CAN AI CREATE ETHICAL AND GREEN FUTURES?

USING THE FUTURE TO CHALLENGE CURRENT PARADIGMS AND CREATE NEW POLICIES

11th Asia-Pacific Futures Network Conference

16-17 October 2025

at Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Knowledge Partners

Website: Last updated: August 23, 2025

More than just

a conference

Hosted in Taipei for the third time, the 11th APFN conference intends to take a four-track approach catering for practitioners, academic researchers, government and corporate leaders simultaneously. The organizers of the conference intend also to increase the profile of the work futurists are doing especially in Asia and the Pacific.

Along with alternative futures, case studies of foresight in practice from government, the private sector, and the community arena will be highlighted.

Last but not least, the APFN is a peer-to-peer learning conference with extended space for networking and through interaction, genuine knowledge sharing. Moreover, we wish to enhance the futures literacy of newcomers to the field to allow them to make more informed policy and strategic decisions today for the future of tomorrow.

The Objectives

Imagine the futures of Asia and the Pacific; explores disruptions, and create alternative futures
Share methods, tools and innovations for futures thinking and strategic foresight
Support the advancement of methods, practices and complementary approaches to the changing needs of policymakers
Demonstrate how foresight has influenced policy processes and decisions
Promote cooperation and networking among participants as well as share experiences between members of different organizations and backgrounds
Stimulate the uptake of these approaches and exchange between practitioners and policymakers and ultimately to increase the profile of futures thinking and foresight in the Asia-Pacific.

Conference Fee

Like every year we will ask for a modest donation to support young and emerging futurists and some of the catering costs. We would like to ask for a modest conference contribution of USD 100 and for students: USD 50

The conference donation can be paid online via the registration page from June 15, 2025 online. by the way, in case you have to cancel we will refund you the full amount minus the transaction cost for the refund.