Economics
Learning Society
Sustainability |
Horizons
Welcome to a Discovery and Exploratory Work Shop on shaping the Future
Thursday 17.6.2010 at 9:00-13:00
Pörssitalo, Helsinki
What?
An exclusive international participatory and exploratory work shop on three
major futures topics: Economy, Learning Society and Sustainability.
The Navigators
Top-level futurists who will identify what kind of changes there will be in a
global landscape and how this knowledge could be used in strategic management.
Who Should Attend?
People insterested in and responsible for building their respective futures,
making sense of the appropriate strategies and leadership interventions.
The Programme 17.6.2010 |
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08.00 |
REGISTRATION & EARLY MORNING GET TOGETHER | Breakfast buffet |
09.00 |
Long
Term Growth |
Director Stefan Bergheim, Center for Progress |
10.30 |
21st Century Learning Society | Principal Riel Miller, xperiodix
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11.45 |
Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Sustainability | Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, London School of Economics |
13.00 |
END of the DAY Facilitated by Mika Aaltonen, Aalto University School of Science
and Technology. |
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Registrations and questions concerning the seminarRegister now!
E-payment or invoice upon registration. The seminar fee is 100 EUR + VAT 0 %, including the new book Robustness by Mika Aaltonen, speaker´s exclusive material, coffee and refreshments. Cancellations after 10.6.2010: the whole fee will
be invoiced. The Venue: Ravintola Pörssi, Fabianinkatu 14 If you have any questions, contact Mika Aaltonen or email us; strax@tkk.fi Welcome!
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The workshop is organized
by StraX in cooperation with Pertec Consulting
Ltd. |
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Stefan
Bergheim has been the director of the Center for Progress since the
beginning of 2009. Before launching the Center, he worked for leading international
banks such as
Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan in Frankfurt as an economist. Between 2002 and 2008,
he worked for Deutsche Bank Research on topics such as growth, demographics,
education and happiness. Stefan has a diploma in economics from Saarbrücken
University, spent three years in the economics Ph.D. program at the University
of Oregon (USA) and holds a doctoral degree from WHU in Koblenz/Vallendar, where
he wrote the book “Long-run growth forecasting”.
Riel Miller is a specialist in long-run strategic thinking, foresight
theory and practice. As a global foresight design consultant he works
closely with clients to develop and implement state-of-the-art action-research
and strategic decision making processes. For over twenty-five years his
work has concentrated on how to assess and direct the potential for socio-economic
transformation in the private and public sectors. Between 1995 and 2005
Riel worked as a Principal Administrator in the International Futures
Programme at the OECD.
Eve Mitleton-Kelly is Founder and Director of the Complexity Research
Programme at the London School of Economics; Visiting Professor at
the Open University, UK; Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry
and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence
Existence; Executive Coordinator of SOL-UK; and Advisor to European
and US organizations. Eve Mitleton-Kelly´s recent work has concentrated
on the application and the implications of the theories of complexity
for organizations and specifically on strategy.
