New! Special Session with Speaker Andy Hines
Tuesday, October 20
2:00 – 3:45 p.m.
“Foresight & Innovation: Using the Future to Innovate Today”
Andy Hines
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, University of Houston Foresight Program
This presentation will show how exploring the future can stimulate innovation in the present. It kicks off with a module on how futurists map the future and some of the tools they use for aiding innovation. Next, we'll see how some of those tools were applied to develop a future view of the consumer landscape. We'll conclude with an overview of nine drivers that could provide the basis for innovative opportunities in the future and ask for the audience to select what it thinks will be the most influential ones.
Andy Hines is Assistant Program Coordinator of the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company. He completed his dissertation on the topic of “The Role of an Organizational Futurist in Integrating Foresight into Organizations” in 2012.
In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and the just-released Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has appeared on several radio and television programs, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.
