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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 30, 2014

Acclaimed global futurist, speaker, and best-selling author Jack Uldrich is frequently asked, What will the future look like? His response is, Predictably unpredictable. Uldrich travels the world speaking about this very paradox. He says, "Learning to unlearn, thinking about the unthinkable, recognizing failure as a key component of success, and understanding that an awareness of ones ignorance is a key component of true wisdom."

Following on the heels of a tremendously busy October, speaking to over 10 clients including ABB/Thomas and Betts, the American Sportfishing Association, the PMA and TRUNO, Uldrich will gear up to speak throughout the month of November to the following clients:

NOV 04, 2014 - Grant Thornton Grant Thornton Houston, TX

NOV 05, 2014 - Farm Credit Services Leaders Conference Farm Credit Services of America Omaha, NE

NOV 06, 2014 - CLEAResult Annual Energy Summit CLEAResult Austin, TX

NOV 10, 2014 - CAS Centennial Celebration CAS Centennial News New York City, NY

NOV 23, 2014 - AASHTO Annual Meeting American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Charlotte, NC

Uldrich focuses on giving upbeat, practical and actionable insights on future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management and leadership, especially in the areas of health care, agriculture, education, energy, finance, retail and manufacturing. He provides provocative new perspectives on competitive advantage, change management and transformational leadership and brings to light the advantages of being creative and using the powers of individual imagination.

In addition to speaking on future trends, one of Uldrich's key specialties is unlearning. He says,"Erroneous ideas can prevent us from being receptive to new knowledge. But before we can fully assimilate new information, we often have to unlearn old beliefs." Unlearning is defined as, "the act of releasing old knowledge." And, according to Uldrich, it is a critical skill, "especially in todays world of rapid and accelerating technical knowledge. If you think of knowledge as an iceberg, the portion of the iceberg that lies above the water can be thought of as representing existing knowledge. The portion that resides below the water is the equivalent of future knowledge. People often overlook obvious trends that will have an impact on their businesses. Unless that is, they are open to unlearning." In other words, Uldrich guides his audiences to look at what resides below the water line, teaches them how to swim with the current and prepare for tsunamis.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 28, 2014

Following a series of talks across the country in Hollywood, Houston, Atlanta, and Chicago trend expert and global futurist Jack Uldrich will finish out his tour of ABB/Thomas & Betts' New Product Launches of the Emax 2 in New York City.

Jack Uldrich has made it his personal goal to help organizations like ABB/Thomas & Betts succeed tomorrow by unlearning today. "Technological capabilities are skyrocketing everywhere, and we need to change the way we think about them if were going to jump that curve," says Uldrich. His topic for the final launch of the Emax 2, the latest air circuit-breaker on the market will be: "Breakthrough: Ten Technological Trends Transforming Tomorrow."

In his article on Uldrich, "Start Thinking Like a Futurist," Aaron Hand of Automation Times says, "Wearable technology. 3D manufacturing. Nanotechnology. Robotics. Sensors. Genomics. Computers. Big Data. Renewables. Collaborative consumption. Each one of these is a technology to be reckoned with on its own, full of promise for continued advances. They are all technologies whose capabilities are doubling every 10-24 months...Uldrich is a futurist who spends time thinking about such things. And he has a suggestion: Spend time thinking about such things."

Uldrich makes a living doing just that and sharing his insights with businesses like ABB/Thomas & Betts, United Healthcare, Verizon Wireless, The Western Energy Institute among hundreds of others. He is passionate about inciting people to think about the future in a way that will empower them today. Both in his speaking and his writing Uldrich paints vivid pictures of what the world may look like in just a few short years. He provides an in-depth exploration of how the Internet of Things, Big Data, social media, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and collaborative consumption will change everyday life for all of us in the very near future.

