Explore the contours of the ever-expanding possible in an interactive and playful closing session built around The Thing From The Future, an award-winning card game created by the futurists and designers at the Situation Lab and focused on igniting imaginative and generative conversations about the futures we might create and inhabit.

1. sucanada.org
Nick Kindler
Head of Programming
SingularityU Canada

2. @Nick_Kindler
@SingularityUCan #SUCanEP
Exploring Possible
Futures

3. We are at the
intersection between
opportunity &
capability.
Oren Berkovitch, CEO
SingularityU Canada

4. teachable and learnable practices
Exponential
Leadership

5. Leader as Technologist
Explore Exponential Business Models
Leader as Humanitarian
Design Solutions for Greater Good
Leader as Futurist
Imagine Bold New Futures
Leader as Innovator
Advance the Discipline of Innovation

6. Courageous
conversations inspire
bold decisions.

7. Leader as
Futurist
Exploring

8. Leader as
Futurist
Leader as Futurist
Optimistically imagines and
inspires bold new possibilities.
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9. We all can
imagine new
futures.

10. We can learn more from one
hour of play than we can
from a year of
conversation.
- Plato

11. Played at:
• MIT Media Lab
• Stanford d.School
• INK Conference, Mumbai
• UNESCO, Paris
• UNDP, New York
• FutureFest, London
• Indiecade Games Festival, LA
• Maker Festival, Toronto
AN IMAGINATION
GAME ABOUT
POSSIBLE
FUTURES

12. A deck of cards to playfully
prompt countless creative,
provocative, and funny
ideas for things that might
exist in times to come.
AN IMAGINATION
GAME ABOUT
POSSIBLE
FUTURES

13. #FUTURETHING
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29. 38,148
UNIQUE
PROMPTS

30. Let’s play.
So,

31. Step 1:
Deal 5 cards/person.
Each person should have a
mix of cards.

32. Step 2:
Spend 3 minutes creating a future
combination.
Notice how each new card changes
the prompt.

33. #FUTURETHING
Brought to you by @Sitlab

34. #FUTURETHING
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36. Step 3:
Draw out a #FutureThing idea.
2 minutes individual work.

38. Step 4:
Share out your #FutureThing with
the group.
30 seconds/ pitch.

39. Step 5:
Pick the winning idea.
Team picks the criteria.

40. Step 6:
Team works together to make
the idea stronger.
Prepare to share idea with group.

41. Let’s share
our futures.

42. • Strategic conversation
• Breaking the ice
• Design jams
• Topical exploration
• Mind-expanding fun
AN IMAGINATION
GAME ABOUT
POSSIBLE
FUTURES

43. Practice
Futurist
practices.