Futures Conferences

Each year, the Finland Futures Research Centre organises its annual conference, an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics related in futures studies and foresight. With approximately 200–350 individual participants attending from all over the world, international researchers, organisational delegates, business people and students convene to the annual conferences in the spirit of futures-oriented information, research, analysis and collaboration. Conferences are held in the three Finnish cities where the Centre's units are located: Turku, Tampere and Helsinki.

Welcome to the Futures Conferences!

Futures Conferences since 1999:

Further information about all the events at: www.futuresconference.fi

2026: Sustainability, Temporalities and Futures, 9–10 June 2026, Turku, Finland
2025: Futures of Technologies – Mutual Shaping of Socio-Technical Transformations, 10–12 June 2025, Turku, Finland
2024: Futures of Natural Resources, 4 June online & 13–14 June 2024, Turku, Finland
2023: Empowering Futures – Long-term Governance, Democracy and Futures Research, 14–16 June 2023, Turku, Finland
2022: Planetary Futures of Health and Wellbeing, 15–17 June 2022, Turku, Finland & online
2021: Learning Futures – Futures of Learning, 8–9 June 2021, online conference
2020: Online pre-event for Futures Conference 2021: Futures Skills in a Volatile World, 11 June 2020
2019: Constructing Social Futures – Responsibility, Sustainability and Power, 12–13 June 2019, Logomo, Turku
2018: Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition, 13–14 June 2018, Tampere
2017: Futures of a Complex World, 12–13 June 2017, Turku
2015: Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems: Where Futures Research, Education and Action Meet, 11–12 June 2015, Turku
2014: Sustainable Futures in Changing Climate, 11–12 June 2014, Helsinki
2013: Futures for Food, 6–7 June 2013, Turku
2012: To be Young! Youth and the Future, 6–8 June 2012, Turku
2011: Trends and Future of Sustainable Development, 9–10 June 2011, Tampere
2010: Security in Futures – Security in Change, 3–4 June 2010, Turku
2009: Grasping the Future 2009, 20 October 2009, Helsinki
2009: Future of the Consumer Society, 28–29 May 2009, Tampere
2008: Grasping the Future – a Challenge for Learning and Innovation, 1-3 October 2008, Helsinki
2007: Culture as Innovation – the Search for Creative Power in Economies and Societies, 6–8 June 2007, Turku
2006: Changing Foresight Practices in Regional Development – Global Pressures and Regional Possibilities, 7–9 June 2006, Turku
2005: Foresight Management in Corporations and Public Organisations – New Visions for Sustainability, 9–10 June 2005, Helsinki
2004: Limits to Ignorance: The Challenge of Informed Humanity. Annual Conference for the Club of Rome was organised together with the Centre, the Finnish Association for the Club of Rome and the Finnish Society for Futures Studies, 11–12 October 2004, Helsinki
2004: Towards sustainable futures – Tools and strategies, Tampere
2003: Scanning for the Future, Turku
2002: Vision Week, Turku
2001: Seminar on Scenario Building, Turku
2000: Futures Studio, Turku
2000: The Quest for the Futures, Turku
1999: Life Beyond the Information Society, Turku