Agenda


AGENDA

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8:00-9:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15
Opening and Welcome
9:15-10: 30

Opening Plenary Presentation
Matt Chwierut, Research Editor, Ten-Year Forecast, Institute for the Future
The Opening Plenary Presentation will Include an overview of foresight and forecasting - why to think about the future and how to do it constructively. This session will focus on the four drivers of change - what they are how we recognize them, what we can do about them, and what they mean for thinking strategically in central Ohio.

10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:45
Central Ohio Change Leaders Panel
11:45-1:30

Lunch
Keynote Presentation and Q&A
Cass R. Sunstein, author of Infotopia and Nudge

1:30-1:45
Break
1:45-3:00

Drivers of Change Breakout Discussions
(four concurrent sessions)

  • New Commons: managing shared, vulnerable resources
    Moderators: Matt Chwierut, Institute for the Future and Chester Jourdan, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
  • End of Cyberspace: blending the digital with the physical
    Moderators: Susan Rector, Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn and Tony Wells, Tony R. Wells Foundation
  • Sick Herd: addressing signs of environmental and biological distress
    Moderators: Jeff Biehl, Access HealthColumbus and Anthony Trotman, Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services
  • Participatory Culture: creating the social fabric from the bottom up
    Moderators: Lisa Courtice, The Columbus Foundation and Roxyanne Burrus, Columbus Department of Development

What evidence of the drivers of change are we seeing in central Ohio? What are we doing to address it? What should we do that we are not yet doing?

3:00-3:15
Break
3:15-4:00

Closing plenary: Insights & Actions
What can we do in central Ohio to address and respond to trends.

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