World Futures Day 2026: On March 1st, Join the Global Conversation on Humanity’s Potential Futures

World Futures Day 2026: On March 1st, Join the Global Conversation on Humanity’s Potential Futures

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March 1st, The Millennium Project and five other international foresight organizations will host the 13th annual World Futures Day — a unique 24-hour online conversation around-the-world exploring possible outlooks on our shared future.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 12, 2025 — World Futures Day, held on March 1st each year, begins at 12 noon in New Zealand and ends 24 hours later, in Hawaii. The public is invited to drop in at any time to participate in discussions with and among world leading futurists and thought leaders about the potential trajectories of the present developments, speculations about future innovations in all imaginable domains, and their impacts on alternative futures. Chatham House Rule is applied, ensuring non-attribution.

The Millennium Project, a global foresight participatory think tank, will host this conversation on the future in collaboration with the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, the Lifeboat Foundation, the World Academy of Art and Science, and the World Futures Studies Federation.

“You can pull up a virtual chair at any time between 12 noon New Zealand time and 12 noon Hawaii time, and join the conversation on Zoom”, says Jerome C. Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project. “People come and go as they please, sharing insights with global thought leaders on the future”.

This year, we will be joined at 12 pm East Coast US time by Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer.

Video courtesy of Kexin FU (Katty) – Fu Kexin 付可心, The Millennium Project intern, Junior Journalism Major, Ningxia University, China

Each year, total strangers discuss ideas in a relaxed, open, no-agenda conversation making new collaborations and friendships. Previous World Futures Days have discussed the transition to Artificial General Intelligence, living in space, inventing the future of work, addressing climate change, giving rights to the living planet, fighting transnational organized crime, developing future forms of democracy, countering information warfare, incorporating futures generations and global ethics in decision-making, and identifying and enforcing safety standards for synthetic biology. Who knows what stimulating topics and perspectives will come up this year?

NOTE: Each participant must register separately. The received links for the meeting are personal and cannot be shared with others.

World Futures Day registration form

Members of the press are most welcome to join following Chatham House Rule. You can also share your ideas on social media: #worldfuturesday and #WFD.

In parallel, RIBER (Red Iberoamericana de Prospectiva) will host a World Futures Day in Spanish, a continuous 10-hour dialogue similar to the English version. It will begin at GMT+1 in Spain and conclude at GMT-8 in Mexico. Sixteen countries will take part.

A side event called World Futures Day – Young Voices, co-organized on the same day by Teach the Future in collaboration with The Millennium Project together with other partners and friends, will also make sure that young people are also included in a global conversation about our futures.

Download press release (.pdf)

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