For decades, IFTF's annual Ten-Year Forecast has gathered leaders, innovators, and practical visionaries to see beyond the next quarter and make sense of what’s on the horizon. This year, we are drawing inspiration from Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock as we navigate this era and invite you to join us in our own Sanctuary for Future Imagination.
Together we will explore what happens when society's operating systems—money, knowledge, climate, education, even reproduction—start to become unrecognizable?
We will start with Orient to the Future experience led by IFTF's Jane McGonigal. Then we will take deep dives into provocative themes, among them:
"Today, as never before, we need a multiplicity of visions, dreams, and prophecies. We need sanctuaries for social imagination."
—Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
This year, we'll explore many provocative themes, among them:
- Tech as New Religion: Emergence and influence of Silicon Valley's movements, such as Rationalism and Effective Altruism
- How Babies Will be Made: The reimagining of human reproduction and creation
- Gamblification Economy: Rise of markets that appear and disappear like casino games
- Public Option AI: Efforts to build artificial intelligence tools and platforms as public utilities and other common goods
- Post-Epistemological Truth: New ways of knowing beyond traditional systems
- Self-Determined Learning: Education by, for, and with learners
- Hot Planet: Living in a world where the 1.5 °C threshold in global temperature rise has been crossed
We’re excited to hear from such thought leaders as:
- Author, futurist, and IFTF Distinguished Fellow, Jamais Cascio
- Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, Entrepreneur, David Eagleman
- IFTF Emerging Media Lab Director, Toshi Hoo
- Author, futurist, and IFTF Distinguished Fellow, Bob Johansen
- Author, futurist and IFTF Research Director, Jane McGonigal
- Television and media executive, Wendy McMahon
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Biden, Arati Prabhakar
- Scholar in Residence at Andus Labs, media theorist and writer, Douglas Rushkoff
- Author and Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Maisha Winn
And more!
IFTF TYF 2025—2035
IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast is in-person, intimate, conversational, immersive, and experiential. You'll engage with leading thinkers, participate in AI-augmented foresight exercises, and work with peers who share your commitment to bold futures thinking to brainstorm strategies.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
IFTF’s Sanctuary for Social Imagination brings together change leaders, strategic thinkers, social innovators, and futures practitioners who are ready to move past constant and short-term crisis thinking to envision and shape longer futures. IFTF Vantage Partners' seats are secured. Only a limited number of additional tickets are available.
LOCATION
IFTF’s new office
290 South California Ave, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94306
SCHEDULE
Mon, Oct 27
*doors open at 6:30pm
7-9pm - Welcome Reception & Opening Provocations
Tue, Oct 28
*doors open at 9:30am
10am-5pm - Full day of interactive sessions and collective imagination
5:30-7 pm - Evening Event
Wed, Oct 29
*doors open at 9:30am
10am-2pm - Strategic Frameworks and Action Planning