Keynote & Workshop Topics
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Governance
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The Future of Work and the Challenges for Governments
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The prospects for jobs for the next generation of workers is decidedly mixed: there are going to be lots of jobs begging for people, and simultaneously lots of people desperate for work. This seeming paradox is the result of a wide range of forces coming together to create a fluid and perplexing job market: the aging and retirement of the baby boomers; the different work ethic of their children, the echo boomers; the rising importance of the global economy, with its dramatic increase in trade and export on the one hand, and the outsourcing of jobs on the other; and the acceleration of the pace of business because of the effects of technology. The net result is a workplace that can't get enough of certain trades, but seems to freeze out many workers. In this wide-ranging and immediately practical presentation on the future of work and the workplace, futurist Richard Worzel examines the challenges ahead for governments concerned about their citizens and the economy, how it will treat those preparing for tomorrow's jobs, and what they must do to respond.
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Cities of Tomorrow: Where Will the Future Come to Live?
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Municipalities are caught in a strange situation: citizens are intensely interested and concerned about local issues, yet municipal governments have little or no influence over issues like globalization or technology that affect voters. In this environment, how do elected officials and civil servants shape the towns and cities of tomorrow? What will an increasingly mobile population want, and how do you offer it? What kinds of infrastructure should you build, and what should you avoid? Futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel offers a tour of tomorrow's landscape, describing the forces that are affecting our towns and cities, and offers tools to help create attractive, vibrant places to live and work.
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Innovative Government: Oxymoron or Inevitable?
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The increasing speed and complexity of decisions, combined with the growing importance of events and actors outside of governmental jurisdiction, is making good government progressively more difficult. This begs the question of whether governments are going to allow themselves to become largely irrelevant, or create new ways of fulfilling their mandates. In this intriguing and wide-ranging presentation, strategic planner and professional futurist Richard Worzel surveys the threats and problems of the future of government, including demographics, the global economy, and rapidly changing technologies, and assesses the potential tools government can use to turn threats into innovative, responsive, and relevant government.
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