We hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and Valery Wichman about work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision.

Today we hear from Petra Hurtado and her work integrating Foresight into the planning field and Mike Jackson and his venture, Preempt, an AI Foresight platform.

Today we hear from Estefania Simon-Sasyk and the folks at Transform and their work with the Mycelium network to transform food systems and Elizabeth Merritt and her work assisting Museums use futures tools to help the repatriation of cultural artifacts.

Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award-winning game, FutureCast, and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in the Andean region explores future time, memory and decolonisation.

Today we hear from Luna Mrozik Gawler, an artist, writer and scholar based in Melbourne, Australia and her award-winning work on Interspecies Surrogacy and Jennifer Williams and Matjaz Vidmar and their Utopia Labs experimental futures process.

We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Our guests today are Cecilia Tham and Bronwyn Williams.

A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture.

A conversation with Thea Snow, Director of the Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Thea works in exploring ways to engage government and other change makers to reimagine what government could be.

A conversation with Patrick van der Duin who is a researcher, consultant and educator in Foresight and Innovation Management about how Foresight drives Innovation and Innovation drives Foresight, and that they are two sides of the same coin.

Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer. In this episode, he describes how be brings these two disciplines together, and gives advice for other games-curious futures practitioner.

Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change. Adam’s work is grounded in foresight tools and principles.

Christopher Jones returns for a chat on all things Post Normal and Trans Normal. Chris is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Future Studies and Executive Director at the Trans Normal Institute.

The Shameless Collective won the award for the Best Masters group work in 2023. They discuss their work on the Future of Sex and Intimacy.

Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.

Richard Slaughter is back for a chat to discuss the latest target of his forensic critical thinking skills, the careless innovation of Big IT.

Riel Miller and Maree Conway discuss how we find and promote the crack in thinking so that people can open towards complexity and uncertainty and help them think differently to find emerging futures?

A conversation with Trish Mwenda who was recognized as the best Masters Student work 2023 by the Association of Professional Futurists.

A conversation with Tina Auer and Tim Boykett from the art collective, Times Up. We discuss what they learned and wrote about in their book called Futures Brought to Life - we are not futurists. Our discussion ranges over ideas like the Art of Hosting, Imagination as a muscle, Caring for the Future Futures is a Verb.

A conversation with Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani about the upcoming APF IF Awards.

A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is the Senior Strategic Foresight Specialist at Autodesk in Canada. We discuss her journey into the field, the differences working as an external consultant compared to being an in-house futurist. And we delve into what collaboration really means.

Alex Quicho joins us to discuss the value of arts and poetics in futures work, viewing the world through the lens of tropical futures, and finding windows into the future that invite action and movement.

A return interview with Richard Yonck where he surveys what he calls the Wild West of AI Futures including digital assistants, job losses, human hybrid working, ethics and social media.

A return interview with Rowena Morrow to hear about her work with Adaptive Cultures and the challenge of assisting organisations evolving their culture to better match their environmental complexity.

A return interview with the French Futurist, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment which covers our emerging social evolution, Meritory Foresight, the new VUCA, artificial intelligence and gaming.

Helga Veigl and Martin Calnan talk about the upcoming 50th Anniversary conference for the World Futures Studies Federation which is being held in Paris on 25 and 26 October 2023.

Zan, a Foresight Analyst and Educator, helps clients, learners and mentees to understand the nature and implications of change and discover ways thrive in the face of complexity.

Nikolas Badminton FRSA is a global futurist speaker that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.

Maggie Greyson MDes is an award-winning professional futurist and the CEO of Futures Present. This boutique agency helps people make decisions in times of extreme uncertainty using design and futures thinking practices.

In partnership with photographer Bram Goots, Maya Van Leemput runs a long-term independent project for exploring images of the future, combining conversation-based approaches and visual ethnography with multi-media co-creation.

How can newly minted futures and foresight folk make their mark and attract the right work? Listen to Venkatesh Rao, a prolific writer, consultant, sparring partner and Yak herder.