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. Currently, she serves as the Director of Metafuture, a global think-tank, and Metafuture School, an online platform offering futures-oriented courses. 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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Fabio Scarano
Fabio Rubio Scarano is the Curator of the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), where he is also the chairholder of a Unesco Chair on Futures Literacy. He is Professor of Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He has served the UN scientific panels on climate change (IPCC) and biodiversity (IPBES), and has held lead executive positions at the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro and at the NGOs Conservation International and Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (FBDS). Two of his books have received prestigious Brazilian literature prizes in the field of natural sciences. His most recent book is “Regenerative Dialogues for Sustainable Futures” (Springer Nature, 2024). In 2025, Prof. Scarano has been listed among the 100 Brazilian scientists among the most influential in the world.
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