarterly, and TechStation Central.

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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Business Trends Expert Jack Uldrich to Deliver Thought Provoking and Stimulating Ideas for Burgeoning Entrepreneurs

(PRWEB) February 25, 2014

On March 1st, International Futures Day, six international futurist organizations will come together to conduct a 24-hour conversation about the worlds potential futures, challenges, and opportunities. This online conversation will be moving across the world with people entering and leaving the conversation whenever they want. The six organizations will provide facilitators for each of the 24 timezones as possible. In addition to The Millennium Project, they are: the Association of Professional Futurists, Club of Amsterdam, Humanity+, World Future Society, and the World Futures Studies Federation.

Two years ago Humanity+ initiated Future Day as March 1st for their members and anyone else - to host some activity locally to celebrate a positive future brought about by accelerating technology the focus of their organization. This year, Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project, decided to help make it a global online event and start a new tradition that could eventually help humanity think itself together for a more beautiful future.

Wherever you are in the world, you are invited at 12:00 noon in your timezone to click on the Future Day button at http://www.millennium-project.org or http://www.themp.org to join this global conversation about the future", says Jerome Glenn. If the limit of interactive video conference participation is reached, new arrivals will be able to see and hear, but not have their video seen and voice heard, but they can type in their questions and comments at: https://twitter.com/MillenniumProj that the facilitators can read live in the video conference. As people drop out, new video slots will open up. This is an open, no-agenda discussion about the future, but in general people will be encouraged to share their ideas about how to build a better future, notes Jerome Glenn.

The contacts for the leaders of the collaborating organizations are:

The Millennium Project is a global participatory think tank connecting 50 Nodes around the world that identify important long-range challenges and strategies, and initiate and conduct foresight studies, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training. Over 4,500 futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities have participated in The Millennium Projects research since its inception, in 1996. The Projects mission is to improve thinking about the future and make it available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. It produces the annual "State of the Future" reports, the "Futures Research Methodology" series, the Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS), and special studies. The Millennium Project was selected among the top ten think tanks in the world for new ideas and paradigms by the 2013 University of Pennsylvanias GoTo Think Tank Index, and 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate for its contributions to collective intelligence systems. The forthcoming 2013-14 "State of the Future" will be available in March 2014.

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Futurists Worldwide 24-Hour Discussion to Celebrate World Future Day March 1st to be Hosted Online by The Millennium ...