SPEAKERS

Nick Robins HSBC and author Subject: The East India Company and the Rise of the Global Corporation

Ilona Gaynor

Des igner

Subject: Artificial Black Swans

Vinay Gupta Hexayurt & thefuturewedeserve Subject: Catastrophes, Disruptions, and Emergence

Richard Lum Vision Foresight Strategy

Subject: New Designs for Governance

Gitte Larsen House of Futures Subject: in100years: Scenarios and Visions of a Sustainable Denmark

Bill Sharpe International Futures Forum

Subject: Economies of Life and

Experience

& FACILITATORS

Victoria Ward Sparknow Subject: Storytelling, Postcards

Andrew Curry The Futures Company

Subject: Postcards

Riel Miller Unesco Subject: Emergent Futures

Cindy Frewen Frewen Architects

Subject: Design Futures

Wendy Schultz Infinite Futures Subject: 3 Horizons, Storytelling

Christian Crews AndSpace Consulting

Subject: Emergence Landscape

Jim Kennedy Oxford University Subject: Deep Pasts

Monday, September 10, 2012 13:00 – 18:30 Registration Wolfson College,

Oxford 15:00 – 17:00 Pre-Meeting Session: APF Town Hall, The Futures of Foresight

This session will continue the discussion on the future of the APF and the field begun earlier in the year in Toronto. APF members only.

17:00 – 18:30 Opening Reception Drinks, dinner, networking: introducing the “Curating the futures” exploratory story-telling workshop.

18:30 – 21:00 Opening Session: Curating the Futures Participants will explore the Pitt Rivers museum, using the objects as springboards to design future objects worthy of curation – and create the curation notes. They will then walk the ‘curated future’ trail this creates to sketch out different future stories. Speaker: Jim Kennedy, Professor, Oxford University – Deep Pasts Facilitators: Victoria Ward, Sparknow Wendy Schultz, Infinite Futures

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

21:00 Conclusion of Day 1 Activities    Monday Venues

 Wolfson College, Oxford University

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University    

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast Wolfson College,

Oxford 8:00 – 8:30 Walk/bus to Magdalen College

8:30 – 9:00 Introduction A short welcome and review of the agenda. Participants introduce themselves to the group. The 3 Horizons map is revealed and explained.

Magdalen College, Oxford

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Looking Back Understanding the past through the evolution of the East India Company. Speaker:

• Nick Robins, author and Head of HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence – The East India Company and the Rise of the Global Corporation

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee / tea

10:45 – 12:00 Session 2: Looking Around An emergence map of new models is presented and discussed, and attendees fill in the emergence map with local examples from their home countries. Speaker/Facilitator:

• Christian Crews, AndSpace Consulting

12:00 – 1:15 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: Design Session Attendees break into groups and use design thinking to explore new ways economic and governance models may develop. Speaker/Facilitator:

• Cindy Frewen, Frewen Architects

15:00 – 19:30 Siesta Participants are set free with bus passes, maps, and suggestions to explore Oxford – or head back to Wolfson and nap.

Oxford

19:30 – on Evening Session: From Curation to Storytelling Building on the story-trails and futures curations from the Pitt Rivers, working groups refine their stories about possible futures.

Wolfson College, Oxford

 Tuesday Venue:

Magdalen College, Oxford University

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast Wolfson College,

Oxford 8:30 – 9:00 Postcards: Glimpses of our models, myths, and metaphors

Warm-up exercise using visual images to unpack implicit understandings regarding economic and governance models.

9:00 – 10:00 Session 4: Exploring Emergence Government and economic models in our futures – will they evolve, or pop up as emergent properties of systems changes catalysed by disasters or new capacities? Speakers: • Ilona Gaynor, Artificial Black Swans • Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt & thefuturewedeserve – Catastrophes,

Disruptions, and Emergence

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee, tea

10:15 – 12:15 Session 5: Looking Ahead Views on the futures of new economic and governance models that may evolve or could be designed. Speakers: • Richard Lum, Vision Foresight Strategy – New Designs for

Governance • Gitte Larsen, House of Futures – in100years: Scenarios and

Visions of a Sustainable Denmark • Bill Sharpe, International Futures Forum – Economies of Life

and Experience Activity:

All attendees discuss emerging new paradigms from preceding sessions, and map them onto the Third Horizon.

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 6: Workshop on New Models A workshop using foresight tools to explore the future developments of new economic and governance models. Speaker/Facilitator: Riel Miller: Head of Foresight, UNESCO

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee, tea

15:15 – 16:30 Session 7: Wrap Up Attendees interact with the 3 Horizons map and discuss all insights from the conference in a group fishbowl discussion.

19:00 – 21:00 Concluding Dinner A celebratory end to the Gathering with a dinner, Little Bigs presentations by attendees, and storytelling presentations.