World Futures Day 2026

Update 31 March 2026: a brief summary of the World Futures Day discussion is here.

This coming Sunday, March 1st, The Millennium Project and five other international foresight organizations are hosting the 13th annual World Futures Day. It’s a unique 24-hour online conversation around-the-world exploring possible outlooks on our shared future.

It begins at 12:00 noon New Zealand time and rolls around the world to 12:00 noon in the next time zone and the next after that until it ends 24 hours later in Hawaii.

Anyone anywhere is invited to join when it lands in your time zone (or any time during the 24 hours) to participate in discussions with and among futurists and thought leaders about the potential trajectories of present trends and developments, emerging signals of change over-the-horizon, speculations about future innovations, and the impacts of all these things and others on alternative futures. Chatham House Rules apply.

The Millennium Project, a global foresight participatory think tank, hosts World Futures Day in collaboration with the Association of Professional Futurists, Humanity+, the Lifeboat Foundation, the World Academy of Art and Science, and the World Futures Studies Federation.

I’ll be joining at noon Eastern in support of Millennium Project founder Jerome Glenn, one of the co-hosts for that hour. We’ll be joined by Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and many others – and perhaps by you.

Each participant must register separately. Members of the press are welcome to join following Chatham House Rules. You can also share your ideas on social media