The practice of expanding and expounding on the possibilities of the future so that organizations, companies, and society can better prepare for the many things to come. This can also be called foresight!

As defined by the Institute for the Future, based in Palo Alto, Cali, futures thinking is…. They are the world’s leading futures organization that has consulted with businesses, governments, and social impact organizations for 50 years to create global forecasts, custom research, andforesight.

By illuminating and thinking critically through all the futures across the spectrum of possibility, we become stewards of the future. Armed with this knowledge, we can create action plans that enable ourpreferred futures, while disabling the non-preferable ones. This is important so that we don’t let the future just happen to us, but we have anactive hand in what happens. We can prepare for good futures and mitigatebad futures.

This Walmart-hosted event will have a breakout room chat with Software Engineer/Data Science/Product reps from the business + recruiting overview to wrap up.

Please be sure to register for the event here: https://walmart.avature.net/events/EventDetail?jobId=82038