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Day 2 - Friday, 17 October 2025

09:00 Check-in and Outline of Day 2 Programme (Room HC105)

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 (Room HC105)

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"  (Room HC105)

Karla Congson, Founder and CEO of Agentiiv 

09:45 Ways of Knowing, the Long-Term and the Future -  A panel (Room HC105)

• 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

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) (Room HC105)

Dr. Zainal Abidin Sanusi, Malaysia 

Noel De Guia, Advisor to the Senator Pia Cayetano, Philippines 

Tamaz Gaspar, Budapest Business School, Hungary 

Moderator: Sadia Hossain, Impact Hub Dhaka (tbc)

Session C2: Futures Triangle, Generative AI, and Critical Design Futures  (Room HC104)

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  (Room HC106)

Dr. Jeanne Hoffman, Director, Anticipating Futures, Editor, World Futures Review, Dr. Jose Ramos, Futures Lab and Journal of Futures Studies, Tamkang 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"  (Room HC107)

Dr. Nur Anisah Abdullah, Associate Professor, Tamkang University, and Dr June S. Chen, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University 

This presentation examines how personal values shape individual perspectives on the future, using the Basic Values Chart (BVC) developed by Natalie Dian and grounded in Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s (1961) theory of five core value orientations: human nature, man-nature, time, activity, and relational orientations.  A comparative study with students from Tamkang University, Taiwan (including both local and international students), and Northwestern University in the Philippines. Participants responded to a bilingual survey exploring how they positioned themselves along key continuums—such as technology vs. consciousness, love vs. money, intuition vs. knowledge, and agency vs. authority.

12:10  PM – Lunch (Rooms HC 306 & 307)

13:10PM – Parallel Workshops

Session D1: Doctoral Student Presentations (Room HC105)

Moderators: Dr. Shun-jie Ji
Presenters: 

1. • "Reimagining Population Decline: Exploring scenarios of the Rise of A.I. and the Futures of Jobs and Work" by 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 (Room HC106)

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  (Room HC107)

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 colour semiotic triple bottom line (Rosetta Stone) futures auditing help close the sustainability science-policy gap for more effective, inclusive human-elephant coexistence in Asia?

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  (Room HC105)

Presentation 1. 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.

Presentation 2. Yi-Chun Lin and Anisah Abdullah: If School were like a Theme Park -Desired futures for the next generation of teachers

In an era marked by rapid technological, social, and environmental change, traditional schools are increasingly seen as inadequate for preparing learners for an uncertain future. This presentation introduces an ongoing research project and proposes a teacher development workshop that invites teachers to re-imagine the future of education through the metaphor “If School Were a Theme Park.” Rooted in strategic foresight methods, the workshop is designed to support educators in exploring systemic change, expanding their professional imagination, and envisioning joyful, engaging, and future-ready learning environments. This presentation will share the results from initial workshop sessions and the framework for the full workshop design. The project aims to contribute to a creative model for integrating futures thinking into teacher professional development.

Moderator: Dr. Lavonne Leong, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Futures Studies, Hawaii, USA

14:30 Lightning Talks (Room HC105)

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 

• Anna Iles, Managing Director, Flux Compass

• Luke Tay, Founder, Cornucopia FutureScapes, Singapore Futures Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Board Member & Director (Asia), Association of Professional Futurists

15:30 Coffee Networking break

16:00 Concluding Reflections (Virtual): AI can create green and ethical futures, if we want it to.  (Room HC105)

Dr. Ivana Milojevic, Director, Metafuture and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Sohail Inayatullah

16:30  Closing Remarks and Note of Thanks (Room HC105)

Kuo-Hua Chen, Dean, College of Education, Tamkang University

Jost Wagner, Chief Navigator, APFN 

17:00  - End of APFN Conference