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Last update: August 26, 2025
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Day 1 - Thursday, 16 October 2025
Day 1 - Thursday, 16 October 2025
08:00 - Registration Open
09:00 Start of Conference
Jost Wagner, Chief Navigator, Asia-Pacific Futures Network and Managing Director, The Change Initiative
9:02 Welcome & Honoring Clement Chang
Dr. Flora Chia-I Chang, Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Tamkang University
9:10 AI and Green Universities
Dr. Huan-Chao Keh, President, Tamkang University
9:15 Welcome by the Conference Chair
Dr. Kuo-Hua Chen, Dean, College of Education, Tamkang University
Plenary Presentation: Futures Literacy at Tamkang University: the Vision of Clement Chang
Dr. Lavonne Leong, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Futures Studies, Hawaii, USA
9:30 AI in our futures - From the Rights to Robots to the Rights of Humans: AI in transitional futures (Keynote 1) Prof. Sohail Inayatullah, Inaugural UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, IIMS Malaysia & Associate Professor, Tamkang University
9:45 -APFN Awards Ceremony 2025
9:55 Group Photo
10:00 Coffee & Networking Break
10:30 Plenary Presentation: Futures in Governmental Settings
Dr. Trish Lavery, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia
10:50 Tips and Experiences on Doing Futures in the Region
Panel Discussion with:
Dr. Mei-Mei Song National Taiwan University
Dr. Seongwon Park, Korean Parliament, National Assembly Futures Institute (TBC)
Joey Chan, Birdway Consulting, Hong Kong
Louis Zheng, Chief editor, C-Futures & Co-founder, Futurist Circle China (online)
Mr. Khai Seng Hong, Director, Studio Dojo, Singapore
Mr. Hauson Le, Strategic Foresight, USA
Kristel Griffiths, SPC, Pacific Region
Moderator: Angelia Teo Kwee Gaik, Founder Futura, Singapore
12:00 Outlook into the rest of the day
Jost Wagner, APFN Chief Navigator
12:10 - Lunch
13:10 - Parallel Workshops
Session A1: Innovation in Futures Research (Room HC107)
This session focuses on how organizations can prepare for and thrive in an uncertain future. We will explore the latest research and practices in areas such as human-AI collaboration, user experience design, and innovation management. Expected inputs are:
Presentation 1: The Dao of Foresight: Book launch and Presentation,
Alex Fergnani, Ph.D. Associate Prof., Asian Institute of Management
Presentation 2: Foresight and Scenario Planning for Informed Decision Making in a Post-Crisis Context: Experiences from Bangladesh,
Iffat Anjum, UNDP Bangladesh
Presentation 3: Designing Sustainable Futures, Book Launch and Presentation
Prof. Joseph Press, NACAA Associate Dean
Moderator: TBD
Session A2: Gaming and the Future
Prof. Shermon Cruz A, Executive Director, Center for Engaged Foresight (Room HC106)
Session A3: Finding Alpha: How technology shapes generations, and how Gen Alpha will shape the future - A youth futures workshop
Facilitators: Mr. Adam Sharpe, Youth foresight specialist at UNICEF Innocenti & Director of Learning at Metafuture School and Mr. Shakil Ahmed, Futurist and Storyteller, Ridiculous Futures :
This participatory futures workshop explores how past generations were shaped by digital technologies—and how AI will shape the world of Generation Alpha. Drawing on Jean Twenge’s generational theory and global youth foresight case studies, co-facilitators Adam Sharpe and Shakil Ahmed will guide participants through futures methods to explore how young people are imagining tomorrow—and how their voices can help steer more ethical and sustainable technological change.
Note: This workshop will continue for the rest of day !!!
