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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 18, 2025 — World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand. This round-the-world event will move westward hour-by-hour, ending 24 hours later in Hawaii. The public is invited to drop in anytime to listen, share ideas, and discuss how to create a better tomorrow with futurists, thought leaders, and engaged citizens worldwide.

“No matter your time zone, you can pull up a virtual chair and join the conversation on Zoom”, said Jerome C. Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project. “People come and go as they please, sharing insights with global thought leaders on the future”.

Each year, total strangers discuss ideas in a relaxed, open, no-agenda conversation making new collaborations and friendships. Previous World Futures Days have discussed the transition to Artificial General Intelligence, living in space, inventing the future work, addressing climate change, giving rights to the living planet, fighting transnational organized crime, developing future forms of democracy, countering information warfare, incorporating futures generations and global ethics in decision-making, and identifying and enforcing safety standards for synthetic biology. Who knows what stimulating topics and perspectives will come up this year?

The Millennium Project, a global foresight participatory think tank, will host this conversation on the future in collaboration with the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, theLifeboat Foundation, the World Academy of Art and Science, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF).

NOTE: Each participant must register separately. You will receive a link for the meeting, but you cannot share the link with others.

Word Futures Day registration form

World Futures Day – Young Voices

In parallel, a side event called World Futures Day – Young Voices, co-organized on the same day by Teach the Future in collaboration with The Millennium Project together with other partners and friends, will make sure that young people are also included in a global conversation about our futures.

Contact: Lisa Giuliani.

Resources

• • World Futures Day Video
  • World Futures Day Young Voices
  • Background article on Futures Digest: World Futures Day 2025: Join the 24-hour global conversation shaping our future
  • Di Berardo, M. (2024), “World Futures Day”, in Glenn, J.C., Gordon, T., Florescu, E., “State of the Future 20.0”, Washington DC: The Millennium Project, pp. 427-438.
  • Di Berardo, M. (2024), “World Futures Day 2023 Global futures agenda by The Millennium Project”, Futures(164).
  • Di Berardo, M., Di Zio, S., Fontanella, L. (2023), “World Futures Day 2022: A mixed method approach to identify topics of a global futures agenda”, Futures(154), 103244.
  • Di Berardo, M. (2022). A global discussion about our possible futures during the 2021 World Futures Day”. Futures(136).
  • Di Berardo, M. D. (2022). The World Future Day Method: A 24-hour Round-The-World Global Discussion. World Futures Review, 14(2–4), 165–179.

Web Links

• The Millennium Project

Videos

World Futures Day 2024 – March 1

February 24, 2024 (03:16)
By: https://www.youtube.com/@millproject

On March 1st, The Millennium Project and five other international futurist organizations will host the 11th annual World Futures Day – a unique 24-hour online conversation exploring possibilities for our shared future

WFD 2025 – Join the Global Conversation on Building a Better Tomorrow

(01:32)
By: https://www.youtube.com/@millproject