Bill’s Vision

As an aerospace engineer on Apollo, an Air Force officer, a Silicon Valley manager, professor of technology & innovation, and founder of TechCast, I have always been fascinated with the revolutionary power of technology driving us into a high-tech global order. My work is devoted to helping us figure out where this profound transition is heading, what it all means, and how we can get there.

Source: William Halal and Associates Website

Ralph Keeney specializes in the development, use, and dissemination of decision-making concepts and techniques that help policy makers, governments, businesses, and individuals facing important decisions to structure their decisions in a logical manner that will promote better decision-making.

Dr. Keeney has made significant contributions to the fields of decision analysis and value-focused thinking. He applies precepts from operations research, management science and the decision sciences to important and challenging decision problems. His work includes: theoretical, methodological, and procedural contributions to decision analysis, risk analysis, and value-focused thinking and their applications.

He promotes the decision sciences through education and speaking, and service.

Ralph Keeney is President of the consulting firm, U.S. Marketing and Decisions Group, Inc.,  Professor Emeritus at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California.

c3’s Founder and Executive Director, Producer, Writer

“Over 35 years of professional experience in the the arts and the entertainment industries together with a deep interest and study of human potential, consciousness research and future studies has been my inspiration for the creation of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and the mission we seek to accomplish.

I hold an MA in Consciousness Studies and have been a student and practitioner of creativity, future trends in the arts and media, and meditation for over 40 years.  As an artist, I work as a producer and content creator in a variety of mediums, am a writer, musician, and photographer.”

Source: Website

Koffi M. Kouakou is a senior lecturer in government communications and scenario planning and former programme director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy (UMRA) at the Wits School of Governance, formerly the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) at Wits UNiversity. He is also a Long Now futurist, author and social commentator. He is a former co-director of CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions and a small business strategist. He also coordinated the World Bank initiative on environmental information systems initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa in Washington and Pretoria.

Source: Millennium Project

Aharon Hauptman is senior researcher at TSF/ICTAF since 1988. Dr. Hauptman has a B.Sc from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and Ph.D in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (1986).

Specializing in the evaluation of trends in emerging technologies and their impacts, he has much experience in Technology Foresight and its relations with research policy and with various application areas. Examples of past/recent activities: Delphi surveys of emerging technologies; foresight in nanobiotechnology; foresight in the area of future unmanned/autonomous systems, “wild cards” and “weak signals”.

He has been involved in several EU FP6 projects (ELOST, Knowledge-NBIC, SSH-FUTURES) and led central work-packages or tasks in the FP7 projects FESTOS (impact of future/emerging technologies on security), PRACTIS (impact of  future technologies on privacy), iKNOW (wild cards and weak signals shaping the future science, technology and innovation policy) and RACE2050 (future transportation scenarios).

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Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University

Dr Bruce Lloyd,  Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, spent over 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world twenty years ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now London South Bank University. He has a Degree in Chemical Engineering; MSc (Economics) / MBA from the London Business School (1968) and a PhD (by published work) for his work on ‘The Future of Offices and Office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy’.

Since the late 1960’s he has written extensively (about 200 published articles) on a wide range of strategy/futures related issues, including articles exploring the link between Leadership, Power and Responsibility and, more recently, the relationship between Leadership, Wisdom, Knowledge Management and Organisational Performance. He has undertaken over 30 interviews on leadership/management related issues for various journals. He was also the UK co-ordinator for ‘The Millennium Project’ 1999-2005.  Currently he works part-time for the University, particularly on PhD supervision.

Source: Fast Future page

Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, Editor of Future Consciousness Insights (previously Wisdom and the Future), and Professor Emeritus and Retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona. He is an Executive Board member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, a special honor given to members who have made a globally recognized original contribution to futures studies. He is also past Director of The Wisdom Page.

A national and internationally recognized researcher, writer, and speaker, he has published thirteen books and over sixty articles, and given roughly the same number of professional national and international presentations on topics including: the history of scientific and philosophical thought; wisdom, character virtues, and the future of education; future consciousness and contemporary futurist thought; dystopian and utopian thought; theories of the future; the evolution of science fiction; and the future evolution of consciousness and mind.

Source: Center for Future Consciousness

With over three decades of organisational change and foresight experience, LASA CEO Patricia Lustig has worked with leaders worldwide to anticipate change and shape the future. An internationally respected consultant, author, and practitioner in strategic foresight, Patricia brings unparalleled expertise in futures thinking, strategy development, and innovation.

Her portfolio includes collaborations with the UK Government Office for Science, the European Commission, and the Construction Industry Training Board. Patricia has been featured by Harvard Business Review, invited to the inaugural Dubai Futures Forum, and is a thought leader in futures strategy, regularly publishing insights and co-authoring groundbreaking works such as the award winning Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future and her most recent book, co-authored with Gill Ringland, The Possibility Wheel: Making Better Choices in a Fractured World.

Source: Website

Rakesh Kapoor is a researcher, writer, editor and founder-managing trustee of Alternative Futures. Rakesh works on the interface of science, technology, society and the future and on issues of sustainable development. He is Consulting Editor of Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies (www.elsevier.com/locate/futures).

He was Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (www.wfsf.org) – a global community of futurist thinkers, scientists and consultants from 2008 to 2014. See detailed c.v.

Steve Kantor is a serial entrepreneur involved with multiple business, creative, and social entrepreneurial ventures as a founder, co-founder/partner, coach, and consultant. He is also the Founder of Bushido Dinners with 200+ people experiencing a Bushido Dinner at his home from 2015-2020 at small inspiring dinner parties of 6-8 entrepreneurs and artists.

From 2006-2019 the main focus was focus on helping top real estate agents grow their business to the next level with our Best Agent Business Virtual Assistant and Calling services based on our Billion Dollar Agent System. Starting in 2020, I have teamed with MyOutDesk to provide solid virtual assistant services.

Previously, Steve was the founder of Gnossos Software, a CRM database software company that was sold in 2004 to Vocus.

Psychologist · Futures Strategist · Cultural Innovator

I work at the intersection of systems thinking, ecological intelligence, and moral imagination—helping individuals, organizations, and creative teams design futures that support human and planetary flourishing through applied psychology.

My work bridges research, wellness, technology, and the arts. Whether I’m consulting with leaders on ethical innovation, guiding people into deeper relationship with the more-than-human world, or creating immersive story systems for social transformation, my purpose is the same:

To help us remember how to be fully human in an accelerating world.

Source: Website

William R Kramer earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology, master’s in environmental policy and public administration, and doctorate in political science with an emphasis in outer space policy and futures studies.

He spent most of his career as a wildlife biologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he spent nearly two decades working on endangered species conservation issues in Hawaii and the Pacific region. He retired as head of the US Endangered Species Recovery Program.

After his first retirement, he assisted the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet for 12 years as a senior environmental scientist, taught bioethics and biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and worked at HDR, Inc. as their extraterrestrial environmental analyst. His experiences include Mission Commander at the Mars Desert Research Station and ground support for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Facility.

Since 2013, William continues to lecture and lead workshops on outer space exploration and development issues related to futures studies, bioethics, and environmental ethics at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, and other locations.

Source: Blackburn International