Calgary Futures Forum 2026 is a two-day gathering designed to strengthen Calgary’s capacity for long-term thinking and collective imagination as the city approaches a population of two million The emphasis is on exploring possible futures together and developing the capacity to anticipate change, adapt earlier and build across uncertainty.

CrossDive 2026 is a global foresight and insight summit that examines how overlapping shifts, including geopolitical realignments, artificial intelligence, demographic change, urbanisation, and resource pressures, are transforming markets, societies, and institutions.

The African Futures Conference is the continent’s leading platform for exploring and amplifying African-led foresight. The 2026 edition brings together policymakers, analysts, researchers, young changemakers, and foresight practitioners for two days of bold thinking, rigorous analysis, and practical collaboration.

The Congreso de Futuros is the annual gathering of the Red Iberoamericana de Prospectiva (RIBER), convened this year with the Faculty of Government at the University of Chile. It serves as a meeting point for the Ibero-American futures community to share research and practice, organised this edition around the theme of "Chile 2050" and the governance of the future.

Hosted by Trend Hunter, the Future Festival World Summit 2026 brings together innovators, strategists, marketers, researchers, and business leaders to explore how organisations can stay ahead of change in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. This year’s theme, Unlocking the Human Advantage in Innovation, focuses on the uniquely human capabilities, creativity, intuition, cultural understanding, and strategic thinking, that will become even more valuable as AI transforms industries and ways of working.

Sep 30-Oct 1 in Rome, Italy

The Futures4Europe Conference returns for its second edition in Rome, building on the inaugural gathering held in Vienna in 2025. Rooted in the Futures4Europe platform — Europe’s online hub for foresight — the conference continues the work initiated through the EU-funded Eye of Europe project.

MIT Future Fest is a multidisciplinary festival exploring how emerging technologies, scientific breakthroughs, and human creativity are shaping the future. Bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs, students, artists, policymakers, and industry leaders, the event creates a space where cutting-edge ideas move beyond academic research and into public conversation.

The Futures Studies Conference 2026, organised by the Italian Institute for the Future, will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organisations working with futures studies and strategic foresight. The 2026 edition focuses on long-term thinking as a response to short-termism and global polycrisis.

The esse-sense Future Forum 2026 is a unique gathering designed to bridge one of society’s most persistent divides: the distance between frontier research and its real-world application. Across two days in Tokyo, more than 170 researchers and approximately 1,000 participants come together to explore how scientific knowledge, creativity, and interdisciplinary dialogue can contribute to shaping the future.

Ars Electronica Festival is one of the world’s leading gatherings at the intersection of art, technology and society. Based in Linz, Austria, the festival brings together artists, researchers, technologists, designers, scientists, activists and thinkers to explore emerging technologies and the cultural and societal questions surrounding them.

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners inScience and Technology Studies (STS) to its 2026 Biennial Conference in Krakow. EASST brings together an interdisciplinarycommunity spanning social sciences, humanities, engineering,and natural sciences, united by a shared interest in how science and technology shape society, and how societies shape science and technology.

The Asia Pacific Futures Network (APFN) will return to Bangkok for its 12th conference, bringing together futurists, practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and business leaders from across the region. Hosted in Bangkok for the fourth time, the conference aims to raise the profile of futures thinking and strategic foresight in ASEAN and the wider Asia-Pacific.

The Brasil Futures Forum invites participants to co-create better futures through dialogue, collaboration, and collective imagination. Hosted at the iconic Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, the forum positions itself as a space built on listening, representation, and shared vision-building, bringing together diverse voices to explore what more desirable futures could look like for Brazil and beyond.

The symposium aims to gather scholars, researchers, and students from various fields related to Futures Studies. Participants will explore a range of methodologies, including scenario-building, horizon scanning, forecasting, roadmapping, back-casting, technology assessment, Delphi surveys, and the use of social platforms.

The fifth Transition Design Conference will gather academics, researchers, and practitioners working on sustainability transitions and systems change, as well as those new to the field.

The 6th International Conference on Anticipation will convene at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, bringing together researchers, designers, philosophers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how ideas about futures operate under uncertainty, indeterminacy, and unknowing.

The 2026 EADI/IOB conference will explore the dynamics of sustainability across ecological, socio-economic, cultural, and political dimensions, with a focus on how global challenges intersect with local realities. The event will examine tensions and synergies between global frameworks—such as climate agreements, the Sustainable Development Goals, and international trade policies—and local, context-driven approaches to sustainability.

The Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations convenes scholars and practitioners exploring how organizations evolve in times of volatility, complexity, and systemic transition.

The 3rd IC² – International Conference on Theory and Practice of Intelligent Cities brings together academics, practitioners, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore how cities can become more intelligent, sustainable, and innovation-driven.

ANTICIPATE will deliver a keynote on the Transformation of Copenhagen

Future Days 26 (FD26) is a festival dedicated to futures for systemic thinkers, innovators, creatives, purpose-driven organizations, and policymakers, all with a shared vision of shaping the future of urban life and fostering equitable societies.

The new location of Copenhagen meets Future Days along its canals. Mimicking the currents of water that come together to bring the city to life, Currents of Tomorrow will look at the many streams of futures that move and interact, reflecting on the undercurrents shaping design, society, and governance.

WE ARE HOSTING ACT FUTURES MOSAIC, AN OFFICIAL SIDE EVENT: https://www.anticipate.dk/futures-foresight-events/act-futures-mosaic

The Futures Conference 2026 will explore the theme Sustainability, Temporalities and Futures, examining how different concepts of time shape sustainable transitions and long-term thinking. The event will bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to address pressing global challenges from temporal, ecological, and societal perspectives.