David Smith

David is recognised as a leading strategic futurist who combines the experience gained from an established IT and business career with strategic visioning to help organisations better prepare for the future. His career has spanned European and US corporations and he has worked in commercial and financial markets. He recognises the importance of embracing new business models, technologies and opportunities as they present themselves and understands the challenges that these present to nations and organisations.

Before establishing Global Futures and Foresight, an independent futures research firm, he created and ran the Unisys Global Future Forum. Prior to this he was head of strategic marketing for their $2bn global financial services business. He is an international keynote speaker and author of many works on embracing change and the drivers of change.

Global Futures and Foresight is a research and consulting organisation that helps organisations be better prepared to embrace change, innovate and develop new strategies and solutions and helps clients to avoid the risk of being blindsided by external disruptive change.

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• Wed. 19th May 2021 - Future thinking: Purpose, benefits, methods, examples and exercises, three horizons and ELM