Session A4: Dr. Mei-Mei Song (National Taiwan University) (Room HC104)
Introduction to Futures (in Mandarin-Chinese Language)
14:10 – Parallel Workshops
Session B1: Pacific Futures - Groundtruthing the Pacific experience of futuring
Facilitators / Resource Persons: Sian Rolls, Kristel Griffiths, Christina Hazelman
In this session Participants will engage in Pacific storytelling to ground their understanding of futuring in lived Pacific experiences. This session will emphasize inclusive and inter-generational approaches to exploring futures. Through active participation, the group will imagine future scenarios rooted in these cultural contexts. Following this, they will be introduced to tried and tested methods and tools that support inclusion in futures and foresight.
Session B2: The North Star Approach to Social Justice Futures (1 hour workshop)
Facilitator: Shiela Castillo, Foresight Director, United Edge
Session B3: Youth Futures (contd.)
Mr. Adam Sharpe & Mr. Shakil Ahmed
Session B4: Introduction to Futures in Mandarin (contd.)
Dr. Mei-Mei Song (National Taiwan University)
15:10 Coffee Break
15:40 Open Space – Coming Together, Sharing Knowledge – Addressing the challenges of tomorrow today - Room(s): TBC
Facilitator: Jost Wagner, APFN Chief Navigator
This self-organized session is using Open Space Technology. Open Space give attendees the opportunity to talk about anything they’d like. A person might suggest a topic they want to learn about, or one they feel like they can help others with. The topics can range widely, from highly technical, to pure culture, to sharing a method.
16:50 Final Reflections - Room (TBD)
17:15 End of Day 1
Program
Program
Day 2 - Friday, 17 October 2025
Day 2 - Friday, 17 October 2025
09:00 Check-in and Outline of Day 2 Programme
Mr. Jost Wagner, Chief Navigator, APFN
9:05 Keynote 2: Zen and the Art of AI Maintenance or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Prompting
Dr. John Sweeney, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Anticipatory Governance, Tashkent and Associate Lecturer, Chiang Mai University
09:25 Keynote 3: The Future of Futuring: How Extended Intelligence Amplifies Visionary Thinking"
Karla Congson, Founder and CEO of Agentiiv
09:45 Ways of Knowing, the Long-Term and the Future - A panel
Didi Ananda Devapriya, Professor in Neohumanist Philosophy, Neohumanist College of Asheville
Christina Hazelman, The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Pacific Ways of Knowing and AI
Victoria Mulligan, Director, Design Futures Aotearoa: Mapping New Zealand's Foresight Projects
Moderator: Prof. Shermon Cruz, Center for Engaged Foresight, Manila
10:45 Coffee Break
11:10 Parallel Workshops
Session C1: Learning Spaces and Times in AI Futures (in Plenary)
Dr. Zainal Abidin Sanusi, Malaysia
Noel De Guia, Advisor to the Senator Pia Cayetano, Philippines
Tamaz Gaspar, Budapest Business School, Hungary (TBC)
Moderator: Sadia Hossain, Impact Hub Dhaka
Session C2: Futures Triangle, Generative AI, and Critical Design Futures
Dr. Nadya Shaznay Patel, Critical Design Futurist in Human-AI Innovation, Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology & Dr. Jawn Lim, Design Futurist, Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford, and Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology
Session C3: Hopecasting Futures: Designing Disruptive Pathways to Peace
Dr. Jeanne Hoffman, Director, Anticipating Futures, Editor, World Futures Review, Dr. Freyja van den Boom, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Leiden University
Hopecasting Futures is a participatory workshop using a custom AI chatbot called Peacebot designed to create multiple pathways to peace. Participants will co-create scenarios grounded in Galtung’s conflict transformation theory, feminist and youth futures, Eastern philosophy encompassing the mutual interrelation and the wisdom of First Nations and Aboriginal peoples. Hopecasting flips traditional threatcasting to explore how peace-biased AI can seed relational breakthroughs and regenerative narratives to reimagine peace as a strategic, creative, and hopeful act.
