The global future forum, which originated within Unisys, is an independent partnership of futurists, academics and businesspeople, committed to helping organisations extend their strategic planning horizons, and better prepare for the future.

It offers business a single point of access to the world’s leading future-thinkers, and develops the knowledge-bases and methodologies to enable business to adopt future-thinking as an integral part of their strategic planning process.

The 2005 conference takes place from 21 to 23 September in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. Several sessions focus on the importance of understanding people.

The conference homepage links to a number of interesting publications on branding and foresight.