Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society

Raising awareness of the future and its impact on Central Texas

Paul Schumann

Foresight in the Time of Simplicity, Complexity and Chaos

Event Details

Time: May 19, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Marie Callender's Restaurant
Street: 9503 Research Blvd. #400
City/Town: Austin, TX 78759
Website or Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/…
Phone: 512.632.6586
Event Type: monthly, meeting
Organized By: Paul Schumann
Latest Activity: May 19

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Event Description

What does foresight mean in today’s environment and why?

Seating is limited so please reserve your place by RSVP in this announcement. (You can also prepay on this web site via credit card.)

Price: $20 for members, $25 for non-members, payable at the door (cash or check only made out to CenTexWFS). Note: The price is for a meal, but must be paid for attendance even if you choose not to eat a meal.

Agenda: Networking, Announcements, Meal, Speaker, Discussion

Paul Schumann is a futurist and an innovation consultant. He is the president and co-founder of Glocal Vantage Inc. (GVI)
He has been a technologist and technology manager in the semiconductor industry (IBM), internal entrepreneur (IBM), cultural change agent (IBM), and consultant (Technology Futures and Glocal Vantage). With 49 years of professional experience, Paul is still excited about learning, and sharing what he is learning.

He is the founder, past president, and member of the board of the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society. Paul is a member of the advisory boards of the Marketing Research Association and ACC’s Center for Community-based and Nonprofit Organizations. He is also involved with Texas Forums and Extreme Democracy. He is the creator and director of the Insights – Intelligence – Innovation Collaborative (In3C).

Paul is a fan of web 2.0 technologies and has applied them to his own work, and to create market intelligence systems for clients. He is excited to see their application in democracy.

Go to GVI (http://www.glocalvantage.com) and In3C (http:incollaboration.ning.com) for more information about Paul and examples of his thinking and writing. And you can follow Paul on Twitter with user ID of innovant2003. You can also network with him on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Schumann/645868559), LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/150/603 ) and SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/innovant2003). Paul is a member of The Foresight Network (http://shapingtomorrowmain.ning.com/), We Are Teachers (http://weareteachers.ning.com/), Innovation Community (http://innovationcommunity.ning.com/), Classroom 2.0 (http://classroom20.ning.com/), Changeblogger Network (http://changeblogger.ning.com/) and Spaces of Interaction (http://aacecommunity.ning.com/).

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Ashwin Kumar Raymond M. Rose Alese Smith Gary A Lundeen Derek Woodgate Kai Wong John Duncanson John Berry Paul Schumann

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If you would like to donate some additional money to the organization, please do so here. If you don't live in the Austin area but would like to donate to the organization, please do so here. Any amount is welcome.




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