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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - April 11, 2017) - Spigit today announced the keynote speakers for Ignite 2017, the premier conference for innovation leaders and executives, held in San Francisco on May 4th, 2017. IBM Watson's VP of Strategic Partnerships, Damion Heredia, and renowned thought-leader and author, Robert Tucker, will share insights on innovation with the Ignite audience in two keynote addresses.

The morning of Ignite will bring Damion Heredia to the stage, where he'll share his unique perspective on artificial intelligence, its capabilities, and the role it plays in the future of ideation across industries.

In the afternoon, Robert Tucker, president of The Innovation Resource, and author of seven books focused on innovation, will address the audience in a second keynote presentation. Mr. Tucker is a futurist and innovation coach, who has brought his practical and empowering message to thousands of audiences around the world. Two hundred of the Fortune 500 companies have benefitted from his strategies, and he is best known for advocating that innovation must become an embedded, systematic enterprise-wide process that drives growth, engagement, and competitive advantage.

"We're thrilled to welcome Damion Heredia and Robert Tucker to Ignite as our keynote speakers," stated Amy Millard, Chief Marketing Officer of Spigit. "From artificial intelligence to collective intelligence, Ignite 2017 will energize and inspire our customers and the broader innovation community."

Mr. Heredia and Mr. Tucker will join numerous executives and thought-leaders speaking at Ignite, including presenters from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group, Cambia Health Solutions, Li & Fung, Duke Energy, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, UC Berkeley, and more.

Over 200 innovation leaders and executives from every major industry will be in attendance. The audience comes from the likes of Wells Fargo, AIG, American Express, Booz Allen Hamilton, Campbell Soup, Deloitte, Capital One, IBM and more. In the afternoon, attendees will choose between a variety of panels focused on ideation use-cases in new product development, marketing, bringing ideas to market, and more.

From keynotes to panels, Ignite provides actionable takeaways from domain experts around current and emerging trends impacting enterprises around the world. This includes digital transformation, customer experience, culture of innovation, employee engagement, and others. This year the conference includes a new Partner Pavilion featuring products and services from IBM, Topcoder, Launchpad Central, and Booz Allen Hamilton. The Ignite conference will also continue its tradition of pre-conference Innovation Workshops on May 3, structured to help customer attendees build and grow successful innovation programs.

About Spigit Spigit is the largest provider of ideation management software to some of the world's foremost companies, including AT&T, Citibank, Duke Energy, MetLife, Pfizer, Unilever, UnitedHealth Group and more. Spigit has powered ideation for large enterprises across major industries of financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and energy. For a demo, click here.

Spigit enables enterprises to harness the collective intelligence of their employees, customers and partners to solve today's problems, maximize tomorrow's opportunities and accelerate innovation. Spigit's ideation management platform scales across the enterprise to surface the best ideas. Spigit global HQ is in San Francisco, European HQ in London, and our Asia-Pacific HQ is in Sydney. Learn more at http://www.spigit.com.

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The save the futurist campaign group has started legal proceedings against Scarborough Borough Council seeking permission to judicially review its decisions of 9th and 17th January 2017 to demolish Scarboroughs Futurist Theatre.

In order to take the action theSave The Futurist group has been required to become a legal entity and is now Save The Futurist Theatre (Scarborough) Ltd.

In a statementthe groupsay...

"We are incredibly fortunate to have a leading firm of solicitors, Squire Patton Boggs LLP of Leeds working on this action for us together with a leading London public law QC. They have worked tirelessly, over and above all expectation on our behalf."

The group are also seeing financial support to fund the legal action, they say.

This action is costly but has had to be taken in an attempt to stop demolition of The Futurist Theatre. The legal fight has only just begun. We are going to need financial support to continue the action and maximise the chance of changing the mind of the Council. There is now a concrete focus to rally around and this is the best chance that our local, national and international supporters have to do something real and practical to save the Futurist. A little bit of money given by a lot of members of the worldwide Futurist family is what we need.

The legal proceedings against the Borough Council were issued on Friday, the Save The Futurist group say they are planning another Public Meeting very soon.

Scarborough Borough Council have been approached for comment.

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Sara Tatelman|April 11, 2017

Forget crystal balls, tarot cards and tea leaves. Fortune-telling has no place at a futurists desk.

