Presentations and Speeches


The Millennium Project provides a context for global thinking and potential for improved understanding of how humanity could work together to improve the human condition. In addition to the annual State of the Future reports and special studies, the staff gives lectures and speeches. Some are available below (this section will soon be completed with more presentations and periodically updated).

 

Talk on Information/Knowledge Society by Jerome Glenn at the Bled Forum on Europe, Slovenia

Future Global Node for the Arts, Media, and Entertainment exploratory session Los Angeles to 375 creative TV, movie, writers, and others in the media arts and entertainment fields in Los Angeles talk by Jerome Glenn in six parts: November 16, 2009

Global Challenges and Futures Research Methodologies for the UN (4.8 Meg file), Jerome Glenn, UN-ECOSOC meeting, New York, January 2009

Probing the Unknowable: The Structure of Future Ideas lecture by Ted Gordon to Futures Studies program at University of Huston, USA, and the second class of the Graduate Diploma on Foresight and Strategy, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela, January 25, 2009

Decision Making, Futures Rsearch, and Ethics, presentation by Ted Gordon, at "Sapienza Universite di Roma, November 16, 2009

Brief Overview of Some Futures Research Methods, Jerome Glenn, The Hague, December 2008

Global Framework, Future Prospects and Strategies, Jerome Glenn, 4th European Futurists Conference, Lucerne, Switzerland, November 6, 2008

State of the Future Index (SOFI) for the Republic of Korea, and computer modeling collaboration for national comparison SOFIs, Ted Gordon, presentation at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting, July 2008

Tutorials for the Real Time Delphi (RTD) and the State of the Future Index (SOFI) by Ted Gordon, available at http://www.mpcollab.org/learning/course/view.php?id=3

Real-Time Delphi advances, Ted Gordon, presentation at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting, July 2008

Emerging international environmental security issues --summary and key findings and insights from monthly scanning reports, Elizabeth Florescu, presentation at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting, July 2008

Seminar on Futures Research Methodologies for the United Nations. Organized by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in partnership with the NGO-Section/DESA, Thursday 27 March 2008, United Nations Headquarters, New York (email jglenn@igc.org for the presentation )

Frontiers of Futures Research by Ted Gordon, at the Inauguration of the Graduate Diploma on Foresight and Strategy, Simon Bolivar University, January 25, 2008

Probing the Unknowable: The Structure of Future Ideas, Ted Gordon, World Future Society Conference, July 18, 2009

Elements of the Next Economy, 2009 State of the Future, and Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0, Jerome C. Glenn, World Future Society Conference, July 19, 2009