Future Resources October: HOT NEWS 👀
I'm co-founding an actionable futures festival: Future Days; and other news: Future Resources October Takeover, and a recap of Futures Friends São Paulo Meetup
Hi👋 If you're new here, *welcome*. I'm Lydia and I work with futures strategy, currently freelancing with global consultancies and clients from my homes in Brazil and Portugal.
Launching: FUTURE DAYS FESTIVAL
I come with huge & incredible news 🫨 I am co-founding an actionable futures festival: Future Days.
Future Days’ first annual edition will happen 21-23 March, 2024, in Lisbon, and the theme is ‘democratizing futures’, with diversity and sustainability at the core. I am also one of the curators of the lineup, along with Rui Quinta and Monika Bielskyte. This will be the Comic Con for futures nerds and people passionate about innovation and creating social impact. I cannot wait to see everyone there!!
🤝 What to expect:
Future Days Festival includes talks, workshops, immersions, co-creation, experiences and performances around global societal challenges. The festival is a global call to arms to implement sustainability and inclusivity across public and private sectors with the participation of those who are usually excluded from this process. We’ll gather world-leading academics, politicians, activists, corporations, civilians of all ages, disabilities, spiritual beliefs, and minority groups to design the futures of mobility, music, food, finance, democracy, health, education, design, etc. Everyone has a say in what our futures should look like.
🌟 Official partners and confirmed speakers:
Future Days is pleased to be officially partnering with School of International Futures, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and With Company, as well as inspiring futures-makers like Shermon Cruz (UNESCO), Nic Holden (UNDP), Cecilia Tham (Futurity Systems), Monika Bielskyte (Protopia Futures), and Pooja Munshi (UNEP), who are confirmed in our outstanding lineup of speakers & activities moderators.
✍️ What we mean by ‘actionable':
The valuable insights that will come out of the festival will first and foremost be transformed into actions within Lisbon and Portugal, in an effort to support the 50 Anos de 25 de Abril and set Lisbon as a model of futures-driven city.
🎟️ Affordable early bird tickets:
Early bird tickets of 290€ (50% off) are available for a limited amount of time, so hurry and get yours! (Tickets for minority groups will be announced in a few months)
👔 Become a Future Days sponsor/supporter:
And if you’re a company, agency, foundation, government, institution, NGO, etc, and are interested in supporting & becoming a part of Future Days Festival, get in touch! contact@futuredays.io
I cannot stress how big this news is and how excited the Future Days team is to finally be able to announce it. Veja meu vídeo em português contando um pouco mais sobre o festival e o processo :)
Recap of FED by Future Resources October Takeover
I left you with these brilliant 5 women for the past 5 weeks, and I couldn't be more impressed with what they brought to the table. They each have their own focus, specialism, cultural background and way of communicating. I hope you all were as excited as I was to learn from them, and will keep them on your radar from now on.
We'll be sharing the summary of each takeover on our Instagram this week, but you get a sneak peek here:
Futures Friends São Paulo Meetup: Recap🇧🇷
I partnered with
to host the first-ever in-person meetup in São Paulo on October 18th. I was beyond excited to see so many familiar faces and to meet many of you who I only knew from online interactions.If you didn't make it, have a look at how it was and stay tuned for future events!
Massive shoutout to the growing team who help make Future Resources happen: Luciana Moletta, Sophie Ekwe-Bell, Camilly Vitoria,
and Lucas Mirabella.Also very touched that the incredible Tracey Follows mentioned Future Resources in her latest column for the Association of Professional Futurists magazine, Compass.
Access the full Future Resources platform, join FED by Future Resources WhatsApp Community, chat with FR members on 🗣️Discord, and consult the Future Resources Notion Repository.
An epic first meetup, thank you for hosting and bringing the community together!