Daniel Kaplan
Founder of FING
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BIO
As an entrepreneur, a researcher and a futures thinker, Daniel Kaplan, explores the future with one leg in innovation & strategy, and another in fiction and imaginaries.
In 2000, he founded of the Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING), a nonprofit Think-&-Do-Tank that produces and shares novel and actionable ideas to anticipate digital transformations. He directed it until 2016, before stepping down in order to develop a new project called “Plurality University”.
Since the 1990’s, Daniel Kaplan has been deeply involved in the Internet’s development and evolution. He contributed to some of its key institutions and advised both the French government and the European Union.
Daniel has written or directed more than 25 books and reports that bridge foresight, technology, innovation and societal issues: cities, identity, trust, ecology, work…
My Sessions
The Imaginarium of MyData Futures
KlubisaliDaniel Kaplan
Linnet Taylor
Oguzhan Gencoglu
Ren Watson
Ruaridh Thomson
Gregor Žavcer
Neelima Sailaja
Lianne Kerlin
Ian Forrester
Geoffrey Delcroix
Mikko Lampi
What we might learn from these different possible futures, in order to create to best possible MyData world? We will tap into visions ranging from emerging technology projections to speculative fiction in our quest to explore wild, even provocative, future scenarios: paradoxical, fun, desirable, messy, failed, complicated, incoherent, and ordinary data futures. The goal is […]