Session C4: "Values Imprint on Futures"
Dr. Nur Anisah Abdullah, Associate Professor, Tamkang University, and Dr June S. Chen, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University
12:10 PM – Lunch
13:10PM – Parallel Workshops
Session D1: Doctoral Student Presentations
Moderators: Dr. Shun-jie Ji
Presenters:
Ed Niedbalski (Tamkang University)
Shakil Ahmed (Tamkang University)
Kai-jie Tang (Tamkang University)
Po-ta Chen (Tamkang University)
“Longing for What Hasn’t Happened Yet: Forestalgia, Anticipatory Nostalgia, and the Emotional Architecture of Imagined Futures” by Ricardo Schnug, Tamkang University
E. Jambangan (University of Southeastern Philippines)
Yu-Yi Liu
Session D2: An Experiment in Cooperative and Participatory Futures: The Participatory Futures Global Swarm Cooperative
This workshop introduces the Participatory Futures Global Swarm Cooperative (“PFGS” or “Swarm”). The Swarm began through a collaborative research project with Nesta in the UK to explore next generation participatory futures tools, methods and case studies from around the world. Today the swarm aims to build a community which can collaborate to lead a variety of high impact participatory futures projects around the world.
Presenters: Jose Ramos, Steven Lichty, Anisah Abdullah, John Sweeney
Session D3: Disruptions and Innovations in Futures Research - Part 2
This session focuses on how organizations can prepare for and thrive in uncertain futures. We will explore the latest research and practices in areas such as human-AI collaboration, user experience design, and innovation management. Expected inputs are for several short 15 minute presentations on trends and topics:
Moderator: Miranda Meng, Infelligent Coaching and Consulting
Presentation 1: Futures of Journalism in Vietnam: Trends and Challenges in Digital Transformation and Media Convergence, Phuong Vi Thi. Faculty of Journalism and Communications and Ph.D Candidate, University of Sciences-Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam
Presentation 2: How can AI-enabled color semiotic (futures) auditing make explicit the integration, trade-offs, and value plurality within sustainability policy—enhancing transparency, reflexivity, and collective learning for more effective, inclusive futures governance?
Russell Clemens, Ph.D Candidate, University of The Sunshine Coast
Presentation 3: The Global South AI Story. Sudhir Tiku, Managing Director, KEENFINITY Solutions, Singapore
Session D4: From Spirit to Spirit – Futures literacy capability development with small children
Dr. Tamás Gáspár, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of International Economics, Future Value Chain Centre of Excellency, Budapest
Futures literacy is a growing area within the field of futures studies, though its measurement and development remain ongoing topics of research. Futures Literacy Labs have accumulated extensive experience in applying various futures and anticipatory frameworks. However, there is still limited knowledge on how futures capabilities can be cultivated in young children.
This interactive presentation draws on eighteen years of experience from a program designed specifically for young children, aiming to help them explore, recognize, and apply foundational skills for futures thinking and action. The session will offer an overview of the program’s core principles, underlying assumptions, key components, and enabling conditions, along with a taste of the exercises used with children to foster their futures literacy.
14:30 Lightning Talks
In this session we will invite a few colleagues to give 5-7 minutes inspiring and interesting soundbites. More Speakers to be confirmed soon.
Dr. Dada Shambushivanada
Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns, Senior Agrifood System policy expert and Climate Foresight Planning Specialist Office of Sustainable Development Goals (OSG), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Sudhir Tiku, Futurist & Managing Director Keenfinity Solutions, Singapore
15:30 Coffee Networking break
16:00 Concluding Keynote (Virtual): AI can create green and ethical futures, if we want it to.
Dr. Ivana Milojevic, Director, Metafuture and the Edinburgh Futures Institute
16:30 Closing Remarks and Note of Thanks
Kuo-Hua Chen, Dean of Department of Education and Futures Design, Tamkang University
Jost Wagner, Chief Navigator, APFN
17:00 - End of APFN Conference
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