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Radha Mistry
Associate Principal, Americas Foresight Leader
Arup
Radha Mistry is Arup’s Americas Foresight Leader and an Associate Principal in the Los Angeles office. Radha has worked at Arup in both San Francisco and London, helping global clients anticipate emerging signals of change and the impacts they will have on the way we design and build in the future.
Radha’s background spans architecture, narrative environments, and strategic foresight. Throughout her career, Radha has been a leading voice in the development of foresight both in professional practice and academia, building foresight fluency across organizations like Autodesk, where she served as Foresight leader, and working with executive leadership to drive key foresight-led initiatives.
Radha serves on the Foresight Advisory Council for the Middle East Institute, and teaches as part-time faculty on the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at The New School (Parsons) and the DesignMBA program at the California College of the Arts. She holds a Master of Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design as well as a Master of Architecture from Tulane University.
Paul Ferraiolo
Director of Strategy & Research
BMW Designworks
Paul Ferraiolo leads Designworks LA’s Creative Consulting team, bringing over 15 years of experience in design strategy with notable clients across the BMW Group from Rolls-Royce to BMW, and from Samsung to John Deere. His background in Psychology has informed his approach to future mobility and digital connectivity, emphasizing user-centered design.
Paul has steered public innovative concepts such as BMW’s Interaction EASE, showcasing the future of in-car user experience, and BMW’s Dimensions of Real, merging physical and digital design elements with user interaction. His work focuses on driving BMW group brands forward, demonstrating his commitment to innovation and strategic thinking in design. Paul’s career reflects his ability to apply a multidisciplinary approach to design challenges, positioning him as a leader in creating future-ready design solutions.
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As you can now tell, SuperSeminar Season 02 is focussed exclusively on Futures & Foresight practices. In Episode 02 we continue hearing from active practitioners bringing a futures-oriented mindset and set of methodologies into the world's largest organizations.
Come hear how Foresight brings Insight, Imagination, and Inspiration to the Rational, Analytic, Structured organization of logic-based decision making of the corporate consciousness. This is a vital skill that is becoming more integral to Structure. Futures-oriented practices, Imagination, Insight augments the ability of systems steered by decision makers to aid in the sense-making of weak signals, identifable trends, as well as social, political, technological, and cultural evolutionary behaviors. These are representations of an emergence — and emergence of the adjacent possible, the plausible, and the not true *yet.
Come to Season 02 to learn how they use analytical research, ethnographic investigations within their own progressive Research and Development and Innovation teams to help anticipate, forecast and prepare their senior leadership for the uncertainties of dynamic, complex, contentious, and tumultuous contexts.
Bringing imagination, creative thinking, a generalists sensibility to the rational decision making of organizations and similar structures is an existentially vital form of sense-making. Here in SuperSeminar we learn to appreciate the value of a rich meaningful collaboration between the creative and the analytic/rational parts of our human decision-making apparatus.
Join in a discussion with experienced practitioners as they help you understand how commercial organizations, public institutions, and governments use futures-oriented tools and practices to help prepare for change, manage the kinetics of challenging market dynamics; make sense of emerging trends; assess the implications of Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political dimensions and domains.
What are these tools for making sense of the future? How are they used to make the future sensical? How do you translate foresight into vision, inspiration and innovation? Who is able to help do this kind of future-facing speculation and what does it take to introduce the practice into your organization?
SuperSeminar S02E02 gives you the opportunity to not only learn from experienced practitioners, but engage in a discussion, create professional connections, and learn how you can develop the kinds of skills and the mindset to adopt unique insights into change.
Learn how to get reimbursed for this professional development package!Aside from a network of new professional connections within an emerging domain that leverages human insight, imagination, ingenuity, and intelligence, every attendee receives complete take-away package, including presentations, annotated audio recordings, and a post-Seminar review and analysis
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No more long presentations followed by 0 minutes for deep discussion, engagement, and Q&A. In SuperSeminar, our presenters offer a tight 15-20 minute evocation, sharing brief insights on the topic from their experience. Then, much like a graduate seminar or salon, we #discuss the topic, offering attendees a unique opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the presenters and other attendees.