World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

Perfecting Healthcare:

Experience, Effectiveness and Efficiency

A Presentation

By

Kevin Fickenscher, MD

Vice President - Strategic Initiatives

Dell Perot Systems

Fairfax VA

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

To Register

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
To Register

World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do

to Be Prepared for the Future

A Presentation

By

Gary Marx

President, Center for Public Outreach

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, 1900 Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA

( King Street Metro stop on the Blue/Yellow line. Parking in Garage)

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

To Register

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey, M.D.

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Race Between Education and Technology

by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement

by Maxwell J. Mehlman

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

The State of the Future, 2009

A Presentation

By

Jerome Glenn, Executive Director

The Millennium Project

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

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The Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture

by Philip Slater

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

The Technology Revolution and the Economic Crisis

Passing Through the Crisis of Maturity

A Presentation

By

Professor William Halal

George Washington University and Techcast

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Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the World Order Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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PAST EVENTS, 2008 - 2009 SEASON

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

by Richard R. Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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Last Child in the Woods : Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

by Richard Louv

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

(Note REVISED PROGRAM: Replacing: ‘The 2008 State of the Future’

which will be rescheduled for a later date)

Evolution’s Next Phase

A Presentation

By

Eric H. Meade

Futurist and Vice President

Institute for Alternative Futures

Alexandria, VA

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

To Register

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

by Maude Barlow

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Parts 6 - 9 and Epilogue

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Parts 1-5

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How it can Renew America

by Thomas Friedman

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter Dinner Presentation:

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

(Be prepared to/for change)

The coming transformation of Urban America

A presentation by

David Pearce Snyder

Consulting Futurist

World Future Society, National Capitol Region Chapter

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

To Register

The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

By Dr. Robert N. Butler

Parts 4-6

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

By Dr. Robert N. Butler

Parts 1-3

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Creative Value Through Global Networks

By C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Dumbest Generation: How The Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

By Mark Bauerlien

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

By Parag Khanna

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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PAST EVENTS, 2007 - 2008 SEASON

The Future of Management:

By Gary Hamel

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics

By Morely Winograd and Michael D. Hais

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do

By Andres Oppenheimer

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Design of Future Things By Donald A. Norman

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial and Terrorist Disasters By Charles Perrow

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By Malcolm Gladwell

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
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"New Ways of Knowing - The Future of Intelligence and Organizations"

Co-sponsor: Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Greater DC Chapter

Description:

We provide the following three topic areas as a starting point for the discussion:

1. How are web 2.0 tools being used to augment or replace existing business processes to deliver higher dimensions of value and increased responsiveness?  E-mail blasts and newsletters may be replaced by blogs.  Traditional static reports are replaced by wikis.  While these tools and ways of working come natural to the "digital natives" they may represent a learning curve for "digital immigrants."

2. How do web 2.0 tools fit together?  Each tool delivers its own specific value and there is no real one-size-fits-all solution.  Blogs are great for news updates and discussions, wikis make a valuable platform for content aggregation and tagging tools are useful for social organization.  What are the gaps in your current work processes, and what set of tools will help you close those gaps?

3. To be successful, your approach to web 2.0 strategies must be authentic.  How do we redefine professionalism on a platform that demands we "tell it like it is" and exposes spin and incorrect information.  Your "street cred" depends on getting this right.

Panel: Don Burke, Intellipedia Doyen, CIA
Sean Dennehy, Chief of Intellipedia, CIA
Eric Garland, President, Competitive Futures, Inc. and author of "Future, Inc."

Click Here to Learn More

Agenda:
Registration & Networking 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Food & Beverage (Box Lunch)  12:00 PM
Presentation 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Q&A / Networking 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Location:
Embassy Suites
4300 Military Road
Washington, DC

Registration:

Prior to event:
SCIP & World Future Society Members $49.00
Non-Members $59.00

At the door:
SCIP & World Future Society Members - $54.00
Non-Members $64.00

Please click the link below to register:

http://members.scip.org/scriptcontent/BeWeb/events/eventdetail.cfm?&PRODUCT_MAJOR=GDCHP0108

A Bill of Rights for 21st Century America

By Joseph F. Coates

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
 

Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right

By Michele Wucker

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Last Days of Europe  By Walter Laqueur

and

Why Europe Will Run The 21st Century  By Mark Leonard

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Black Swan

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
To Register

The End of Poverty

By Jeffrey Sachs

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
To Register

PAST EVENTS, 2006 - 2007 SEASON

Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food

By Warren Belasco

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
To Register

The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

By Susan Bianchi, John P. Robinson and Melissa Milkie

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Why Max Nelson Won't Use The 'F' Word

presented by:
Max Nelson, General Dynamics.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

