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The European Futurists Conference Lucerne EFCL aims to be the foremost annual gathering of futurists, analysts and decision makers with long-term perspectives working with scientific methods for futures studies in Europe. It is dedicated to the professional needs of futurists AND long-term decision makers in Europe.

A non-profit futurist think tank, the Institute has emerged as a center of visionary thought, attracting both a national and international following of idea junkies and business leaders alike

Future Feeder / Journal of Architecture and Computation is a resource for contemporary technology.  It depends on your participation.  Please check in regularly, tell your colleagues, and participate.

The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We bring a combination of tools, methodologies, and a deep understanding of emerging trends and discontinuities to our work with companies, foundations, and government agencies. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues.

An examination of futurism/futurology, emerging trends, disruptive innovations... and all their unintended consequences.

The Future Foundation is a consumer and business trends think-tank, the leading consumer insight and strategic futures company. Our core expertise comes from understanding and forecasting social and consumer trends and analysing the extent and nature of their impact on markets, services, brands and products. Our work is strategic and future-focused, advising our clients on how to plan for the future by meeting changing customer needs.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. As the oldest and most respected name in inferential scanning, Williams Inference has been reporting to clients for over forty years.

Translating Trends into Business OpportunitiesTrendbuero's business is the observation of trends and the interpretation of social change. We will not tell you what sort of cars or beverages you should produce tomorrow. Instead we will give you insights to guide your product development and marketing efforts.

Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation. We ferociously track more than 400 global offline and online business resources, as well as taking to the streets, cameras at hand.

Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, science and business that's authored by highly respected thinkers, commentators and journalists; read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers; and is helping to lead the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary.

The objective of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organisations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present.

PSFK is the go-to source for new ideas for creative business. We are a New York City based trends research and innovation company that publishes a daily news site, provides trends research and innovation consultancy, manages a network of freelance experts and hosts idea-generating events. We aim to inspire our readers, our clients and our guests to make things better - whether that's better products, better services, better lives or a better world.

In order to do things differently, people need to see things differently. Doors of Perception (Doors) began life in 1993 as a celebrated international conference in Amsterdam. Since its inception, Doors has brought together grassroots innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and designers who want to imagine alternative futures - sustainable ones - and take design steps to realize them.

David Report offers cutting-edge critical thought in the intersection of design, culture and business ideas David Report consists of an in-depth trend report, a blog which is updated on daily basis and selected tip-offs. With a creative and humanistic approach we write about the latest and most interesting news, ideas and concepts concerning art, architecture, culture, design, fashion, music, sustainability and travel.

Innovaro provides clients a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to navigate the complexities of the entire innovation ecosystem.

Our service covers all aspects of futures, strategic planning and change management. We help busy people and organizations manage risk and uncertainty and create opportunities for growth and profits today through continuous intelligence from around the world. Our members are engaged in strategic and future thinking, trends intelligence and consumer research, business development, design, marketing, media planning, knowledge and change management.