Watch our recorded webinars featuring expert insights on strategic foresight, future trends and more—presented by our team and joined by guest speakers.
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Persistent uncertainty is changing the nature of leadership. Markets shift mid-cycle, assumptions expire quickly, and decisions must be made before clarity arrives. In this context, leadership is less about finding the perfect answer and more about creating an organisational context where people can take the best future-fit decisions as the ground keeps moving.
In this session, Futures Platform CEO Ville Vanhala is joined by Marc Sosna, Executive Director of the Learning Innovation Unit at IESE Business School, who works with CEOs and senior leaders globally in programs that focus on equipping them for leadership and decision-making in complex environments.
Together, they explore how leaders can:
Improve decision-making under sustained uncertainty and time pressure
Maintain strategic direction amidst a lot of noise
Create learning environments that strengthen leadership capability
Balance reflection and action in fast-changing contexts
Lead organisations that remain adaptive over time
Future-focused leadership in times of uncertainty
Which leaders thrive when uncertainty becomes the only constant? Futures Platform CEO Ville Vanhala sits down with Deborah Hayek, corporate foresight and innovation expert, to discuss how resilience can be built into leadership and strategy.
Drawing on her experience leading strategic foresight initiatives within global organisations, Deborah shares insights from her current research and executive interviews for her forthcoming book on corporate foresight.
Key takeaways include:
Foresight as a strategic capability – how it is distinct from forecasting, how it supports strategy, and functions within organisations
Future-focused leadership - what it looks like in practice
Embedding foresight into leadership – micro-practices for resilient decision-making
In corporate settings, long-term signals often clash with short-term pressures, leaving businesses aware of change but slow to respond.
How can foresight and strategy teams bridge this gap and make future insights actionable today?
In this session, our guest speaker, Akiko Fujii, shares firsthand experiences of applying foresight within the Japanese business landscape and how Mitsui & Co. made foresight a core part of corporate strategy.
PANELISTS
Akiko Fujii, Analyst at Foresight Center, Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute
Aleksi Hämäläinen, Foresight Acceleration Manager at Futures Platform
How leading corporations turn foresight into business value
FEN Demo Hour: Meet AI Futurist
Get a firsthand look at Futures Platform’s AI Futurist and gain insights into how AI is transforming the strategic foresight field.
Hosted by Foresight Europe Network, this session features expert perspectives from the foresight community, with Futures Platform’s team of futurists as guest speakers.
Future Cities and Foresight in Urban Planning
In most cases, organisations tend to react post hoc to new cyber threats and form their defensive strategies by looking at historical developments in the domain.
In this webinar hosted by Futures Platform’s CEO Juha Mattsson, you’ll discover expert insights on the key future disruptors in the cyber space that every organisation should be aware of, and the proactive measures organisations can take to stay ahead of the fast-evolving cyber landscape.
PANELISTS
Tuomo Kuosa, Content Director at Futures Platform
Aapo Cederberg, CEO & Founder at Cyberwatch Finland
Future Disruptors in Cyber Security
How can cities prepare for various potential impacts of climate change? What measures can coastal cities take to adjust to sea level rise? If the earth becomes uninhabitable, how can we build affordable buildings and habitats in space?
These are some of the questions FutureTales Lab, a futures research centre set up by the Thailand-based property developer MQDC, investigates in order to design sustainable urban environments for future generations. In this webinar, we’re joined by Dr. Karndee Leopairote, Executive Vice President at FutureTales Lab, to discuss how they use foresight to explore a wide range of future scenarios and build future-ready strategies.
PANELISTS
Dr. Karndee Leopairote, Executive Vice President at FutureTales Lab
How will the consumer goods and retail landscape look in the next 15 years? From the rising value of intangibles to the shift to shopping local, consumption is undergoing a phygital shift.
Futures Platform’s CEO Dr Juha Mattsson is joined by Colin McAllister, senior partner at the industry-leading consumer goods and brand consultancy Sevendots, to discuss ten future phenomena that will change the consumer goods and retail space permanently within the upcoming 5 to 15 years — some of them even earlier.
PANELISTS
Dr. Juha Mattsson, CEO at Futures Platform
Colin McAllister, Senior Partner at Sevendots
10 Disruptive Trends Shaping the Future of Consumer Goods and Retail
The emergence of virtual worlds will transform how we live, work, shop, and socialise in the future, opening up entirely new frontiers for businesses and organisations to serve tomorrow’s customers in novel ways.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to identify the key trends and change drivers shaping the future of the metaverse in your operating environment, and formulate concrete action points to extend your organisation’s presence into the metaverse in engaging ways.
PANELISTS
Max Stucki, Foresight Analysis Manager at Futures Platform
Miikka Rosendahl, CEO at XR studio ZOAN