When River Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

By Fred Pearce

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Meaning of the 21st Century. A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future

By James Martin

( parts 3 & 4 will be discussed in April )

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Meaning of the 21st Century. A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future

By James Martin

( parts 1 & 2 will be discussed in March ) ( parts 3 & 4 will be discussed in April )

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Bioethics and the New Embryology : Springboards for Debate

By Scott Gilbert, Anna Tyler and Emily Zackin

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling

By Gerald LeTendre and David Baker

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

2006 State of the Future:

presented by: Jerry Glenn

the link for the table of contents and free exec summary at:
http://www.acunu.org/millennium/sof2006.html

( Note: 'Four Global Energy Scenarios' are about 1/2 the print version of the 2006 State of the Future, for the energy folks in the crowd )

To Learn More

This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

By Anthony Flint

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Personalized Medicine Revolution:

presented by:
Edward Abrahams, PhD, is Executive Director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, a non-profit advocacy group that is interested in advancing medical progress through the adoption of personalized medicine concepts and products.

http://www.personalizedmedicinecoalition.org 

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

By Tim Flannery

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

PAST EVENTS, 2005 - 2006 SEASON

Stephen Guerin and Joshua Thorp will present an overview of recent work on visualizing complex systems for corporate and government projects.

 No Registration is required.

Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making

By Jaap Goudsmit

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak

By Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free
To Register

Why Most Things Fall: Evolution, Extinction and Economics 

By Paul Ormerod

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Is America Really Flunking Science?
A National Security Perspective

presented by:
Dr. James Lewis is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Future Washington

edited by Ernest Lilley

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Roundtable on: The Geopolitics of Energy - A forward View

panelists:
Alan Hegburg : Senior Associate at Scowcroft Group and a Senior Fellow in Energy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.
Frank Verrastro : Director and senior fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies Energy Program.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges facing America   

by Harm de Blij

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Future of Air Travel

presented by Paul Polski 

A former Naval aviator and aviation executive, Paul Polski is Chief of Staff to the Assistant Administrator and Chief Technology Officer for the Transportation Security Administration.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds--and What it Means to be Human   

By Joel Garreau

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Anticipatory Learning Strategies for Schools and Organizations

presented by Marsha Rhea 
Marsha Rhea is a senior futurist with the Institute for Alternative Futures ( a nonprofit futures think tank ) with a 28-year track record working with nonprofits and governments.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change   By Edie Wiener and Arnold Brown

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Age Power—How the 21st Century Will be Ruled by the New Old  By Ken Dychtwald

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

Wave of Innovation: Embracing and Investing in a New Economic Framework

presented by Robert Atkinson 
Robert Atkinson serves as Vice-President and Director of the Technology and Economy Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and also directed its New Economy Task Force.

We get a "New Economy" every 50 years or so based on waves of innovation.
What policies should we use to maximize this New Economy?

Embracing and investing in the technology that drivesw it and focusing on productivity as a new economic framework are the means by which we will maximize growth and the potential of this economy.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

2005 State of the Future; an Extraordinary Overview of the Global Situation and Prospects for the Future

presented by Jerome C. Glenn 
Hear first hand from Jerome C. Glenn, co-author of 2005 State of the Future. Mr. Glenn will provide his insights into the collective intelligence of nearly 2,000 leading minds in more than 50 countries.

To Learn More 

Power Point Slides

Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

There is no charge but registration is recommended due to seating limitation. Register

FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication By Neil Gershenfeld

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

The Widening Gaps in Pharmaceutical Therapies: Cost - Heath - Trust

A panel discussion moderated by the World Future Society, National Region Chapter

Panelists will include:

Jay Herson - Pharmaceutical Development Expert

John Rother - AARP

Bill Rowley, MD - Institute for Alternative Futures

List of world class experts will be finalized by mid September

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East   By Clyde Prestowitz

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

How to use Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making with Whole Brain Thinking

This seminar is for: entrepreneurs, managers, executives, and life long learners interested in developing themselves, increasing their creativity and innovation, and making better decisions in order to achieve new breakthrough levels of performance.

Learn how to:

    -    Use whole brain thinking to develop and pursue your true purpose.
    -  Apply a six-step creative problem solving and decision making model with related tools to develop innovative solutions.
    -    Recognize and relate to the thinking styles of others to help gain their support and overcome resistance.
    -       Pinpoint decisions with the highest payoff, lowest costs and easiest implementation.

