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Upcoming events
11 – 15 Jan 2021: Online Futures Thinking course
19 Jan: SAMI Futures Cohort

Government Office for Science Futures Framework – SAMI Prospectus
SAMI is on the GO-Science Futures Framework, meaning that a wide range of public sector bodies can easily to commission futures projects from us. For more information go to our Government page or download our Prospectus.

Charity appointment
We congratulate SAMI Associate Keith Leslie on his appointment as the new Chair of the Samaritans. He will be an excellent leader for this wonderful charity

New book
SAMI Principal Joe Ravetz has published a new book “Deeper City: Collective Intelligence and the Pathways from Smart to Wise”.

Training
We are now running our public Futures Thinking course online. The next course will run from 11-15 January 2021 in five sessions, starting at 10:00am (UK time) each day and lasting one and a half to two hours each. The course fee is £490 + VAT, and discounts may be available for self-funded individuals. For more information, or if you wish to make a booking, please email us at training@samiconsulting.co.uk

We also run a one-day workshop on cognitive bias for Boards and senior management.

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Collation of SAMI Blogs

We have collated our 2019, 2018 and 2017 blogs by subject matter, available in pdf.

Blogs

When oil demand peaks: thinking about the geopolitical impacts of peak oil.

27 November 2020by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

What happens to oil producing countries when oil demand peaks? When petro-economies no longer are able to finance themselves through the extraction and export of oil products, what do they do? The concept of “peak oil” has been around for…

Changing drivers of change – social attitudes

11 November 2020by Huw Williams

We’ve seen how demographics, various macro-economic forces, climate breakdown and technology will cause change. The last of SAMI’s six drivers of change is changing social attitudes, a critical underpinning force. This discussion primarily addresses attitudes in advanced economies, but important…

Changing Drivers of Change - Biotech

4 November 2020by Huw Williams

As well as the technological developments of digitalisation that characterise the “4th Industrial Revolution”, the field of biotechnology is shaping up to be just as dramatic. In our 2018 set of Drivers of Change, we identified Crispr-Cas9, a gene-editing technique,…

Cyber Risk - Should boards be concerned?

29 October 2020by Paul Moxey

The short answer is ‘yes’. Boards should be very concerned. Cyber risk is a growing threat for all organisations. If an organisation has not already suffered a cyber attack it almost certainly will in the future, probably sooner than later.…

Changing drivers of change – 4th Industrial Revolution

21 October 2020by Huw Williams

The increasing digitalisation of industry is bringing together advances in sensors, through the Internet of Things, other immersive technologies, Big Data analytical tools and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Together we regard these as part of the “4th Industrial Revolution”. At the…

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