Welcome to the Futures Salon, Chicago

We all have a stake in the future. We all can work systematically to imagine and work toward the futures we want. Chicago Futures Salon is this city's home for futures thinking and strategic foresight: the discipline of exploring what might happen next so you can make better decisions now. We are a 501(c)(3) community of executives, founders, academics, designers, and artists who believe the future deserves more imagination than a quarterly plan gives it. On July 30, we're bringing that community to the rooftop at 1871 for a summer evening made for the futures-curious. What to expect: A short, lively introduction to strategic foresight: what it is, why the most forward-looking organizations practice it, and how you can start Our provocation card games on every table. Pick one up, play a round with a stranger, and glimpse a future neither of you saw coming Our favorite film visions of the future streaming all evening Drinks, summer air, and the Chicago skyline doing what it does Who this is for: founders who want to see markets before they exist. Corporate innovators whose job description is, quite literally, the future. And anyone who has ever looked at the news and thought, where is all this going? No experience required. If you have never heard the words "strategic foresight" before, that is exactly why you should come. Enlightenment is on the menu. This is not a networking event. It is the front door to Chicago's futures community, open for one evening on one of the best rooftops in the city. Come curious. Leave seeing further.