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On 28 October 2025, Dr Rafael Popper took the TEDx stage at TEDx MedUniGraz (Austria) with a talk titled “Thriving on Surprise – SMART Futures for Sustainable Growth.” Drawing on 25+ years of global foresight practice, h...

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Uruguay’s first energy transition is already a standout. In a recent interview with Lic. Lucía Barrios Rodríguez for la diaria, Dr Rafael Popper explored why the next chapter could be even bigger: Uruguay has the conditi...

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On 24 November 2025 in Santiago, Dr Rafael Popper opened UN ECLAC’s expert meeting “Governing with the Future in Mind: Expert Dialogue on Foresight and Public Policy” with the keynote “Future visions and public policies:...

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On 11 November 2025, Dr Rafael Popper was invited to deliver the opening keynote at the international event “Driving Innovation and the Development of the Digital Ecosystem for Telecommunications Users” in Lima, Peru.

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Futures Capacity Academy’s Dr Rafael Popper took the TEDx MedUniGraz stage at the Medizinische Universität Graz under the theme Tomorrow Starts Now, joining an international group of speakers and performers for an event ...

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Finland’s startup scene is built on speed, ingenuity and world-class execution. But in a world of volatile costs, shifting regulation, fast-moving tech and changing customer habits, speed alone is not a strategy.

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Between 6 and 10 October 2025, Futures Capacity Academy and Futures Diamond delivered a 5-day executive foresight course in Warsaw, Poland: “Harnessing Disruption: Strategic Foresight for Resilience & Growth”, directed b...

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In October 2025, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published Shaping the future of an African VC landscape as part of its Foresight Brief Series, developed under the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance...

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Futures Capacity Academy is pleased to share a recent milestone: Dr Rafael Popper delivered a Strategic Foresight Masterclass for the UNECE Working Party on Transport Trends and Economics (WP.5) in Geneva.

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Futures Capacity Academy is proud to mark a recent milestone in global AI governance capacity-building: Dr Rafael Popper served as an ITU Consultant and delivered the Executive Masterclass “Strategic Foresight for AI Col...

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Futures Capacity Academy contributed to the Expert Workshop on Public Innovation and Managing Transformations, hosted by the Faculty of Administration Sciences at Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia). The workshop conv...

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Futures Capacity Academy is pleased to share a new open-access journal article that strengthens one of the foundations behind our work on strategy, foresight and sustainable innovation governance.

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Between 26-27 June 2025, ECLAC (United Nations) convened the Second Regional Conference of Parliamentary Future Committees in Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, bringing together parliamentary leaders, policy e...

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At Futures Capacity Academy, we often say that AI can accelerate insight – but it can’t replace judgement, values, or strategic choice. That’s why we’re pleased to share a new open-access paper co-authored by Dr Rafael P...

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Futures Capacity Academy is pleased to highlight Dr Rafael Popper’s keynote contribution to the European Bioeconomy Scientific Forum 2025, hosted by the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu Campus) and focused on boost...

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Between 8-11 June 2025, the 3rd G20 Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG) and AI Task Force meetings concluded in Polokwane, Limpopo Province (South Africa), bringing together delegates and partners to advance practical c...

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At Crowdhelix’s Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society event in London – hosted with the University of Greenwich – Futures Capacity Academy was pleased to see strategic foresight positioned where it belongs: as a prac...

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Futures4Europe Conference 2025 brought the European foresight community together in Vienna to explore Future-Oriented Collective Intelligence (FOCI) – how we combine evidence, participation and new tools to navigate unce...

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On 5 April, Futures Capacity Academy (with Futures Diamond) delivered a 3-hour Executive Masterclass designed for leaders who need to make decisions when the ground keeps shifting – across policy, innovation, risk and st...

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Disruption is no longer an exception – it’s the operating context. Our new open-access journal article introduces the Sustainable Disruptive Growth (SD-Growth) Model: a research-driven way to anticipate shocks early, und...

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On 31 January 2025, Opolo Global Innovation launched its new volume, “Redefining Innovation and Entrepreneurship for 21st Century Ventures”, unveiled in Lagos, Nigeria. At 799 pages, the book brings together insights fro...

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Futures Capacity Academy is pleased to highlight Dr Rafael Popper’s role in the design and leadership of CFI-Barcelona (Centre for Funding and Innovation) at La Salle Universitat Ramon Llull – an initiative created to st...

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Futures Capacity Academy is pleased to share that Dr Rafael Popper has been recognised as one of Global Gurus’ Top 30 Futurist Professionals for 2025.

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A new CFI Working Paper – Action Roadmaps for More Resilient Research and Innovation Futures – sets out 50 practical recommendations to help shape Europe’s next Framework Programme (FP10) around resilience, sustainabilit...

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Europe’s next Framework Programme for Research & Innovation (FP10) will be shaped in a world of sharper geopolitical tension, faster tech shifts, and rising pressure to deliver resilience, sustainability and inclusion. T...

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On 21 November 2024, Futures Capacity Academy contributed to the PAC 2024 Annual Conference Programme – “Foresight culture: towards institutionalisation” – with a Spanish-language keynote by Dr Rafael Popper:

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At the Global Innovation Forum 2024 (GIF 2024) in Valletta, Malta (29 October 2024), Dr Rafael Popper supported the programme in several roles—bringing strategic foresight into conversations on digital innovation, policy...

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Futures Capacity Academy was pleased to support the maiden SciBiz Annual Conference 2024 in Nigeria, where Dr Rafael Popper delivered the keynote on: “Integrating Research, Innovation and Policy: a Triple Helix pathway t...

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