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Program

May 6th
EPFL campus, BC 420

13:00 – 13:15	Welcome and Introduction (Patrick Haack)
13:15 – 15:15	Expert Presentations – Mapping the Territory Ali Gümüsay: Desirable Futures in Organization and Management Theory Mark Healy: Futures Thinking in Strategic Management: Taking Stock and Looking Forward Ewa Lombard: Future Thinking: Insights from Neuroscience and Memory Studies Alex Fergnani: Foresight Biases, Aha Moments, and the Next Michael Porter
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15	Expert Presentations – Pushing the Research Frontier Natalie Slawinski: How Entrepreneurial Energy Fuels Community Revitalization: A Process Model Amanda Williams: Engaged Scholarship for Generative Impact Anette Mikes: Management and Moral Imagination: Constructing a New Political Economy for a Liveable Future
17:15 – 17:45	Coffee break
17:45 – 18:45	Practitioner Presentation by Quentin Ladetto: Technology Foresight – Paving the Way for Innovation
18:45 – 19:00	Group Picture
19:00 – 19:30	Lakeside walk: Departure from the workshop to walk to the restaurant “le Débarcadère”
19:30 – 22:00	Dinner at the restaurant “le Débarcadère”

May 7th
Pelikan beach in St-Sulpice

7:30	Morning Swim in Lake Geneva (optional). The beach is a 5 minute walk from the Starling hotel.

EPFL campus, BC 02

9:00 – 10:00	Nicky Dries: Imagining the (distant) future of work
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30	Roundtable discussions to develop participants’ research projects (in Rooms BC 02 and BC 04)

Restaurant Montreux Jazz Café @ EPFL

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

EPFL campus, BC 02

14:15 – 15:15	Expert panel “How to publish alternative futures research in top journals” (with Nicky Dries, Ali Gümüsay, and Mark Healy)
15:15 – 15:30	Conclusion & Goodbye
16:15 – 17:00	Optional: Guided Visit of Cyber Physical, EPFL campus