Keynote Speakers

Ivana Milojević

Ivana Milojević is a researcher, writer, and educator with a transdisciplinary background in sociology, education, gender studies, peace studies, and futures studies. She obtained her PhD in Education from the University of Queensland and has since held academic positions at universities in Australia, Serbia, Taiwan, and the UK, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. As a foresight specialist and consultant, she has collaborated with numerous multilateral, governmental, and non-governmental organisations. Through the global foresight think tank Metafuture, she has applied innovative futures tools and action-learning approaches, delivering speeches and workshops worldwide. Extensively published, her books include The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future (2024); CLA 3.0: Thirty Years of Transformative Research and Practice (2022, co-editor); and Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions (2005, 2011).

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Betti Marenko

Dr. Betti Marenko is Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she directs the Hybrid Futures Lab, a platform for design research at the intersection of philosophy, technology, and future-making, and leads the research group Technologies in Question. Her work explores uncertainty as a critical resource for imagining and designing new modes of being alive. She is the author of The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures (Bloomsbury, 2025), co-editor of Deleuze and Design(2015) and Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life(2021). Her new research project focuses on design, translation and transdisciplinarity as technologies for planetary diplomacy.

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Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar, scholar, cultural critic and futurist is an internationally renowned writer considered one of the top 100 public intellectuals in Britain. He is the Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies as well as Director of the International Institute of Futures Studies at the International Islamic University Malaysia. He is a former editor of Futures, Professor of Law and Society at Middlesex University, and Professor of Postcolonial Studies, the City University, London. His books include Futures: All That Matters, Rescuing All Our Futures and Emerging Epistemologies: The Fabric of Knowledge in Postnormal Times. A collection of his writings is available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader and How Do You Know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations. He is credited with the formation of the postnormal times theory on which he has published two Readers.

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