Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for Europe The DESERTEC-project offers the opportunity to exploit the inexhaustible clean solar energy from deserts mainly by proven solar-thermal... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

European Futurists Conference Lucerne

Uwe Möller (Club of Rome) - Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for Europe

Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent Times We have entered an age of turbulence where the certainties of the past decade will be 'unsystematically' overturned. Old... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Rohit Talwar (FastFuture) - Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent Times

Islamic Banking and Islamic Investment In the midst of the current financial crisis, Islamic banking & finance stands at a crossroad. After at least a couple of decades of its close association with... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Humayon Dar (CEO BMB Islamic) - Islamic Banking and Islamic Investment

Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable Futures ImaginationLancaster is a new creative research lab at Lancaster University that explores futures for people, products, places and systems.... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Stuart Walker (Professor and Co-Director, ImaginationLancaster) - Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable Futures

Future of Lifestyles The Philips Design probe programme is a far future research initiative attempting to develop lifestyle scenarios 10 - 20 years ahead. Design "provocations" are created with the... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Clive van Heerden (Senior Director Philips Design) - Future of Lifestyle

The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the Futures Change is not constant, in fact, change is accelerating very fast. Some technologies are radically changing humanity, in general, and... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

José Luis Cordeiro (Director, Venezuela Node, The Millennium Project; Teaching Fellow, Singularity University) - The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the Futures

Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy Growth The need for transformation beyond the turmoil is particularly acute in the „new“ member-states of the European Union, which have been hit the most... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Kitty Kubo (Head of Foresight Division at the Development Fund, Estonia) - Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy Growth

The Transformation of Europe: Future challenges of the Union and the States Although deeper than many before, the current crisis may be seen as just another cycle of capitalism. The author believes,... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Ziga Turk (Secretary General of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe) - The Transformation of Europe

Is it really good to know the Future? How expectation, chance and error make the world go round Why we can predict more and more things - new developments in probability sciences and data... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Matthias Horx (Zukunftsinstitut) - The Futurist's Paradox

Eckard Foltin - Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AG From Visions to Products - Future Living 2020 Bayer MaterialScience defines a strategy and taps into new business, both in existing... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Eckard Foltin (Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AG) - From Visions to Products. Future Living 2020

Ciaran McGinley, Project Initiator EPO Scenarios for the Future, European Patent Office Open Innovation - Do we still need Patents? In a world where knowledge is increasingly shared and innovation... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Ciaran McGinley (European Patent Office) - Open Innovation - Do we still need Patents?

Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen) Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the Future More than 11.000 Europeans from nine countries were asked about their views of the future in... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen) - Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the Future

Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey Methuselah Foundation A True Cure for Human Aging It may seem premature to be discussing approaches to the effective elimination of human aging as a cause of death at a... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey - A True Cure for Human Aging

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Boulouchos Chairman of the Board of Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich A long-term vision for a sustainable energy system needs to address a multitude of challenges. Policy... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Boulouchos (ETH Zurich) - Our Energy Future(s)

Anders Berntell (Anders Berntell, Executive Director Stockholm International Water Institute) - The Water Crisis The UN, World Bank and world leaders have warned that the lack of water resources... The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe.

Anders Berntell - The Water Crisis

The European Futurists Conference Lucerne aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe. It is dedicated to the professional needs of futurists AND long-term decision makers in Europe

Uwe Möller (Club of Rome) - Desert Tech. Clean Power from th...