Houston Futures Studies at the World Future Society General Assembly 2012

The University of Houston’s Futures Studies program—as always–is well-represented at this year’s World Future Society General Assembly. The event is being held in Toronto from July 27-29 at the Sheraton Centre with over 1,000 participants expected.

Futures Studies’ faculty, alums, and Advisory Board members are leading four one-day pre-conference courses.

Introduction to Futures Studies, Peter Bishop
An Insider’s Guide to Foresight Consulting: A Case-Study Approach, Andy Hines (with Riel Miller)
Scenario Planning: How to Build and Use Scenarios, Alum Adam Gordon
Wiser Futures: Using Futures Tools to Better Understand and Create the Future, Advisory Board Member Clem Bezold

They are also leading nine regular conference sessions, joined by current students as well:

The Best of Houston Futures, Dr. Peter Bishop, moderator, with Jason Swanson, student, Learning Management Systems: Machines That Think; Josh Lindenger, student, Locative Media: The Internet Always Knows Where You Are; Emily Empel, Graduate, and Heather Schlegel, Student, A Systems Model of the Demographic Transition
Chemical Brain Preservation: How to Live “Forever,” Alum John Smart
The Future of Shopping: An Immersive Experience, Alum Emily Empel & Current Student Heather Schlegel
Global Futures Collective Intelligence System Advisory Board Member Ted Gordon (with Jerry Glenn)
Our Role in Shaping the Future, Alum & Former Faculty Jennifer Jarratt (with John Mahaffie)
Scouting the Future with the Implications Wheel, Advisory Board Member Joel Barket
The Evolution of Integral Futures, Faculty Terry Collins and Andy Hines
Primary Care 2025 Advisory Board Member Clem Bezold
Models of Futures Education for the 21st Century, Alum Verne Wheelright (with others)
Networked Government: The 21st Century Agency, Alum John Jackson (with others)

We are pleased to see our community well represented and look forward to a great conference! Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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