A Brief History of the Future

What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience building? Explore questions, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Let these ideas serve as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.

Join Mike Bechtel ’98, Managing Director and Chief Futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLP and adjunct professor of corporate innovation at the University of Notre Dame, for a discussion about the novel and exponential technologies most likely to affect the future of business; how a wide angle lens, not clairvoyance, is the key to looking into the future; and why the sweet spot for innovation adoption isn’t acorns or oak trees—it’s saplings.

Join us on June 5, 2025.