Jack Uldrich speaks over 100 times a year to a wide variety of businesses and organizations, especially on the transformation of health care, agriculture, education, energy, finance, retail and manufacturing. He argues that creativity and action are more powerful and versatile than knowledge. His speeches are packed with energy, anecdotes, and thoughtful business and personal advice that educate, entertain, and inspire audiences.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about these events or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 29, 2014

The Lone Star State and the North Star State will join forces this Thursday when Minneapolis, MN-based futurist and trend expert Jack Uldrich keynotes TRUNO's 2014 Client Conference in Lubbock, TX. TRUNO, a national leader in integrated technology solutions focused solely on the retail industry recently rebranded this past August. Their new name is derived from the phrase "True North" and is meant to serve as a reminder that True North is constant.

TRUNO's mission never changes. And neither does Jack Uldrich's--as a futurist Uldrich strives to keep his clients on the move with the latest technological trends and keep them on task as how to adapt those changes through the concept of unlearning.

"Taking care of our customers is at the core of everything we do," says Brad Ralston, CEO of TRUNO. TRUNO delivers retailers secure, stable and integrated technology solutions enabling them to navigate through an environment of ever-changing regulation, competition and technology, and by utilizing a futurist like Uldrich, who travels the world speaking on cutting edge trends and how to embrace them, they are making good on their promises.

As the author of 11 best-selling books, including "The Next Big Thing is Really Small," and "Foresight 20/20." Uldrich makes a daily practice of researching trends and writing and speaking on them to a host of industries. He is a frequent guest on national media and regularly appears on the Science Channel's new television program, "FutureScape."

As a futurist Jack Uldrich doesn't try to predict the future he helps clients like TRUNO, ABB/Thomas & Betts, Verizon Wireless, CISCO, Cargill, Wells Fargo and countless others, prepare for it.

He speaks on topics like "Unlearning," "How the Internet Will Open a Future of Opportunities," and "The Big AHA." Uldrich says, "In the near future, the greatest change will be the accelerating rate of change itself." And he asks questions such as, "How will your business change? More importantly, how will you and your organization need to change?" Getting his clients to think about these things in greater depth is just the tip of the iceberg with his work.

His pursuit is focused and clear and his audiences are delighted with the results. "I have been doing professional development for 25 years and Jack is absolutely one of the top speakers I have observed. He uses humor, facts and creativity to get his message across. This was two years ago and many of our people still reference his talk," says Mike Smoczyk, of Kraus Anderson.

TRUNO is anticipating similar results and Uldrich looks forward to the opportunity to provide key insights into helping them maintain their goal of "promising to always press on and guide their clients towards security, stability, and integrated solutions when it comes to Retail Technology."

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about these events or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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A Hawaiian futurist recalls the two years he spent trying to end consumerism in Canada.

Jim Dator in Hawaii: You won't like the future if 'you think continued innovation, a new iPhone every three months is a really great world to live in.'

What does the future hold? Jim Dator has spent his life exploring the question and how posing it can improve the society we presently inhabit. He helped set up North America's first-ever academic program for futures studies in 1972 at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. And four decades later, he's regarded as an elder statesman of the discipline -- a futurist's futurist, if you will -- lauded by colleagues and students for the "scope, intensity, magnitude, creativity, and importance of [his] work."

Dator is now in his early 80s and in the twilight of a long and globally influential career. But he still has clear memories of the two years he spent in Canada when his career was just getting started. From 1974 to 1976, he travelled all across the country, meeting with school boards, scientists, Royal Commissions, TV producers, policymakers and even the Privy Council of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, to transform Canada from a society of consumers into a society of "conservers."

This was an era not so unlike the one now we live in. It was a time of global oil shocks. Across the world there was dawning awareness of the ecological limits to growth, and widespread fears that they would be exceeded. Dator's job was to make Canadians aware of those limits, while building an alternative to the prevailing mass consumer lifestyle capable of respecting them. "There was a vast amount of research and public meetings held all over the country," Dator said. "I got to know Canada very well." But the shift away from consumerism he tried to achieve never took off.

Dator's since spent his career exploring four scenarios of what tomorrow's society could be like -- collapse, discipline, singularity or business-as-usual -- to widen our options for fixing today's. Yet when I visited him this July at his office in Honolulu, he lamented that our society has yet to heed the warnings he first began imparting 40 years ago. "If you think continued innovation, a new iPhone every three months is a really great world to live in," he said, "then you're not going to like [the future]."

