Cultivating futures
May 7 — 9, 2024
Futures Week is an annual event that allows participants to explore the future. We will host a range of events to discover possible disruptions on the horizon, confront our ways of thinking about them, and learn how foresight can prepare us for the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Policy Horizons Canada uses foresight to help the federal government build stronger policies and programs in the face of an uncertain future.
Our Future of Sense-making report identified 27 areas of change in sense-making. Continued research suggested that seven of these forces have the greatest potential to disrupt the processes we use to gather and interpret information, construct meaning, make decisions, and take action.
Sophie Howe, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, shares the progress and challenges in implementing Wales’ Well-being of Future Generations Act, and the growing momentum for protecting the interests of future generations in national and global decision making.
This first iteration of this foresight brief (May 2023) explores some potential shifts and disruptions that may arise due to generative artificial intelligence technologies in the next five years.