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Foresight Careers Unconference and Workshops
Foresight Careers, the FERN Unconference, will be held as soon as we have eight student Volunteers to plan and run it.
Date still to be determined, Location San Francisco Bay Area (Stanford, San Jose, or SF), CA. Can you volunteer to help us plan it?
This project needs a minimum of four Directors (to help student Volunteers) and eight student Volunteers (Deputy Directors) to plan and run the event. Directors John Smart and Frank Spencer have volunteered, so we need another two Directors and eight student Volunteers to take this project on. Interested? Email John and let's make it happen!
Unconferences are facilitated, participant-driven events centered around a community-important theme. Ample open time is available for multiple parallel participant-created presentations (one-to-many) and seminars (many-to-many), as well as for small-group workshops where collaborative work gets done. Virtual attendance via streaming, and twitter feeds for in-person and web audience questions are also part of the event. Both in-person attendees, and to some degree virtual attendees have a chance to participate, not simply spectate, in ways best suited to our emerging collective intelligence culture.
Starting as soon as possible we plan to have an annual Foresight Careers Unconference, to be held at first on a rotating basis (and one day, parallel!) in all 130 of the global cities of the world, with early coverage of the megacities which have the greatest number of foresight employment opportunities.
Leading up to each Unconference student and other volunteers will extensively research potential foresight employers in each host city, and invite them to attend the local Unconference. Contacts identified will be added to FERN's public Foresight Employers and Jobs Wiki. Each in-person conference attendee will have the opportunity to request a limited number of informational interview and job interview appointments with attending foresight employers and mentors, and there will be plenty of open networking and job fair time as well.
Some of the following Foresight Careers Workshops will also happen at each Unconference, as we find student, faculty and other leaders for them. If you attend the Unconference (other than invited speakers or employers), you will be asked to attend at least one workshop as well:
- Foresight Curricula Workshop. Edit and critique each other's current curricula and develop new curricula together.
- Foresight Journalism Workshop. Edit and critique each other's pre-print publications or write new draft articles together.
- Foresight Ratings and Metrics Workshop. Edit and expand FERN's country, institution, university, corporate, or consultancy rating systems.
- Fundraising Workshop. Call potential donors, raise some money for FERN's Foundation or General Funds.
- Future Salon Workshop. Plan upcoming speaker lineups for our 15 future salons, help find leaders to establish new future salons globally.
- People Database Workshop. Find missing/high-priority foresight con1tacts and get them in our public database, or work on database structure.
- Wiki Workshops. Collaboratively edit existing lists or pages or build new ones on GlobalForesight.org, Foresight Employers, or other FERN wikis.
- Other Workshops. Can you lead or develop a non-commercial workshop doing something of value for the Foresight Careers community? Let us know.
- Research foresight contacts at potential local employers and add them to our Foresight Employers and Jobs wiki,
- Contact and work with foresight employers to describe and develop their internship programs and invite them to the Unconference
- Market the event to undergrad and grad foresight students, alums, and attendees locally and globally, first to our 17 global foresight programs.
- Develop and lead collaborative workshops at the event.
- Take responsibility for conference siting, website design, speaker invitation, technical production, and other activities.
Foresight Careers and the wiki covers the following 17 foresight employment sectors:
Education - K-8th
Education - High School (9th-12th)
Education - Undergraduate
Education - Graduate
For-Profit - Large Corporate (500+ employees)
For-Profit - Midsize (100 to 499 employees)
For-Profit - Small (10 to 99 employees)
For-Profit - Boutique (9 employees or less)
Non-Profit - Large Corporate (500+ employees)
Non-Profit - Midsize (100 to 499 employees)
Non-Profit - Small (10 to 99 employees)
Non-Profit - Boutique (9 employees or less)
Government - International and Transnational
Government - National (Executive, Leglislative, and Judicial)
Government - State
Government - Local
Government - Military
Foresight Careers and the wiki focuses on careers in the following 25 primary foresight specialties in the above sectors. We may also feature employers who use any of the secondary foresight specialties, but not comprehensively, as there are other groups and conferences for those communities.
