🕒 Time: 13:00–16:30 CEST each day
💻 Format: Interactive online sessions via Zoom
🌐 Language: English
👥 Capacity: Limited to 20 participants for personalized guidance and peer learning

EMEA Timezones (N Am also welcome)

Prepare for Complex Futures

Advanced horizon scanning practices for navigating complexity and uncertainty.

A 2-day workshop (7 hours total).

Designed to help you build practical scanning and sensing practices for real-world organizational contexts.

Why Horizon Scanning Matters Now

AI disruption, geopolitical realignment, and climate acceleration are converging into an increasingly complex and uncertain environment.

Organizations need better ways to detect change early and respond before it becomes a crisis.

This workshop teaches structured approaches to identify, analyse, and act on weak signals of change.

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Your Workshop Leaders

Led by Changeist, a global strategic foresight consultancy working with Fortune 100 companies, governments, and international NGOs since 2007.

Clients include UNDP, BBC R&D, Alphabet, Dubai Future Foundation, AXA, Comcast, and many others.

The team brings over 20 years of experience translating weak signals into strategic action.

Workshop Elements

Signal and trend collection fundamentals — what to look for and why it matters

Source strategies — digital, qualitative, and observational research

Live scanning practice — hands-on evaluation and interpretation of signals

Working with AI and LLMs — using AI effectively while maintaining critical judgment

Sensemaking techniques — clustering signals and identifying emerging patterns

Building sustainable scanning practices — creating systems that scale across teams and organizations

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Design scanning systems tailored to your organization
• Distinguish meaningful patterns from noise and hype
• Extract strategic insights from clustered signals
• Translate weak signals into actionable strategic options
• Build sustainable practices that support a futures-oriented culture
• Use AI tools effectively while maintaining critical assessment and judgment

What Past Participants Have Gained

For teams: frameworks to design and launch scanning systems from scratch.

For organizations: alignment around a shared language and approach to foresight.

For individual practitioners: stronger capability to integrate futures thinking into everyday work.

Registration Options

Professional — €845 (incl. VAT)
For organizational representatives using company payment.

Individual — €495 (incl. VAT)
For independent consultants, self-funded professionals, and researchers.

NGO / Civil Society / Government — €595 (incl. VAT)
For nonprofit, public sector, and civil society organizations.

3-Person Professional Team Bundle — €2,150 (incl. VAT)
For teams working together on strategic initiatives.

EU businesses with a valid VAT ID may qualify for the reverse-charge mechanism (VAT exemption).

Payment options: Card, bank transfer, and invoicing available.

Workshop Schedule

This is a two-day workshop. Registration includes both sessions.

Attendance at both days is strongly recommended for full benefit.

Day 1 — Thursday, September 17, 2026
13:00–16:30 CEST

Day 2 — Friday, September 18, 2026
13:00–16:30 CET

Payment Questions?

Contact us at events@changeist.com to discuss payment options.

Refund Policy

Tickets are fully refundable until 72 hours before the workshop begins, minus transaction and booking fees.

No refunds are available for cancellations within 72 hours of the start time.

Registrations may be transferred to colleagues with prior notification.

Ready to Transform Uncertainty into Strategic Advantage?

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Capacity is limited to 20 participants to ensure an interactive and high-quality learning experience.

We reserve the right to postpone or cancel events where registration levels don't meet functional requirements.