
FuturePod
The Futures and Foresight community comprises a remarkable and diverse group of individuals who span, academic, commercial and social interests.
Latest episodes

Dec 18, 2024 • 46min
EP 212: Whales, Psychology and Futures - Trish Lavery
Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.

Dec 14, 2024 • 38min
EP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel Miller
Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.

Dec 9, 2024 • 25min
EP 210: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium - Elissa Farrow & Jeanne Hoffman
Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).

Dec 5, 2024 • 48min
EP 209: Embracing AI's disruption to Foresight - Paulo Carvalho
Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.

Nov 18, 2024 • 52min
EP 208 - Doing Good Work - Doris Viljoen
Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field

Nov 11, 2024 • 58min
EP 207 - Colouring the Future - Alexis Tennent
Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.

Nov 3, 2024 • 37min
EP 206 - Ethical AI - Rose Genele
In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast. WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/Contact Rose: https://rosegenele.com/contact/

Oct 23, 2024 • 47min
EP 205 - Rewilding the Imagination - Dana Klisanin
Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™, an innovative approach that reconnects leaders with the wisdom of the natural world to foster creativity, resilience, and sustainability.

Oct 14, 2024 • 53min
EP 204 - Disrupt with Impact - Roger Spitz
Roger Spitz returns for a chat about his new book Disrupt with Impact. Roger is a Foresight advisor, venture capitalist, an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network, the President of Techistential and he also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute

Oct 9, 2024 • 45min
EP 203 - From Living a Life Wrong to Mind Time - Gareth Priday
A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. His interests are many but his passion is how people think about the future and how, as professionals, we can best work with that.