Scaling the Global Foresight Network Across Public and Private Sectors

Large-scale, interconnected transformations in geopolitics, the global economy, and societies around the world are contributing to an increasingly uncertain policy and business environment. The need to disrupt “business as usual” is evident in the proliferation of public and private sector foresight initiatives and, especially, in the leading role taken by the UN Secretary General in announcing the UN Summit of the Future, scheduled for September 2024. In 2023, the World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, established the Global Foresight Network as a platform for public-private collaboration to drive foresight and future preparedness. The Network aims to scale a community of peers and best practice; develop thought leadership; derive collective insights on futures intelligence; and foster impactful public-private collaboration throughout 2024. 
 
Join this working group session to help kick off the network and contribute to advancing this work, and discuss the specific collaborations, products and programming that would have high impact for the global foresight community in 2024. If you are interested to learn more about the Global Foresight Network, please message intelligence@weforum.org.