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Erran Carmel, PhD,
is a Professor at 麻豆视频鈥檚 Kogod School of Business. He is a former dean and former department chair. As a futurist he has been teaching futures classes since 2010 at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, he teaches or has taught courses on: technology strategy, emerging technology, blockchain, collaborative technology, digital commerce, and more. He writes on the future, including recently听鈥淭he multi-dimensional space of the futures of work.鈥澨鼿e is best known for his multi-decade research on the globalization of technology work鈥攁nd is the author of three books in this area. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Haifa (Israel), University College Dublin (Ireland), Universidad Adolfo Ib谩帽ez (Chile), Beijing Normal University (China), and Ca鈥 Foscari University of Venice (Italy).
Jerome Glenn, PhD h.c.
is the CEO of The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank with 70 Nodes around the world, which produces the State of the Future reports for the past 25 years. He is the lead editor of Futures Research Methodology 3.0 the largest collection of internationally peer-reviewed futures methods. He invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security and collective Intelligence.鈥
He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. More recently he has conducted a global assessment of the five foresight elements of UN reform in Our Common Agenda by the UN Secretary-General and exploring global governance options for the transition from artificial narrow intelligence to artificial general intelligence. He has published over 150 future-oriented articles, spoken to over 1000 organizations, written several books (Future Mind, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration), and has conducted 58 futures research studies.听
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Christopher B. Jones, PhD,
is Executive Director, the Transnormal Institute (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Senior Fellow, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS, London); Fellow, World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF); and member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He graduated (MA & PhD) from the University of Hawaii Alternative Futures program, taught political science and futures studies in the US state systems of higher education in Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, and Colorado, and worked for 15 years in the Walden University graduate school of Public Policy and Administration. Jones was one of the first interns at the Institute for Alternative Futures, taught for the MS Program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clearlake (2001-2004), served as Secretary-General of the WFSF (2001-2005), and is a听Futures听editorial board member.
Chris specializes in qualitative futures inquiry, brainstorming and creativity, horizon scanning and emerging issues analysis, scenario building, visioning, and strategic foresight planning. His interests include artificial intelligence, space development, cyber security, women鈥檚 futures, indigenous futures, deep/dark ecology, global weirding and accelerating warming, Collapse images of the future, non-Western futures, global consciousness, posthumanism, and postnormal times analysis. Jones鈥 recent futures work includes futures literacy and sustainability policy development for the Ministry of Education, Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and postnormal times (PNT) analysis, futures literacy, and PNT simulations for CPPFS and the Prime Minister鈥檚 Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.