March 1st The Millennium Project and five other international futurist organizations will host the 12th annual World Futures Day — a unique 24-hour online conversation around the world exploring possibilities for our shared future.

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.

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).