When expert futurism meets live improvisation. Submit your topics and watch us construct the future in 3 minutes or less.
See Us LiveDo you wish you could predict the future? Come challenge our panel of futurists as they try to do it themselves! Foresight Improv puts our experts' knowledge to the ultimate test by challenging them to audit what they know and improvise a cohesive view of the future based entirely on audience-selected topics.
Attendees submit their ideas and burning future-of questions into a fishbowl. Once drawn, our panel has 4 minutes or less to spur a constructive, insightful, and entertaining view of where that topic is heading. Expect a rousing, dynamic, fun-filled adventure into the future and beyond!
Join us in Chicago for a special Foresight Improv performance hosted by Industrius and the Chicago Futures Salon. Drop your topics in the fishbowl and watch us construct the future in real-time.
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Matt is a futurist at Ipsos and the founding editor of the award-winning "What the Future," a lead author for Ipsos Global Trends and former editor at Advertising Age, Matt explores demographics and foresight through expert interviews and consumer research.
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Annie is an inventor, entrepreneur, and trained qualitative futurist. At Cisco, she reverse-engineers the future into actionable steps for AI implementation. She is a member of the NIST US AI Consortium and sits on Cisco’s Responsible AI Champs team.
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Ian is a "Gonzo Futurist" and the CEO of Signal and Cipher. He helps companies prepare for a future powered by people and enabled by AI, leading innovation strategies for brands like Nike, Samsung, and Microsoft by experimenting with emerging tech before it leaves the lab.
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Alexandra is a visionary strategist exploring the intersections of emerging technologies and social change. She holds a master's in strategic foresight from the University of Houston, where she taught for over a decade before joining the Future of Business team at TCS.
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Henry is an award-winning social entrepreneur and author of "The Future Normal" and "Trend-Driven Innovation." Having delivered over 200 keynotes in 30 countries, Henry brings global consumer trends to the improv stage.
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Known as the "Nostradamus of Marketing," Faith is a legendary futurist and bestselling author. With a documented 95% accuracy rate in her predictions, she is famous for identifying massive cultural macro-trends like "Cocooning."
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Neil is an architect of near-future experiences. Specializing in spatial computing and the future of retail, he helps brands build ecosystems that seamlessly blend physical and digital environments into engaging human-centric realities.
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Rohit is an innovation and marketing expert, trend curator, and a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He specializes in helping brands see what others miss by identifying the non-obvious trends shaping the future of business and culture.
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Michael Marshall is a UX Lead at United Airlines, where he drives innovation strategy across emerging technologies including robotics, VR/AR, and haptics. With over five years of UX leadership experience spanning United Airlines and Citi, he specializes in strategic foresight, research, and cross-functional team building. Before transitioning to tech, Michael spent four years in Beijing directing live experiences, curating art exhibitions, and writing about music for Time Out Beijing — a creative foundation that still informs his human-centered approach.
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[Alexandra Levit is the founder and CEO of Inspiration at Work, a woman-owned futurist consulting business with the goal of preparing organizations and their employees to be competitive and marketable in the future business world. Alexandra has authored several books, including the bestsellers They Don’t Teach Corporate in College , Humanity Works: Merging People and Technologies for the Workforce of the Future, and the new Meet School Work: Solving the American Youth Employment Crisis Through Work-Based Learning.
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