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Longboat Key, FL (PRWEB) February 04, 2015

This February and March, the Longboat Key Center for the Arts (LBKCA), a division of Ringling College of Art and Design, will debut FUTURESHIFT, a series of seminars led by renowned futurist, international keynote speaker, and best selling author David Houle. These workshops will not only allow participants to engage with David in an intimate and highly interactive setting, but also network with other executives and thinkers throughout the day as they explore the rapidly changing industries of marketing and healthcare.

FUTURESHIFT will expose participants to the current and emerging trends in each industry, highlighting both the disruptive forces of change and the need-to-know opportunities and challenges to shape business strategy over the next decade.

According to David, At a time of deep and rapid transformational change with both great opportunity and great risk for businesses we must face the future. As a business owner or leader, can you afford not to attend? I am confident that you will come away with a number of ideas on how to lead and live in the next 5-10 years.

The first seminar in the new series, Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing, will unveil the forces and mega-trends that will shape the global future of marketing and inform brand managers and strategists how to most effectively market their brand between now and 2020. During a time of unprecedented change in technology and content sharing, Davids insights prove invaluable to business leaders, entrepreneurs, and brand managers looking to stay relevant. Participants will leave with a solid foundation upon which to build their strategy for the next decade. For more information, go to http://www.ringling.edu/lbkca.

The second seminar, The New Health Age: The Future of Health Care and Medicine, will educate the individual about the ever-changing trends that are reshaping the health care landscape and deliver strategies to keeping personal and business health care costs down. Attendees will enjoy a comprehensive overview of the recent changes and future trends to consider while making crucial decisions about health care. For more information, go to http://www.ringling.edu/lbkca.

David Houle is a futurist, thinker, and speaker who spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He is consistently ranked as one of the top futurist keynote speakers in the world today and has written six books, including the Amazon best seller Brand Shift, which was selected by an international marketing organization as one of the top 20 marketing books published worldwide in 2014. His book, The New Health Age was reviewed by Mehmet OZ, M.D. as a succinct primer on how we got here and where we should be taking the health of the nation.

In addition to his publications, David has delivered over 400 speeches on six continents in twelve countries. He coined the term Shift Age to aptly describe this period in time when rapidly changing rate of technology has disrupted the comfortable approaches to marketing and healthcare that we have relied on for years. David will be delivering the keynote speech at the upcoming Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Annual Kick-Off Breakfast at Polo Grill on Friday, February 13. He currently serves as the Futurist in Residence at Ringling College of Art and Design.

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Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing February 27, 2015 8:30 3:30

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6. Handheld technology

Beyonce takes a selfie Photo: Beyonce.com

If you thought the art of taking a perfect selfie was only practiced by the Instagram generation, think again.

Here are a few examples of when art inadvertently predicted the future.

5. Big Brother

George Orwell's 1984 Photo: Penguin/AP

OK, so the selfie may not have been predicted in ancient times, but George Orwell knew exactly what was going on back in 1949.

Big Brother is watching you, wrote the India-born author in his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.

His vision of a surveillance society in which governments monitor and keep tabs on what we are doing is a reality today.

Big Brother on the big screen

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6 futurist predictions about technology that actually came true

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Futurists and thought leaders are coming together to share their insights at the first ever Face the Future conference May 4 6 in Albuquerque.

The three-day event is designed for business leaders, CEOs, executives and entrepreneurs, and will cover topics that include robotics, education, technology, healthcare, media, privacy, finance, the workplace, big data, cybersecurity, branding and travel.

In todays digital environment, were facing an unprecedented rate of change, explained Face the Future event co-producer David Houle, also known as the CEOs futurist. This event will take us into the future to get a look at the catalysts propelling us into a new age of accelerated transformation and what it all means in terms of visionary leadership, strategic planning and implementation.

In addition to Houle, other conference keynote speakers include Gerd Leonhard, host of Switzerlands The Future Show; Edie Weiner, author of Future Think; J.O. McFalls, cybersecurity expert; and Ann Rhoades, president of People Ink, Jet Blue board member and former executive at Southwest Airlines.

Altogether, 28 national and global futurists and thought leaders will participate in 12 main stage events and 16 breakout sessions. After-hour events include presenters vying for cash prizes as they pitch their futuristic concepts; entrepreneurs competing for $20,000 in funding with three-minute pitches to Venture Capitalists; an evening of New Mexican food and entertainment at Civic Plaza and Future Crawl, an opportunity for attendees to visit several innovative downtown Albuquerque businesses to meet with the principals and directors personally.

What were creating is an opportunity to create collisions, said Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. Berry. We want people to meet, exchange ideas and information, and create the next big idea or opportunity.

The event is being produced with the support of the City of Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau and Heritage Hotels and Resorts. Sponsors to date include US Bank, Entrega, Blueliner Marketing, Soothe and Meddle.

Registration is now open at http://facethefuturenow.com/registration. Individual prices start at $595, and group discounts are available.

Organizations interested in sponsoring the conference can visit http://facethefuturenow.com/sponsorship-opportunities.

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