Description: presents to you a proven six-step creative problem solving and decision making model integrated with whole brain thinking.  Enables you to identify key challenges and develop creative options to make better decisions.  Provides you with the skills to: tap into the creative genius lying deep inside yourself; balance divergent and convergent thinking; identify critical values; overcome resistance to change and gain essential support.  Gives you take away tools to continue to identify challenges, develop creative options, make better decisions, and influence others in order to achieve breakthrough levels of performance.

Seminar Leader

Dan Knight is a speaker, writer and consultant.  He has taught seminars on strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, intuitive leadership, knowledge management, and performance measurement to hundreds of entrepreneurs, managers, executives, and life long learners.  He is an award winning writer and a contributing editor for Strategy and Leadership, a leading business strategy journal. He wrote Leveraging Intellectual Capital with Knowledge-Based Management, American Management Association, New York, NY, 1997 and he is in the process of writing a new book titled Strategy DNA: the building blocks for Organizational Success.  As a consultant he has helped leaders in organizations of all sizes succeed with innovative strategy development and execution.

To Learn More 

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center

Reagan Building, Pennsylvania Ave.

Time: 8:30A.M. - 3:00P.M.

The Next Generation Internet: IPv6 and the Turning Tide in Global Communications

A panel discussion moderated by the World Future Society, National Region Chapter

Panelists:

 Dr. Chuck Lynch: Technical Director, DoD IPv6 Transition Office

 Mr. Yurie Rich: CEO, Native 6

 Mr. Mark Bayliss: CEO VisuallLink ISP, WorldAirwaves, CobaltRacks

 Mr. Joel Coulter: President, Coulter & Associates

 Mr. Alex Lightman, CEO, IPv6 Summit, Inc.

     IPv6 Summit Website http://www.usipv6.com/index.shtml

     and their latest 6Sense Newsletter  http://www.usipv6.com/6sense/2005/sep/september.htm

Today's Internet is not an endless frontier. IPv6 is the next evolution, offering significantly improved security and interaction with mobile devices.

This time, America may not be the leading nation.

To Learn More 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Panel 7:15 - 9:00   

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century By Thomas L. Friedman

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

PAST EVENTS, 2004 - 2005 SEASON

July 6, 2005           Book Club

The Future of the Brain, by Steven Rose

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

June 17, 2005         Half Day Workshop

Workshop: Story-telling the Future presented by Joseph Tankersley. 

Mr. Tankersley is a storyteller, futurist and Senior Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1 Woodrow Plaza,  1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C.

June 16, 2005          Dinner Presentation

Story-telling the Future presented by Joseph Tankersley.  

Mr. Tankersley is a storyteller, futurist and Senior Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. 

The techniques of story-telling are as important to creating powerful futures oriented writing as any quantitative tool.  At this event, Mr. Tankersley will talk about some of the key issues facing writers who need to communicate complex scenarios, outside-the-box, yet-unheard-of concepts, ideas, facts and visions.   The more challenging the concept, the more important it is to understand and use the tools of good story telling.  Mr. Tankersley will present ten narrative techniques that will transform your strategic, futures related writing. 

Location: Embassy Suites, Friendship Heights,  4300 Military Road, Washington D.C. NW

June 1, 2005           Book Club

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Parts III & IV, by Jared Diamond

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

May 24, 2005         Dinner Presentation - Hosted by the Greater Washington Board of Trade

The Future of Transportation in the Washington D.C. Region in 2030:

The Washington D.C. Region has once again distinguished itself this year by winning the number three spot for worst congestion in the nation. The Greater Washington Board of Trade, government officials, private organizations and corporations around the region have made transportation their issue for the present in order to manage what is already proving to be a difficult future.  Please join us as we take a look at the future of transportation in the Washington Metropolitan region and the relationship of transportation to urban form.

Patricia Nicoson, President, Dulles Corridor Rail Association, Moderator

Ron Kirby, Director of Transportation, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG)

Described demographic trends and the current long range transportation plan for the region. Ron has directed the transportation program for a number of years and previously worked as a researcher at the Urban Institute.

 Gary Maule, Principal, RTKL Associates, Inc., discussed transportation's impact on urban form.  RTKL has prepared the plans for the Reston Town Center and a number of transit-oriented development projects in the region including Moorefield Station on the future Dulles Metrorail line and Shady Grove.

 Michael Huerta of the Transportation Systems and services, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.  Discussed on the  role of intelligent technology in transportation.

Location: Greater Washington Board of Trade, 1725 I (Eye) Street, NW, Washington DC 20006

May 4, 2005          Book Club

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Parts I & II, by Jared Diamond

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level,  5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm