Supercharging
Calgary as a Global Leader in
Futures Thinking
CALGARY FUTURES FORUM
OCTOBER 26-27, 2026
Contemporary Calgary
Strengthening Calgary's Capacity to Shape & Navigate What's Next
What if Calgary's next decade were defined not just by what happens to us, but by the futures we have the capacity to imagine?
Collective imagination and long-term thinking are foundational for innovation, prosperity, and community. As Calgary prepares to hit 2 million people, we’re gathering global and local leaders to strengthen our city’s futures-thinking potential.
Through futures literacy, strategic foresight, and collaboration, we’re building a platform where Calgarians can explore what's next, get behind ‘big bets,’, and take steps toward establishing Calgary as a global leader of futures thinking.
This October, join an intimate community of established and next-gen leaders from business, culture, innovation, community, and academia as we begin this journey - together.
We’re just getting started. Only 150 seats are available for this inaugural forum.
Interested in shaping what’s next?
Who We Are.
We’re a small, dedicated group of foresight practitioners, community-builders, entrepreneurs, artists and proud Calgarians excited about building what’s next.
We’re supported by:
Why.
Because the future is not a destination. It is a practice. And the cities that thrive are the ones that learn how to imagine and build it together.
Futures thinking, at its best, is civic infrastructure.
It's how cities develop the shared capacity to look further ahead, course-correct earlier, and work collectively across uncertainty — and across possibility.