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Futurist Speaker: Keynote Speeches by Glen Hiemstra

Once you hear Glen Hiemstra speak, the future will never look the same.

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Glen Hiemstra is a powerful and entertaining speaker, a professional speaker for two decades. Audiences have compared Glen’s speaking to Alvin Toffler for the scope of his vision, and to James Burke for his style of presentation.

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Popular Keynotes

Speaking in Las Vegas

Beyond 2020: The Shape of Things to Come

Glen’s updated keynote, offering a sweeping and entertaining overview of the key trend areas shaping the next decade and beyond: demographics, technology, the knowledge-based economy, and the next energy revolution. The predictable but often surprising nature of the future is explored. Listeners are challenged both to wake up to the future and to take the creation of a preferred future into their own hands. Specific developments that are noted, depending on customization to the audience, include telepresence, nanotechnology, 3D communication and entertainment, consumer and brand trends, the real situation with oil and energy, aging and youth demographic trends, confronting the great divides in society, environmental challenges and green business opportunities, and biotech advances that offer the hope of longer and healthier lives. This speech inspires listeners to develop successful strategic leadership and to create the future. Full of surprises, this customizable keynote offers a balanced view of the future, and a hopeful vision for the rest of the 21st Century.
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In Sochi, Russia

Lessons from the Future – Navigating the New Economic Era

This is a keynote tuned to the 2010 economic realities. Glen was one of the earliest voices to warn of an impending economic collapse, more than a year before it happened. In this keynote Glen explores how we got here, and then moves to the the real question, now that we’re here, is how do we move forward? He lays out a vision for a preferred future based on revised values, innovation and new technology. Acting wisely now can lead to a future that is more sustainable, of higher quality, and happier than what has come before. Glen believes that we have a rare opportunity to create a world that works. It may not be our father’s recession, but it can become our children’s renaissance.
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The Future of Media and Communication in a Data Flow Culture

A provocative program based on the online video series “Future Talks,” produced by the Conversations network featuring Glen Hiemstra and EU futurist Gerd Leonhard. What is the future of media and communication when music flows like water, consumers become producers, Web 2.0 grows up into Web 3.0, bandwidth is nearly free, copyright is challenged, advertising is in flux, and the old world passes by with a song? How can “Data Flow Culture” support and extend the tremendous creativity now flowering in the universe of new media and networks?
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Audience Gathers Around

21st Century Healthcare

Healthcare tomorrow will not, and must not, resemble health care today. Whatever becomes of health insurance reform in the U.S., demographic and financial challenges both urge us toward necessary changes. The big three technologies—bio, nano, and information—are together revolutionizing many medical treatments. Super longevity is on the horizon—but, lacking decisive action, millions may be left out. What is coming, what must be done? By imagining the preferred future of healthcare, we can aim our efforts toward the creation of an exciting, feasible and equitable industry.
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Creating Preferred Futures

This keynote presentation or seminar explores the drivers of future change, including technological, societal, economic, demographic and global forces. An eye-opening approach for thinking about the future and creating the future we prefer is outlined; in the seminar we put this approach into practice. With an equal emphasis on future trends, and processes, skills, and models for thinking about and shaping the future, this presentation shows how we can approach future planning with an effective long-range view, while harnessing the potential of the possibilities in front of us right now.
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In Seattle

The Future of Transportation

A program based on extensive work with transportation policy and research organizations, influential in setting the national agenda for the next several decades. A look at the future of energy, of automobiles, planes and trains—and of a society in an age of peak oil and climate crisis. This program delves into key technologies and policies that have the potential to revolutionize the way we move about in the world.
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Demographic Tidal Shifts and What they Mean for Your Enterprise

The title of Chapter 1 of Glen Hiemstra’s 2006 book, Turning the Future Into Revenue, this program examines the five generations alive today – the traditionals, the boomers, the X’ers, the millenials, and the next generation being born today. Customized to the interests of the audience the program may explore selling into these generations, or recruiting and managing them, or both. A particular focus is often placed on the age wave now beginning, and on the millennial generation – better characterized as the “digital natives.” This latter group, larger than the baby boom, is unique in so many ways. An in-depth program might examine:

How big the age wave actually is, and why we do not yet “get it”
A long-range view of how Digital Natives will change the world over the next 10 to 100 years.
Myths and facts about Millennials, and the contexts that shape them.
Anticipated market and values preferences.
Activities to improve intergenerational relationships in your enterprise.
Great ideas for how to recruit, retain, and manage Digital Natives.
What declining global birth rates might mean for our future.

An important feature of this program is to time-shift the generations ahead, for example to the year 2020, when Boomers will be age 56-74, X’ers will be age 40-55, digital natives will be age 20-40, and the next generation will be age 1-19. As Glen Hiemstra says in Turning the Future Into Revenue , “In this first quarter of the twenty-first century, major demographic tidal shifts are underway. Some we see, but we underestimate the implications. Others we fail to see, though the evidence is right before us.”
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Our Economic Future in a Global Age

An examination of economic, population, social, energy, environmental and technological trends from a global perspective—a time of more creative opportunity than ever, yet one of great turmoil as well. As global dynamics drive us further toward income inequality, the fundamental values issues that are raised must be considered at a deep level. Calling upon the creative resources of the human family, this program explores the critical choices and dynamic possibilities that lie ahead.
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