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2025 THEMES

Exploring the Unknown

Strengthening the foundations of our world requires both innovation and connection. By reinforcing the systems we rely on and unlocking individual and collective potential, we tackle humanity’s most complex challenges. Connecting generations across time and place, we equip future societies to seize tomorrow’s opportunities.

How can bridging generational knowledge shape more resilient and adaptive societies?

What new opportunities emerge when we rethink the foundations of the systems we rely on?

Empowering Societies​

Strengthening the foundations of our world requires both innovation and connection. By reinforcing the systems we rely on and unlocking individual and collective potential, we tackle humanity’s most complex challenges. Connecting generations across time and place, we equip future societies to seize tomorrow’s opportunities.​ ​

How can bridging generational knowledge shape more resilient and adaptive societies?​

What new opportunities emerge when we rethink the foundations of the systems we rely on?​

Reimagining Health

Explore how societies and science are redefining mental, physical and public health, in the quest to support longer lives, drawing on science, technology and nature. We will uncover new ways to personalise access for individuals and communities everywhere for improved collective outcomes. By exploring traditional and innovative techniques, we will investigate the links between planetary and human health​.

How do advancements in science and technology personalise healthcare for individuals and communities?​

What can the link between planetary and human health teach us about the future of well-being?

Optimising Systems

The systems that shape our world are being redesigned for a more resilient future. Innovation and technology are driving more effective solutions – challenging the status quo and rethinking how businesses, governments, and societies operate. By assessing emerging trends, we can anticipate and shape the future.​ ​

How can technology redefine the way systems operate across industries and societies?​

What trends are reshaping the resilience and efficiency of the systems we rely on?​

Foresight Insights

Delve into futures yet to unfold. Foresight Insights offers a comprehensive exploration of the world of foresight, spotlighting innovative approaches to navigating uncertainty and complexity. It is a platform that bridges the past, present, and possible futures – empowering decision-makers, organizations, and communities to prepare for what lies ahead. Aimed at those curious about foresight methodologies and their real-world applications, we invite you to engage with the tools, mindsets, and narratives shaping tomorrow’s world.

How can traditional definitions of foresight be challenged, and what improvements might arise along the way?

How can Foresight Insights contribute to expanding the boundaries of futures thinking, and why is diversity of thought crucial in helping us navigate uncertainty?

Exploring planets
2024
EDITION
REGENERATING​
NATURE​

Our future is undoubtedly centered around minimizing environmental risks, amplifying Nature’s capacity to restore itself and having a positive impact on crucial environmental ecosystems and habitats. This would not only create a more stable, healthier planet for humanity but it would also elevate Nature’s overall standing in this world.

Exploring planets
2024
TRACKS
REGENERATING​
NATURE​

Our future is undoubtedly centered around minimizing environmental risks, amplifying Nature’s capacity to restore itself and having a positive impact on crucial environmental ecosystems and habitats. This would not only create a more stable, healthier planet for humanity but it would also elevate Nature’s overall standing in this world.

Exploring planets
2024
TRACKS
EMPOWERING
GENERATIONS

The global population will continue to grow for another three generations. It will be non-trivial to empower societies by offering solutions to humanity’s most complex and universal needs, optimizing systems they rely on, safeguarding against risks that could make societies more fragile in the face of crises and extending individual and collective potential for growth, development and well-being.

Exploring planets
2024
TRACKS
TRANSCENDING
COLLABORATION

Individually we can achieve only so much. Collaboration, with a twist, is the way forward. Enhanced problem-solving, learning and innovation by redesigning collaborative structures and processes among humans, including different generations, between humans and machines, and between machines.

Exploring planets
2024
TRACKS
TRANSFORMING​ HUMANITY​

This is the power to radically change ways of life by replacing the models that countries, communities and individuals live by – if they don’t work. These new models enable individuals and communities to innovate, improve and aid the transformation of humanity to new digital and non-digital realities.

Global Futures Society

The Global Futures Society (GFS) seeks to be the single largest convener of futurists, scenario planners and foresight analysts from entities to create global view and enable institutional collaborations from multiple regions and sectors like they have never existed before.

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