On October 6, our Futurise® Maestro Niels Hansen keynote speaker at Het Verenigingscongres in Rotterdam. As zeitgeist expert and Futurise® Maestro, he will start with a session on social trends and developments. He takes the visitors into the future trends and lets them 'tilt'. An inspiring session that requires a lot of groundbreaking thinking from the attendees.
“What I'm going to do during The Association Congress is take you into the future, show you which themes will be decisive in the coming years and inspire you with real-life examples that will help you make the translation to your own organization and sector."
Don't just shout something
Niels Hansen has been involved for years in mapping and interpreting trends around us: how and why social behavior and the underlying needs develop. "With the Futurise® trend model, we manage to predict the future because we not only map the trends, but because we can explain them with deeper research and knowledge about developments in social behavior and needs. Moreover, we continuously test the insights in practice. To this end, we collaborate with our Global Connectors Network: that are our correspondents in key regions around the world. So we know how trends manifest themselves in different cities and regions."
"We are exactly at a tipping point right now. We see over the years a repeating cycle that lasts about 50 years in which our mindset is alternately defined more by fear and insecurity or more by self-confidence. We are now exactly at the crest of such a wave. The coming period will be dominated by more need for clarity and certainty - the exact opposite of what we have seen over the past nearly three decades.
The Association Conference will be held for the 7th time this year. It is the event of the year where all association professionals come together to connect, inspire and learn from each other. Interested? Read here onward!
