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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 29, 2013

Following upon the success of his well-received speech at United Healthcare's Valued Customer Forum on May 8th in Minneapolis, popular keynote speaker, healthcare futurist, and best-selling author, Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver a keynote session at Wolters Kluwer's annual Customer Advisory Board meeting in Chicago on June 7, 2013. The title of Uldrich's presentation is "Why Future Trends in Healthcare Will Demand Unlearning."

The presentation, which is based on Uldrichs two most recent books: "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow" and "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future" as well as his popular article, "Top Ten Trends in Healthcare," will begin by discussing how continued advances in information technologies, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, genomics, regenerative medicine, social networking and "Big Data" will radically transform healthcare in the decade ahead. (A video of Mr. Uldrich discussing future trends can be viewed here.)

Uldrich will then focus on why these trends will demand unlearning and discuss why participants must embrace the concept of unlearning in order to achieve future success. Uldrich, who has been hailed as Americas Chief Unlearning Officer, will conclude by reviewing specific habits, customs, beliefs and ideas that healthcare professionals canand mustunlearn. Throughout his talks, he will use vivid analogies and memorable stories, drawn from a wide spectrum of industries, to ensure his message of unlearning sticks with his audiences.

In the past year, Uldrich has addressed dozens of healthcare associations and hospitals, including the Alcetel-Lucent/Verizon Forum on Wireless Healthcare, United Healthcare, IASIS Healthcare, Methodist Hospital (Houston, TX), Allina Hospitals, The Healthcare Trustees of New York, The Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, Care Providers of Minnesota, St. Jude Medical, Fairview Hospitals, University Hospitals & Health System of Ohio, and healthcare associations in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. He has also addressed a number of major, non-health-care-related corporations on the topic of unlearning including PepsiCo, Cisco, IBM, WiPro, Guardian Life Insurance and General Electric. Uldrich also frequently addresses Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and Chamber of Commerce events throughout the country.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website at: http://www.jumpthecurve.net. Media wishing to know more about the event or interviewing Jack Uldrich can contact him directly at 612-267-1212 or jack(at)schoolofunlearning(dot)com.

Uldrich is a renowned global healthcare futurist, best-selling author; editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning websites, http://www.jumpthecurve.net and http://www.schoolofunlearning.com. He is currently represented by a number of professional speakers bureaus, including Leading Authorities, Executive Speakers Bureau and Convention Connection.

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Healthcare Futurist Jack Uldrich to Deliver Keynote at Wolters Kluwer's Customer Advisory Board Event

Sheryl Connelly is the head of Ford's Global Trends and Futuring Division, where she separates trend from fad and helps the automaker determine what global changes will influence the market in years to come.

Join us to learn Sheryl's insights on how demographics, technology, the environment, and other global issues have shaped today's market, what these trends could mean for our future, and how one company is responding.

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Brendan: Hi, folks, I'm Brendan Byrnes and I'm joined today by Sheryl Connelly. Sheryl's the head of Ford's Global Trends and Futuring Division. First of all, thanks so much for your time.

Sheryl: My pleasure.

Brendan: It sounds like a very interesting job. Could you, first, just very quickly describe your job and what, exactly, you do for Ford?

Sheryl: Sure. Informally, I'm often referred to as Ford's "In-House Futurist," which is a bit of a misnomer, because I am the person that spends most of their time reminding people that no one can predict the future.

What I try to do is help give input to strategic discussions. What are the assumptions that are built into our plans? What happens if the assumptions that we have are wrong?

To challenge those things, I look at trends -- global trends -- through the lens of social, technological, economic, environmental, and political arenas, because while we'll never be able to predict the future, we know those are the five things that will shape the landscape.

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The Future of Music and the Concert Business: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Keynote at Dansk Live 2013
Thanks for your interest in my work! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Basel / Switzerland http://www.futuristgerd.com CEO of http://www.thefuturesagency.com http://about.me/mediafu...

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Video Question for Futurist Jason Silva
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Futurist Paul Saffo #39;s speech at Ethernet #39;s 40th birthday
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Futurist.com Videos
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Tengelmann eDay 2013 Zukunft von eCommerce Shopping Futurist Gerd Leonhard (in German)
This keynote presentation is in GERMAN. More information and download of PDF with the slides via my blog http://www.futuristgerd.com/my-presentation-on-the-f...

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Robert DowneyJr -The Futurist lyrics
Robert DowneyJr - The Futurist from his album #12300;THE FUTURIST #12301;

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MONTREAL, May 23, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Present, an established firm of IT innovation experts was delighted to provide its customers and partners in Montreal and Toronto with an opportunity to hear from Jim Carroll, a recognized Canadian thought leader and authority on important business and IT trends.

Speaking to an audience of senior IT and business executives, the focus of Jim's talk was to examine: What world class innovators do that others don't. Jim challenged the audience to think differently about how innovation is approached "World class innovators recognize big trends are emerging quickly," he said. "They embrace new ideas and ways of doing things and they don't say, 'that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard'."

Carroll also emphasized how world class innovators get in on new emerging markets faster - and how they constantly think of the next thing to create revenue. Another key take-away was how world class innovators will shift entire industries. For example, the medical field used to focus on treating you when you were sick, now it's changing to knowing when you will be sick, and addressing it.

For information about how Present can help your business become more innovative and profitable please visit present.ca/it-innovation.

About Present In business for 22 years, Present is an established firm of IT experts with a unique and highly skilled team. Present believes innovation is a core driver of growth and their goal is to assist their clients in developing and implementing strategies and tactics to spur growth and profits. They provide solutions based on IBM hardware and software, Apple in the business solutions as well as Cloud solutions.

Video with caption: "Video: Highlights of Innovation Conference featuring Jim Carroll.". Video available at: http://stream1.newswire.ca/cgi-bin/playback.cgi?file=20130523_C9272_VIDEO_EN_26991.mp4&posterurl=http://photos.newswire.ca/images/20130523_C9272_PHOTO_EN_26991.jpg&clientName=Present&caption=Video%3A%20Highlights%20of%20Innovation%20Conference%20featuring%20Jim%20Carroll%2E&title=PRESENT%20%2D%20Present%20holds%20half%2Dday%20Innovation%20conferences%20in%20Montreal%20and%20Toronto%20featuring%20the%20world%27s%20leading%20futurist%2C%20trends%20and%20innovation%20expert%20Jim%20Carroll%2E&headline=Present%20holds%20half%2Dday%20Innovation%20conferences%20in%20Montreal%20and%20Toronto%20featuring%20the%20world%27s%20leading%20futurist%2C%20trends%20and%20innovation%20expert%20Jim%20Carroll%2E

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Leonardo Da Vinci; Old World Futurist
This man was a great inventor and genius. A real renaissance man.Literally!

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