The Conserver Society

Like today, the 1970s were a time of great uncertainty about the future. OPEC embargos exposed our precarious addiction to oil. The Club of Rome warned of societal collapse unless we could implement "limits to growth." And the first Earth Day created a global environmental movement. In response to these pressures, the now-defunct Science Council of Canada in 1973 called for a "transition from a consumer society preoccupied with resource exploitation to a conserver society."

The Council was of the opinion that our growth-obsessed culture was about to slam into an ecological wall. "Most Canadians have lived through a period when materials seemed plentiful, energy cheap, and growth in size and quantity, whether of cities, automobiles, monuments or lawnmowers, was the natural order of things," the Council argued. Some members urged Canada to embark on a national program of "joyous austerity" that would "question our implicit assumption that 'bigger is better.'"

Few took the call more seriously than TVOntario, which had been created by the Ontario government only several years earlier. While at a 1973 conference in Rome, the educational broadcaster's CEO, Ran Ide, saw some of Dator's "future-oriented multi-media productions." Ide was impressed, and the next year he invited Dator to an intimate meeting of TV producers, educators, futurists, psychiatrists and others at Toronto's Inn-on-the-Park, where for three days they discussed "the role of the media," and particularly TVOntario, in shifting Canada to a "conserver society."

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Brian David Johnson, the futurist at Intel Corp., will speak Tuesday at Oregon State University as part of the College of Business Deans Distinguished Lecture series.

As Intels futurist, Johnsons charge is to develop a 10- to 15-year vision for the future of technology. His work, called futurecasting, uses ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing.

In his lecture, Humanity in the Machine: What Comes after Greed? Johnson will explore the relationship between humanity and technology, and look at how technology reflects the mission and values of the societies that create it.

The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Austin Auditorium in the LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St., Corvallis. The event is free and open to the public.

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 24, 2014

"Seeing the future is easier if you take off blinders in the present," says Jim Montague of the Emerson Community Site. What he's referring to is a keynote speech delivered by futurist Jack Uldrich to the Emerson Global Community Exchange on October 7th. Uldrich, a world renowned futurist and trend expert, will also be helping ABB/Thomas & Betts take the blinders off when he delivers his keynote, "Breakthrough: Ten Trends Transforming Tomorrow" at their new product launch in Chicago on October 27th.

Montague goes on to discuss Uldrich's approach to future-proofing businesses: "Many potential and upcoming innovations are already foreseeable given today's capabilities and tools. What's needed to reveal them is awareness and the humility to give up stuck-in-a-rut thinking patterns that stifle useful questions and possibilities. Then, the will to action can turn these desired futures into new realities...easier said than done, of course, but futurist Jack Uldrich lit some sparks in his keynote address to Emerson Global Users Exchange delegates."

When it comes to future-proofing, lighting sparks and igniting fires is what Uldrich has made a career of, and he loves doing it. "The futurist's job is to focus on the big picture, and point out the 800-pound gorillas that others are missing because their attention is focused elsewhere," said Uldrich. "I want to help future-proof as many businesses as I can against all the changes that are coming tomorrow. Business models are changing quickly, while others are fading away, so it's important to be aware of changes these companies might not be able to see."

Uldrich spends a lot of time researching and 'seeing' what those changes may be--he then writes on those trends (he is the author of over 11 books,) his most recent of book is Foresight 20/20. And following his research, he crosses the globe speaking on emerging trends in health care, education, agriculture, energy and utilities, just to name a few.

His keynotes are thought provoking, motivating and incredibly easy to digest and relate to; he is anticipating a great turn out in Chicago for the ABB/Thomas & Betts Emax 2 product launch there and he will be rounding the month off with another product launch for them in New York City.

Parties interested in learning more about Uldrich, his writing or speaking availability are encouraged to go to his website. Media wishing to interview him, or know more about the event can contact Amy Tomczyk at (612) 343-0060.

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