DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH (IN-PERSON)
11:00 AM -11:20 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | Look Both Ways Before You Cross The Internet | Danny Ghantous
11:40 AM - 11:55 AM | What would be the impact of AGI on society and social structures | Helya Modarresi Tehrani
Break
12:10 PM - 12:25 PM | Foresighting AI Adoption: Transforming Small Businesses in Food & Beverage | Vandana Jagannathan
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Transforming Ontario's Public Universities - Leveraging Foresight for Resilient Social Innovation | Jennifer Murphy, Cheryl Green, Ian Rolston
12:55 PM - 1:10 PM | Participatory toward Anticipatory (PtA) Project | Su Lynn Myat
Break
1:40 PM - 1:55 PM | Embracing Strategic Sunsetting and Impermenance in the Performing Arts Industry | Jillian Harris
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Black Futures: Exploring Centring Black Perspectives and Voices in Imagining Future Possibilities | Christopher Wilson
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM | From Plans to Practice, a practical analysis of Canadian SMEs' sustainability gap between aspirations and reality | Morgan Bath & Yaw Sarkodie
Break
3:00 pm - 3:15 PM | Exploring the Expansion of For-Benefit Business Model Across Canada | Nadia Tabassum
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM | Playing in Public & Reclaiming Neighbourhood Streets; Reimagining play as a tool to raise an inclusive community | Bonnie Leung, Maham Mansoor Abubakar
Break
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Intelligent system in food service SMEs sustainable development | Zareen Tse
4:35 PM - 4:50 PM | How to Re-Imagine End-of-Life Care | Rose Bianchini
4:55 PM - 5:10 PM | Project Title: Bridging Futures: From Personal to Community Flourishing | Mia George
5:10 PM | THANK YOU AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM | Coffee, snacks, and discussion
DAY 2: THURSDAY, MAY 15TH (ONLINE)
11:00 AM | Welcoming and opening remarks
11:00 AM 11:20 AM | Empowering small cacao post-conflict farmer communities in Colombia to reach their fullest potential through co-creating their preferred future | María Sanz de Santamaría, Laura Marín Hurtado
11:25 AM - 11:40 AM | Design for Care Conversations: A Qualitative Research Project about Choices and Care at End-of-life | Anupama Krishnan
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Burnout: the interplay of capacity and care within community-centred organizations | Emilio Castillo, Crystral Chan and Marie Succar
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | The Futures of Value: Strategic Pathways for Integrating Profit and Purpose | Nathalie Robertson
12:15 PM - 12:35 PM | Final Project Presentation | Paige Furlan, Allison Ren
12:40 PM -12:55 PM | Invisible Chains: Innovation in a Society that Punishes Thinking | Pranav Miglani
Break
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM | The Stories That Shape Us: Hazara Women Deconstruct Gender Narratives | Mursal Ashrafi
1:50 PM -2:05 PM | From Publishing Models to Cognitive Network-How Blockchain and AI Redefines Academic System? | Yining Wang
2:10 PM - 2:25 PM | Manufacturing Perception: an Exploration of the Global Landscape of Political Influence Operations on Social Media | Giuliana Stephanie Trenas
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Enabling Foresight Readiness: Exploring the Role of the Practitioner Through Multiple Lenses | Sabrina Ash, Mariel Mading, Hailey Appel
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | THANK YOU AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
DAY 3: FRIDAY, MAY 16TH - TEDx OCADU
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Check In & Networking
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Theme 1: How identity can be influenced in a complex world
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Beyond Our Bubbles: How Social Media Challenges Our Agency | Giuliana Stephanie Treñas
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM | Between the Self and Signal: The Dead Internet & a Crisis of Perception | Danny Ghantous
10:55 AM - 11:10 AM | Realism or Paralysis? How fear disguises as logic and kills innovation | Pranav Miglani
Break
Theme 2: Breaking systems & assumptions
11:35 AM - 11:50 AM | Before we demand resilience, let's actually listen | Yaw Sarkodie, Morgan Bath
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM | Future-Proofing Organizations: The Art and Science of Foresight Readiness | Hailey Appel, Sabrina Ash
12:15 AM - 12:30 PM | Ontario's Universities: An Act of Public Imagination | Jennifer-Amy Murphy, Cheryl Green, Ian Rolston
Lunch Break
Theme 3: Embracing the power in reclaiming our voices
1:35 PM - 1:50 PM | Reimagining our possibilities beyond gendered stories | Mursal Ashrafi
1:55 PM - 2:10 PM | The Future Is Ours: Black Imagination and Possibilities | Christopher Wilson
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Reimagining End-of-Life care | Rose Bianchini
Break
Theme 4: Designing a future of possibilities
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM | Humbling Design by Sensing Rhythms | Zaid Khan
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM | Wisdom at the Edges: Lessons from Resilience, Creativity, and Recovery | Jillian Harris
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Shaping Our Futures Through Design | Dr Lesley-Ann Noel
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Reflections & Closing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Networking