Peter Bishop – A Look Into the Future

One of the keynote speakers at the 2010 NASBLA Annual Conference will provide attendees with a sneak peak into the future.

Dr. Peter Bishop is an associate professor of Strategic Foresight and director of the graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston. He specializes in techniques for long-term forecasting. Using techniques and practices laid out in his book, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, Dr. Bishop helps organizations and governments around the world forecast and better plan for future developments.

Dr. Bishop’s impressive client list includes IBM, the NASA Johnson Space Center, Nestle USA, Tetra Pak, the Shell Pipeline Corporation, the Defense and Central Intelligence Agencies, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Texas Department of Transportation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Center for Houston’s Future.

He is also a founding board member of the Association of Professional Futurists, an organization that promotes futurists as valuable professionals through networking, conferences, and other activities involving its members.

As NASBLA celebrates its 50th year, many will be looking back at 1960 to see what was going on when the Association was born. The founders also had an image of the future back then, but that image was different from what we have today and, more importantly, different from what actually happened to them. Nevertheless, the Association has survived and thrived in that world of accelerating change, and the next 50 years promises to be just as exciting if not more so. Dr. Peter Bishop will review the forces that are shaping the future today and what some of the surprises might be for the Association by 2060.

Please plan on joining us for this important session on Monday, September 13 at 7:00 AM in the Kauai Ballroom.

As with all of our most important sessions, a complete review will be posted online for those unable to attend in person.