World Futures Day 2025
Celebrate the 5th annual World Futures Day - Young Voices 24-hour around the world conversation. Join young people and futurists across 24 sessions to celebrate World Futures Day on March 1st, 2025.
Why?
World Futures Day is an annual global event held on March 1st to spark conversations about the future. But whose future are we discussing? Young people deserve a seat at the table—their voices, ideas, and visions should shape the world they will inherit. That’s why Teach the Future, in partnership with the Millennium Project and friends, launched the Young Voices Edition.
What?
For 24 hours, we invite young people from around the world to engage in conversations about the future alongside futurists, educators, and visionaries of all ages. Each hour, a new session will take place, featuring discussions, insights, and collaborative explorations of what the future could hold.
Join Us!
💬 Want to hear young people’s visions for the future and share your own? Learn more community porjects from around the world? Play cool foresight games? Join our live Zoom sessions happening all day round on March 1st!🌍
What is World Futures Day?
World Futures Day was founded by The Millennium Project in 2014 and is celebrated annually as a 24-hour global conversation about the future. The event brings together people from all over the world to discuss what lies ahead, with sessions hosted by The Millennium Project, the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF).
What is the Young Voices Edition? (WFD-YV)
Since 2021, Teach the Future has hosted the Young Voices Edition of World Futures Day to ensure that young people are actively involved in shaping future discussions. Every hour, young leaders and futurists co-host sessions to explore emerging trends, challenges, and possibilities. This platform empowers young people to share their ideas, be heard, and contribute to building the future.
Below is the 24-hour schedule. Each session is at 5pm of the major city column. Check what the session time is using the everytimezone link. You can join as many sessions as you'd like!
This year, there are multiple timezones where 2 sessions will occur at the same time, look for session a and b in each timezone to find out what sessions are coinciding. These will be facilitated in the same Zoom link but in breakout rooms.
Session # | Major City | Time Zone UTC/GMT | Convert session time to your local timezone | Youth Facilitator(s) Name age 25 and under | Facilitator(s) Name age 26 and over | Session Title/Topic |
1 | Aukland Aotearoa NZ | 13 | Jun Hao Goh | Carol Lim & Louis Puah | Beyond School: Reimagining Life Skills for Future-Oriented Youth | |
2 | Pacific Harbor, Fiji | 12 | Hazel Mulligan | Ellen Rykers | Predator Free 2050: How a big environmental goal is uniting New Zealand. | |
3 | Sydney, Australia | 11 | Youth Engagement and Strategy team | UNICEF Innoncenti | Futures of Education through Youth Foresight | |
4 | Brisbane, Australia | 10 | Sadiyah Saqib | Donna Buckly | The Quantum Threat: An Encryption Crisis We Can't Ignore | |
5a | Tokyo, Japan | 9 | Jezreel Larry, Rathnah Shree Poobalan | Scott Jordan & Idris Azim | Future of Values, A Conversion with Malaysian NGFP Winners | |
5b | Seoul, South Korea | 9 | Participants of the Futures competence building programme | Tamas Gáspár | Building futures literacy | |
6a | Singapore SG | 8 | Young Innovators Club | Steven Lichty & Ebenezer Anyadiegwu | Future-Ready Youth: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
6b | Jakarta, Indonesia | 8 | Daniel Manoba | Sonia Fevre | Youth and the Future of Democracy & How do we imagine the future? | |
7 | Bangkok, Thailand | 7 | Ron Berlinski | Tom Shorrock | The Future of Learning | |
8a | Dhaka, India | 6 | Hand in Hand School - Mohammad Kundos | Lourdes Rodriguez | A better future for all (Hope in the reality of fear) | |
8b | New Dehli, India | 6 | Eshaal Ali | Trisha Mehta & Asma Zainal | Lets play a game and energise India's tomorrow | |
