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The Great Pause

Billions of people around the globe are under lockdown. Business as usual is not usual anymore. Governments rush to adopt imperfect policies to protect citizens and defend national sovereignty. An invisible threat has humankind under siege, attacking everything and everyone we know, and the future will never be the same again.

The summit was held virtually on April 9-11, 2020

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During the summit, more than 13 thousand attendees joined the brightest minds in the world to discover new perspectives on how to use futures thinking, anticipatory system, science, speculative design or strategic foresight to anticipate possible futures. Attendees learnt about key insights and personal experiences from 64 top international speakers that contributed to create the largest gathering on futures thinking we are aware of.

Aarathi Krishnan

Humanitarian Futures and Strategic Foresight Advisor
UNHCR, UN, and ICRC

Aditee Prabhakar

Research Fellow
Qazaq Research Institute for Future Studies

Albert Cañigueral

Connector for Spain and Latin America
OuiShare

Alexandra Whittington

Foresight Director
Fast Future

André Roux

Head of Futures Studies Programmes
Stellenbosch University Business School

Anne Boysen

Futurist & Founder
After The Millenials

Bronwyn Williams

Foresight Lead & Trend Analyst
Flux Trends

Carin Ism

Co-Founder
FOGA

Cecily Sommers

Business Futurist
Wherefore Co

Cennydd Bowles

Managing Director
NowNext

Cindy Frewen

Founder & CEO
Frewen Architects Inc

Danièle Réchard

Head of Global Trends Unit
European Parliamentary Research Service

Dave Snowden

Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Cognitive Edge

Doug Witschi

Assistant Director Cybercrime Threat Response
INTERPOL

Eamonn Noonan

Policy Analyst
European Parliamentary Research Service

Edmund Lee

Executive Director
Hong Kong Design Centre

Elatia Abate

Entrepreneur, Educator & Strategist
Elatia Abate

Elina Hiltunen

CEO
What's Next Consulting

Elliott P. Montgomery

Associate Director MFA Transdisciplinary Design
Parsons School of Design

Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

Founding President
proGective

Fadi Bayoud

Founder & Director
Strategic Anchors

Frank Spencer

Founder, Principle & Creative Director
Kedge Futures

Fátima Azevedo

Adviser of Office for Economic Policy and IR
Ministry of Finance. Government of Portugal

Gabriele Rizzo

Chief Futurist
HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne

Geci Karuri-Sebina

Founding Director
Southern African Node of the Millennium Project

Guillermina Benavides

Professor
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Ian Calvert

Founder
FURTHER

Joana Lenkova

Director Strategy & Futures Consulting
Futures Forward

John A. Sweeney

Senior Research Fellow
Westminster International University in Tashkent

John S. Miranda

Director. Market Insights
Intel Corporation

Jordi Serra Del Pino

Deputy Director
Centre for Postnormal Policy & Futures Studies

Jorge Camacho

Co-Founder. Researcher & Lecturer
Diagonal Studio

Joshua Polchar

Foresight Lead
OECD

Kwamou Eva Feukeu

Futures Literacy Project Officer / Africa Coordinator
UNESCO

Laurent Bontoux

Senior Foresight Specialist
European Commission

Leah Zaidi

Founder
Multiverse Design

Miguel Jiménez

CEO & Founder
FFWD - Futures Intelligence

Mike Richmond

Strategic Foresight Advisor
Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency

Mikko Dufva

Leading Foresight Strategist
Sitra

Nancy Giordano

Founder
Play Big Inc

Nur Anisah Abdullah

Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Business School

Olivier Woeffray

Practice Lead, Strategic Intelligence
World Economic Forum

Peter Bishop

Executive Director
Teach The Future

Peter Glenday

Programme & Research Director
School Of International Futures

Phil Balagtas

President & Founder
The Design Futures Initiative

Pupul Bisht

Founder
Decolonizing Futures Initiative

Puruesh Chaudhary

Founder & President
AGAHI / Foresight Lab

Ricardo Borges de Castro

Former Advisor on Strategic Foresight
European Commission Political Strategy Centre

Riel Miller

Head of Futures Literacy
UNESCO

Roger Dennis

Founder
Innovation Matters

Roger Spitz

Founder
Techistential

Rohit Bhargava

Founder & Chief Trend Curator
Non-Obvious Company

Shermon Cruz

Founder. Chief Futurist & Executive Director
Center for Engaged Foresight

Sohail Inayatullah

Chair in Futures Studies
UNESCO

Steven Sloman

Cognitive Scientist
Brown University

Tanja Schindler

Founder & Guardian
Futures Space

Tessa Finlev

Foresight Strategist
Dolby Laboratories

Tim Morgan

Futurist
North Texas Foresight Institute

Tom Burin

Security and Threat Intelligence Manager
Solvay

Tomas Diez

Director
Fab Lab Barcelona

Travis Kupp

VP. Strategic Design & Foresight Lead
Truist

Verne Wheelwright

Author
Personal Futures Network

Yvette Montero Salvatico

Founder
The Futures School