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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 08, 2014

Thomas Chermack, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and Founder and Director of the Scenario Planning Institute, asks the question: Whats the value of a single strategic insight that allows you to avoid some catastrophic event? Futurist Jack Uldrich makes a living talking with people about the answers to that very question.

On May 8th, Uldrich will deliver his keynote, "The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof Your Property and Casualty Insurance Business Against Tomorrow's Transformational Trends" in Marana, AZ to the expert providers of personal, commercial, and special risk insurance at the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.

The Fireman's Fund has been a provider of specialized insurance solutions for 150 years. So future-proofing for others is what they are all about. The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company has helped rebuild cities, underwritten major construction projects, and managed risk for the world's most popular films. As an industry leader in high net worth, entertainment, and green insurance, they innovate to serve customer needs. Now they have selected futurist and trend expert Jack Uldrich to talk with them about how to future-proof their own business in the coming years.

Uldrich's keynote aims to keep them on track and step up their game. Some of the topics that he will address with the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company are included in this Article: Five Foreseeable Future Risks. Other highlights will include how leaders at the FFIC can learn to embrace ambiguity;" why finding a reverse mentor could be crucial; and why taking small risks may very well be the safest thing the FFIC can do to position themselves for success in the years to come.

In the past year, Uldrich has spoken to numerous property and casual insurance firms including Guardian Life Insurance, The Insurance Service Organization and the Risk Insurance and Management Societies of Minnesota and Michigan. He is recognized as a leading expert in the field of change management and unlearning, and has delivered custom designed keynotes to hundreds of organizations both nationally and internationally. Recent engagements include the Verizon Wireless' Connected Technology Tour, the AMA, Chu Vision Foundation, Fiatech, TEXPERS, the Million Dollar Round Table in Malaysia, and The Allan P. Kirby Lecture Series at Wilkes University. You can take a look at his thoughts on "unlearning" in this video clip.

He was also recently awarded the Bellwether Book Award for his book, Foresight 20/20. A synopsis of some of Uldrich's ideas on tomorrow's transformational technologies can be found in this Forbes article: http://smallbusiness.forbes.com/small-business-articles/10-game-changing-technological-trends-transforming-tomorrow-2880.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, technology forecaster, best-selling author, editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net.

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Protecting the Future: Trend Expert and Futurist Jack Uldrich to Deliver Keynote to the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

Our futurist friend and colleague Gerd Leonhard wrote last year about 7 digital trends for SwissNex San Francisco, a project of the Swiss Consulate in San Francisco (Gerd resides in Basel). It is a nice summary of several features of what I call a data flow society. His seven for the next 5 years

1. The end of offline. Our entire lives have merged with the data flow. We can escape, but few do for long.

2.Global consumerization of IT. Really interesting trend where consumers and young employees pull IT departments along, rather than the other way round.

3.Revolution in data-input methods. Weve been waiting for this, but do you find yourself swiping, waving, pointing at or speaking to your devices more and more? I do. Out there in the labs is a lot work on direct brain to machine interfaces.

4.Almost all business is socially-driven (especially those based on digital products). Peer to peer recommendations, ratings, endorsements and all kinds of Likeonomics essentially replace CRM; the same goes for hiring and general HR needs. 5. Big Data everywhere! Data levels, depth, and sheer frequency reach unimaginable pace and proportions, and anyone/anything having to do with data-mining and management is in high demand. Key issue is how to make meaning trump noise.

6.We are shifting from downloads to flows and from stuff to bits, both in terms of technology as well as user behavior and consumption habits. Information accessed and filtered and sifted when and where and how its needed.

7.The Internet of Things and pervasive machine-to-machine connectivity become very real.

Great stuff as always from Gerd.

And a special note: his new web video series that he is calling The Future Show launches on Monday, 28 April 2014. Check it out. Good luck Gerd, and hey, maybe he will interview us one day!

