Keynote Speakers

We are happy to announce keynote speakers to the conference: Dr. Philip Brey (The Netherlands), Dr. h.c. Jerome C. Glenn (USA), Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüşay (Germany), Dr. Elina Hiltunen (Finland), Dr. Cynthia Selin (UK/USA) and Rohit Talwar (UK). Welcome!

Philip Brey

Dr., Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Philip Brey is professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the University of Twente. He is member of the management team (and former chairman) of the 4TU Center for Ethics & Technology, a partnership of the universities of Twente, Delft, Eindhoven and Wageningen with more than 60 researchers.

Brey is currently the leader of a large-scale research program ‘Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies’, which is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and will run until 2029. The main aim is to deepen the research into the ethical side of innovations and bring more coherence. In addition, Brey also manages five projects which affect the application of technology.

In his research, Philip Brey investigates ethical aspects of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on information technology, robotics, biomedical technology and environmental technologies. He has developed major new approaches in ethics of information technology, including the anticipatory technology ethics (ATE) and ethical impact assessment (EIA) approaches for assessing ethical implications of new and emerging technologies.

Jerome C. Glenn

Dr. h.c. mult., CEO
The Millennium Project, USA

Jerome C. Glenn co-founded and directs The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank with over 70 Nodes around the world. He is assisting the UN Council of Presidents of the General Assembly on the UNGA’s role in governance of Artificial General Intelligence, author/editor forthcoming Global Governance of Artificial General Intelligence (De Gruyter), lead author State of the Future 20.0 and Future Work/Tech 2050: Scenarios and Actions and co-editor Futures Research Methodology 3.0 with Ted Gordon. Glenn has directed over 80 futures research projects and is a member of the IEEE SA P2863 Organizational Governance of AI working group.

Glenn invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, TransInstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security and collective Intelligence. He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in developing countries which was key to their later getting low-cost access to the Internet. He was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II.

Jerome Glenn has published over 400 future-oriented articles, cited 3,810 times (Google Scholar), spoken to over 1000 organizations and written several books (Future Mind, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration).

Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Dr., Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
LMU Munich School of Management, LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, Germany

Ali Aslan Gümüşay is professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich and head of research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society at the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society Berlin. His research focuses on (1) values, meaning and hybridity in entrepreneurship, (2) grand challenges, sustainability and new forms of organizing, (3) digitalization, management and innovation as well as (4) impact, scholarship and futures. It has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, and Research Policy.

Prior, Prof. Gümüşay was a Visiting Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, a research fellow at Vienna University of Economics & Business, the principal investigator of the DFG network “Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”, and a DAAD Prime Fellow. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Before his DPhil from Saïd Business School, he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

Elina Hiltunen

Dr., Futurist
What’s Next Consulting Oy, Finland

Elina Hiltunen is a futurist with a PhD in Business (Organisation and Management) and a Master’s degree in Engineering (Chemistry: specialisation in polymer technology, technical chemistry, environmental protection and International Design Business Management, IDBM). Her PhD thesis (2010) was on ”Weak signals in organizational future learning”. She is currently working on her second PhD thesis at the National Defence University on the use of science fiction in defence organisations’ foresight. Elina Hiltunen is listed among the 50 leading female futurists in the world by Forbes. She is also listed among the 25 leading female futurists in the world. She has also been listed among Finland’s 100 IT influencers.

Dr. Hiltunen is a respected lecturer and trainer. During her career, she has given hundreds of lectures on the future in Finland and abroad. Her foresight experience includes Nokia, Finpro, and Finland Futures Research Centre. She has also worked as an executive in residence at Aalto University ARTS. Currently, she is an entrepreneur in her company, What’s Next Consulting Oy. She is also the owner of Saagel, a publishing house founded in March 2021. Saageli Publishing specializes in publishing her books.

Elina Hiltunen is also an author, having written 14 books, alone or together. Five of her books deal with the future: foresight methods, future technology, consumer trends, megatrends and the future of Finland. In addition to books on the future, she has also written books for children, for example. Her first prose (sci-fi) book Sinä Päivänä 20X9 (On that day 20X9) was published in 2021.

Cynthia Selin

Dr., Associate Fellow
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK
Scenaric Consulting, Founder & Director, USA

Cynthia Selin is a pioneering social scientist and strategic foresight expert known for developing innovative methodologies to navigate complex change and advance the theoretical boundaries of anticipation. An Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and core faculty in the Oxford Scenarios Programme, Dr. Selin also founded Scenaric, a consulting firm that equips organizations to tackle uncertainty and shape resilient futures.

With over two decades in strategy, engagement design, and scenario planning, she works to clarify challenges, test strategies, and address the societal, ethical, and environmental implications of emerging technologies – from nanotech to AI. As a former Associate Professor at Arizona State University, she founded the Center for the Study of Futures and has contributed over 40 peer-reviewed works on foresight, innovation, and sustainability. Through her work, Dr. Selin invites audiences to consider new approaches to shaping technology’s future, emphasizing the potential for more sustainable and just paths forward.

Rohit Talwar

Futurist, CEO
Fast Futures, UK

Rohit Talwar was recently in the top three in ’the Global Gurus Top 30 futurist’ rankings for 2025. He is an inspirational futurist and the CEO of Fast Future, delivering award-winning keynote speeches, executive education, foresight research, consultancy, and coaching. Rohit has delivered over 2000 speeches, workshops, and consulting assignments for clients in 80+ countries across six continents. He is the co-author and lead editor of nine books and over 50 reports on the emerging future and appears regularly on TV and in print media around the world.

Rohit helps clients understand and respond to critical forces and developments shaping the future – ranging from geo-political and economic shifts through to sustainability, ’corporation zero’ thinking, and disruptive technologies such as AI. He has a particular focus on enabling clients to build ‘ready for anything’ leadership mindsets and capabilities so they can embrace disruption and thrive in a complex, fast changing world, and an uncertain future.

Rohit is currently completing a major study on harnessing creativity, alternative learning formats, AI, and artificial general intelligence (AGI) to deliver exceptional event experiences in the future. His current research focus is on how AI/AGI could enable the transformation of money and financial services and what this could mean for how we live, work, ensure social cohesion, run businesses, govern nations, and manage economies.