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Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 31, 2014

Bestselling Author and Futurist Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver a keynote address at the Fiatech 2014 Technology Conference & Showcase in Huntington Beach, CA., on April 2nd. Uldrich's speech: "Foresight 20/20: Tomorrow's Technology Today" directly correlates with Fiatech's conference mission of: "Vision 2020: Value today. Advancing tomorrow." Other notable keynotes at the conference include Larry Smith, Joseph Grenny and Anirban Basu.

Uldrich, who will be speaking as a technology forecaster, will provide insights from his book, "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow" as well as his upcoming book, "Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrows Transformational Trends, Today.

On February 21st, 2014 Fiatech "adopted a three-year strategic plan to enhance global development and adoption of innovative practices and technologies for capital facilities." Chair of Fiatech's Board of Advisors, J. Peter Blake said, "Technology is advancing rapidly and we must bring these initiatives to reality quickly."

Who better to help with that process than a futurist, like Uldrich? Uldrich makes his living researching, writing and discussing the latest technological advances that can help companies like Fiatech profit by embracing the emerging technologies coming their way.

A sample of Jack's thoughts on emerging technologies can be found here in his latest article discussing the Internet of Things.

Uldrich, who speaks both nationally and internationally on a number of subjects, including change management, technology forecasting, leadership skills, and unlearning, was also recently named as the winner of a 2014 Bellwether Book Award. Keynote clients over the past few months include the American Medical Association, TEXPERS, Wells Fargo, Wilkes University Allan P. Kirby Lecture Series, and the Million Dollar Round Table in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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 can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, best-selling author, editor of the monthly newsletter:The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.schoolofunlearning.com.

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"Transformation Through Innovation": Global Futurist Jack Uldrich to Keynote Fiatech's 2014 Technology Conference

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 31, 2014

Finding a career that you love takes time, patience and practice. Futurist Jack Uldrich has put all of those elements into play over the past several years. And now he is having the time of his life writing and speaking about future trends.

How exactly does one become a futurist? Uldrich describes his journey as an evolution. He began his career as a naval intelligence officer, worked as a military planner in the Pentagon, and served as Governor Jesse Ventura's Director of Strategy. Clearly gifted with intelligence and insight, Uldrich has always enjoyed research and sharing his findings. Thinking at first perhaps politics was his calling, acting as the head of the Independence Party in Minnesota, Uldrich realized his family needed to come first. So he began crafting a life where he could work from home and focus on being an author, which then morphed into a high gear public speaking career that takes him all over the world.

Starting out with topics on leadership, writing books on Lewis & Clark and George Marshall, to name a few, Uldrich quickly saw that his real passion was future trends. Having become taken with nanotechnology in the early 2000s, Uldrich went to work on his book, "The Next Big Thing is Really Small." Since then, Uldrich has never looked back. In fact, he now makes his career all about looking forward.

A sample of his latest book, Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow can be viewed here.

Uldrich runs two paths simultaneously--focusing on the key features of looking forward and "unlearning." What may at first appear to be a paradox, the two concepts actually work in perfect harmony. Uldrich often quotes the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, saying, "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day." And so it goes with Uldrich's journey. He writes and speaks to a variety of industries on such topics as the Internet of Things, how to future-proof your business, and why future trends demand unlearning. Uldrich would define unlearning as, "subtracting habits and patterns that no longer serve us, in order to open our eyes to the world of possibility before us."

To that end, Uldrich has a big month ahead with the following eight engagements:

April 2: Fiatech 2014 Technology Conference & Showcase, Huntington Beach, CA

April 7: Retail Asset Protection Conference, Indianapolis, IN

April 11: Chu Vision Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN

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Doing What You Love, Loving What You Do: Author & Futurist Jack Uldrich to Deliver 8 Keynote Addresses in April 2014