Category Archives: Futurist

Javi Boss - All The Time
Artist: Javi Boss - Track: All The Time - Release: Frightening - Label: Masters Of Hardcore - Year: 2013.

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[Futurist] Friday 2014.02.21 - 2pm ET
This month #39;s host Nicole Valentine brings us a discussion on the psychology of curation, and the relationship between selection, big data, and user research....

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MOOCS: The next big thing? A futurist #39;s opinion (Learning World S4E20, 3/3)
Euronews reporter Maha Barada talks to #39;futurist #39; John Mahaffie, (a futurist is a social scientist who predicts trends and developments in society). He expla...

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How customer demographics drives your business! Customer trends futurist lecture
Keynote Presentation by Patrick Dixon the shifting global demographic. Demographics are the biggest driver of modern medicine, 1bn children globally soon to ...

By: Patrick Dixon Futurist Keynote Speaker for Industry Conference

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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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Futurist - SPPUNK Live @ Zoccolo 24-01-2014

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Live at The Rooster #39;s Wife - Jeremy Gilchrist - The Futurist (original w/improv)
This is Jeremy Gilchrist performing his original song "The Futurist" with Nick DeWinkeleer on bass at the coveted stage of the Poplar Knight Spot in Aberdeen...

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Preterist vs Futurist Debate
Preterist #39;s believe there is no future 2nd Coming of Christ and that it has already occurred in 70AD. Futurists on the other hand believe it will happen and ...

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