The Club of Amsterdam holds a Summit for the Future on January 26-28. The main objective is to bring together thought leaders, policy makers and knowledge workers to gain a deeper understanding and more insights regarding critical elements in their industries and how they relate to the Knowledge Society.

The Club of Amsterdam is an independent, international think-tank (see the archiv of the journal) that organises regular high-level discussions on preferred futures.

Here is the program. Details in the press release.

Glen Hiemstra, Keynote Speaker, Founder of Futurist.com and professional futurist from Seattle, Washington: “Change the form of information, the speed of information transmission, and the level of access to both creating and consuming information, and you will change society. [...] The most potent technology developments underlying this techno-social-economic revolution go beyond information technologies and encompass nanotechnology and the coming energy transformation. The techno-social-economic revolution, underway for perhaps thirty years and now more than half-way finished, is changing the basic pillars by which we organize life, including the job, the home, retirement, government, and education. Along the way old orders die and new orders emerge, and through this process old Europe may emerge renewed while the new world, America, may struggle to maintain leadership. At the same time, resistance to the future emerges and plays out on the global stage.”