| Primary Foresight Specialties (25) | Secondary Foresight Specialties (32) |
| Alternative Futures Comparative Analysis and Competitive Intelligence Critical Foresight (Causal Layered Analysis, etc.) Development (Systemic) and Acceleration Studies Emerging Issues,Cross Impact and Pattern Analysis Emerging Technologies Analysis Ethnographic, Culture, and Subculture Foresight Forecasting and Modeling/Simulation (basic) Foresight Frameworks and Foundations Foresight Journalism and Metrics History and Analysis of Prediction Horizon Scanning and Weak Signals Images and Artifacts of the Future Personal Futures/ Foresight Development Prediction Markets and Foresight Networks Predictive Surveys/ Delphi Roadmapping (Long-Range Ind., Tech, Policy Maps) Scenario Development and Backcasting Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning/Learning Strategy Games, Serious and War Games Systems Thinking Transhumanist/ Ethics of Emerging Tech Studies Trend Extrapolation and Learning Curves Visioning, Intuition, and Creative Thinking Wildcards (Pos & Neg Hi-Impact, Low-Prob. Events) | Actuarial Science and Risk Assessment Anthropology and Culture Studies Cognitive & Social Psychology (Personality Profiles, etc.) Collaboration, Facilitation, and Peace/Conflict Studies Critical and Evidence-Based Thinking Decision Theory, Uncertainty, and Real Options Analysis Demographics and Sociology Design, User Experience, and Art Economics (Cliometrics) Ethics and Values Studies Evolution, Complexity and Systems Studies Futures, Sci-Fi, Utopian, and Dystopian Lit Studies Forecasting and Modeling/Simulation (advanced) History (Alternative Histories) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studies and Networks Innovation Journalism and Metrics Integral Studies and Thinking Investing and Finance (Long-Term) Leadership Studies and Organizational Development Library Science and Knowledge Management Marketing (Predictive), PR, and Consumer Behavior Philosophy (Normative Alternative Futures) Political Science and Policy Studies Probabilistic (Statistical) Prediction Religious Studies (Future Beliefs) Risk Management, Operations Research,Game Theory Security/Defense Studies and International Relations Science and Technology Studies and Technology Analysis Socially Responsible / Triple Bottom Line Management Strategic & L-R Planning, Decision Analysis and Support Sustainability and Development (Economic) Studies Urban Studies and Planning |
| Other Foresight Specialties (35, a partial list) | |
| Architecture | Astrobiology | Biological Sciences | Bioethics | Biotechnology | Business Administration | Chemical Sciences | Computer Modeling and Simulation | Computer Science | Cybernetics | Economics and Econometrics | Education | Engineering | Evolutionary Biology | Gambling Studies | Generational Studies | Geography | History | History and Philosophy of Science and Technology | Information Science | Investing and Finance (Short-Term) | Knowledge Management | Library Science (general) | Management | Media and Communications | Mathematics | Philosophy | Physical Sciences | Psychology (general) | Psychographics | Statistics (general) | Technology Policy | Tourism | Urban Studies | |
Of all the secondary foresight specialties listed above, we would like to prioritize developing uncomprehensive but still useful coverage of foresight work occurring in the following 13 secondary foresight specialties:
Forecasting and Modeling/Simulation (advanced)
Decision Theory, Uncertainty, and Real Options Analysis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studies
Innovation Journalism and Metrics
Leadership Studies and Organizational Development
Long-Range and Urban Planning
Marketing (Predictive), PR, and Consumer Behavior
Political Science and Policy Studies
Probabilistic (Statistical) Prediction
Science and Technology Studies and Technology Analysis
Socially Responsible / Triple Bottom Line Management
Strategic Planning, Decision Analysis and Support
Sustainability and Development (Economic) Studies
Foresight and Innovation: Close Cousins, But Separate Disciplines
Those that seek to describe, discover, protect, and prioritize possible, probable, and preferable futures do foresight work. Those that seek to increase our ability to create the future do innovation work. There are an increasing number of educational and research programs in innovation, particularly in technology innovation. While innovation and foresight are closely related, innovation has its own communities, and FERN seeks to connect our foresight students, educators, researchers, and alums to the best external innovation education, research, and careers communities that exist.
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