Future Agenda

Future Agenda — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:33:56 +0000

Future Agenda comments now all on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/futureagenda

World Population - Quote in Guardian Article

Future Agenda — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:33:55 +0000

Good to be quoted in this article in today's Guardian. "The Population Explosion" by Leo Hickman looks at the growing challenge of more people on the planet from a number of angles and includes views from the Future Agenda programme.

Global Launch

Future Agenda — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:24:55 +0000

Terrific event last night in Turkey to launch the Future Agenda book and new website. Big press gathering took place beforehand with lots of TV coverage including Bloomberg, CNBC etc. Main event was held in an old power station that is now a museum and was suitability decked out with lights, banners, dry ice and huge screens. Around 200 people at the launch which included overview of the programme, talks by Vodafone CEO and input from Mike Hardy of the British Council and Peter Childs from Imperial College / RCA as well as sharing of some of the output from the RCA projects. With additional CNBC and BBC coverage taking place today as well as on-line sharing, looks like output will be across a wide audience over next few days. Thanks again to Sevil, Elif and the rest of the team in Istanbul for a great event.

Off to Istanbul

Future Agenda — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:24:00 +0000

Just heading off to Turkey to get ready for tomorrow's launch event.... everything all coming together very well

CNBC Pre Launch Coverage

Future Agenda — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:07:14 +0000

Ahead of Thursday's launch of Future Agenda book / new website, went to CNBC this morning for a chat on Squawk Box

Website upgrade

Future Agenda — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:43:00 +0000

New website now been through the full Vodafone user experience testing and fine tuning being made ahead of launch next week. Issues on accessibility on multiple platforms all being addressed so the material can be used on the latest systems as well as some pretty old legacy stuff. Great work by the team.

Now Germany with Z-Punkt

Future Agenda — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:43:08 +0000

Momentum building to next weeks global launch and am now in Germany for a workshop being hosted by Z-Punkt who were great participants in the Future Agenda programme. Focus of tomorrows event is on the future of innovation so should be interesting stuff.

Back in Delhi

Future Agenda — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:25:18 +0000

Just done a session at the Urban Mobility India conference very well organised by Anupam Yog and the team at Mirabilis and The Institute of Urban Transport. Very good event with over 800 people here and some good speakers. My Future of Intelligent Mobility talk and discussion went down well and then took part in the panel discussion on The Future of Cities. Good insights on some of the opportunities and challenges globally and locally from other panelists including Peter Hendy - Comissioner, Transport for London; Deepak Gupta - Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the Govt of India; Amitabh Kant - CEO of Delhi Mumbai Corridor Development Corporation; Martin Lownson - Untra PRT; SK Lohia from the Ministry of Urban Development in the Govt of India; and Kee Yeon Hwang - President of The Korea Transport Institute. Also great to bump into many of the people we met in the Future Agenda workshops in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore earlier in the year and catch up. Staying here for another couple of days to catch up then back to snowy UK.

Singapore

Future Agenda — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:32:20 +0000

Just off to Singapore to do a couple of talks at a corporate event and also sharing Future Agenda programme with Singapore Government who are clearly good users of strategic foresight. First time back in Singapore since 2006 so be interesting to see new developments.

Sharing the Approach

Future Agenda — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:38:46 +0000

Good to talk through Future Agenda approach today with a pharma company as part of an overview of different organisations' takes on foresight. Off to Ireland now to share more views and looking forward to a discussion in Singapore next week on similar topic. Judging by number of downloads of book and ppt pdfs on slideshare, looks like lots of people are making use of the material