9a | Islamabad, Pakistan | 5 | Emaan Danish & Students from Unity International School | Umar Sheraz | Climate Change | |
9b | Karachi, Pakistan | 5 | Urwa Naveed, Tayyaba Shafaq | Kristiina Paju | The role of language, chasing passion and embracing failure in shaping the future of education | |
10 | Dubai, UAE | 4 | STEALM Academy Quantum School | Mariana Filipova | Get Ready for the Future with Quantum Technologies | |
11a | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 3 | Kazakh National Pedagogical University students | Yelena Muzykina | How Futures Studies & Foresight Turned Out to be a Cool Thing | |
11b | Doha, Qatar | 3 | Vrishank Anand | Daniel Martin | A Foresight Game about systems thinking and futures literacy | |
12a | Cairo Egypt | 2 | Zainab Abubakar & Javeria Junaid | Md. Faqrul Islam | Bytes vs. Degrees: Can AI Cool the Planet? | |
12b | Athens, Greece | 2 | Kaixin Li | Katarina Ivarsson & Anna Karlsson | Improv the Future: A Playground of Olfactory Prophecies - What is the Scent of the Future? | |
13 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1 | Young Voices Council (YVC) & Darragh | Joshua Polchar | Teach the Futures Young Voices Council and and the OECD: Valuing the curiosity they are naturally developing by working on futures consciousness | |
14a | London, UK | 0 | Ayush, Jhoel, Jose, Trevor Hooker | April Michele | Bridging the Digital Gap: Empowering Future Minds | |
14b | Scotland, UK | 0 | Climate Education Reform BC (CERBC) | Mia George | Mapping Change: Finding Our Place in the Journey towards Climate Justice Using Foresight | |
15a | Azores, Portugal | -1 | Nikolett Kerekes, Adrija Jana, Jay Koulaouzos, Raven Frias | Peter Williams | Vision Board: Sketch Us Into The Future | |
15b | Praia, Cape Verde | -1 | Magdalena Racca & Valentina Cuello | Micaela Zapata | Construyendo la democracia del futuro con inteligencia artificial | |
16 | Nuuk, Greenland | -2 | Tia Aftab & Manya | Stijn Janssen and Alicia Richins | Rooted in Stories, Imagining Futures: Culturally-Specific Storytelling as a Tool for Futures Thinking | |
17 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | -3 | Isabelle Christina dos Santos Silva & Israel Kairós | Rosa Alegria & Lydia Caldana | Futurephobia: What if the Future wasn't a threat but an opportunity | |
18a | Puerto Rico | -4 | Amber Desprets | Monica Mastrantonio | Building Resilient Behaviours in the Future of Water | |
18b | Barbados | -4 | Nataly Belen Montesinos | Cynthia Hansen, Luciana Ruy, Maria Beatriz, Lala | Dreams: A Superpower to Create Futures | |
19 | Toronto, Canada | -5 | Chinmayi Manda & Cailin Mitchell | Nicholas Jelich & Danielle Pierre | Chat, am I Lonely?: The Future of Third Spaces and Social Connection | |
20a | Mexico City CDMX | -6 | Muhammad Sinan | Adhi Chandran & Nathalia Fernandes | Mental Health and Well-Being in a Fast-paced World. | |
20b | Nashville US | -6 | Grayson Rentz | Linda Brown | Defying Disease with Futures Thinking | |
21 | Calgary, Canada | -7 | Jade Brannon & Bella Brown | Renee Stewart | Cultivating Change: Urban Farming and Housing Justice in Our Communities | |
22 | Los Angeles, US | -8 | Vedant Tiwari & Rawan El-Bendary | Amalia Deloney | Futurepreneurs: Creating Your Financial Future | |
23 | Juneau US | -9 | Sofia Londoño, Valeria Pareja, Adriana Alvarado | Gabriela Garcia & Omar Del Carpio | Reimaginando la Educación en Latinoamérica: Desafíos y Oportunidades | |
24 | Honolulu US | -10 | Carlo Lopa | Hauson Le | Mapping Signals of Change for Intergenerational Fairness |
World Futures Day is held on March 1 each year. This will be the eleventh year that futurists and the general public celebrate World Futures Day and the 5th year we celebrate WFD - Young Voices Edition.
Check out last year's report to learn more about how World Futures Day works! Download for free below:
in 2023, World Futures Day - Young Voices was recognized as an Honorable Mention for the Association of Professional Futurists IF Awards.
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