Security in Futures - Security in Change Conference, 3-4 June 2010, Turku, Finland

Finland Futures Research Centre and the Finland Futures Academy will hold their 12th Annual Conference on 3–4 June in 2010 in Turku, Finland. By developing images of alternative futures, the goal of the conference is to give new viewpoints and novel ideas to decision-makers to assist them towards more feasible decisions to construct the world a better place.

This conference aims to look deeply into the inevitable changes of security issues. The traditional way people experience their existence in the world faces new challenges. The situation may feel obscure, fuzzy and even weird or frightening. Thus, it will increase and change the quality and quantity of security we demand from our communities. At the same time, awareness of the ways of interacting with the world is gradually slipping away from our own control. To decrease the feeling and, further on, the realization of insecurity, the foreseen changes and the states of the futures shall be brought closer to our everyday by introducing novel and innovative ideas of making the future more feasible. Novel thinking and solutions are required to fulfil the human need to feel secure and to build more reasonable security solutions for futures’ world.

This conference brings together the best experts of its fields in the scientific community to interact with policymakers and representatives of companies. Amongst the speakers are: Prof. Markku Wilenius, Senior Advisor at at Alianz Group, Germany, and Professor at University of Turku, Finland; Dr Yair Sharan, Director of The Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis & Forecasting, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Prof. Joakim Palme, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden; Dr Teija Tiilikainen, Director of The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland; and Prof. Jürgen Scheffran, University of Hamburg, Germany.

More information about the conference is available at: http://conference2010.wordpress.com/