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The Industrial Designers Society of America's Designing Innovation' panel discussion took place in San Francisco yesterday.

The event was sponsored by Ford, with strategic design director, Freeman Thomas taking a place on the panel. Having parked a C-MAX Energi and new F-150 in the venue, Ford's influence weighed rather heavily, particularly in the early moments.

However, the conversation flowed more freely when panel moderator, Nathan Shedroff from California College of the Arts, asked what today's designers should be thinking about.

Although also referencing his own work the Sayl chair for Herman Miller, and the Sodastream Fuseproject CEO Yves Bhar made a valid point about sustainability and the need "to move to a stage where design and sustainability aren't two separate fields."

His design for Sodastream stripped away the need for paint, making it lighter, simpler, and cheaper to produce and distribute. Thomas added that "eliminating the [car's] paint job is one of our [Ford's] goals."

Simplification was a key message, as a major challenge for designers is to create products from fewer parts that are easier to manufacture, although the development of this is hugely costly. The panel agreed that the success of Apple's aluminum unibody architecture proved spending big could mean greater longer-term rewards.

Autodesk technology futurist, Jordan Brandt (unsurprisingly) highlighted the importance of computing, saying "the face of design is going to be changing pretty dramatically in the next decade through computation."

However, while there was agreement that this change is being driven by a more accurate and plentiful accumulation of quantitive data, there's a long way to go before the same can be said for qualitative information.

Bhar talked of 'the industrial internet' that's acquiring data from products 24/7, but that is "still only a portion of the design equation." He remained to be convinced of a computer's ability to record how something makes a person feel.

Therefore, there's still a role for the designer to combine their experience of how the senses trigger a consumer's emotions with quantitative data to influence a product as it is developed.

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May 2014 - Futurist Michio Kaku at DePauw University for Ubben Lecture
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New social contract when data is the new Oil - Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard
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Connectivity is like Oxygen. Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at ITU Telecom World Bangkok (excerpt)
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Tapping Your Inner Futurist: The Future of Transportation Mobility
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Town Futurist: Futurist of Futures Past
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Today, the New York Times asked seven entrepreneurs and tech executives about what's in store for the future. It's a fascinating snapshot of futurist thinking in 2014. But these aren't just the dreams of tomorrow most of them are the dreams of yesterday's tomorrows as well.

This isn't to say that all of these predictions are doomed to fail. In fact, most of them seem quite plausible. But it's important to put them in a historical context anytime we're prognosticating. Nobody can predict the future with absolute certainty, and that's actually what makes futurism so fun.

Below I've taken a small sample of the 2014 predictions published at the New York Times and dropped in a few similar predictions from history. Honestly, this list doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. But it's a reminder that we've been promised many of these things before.

2014: "Personalized medicine. Imagine a unique drug that's printed for you and your condition based on your individual gene sequencing." [Reid Hoffman]

1997: "Around 2012, a gene therapy for cancer is perfected. Five years later, almost one-third of the 4,000 known genetic diseases can be avoided through genetic manipulation." [July 1997 issue of Wired magazine]

1996: "In fact, it could be possible within 10 yearsand certainly within 20for you to carry around a smart card containing your complete genetic makeup. You would bring it with you when visiting your doctor, and the doctor would use it to prescribe medications or other treatments to meet your own specific needs. This is one example of the overarching trend of technology becoming more personalized in the decade ahead." [July-August 1996 The Futurist magazine]

2014: "Higher education." [Ev Williams]

1935: "We will undoubtedly have lectures of every conceivable kind present to us right in our homes, when practical television arrives, possibly a year or two off. Mathematics, geometry, and dozens of other subjects will be 'apple pie' so far as broadcasting them through the air by radio is concerned, when television is available for the purpose, compared to the present situation when it is quite impractical to attempt giving lectures on geometry or other subjects, which really require diagrams or pictures to make them clear to the uninitiated." [April 1935 Short Wave Craft magazine]

2014: "Keys." [Sebastian Thrun]

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