2020 Futures Festival Schedule
October 24, 2020 (local times below might may cross over to October 25 depending on your timezone)
Room 1
*All Schedule times shown are already converted to your local time for convenience! Just show up at that time. No conversion required.
| Session | Speakers | Type | Local Time* | Facilitators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Prateeksha Singh, Graciela Guadarrama | Plenary | 11:00 AM | |
| Full Spectrum Blackness - Not a Monolith, Black Futures in a Post COVID Global Context | Sophia Bazile | Keynote | 11:30 AM | Sanne Breimer |
| The rest of India | Priti David, Priyadharsini Palaniswamy, DVL Padma Priya | Panel | 12:15 PM | Prateeksha Singh |
| Breathing & Meditation | Krittika Sharma | Break Session | 1:15 PM | |
| Spectrum of Choice : online theatrical performance | Chenoa Chowdhury, Tanveer Anoy, Shakil Ahmed, Tasaffy Hossain | Other Formats | 1:30 PM | |
| A Plate Full of Hope | Chitresh Sinha | Other Formats | 2:30 PM | Ashish Manwar |
| Reflection: Obituary to Self | Krittika Sharma | Break Session | 3:00 PM | |
| The Step-up Youth Voices for a Just and Sustainable Future Project | Vincent Ocen | Keynote | 3:30 PM | |
| Rainbow Voices from the Margins in Kenya | Francis Kamunya, Steven Lichty | Other Formats | 4:00 PM | |
| The Futures of Pro-Bono | Matthew Manos | Workshop | 4:45 PM | Anca Matioc |
| Queer resilience admist uncertainty | Lydia Timlin-Broussard | Break Session | 5:30 PM | Dave Roselle |
| Shifting the Mindsets in XR & Cybersecurity | April Boyd-Noronha, Sanchari Das, Rodrigo Tamellini, Joel Scharlat, Alina Kadlubsky | Panel | 6:00 PM | |
| Deconstructing Development - Critical Gaze on African Futures | Christina Muia, Asia Clarke, Ikem Opara | Other Formats | 7:00 PM | Raul Valenzuela |
| Breathing + meditation | Amy Yockus Hartman | Break Session | 8:00 PM | |
| An Afrofuturism Journey playing Afro-Rithms From The Future (ARFTF) in Democratizing the Future. | Lonny Avi J Brooks, Kimberly Kay Daniels, Lacey Wozny, Nina Woodruff-Walker, Ahmed Best, Mike Batista, Alan Clark, Calvin Williams | Workshop | 8:15 PM | |
| What narratives do we carry into the future? | Karli Ferriolo, Liin Nur, Jacquie Shaw | Workshop | 9:15 PM | |
| Back to Listening | Zainab Kakal | Break Session | 10:15 PM | |
| Closing | Amy Hosotsuji | Plenary | 10:30 PM |
Room 2
*All Schedule times shown are already converted to your local time for convenience! Just show up at that time. No conversion required.
| Session | Speakers | Type | Local Time* | Facilitators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction Use Room 1 live stream | Prateeksha Singh, Graciela Guadarrama | Plenary | 11:00 AM | |
| Hiraya Foresight - The Case of Democratizing Futures Literacy in the Philippines | Dr. Lizan Perante-Calina, Prof. Shermon Cruz | Keynote | 11:30 AM | CJ Almodal |
| Children - Today's ambassadors for social change. | Anna Maria Geogy, Sowmya Lakshminarayanan | Other Formats | 12:30 PM | Umar Sheraz |
| Energizer | Break | 1:00 PM | ||
| Co-designing futures through fashion: speculative ideas when science and second-hand clothing collide | Finn Strivens, Clarice Garcia | Workshop | 1:15 PM | |
| How do young people of today imagine tomorrow. Their voice matters. | Lourdes Rodriguez, Andrés Castellanos Montoya, Arlynn Veldink, Matheus Barbosa | Panel | 2:00 PM | |
| Reflection: Obituary to Self Use Room 1 live stream | Krittika Sharma | Reflection | 3:00 PM | |
| Amplifying Womxn's Voices: Confronting Patriarchy and Imposter Syndrome | Wendy De Souza | Workshop | 3:30 PM | Manpreet Juneja |
| The Surprising Truth About Sharing | Colin R Turner | Keynote | 4:15 PM | Tomas Rehacek |
| Building a Manifesto for 2050 | Rodrigo Mendes Leal, Deepshikha Dash, Alanna Markle, Adeiye Oluwaseun-Sobo, Maggie Greyson | Workshop | 5:00 PM | Maggie Greyson |
| How to keep your mental health in check | Sheila Mutaramuka | Break Session | 6:00 PM | |
| The Electorate Experience: partisan politics and media influence on British democracy in 2019 | Siobhán Curtis | Keynote | 6:30 PM | Tricia Lustig |
| Unpacking anti-racism and allyship | Karen Craggs-Milne | Workshop | 7:15 PM | Wendy De Souza |
| Energizer | Break | 8:15 PM | ||
| #NoFilter: Digital Identities, Curated realities and the Impact of Life Performed Online | Melissa Eshaghbeigi, Roxanne Nicolussi | Other Formats | 8:30 PM | Caroline Leung |
| #LivetheFutureNOW: Leveraging Social Media to Democratize Futures Thinking | Nour Batyne, Christy Casey | Workshop | 9:15 PM | Fabrice Guerrier |
| This room ends, join Zainab in Room 1 Use Room 1 live stream | Zainab Kakal | Break Session | 10:15 PM | |
| Closing Use Room 1 live stream | Amy Hosotsuji | Plenary | 10:30 PM |
