Ten Years Hence Lecture: "A Brief History of the Future"
Friday, February 28, 2025 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
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- DescriptionA Brief History of the Future is presented by Mike Bechtel, managing director and chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP. He helps clients develop strategies to thrive in the face of discontinuity and disruption. His team researches the novel and exponential technologies most likely to affect the future of businesses, and builds relationships with the startups, incumbents, and academic institutions creating them.
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal.
Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates.
Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public. - Websitehttps://events.nd.edu/events/2025/02/28/ten-years-hence-lecture-a-brief-history-of-the-future/
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