Public Interventions


Keynote

Conjectural Futures (a Normals, Deutsche Bahn and Evonik event), 17 November 2022


TED

TEDxIxelles, What changes matter to us the most?, 18 December 2021, TED speaker

TEDxTours, Le futur n’est pas un problème, 26 October 2021, TED speaker


Panel Discussions (excerpt since 2020)

Zeppelin University, Transcultural Futures, 10 November 2022, Panelist for the Futures Literacy session

French Development Agency (AFD), 13 May 2022, Panelist for AFD Innovation Spring

Bristol Digital Futures Institute, 19 January 2022, Panelist

World Bank ITS Technology Innovation Lab, Rethinking our Use of the Future to Promote Development: The Need for Systematic Conversations on Futures (Literacy), 14 December 2021, Panelist

Stanford Design School (d.school), Futures and the Appreciation of Otherness, the Future We Keep, the Future We Share, 24 June 2021. Lead guest speaker

Université de Lomé (Togo), Etats généraux de l'eco (a new currency for West Africa), 28 May 2021, Panelist advocating for the central role of culture in the future of currency and regional development

UN Office for Africa, Human Capital: culture and heritage unleashing the potential, 20 May 2021. Panelist

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Futures Literacy, Decolonisation & Youth, 2 November 2020, Guest speaker

Royal Society of Arts, Realising the Value of Futures and Foresight, 30 October 2020, Panelist and Report Source

Kabakoo, Accelerating Post-Covid19 Resilience for Malian Youth, 23-25 October 2020, Mentor & Speaker

OECD / Government Foresight Committee, Inclusive Futures, 13 October 2020, Conference speaker

University of Zurich, Disputed Memories of Slavery - Colloquium, 10 October 2020, Conference speaker ‘Memories of the Wounds of Slavery, Race and the Fear of the Demise of the French Republic’

ICLEI, Challenging African urban visions - using futures literacy to reimagine our cities, 8 September 2020, Speaker

UN DCO & UN DPPA, The Use of Futures by UN Regional Coordination Offices, 30 June 2020, Guest speaker

FFWD, Global Foresight Summit, 9-11 April 2020, Online conference, Guest speaker on Futures Literacy

ICESCO, The Forum of the Future, 17-18 February 2020, Rabat (Morocco), Guest Speaker on Futures Literacy for Decolonial Futures

FORIM, Prevention & Crisis management here and there: What Roles for the Diaspora, 10 November 2018, Paris (France), Guest speaker


Event Curation

UNESCO Global Futures Literacy Summit, online for 7,900 people (largest UNESCO event online), December 8-12, 2020

African Union Pre-Summit on Gender, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 18-20 January 2016

Paris Model African Union, Paris (France), June 3-7, 2015

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