Were not in the business of predicting the future, says Laura Schlehuber, a futurist and a manager at consulting firm Kalypso LP in Houston. But we do like to question our assumptions and prepare for alternatives.

While organizations consult with futurists on everything from technology to climate change, research on the future of work dominates the field, says Schlehuber. Thats because employment is rapidly evolving with the rise of the gig economy and the decline of North American manufacturing jobs. Its just going to get more disruptive, she notes.

Read: New normal of workplace change affects absence, well-being

For futurists, a key role is to help plot the advantages and challenges of the various scenarios for organizations looking to stay ahead of the curve. In terms of bridging employees to retirement, for example, you can spin out different stories about different possible relationships they could have with the person in the future and what the cost benefit would be to the company, says Katherine Green, a futurist and the president of Futures at Work in Chevy Chase, Md.

For instance, a worker could return as a full-time consultant immediately after they retire, work for a few weeks during the busy season or simply be available to answer questions via email or app as part of a brain trust.

Some Canadian organizations have, in fact, retained the services of a futurist. In 2015, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra hired a futurist on a six-month contract to explore the future of listening and how its audience is changing. While the futurist is no longer working with the organization on a daily basis, permanent employees in the marketing and fundraising departments are adopting some of his principles, says David Postill, vice-president of marketing. For example, after the futurist highlighted the growing interest in the link between music and health care, the orchestra performed a concert benefitting the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and raised $50,000.

Everyones a futurist

Preparing for the future involves not just being aware of likely changes but also managing them as they happen. For Morneau Shepell Ltd.s Paula Allen, thinking like a futurist needs to be more of a core competency for managers. Disruptive technology and new business models will affect company structure, which in turn will have an impact on employee well-being.

You can have the best-laid plans in the world, in terms of what your business objectives are, but if your employees are floundering as a result of the fact that theyre going through the change, you wont achieve what you hoped to, says Allen, vice-president of research and integrative solutions at Morneau Shepell.

Read: Why you should hire a change management specialist

Adopting a futurists mindset can be important for a range of human resource issues. Schlehuber, for example, predicts hiring practices will change radically in the future as theyll increasingly involve using information beyond the resum, such as a candidates tweets. Employers may eventually skip hiring humans for jobs all together. Schlehuber points to McCann Erickson Japan Inc., an advertising agency that appointed a robot as its creative director in March 2016. HR is going to have to figure out, is a human best suited for this role? Is artificial intelligence best suited for this role? she says.

What does succession planning look like for an AI? she adds.

Read: Why you should hire a chief freelance officer

And as businesses face rapid change, one critical business decision has to be how you communicate with your employees, says Allen. She points to studies that link positive culture with improved employee performance and well-being during significant change.

If you dont pay attention to how people adapt to change and how they support employees with resources, with manager training, with attention to their culture, the organizations arent going to be that successful in the change.

Sara Tatelman is an associate editor at Benefits Canada.

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Wednesday, 12 April 2017 | Staff Reporter comments

At LPMA 2017, futurist Chris Rolls will present for the first time the results of 12 months of research onthe future of the Australian and global real estate industries.

Mr Rolls says he has spent the last year conducting interviews withleaders in the real estate industry including venture capitalists and keytech disruptors.

Mr Rolls,a managing director of Australias first real estate industry venture capital fund, said many people are not aware that$1.7 billion was invested in real estate technology in 2015 alone.

The sole purpose of which [was] to disrupt real estate industry around the world, he said.

Now, while most of that money has been invested in places like Europe and the US, the first of those low-cost disrupters has already come to Australia.

During his presentation atLPMA 2017 Mr Rolls will discuss issues pertinent to the industry today.

Is tech going to kill the industry like Uber has killed taxis or will artificial intelligence replace property managers? All of those pressing questions.

Mr Rolls will be joined by other speakers, including author and marketing consultant Amanda Stevens, Texan Brad Larson and property management expert Vasili Hadzellis.

Ms Stevens session will focus on helping property managers connect beyond the superficial level, while Mr Larson will be talking about his fast-growing property business Larsen Properties and how property management fits in with its business model. Mr Hadzellis will host a session titled Property Management 3.0.

LPMA 2017 will take place on 3-5 May at Jupiters Hotel and Casino on the Gold Coast. More details can be found HERE.

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