February 26th, 2020 was the official inauguration of the Center for Futures Studies at the University of Dubai, Our President and Chief Futurist was elected to Executive Board and will be part of the faculty from the Fall 2020.

This came out of one of the projects TFL worked on with Ford a decade or so ago. Still waiting to see an update on that amazing seat we developed and windshield concepts. Some of the adaptive driving concepts we developed have already been adopted.

December 2018, Get Energy On-line Magazine Go Green published in Budapest Hungary leads with a 5-page interview with The Futures Lab’s Derek Woodgate and Helga Veigl about the company’s process, projects and work related to the future of energy and green technologies.

From UAE’s National newspaper of 25th September 2018. Reporting on security conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Our President Derek Woodgate with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of UAE-His Excellency Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

A new year’s start gives often ground for contemplation. What does the future have for us in stake? The future exceeds our command; it slips our grip. However, artificial intelligence and its impact on our society often ignite our astonishment. With artificial intelligence, some of us feel at the eve of a “Cambrian explosion“, the dawn of a new biodiversity, to put it into Derek Woodgate’s words, a futurist who actually teaches future studies in Universities. What is its source of risk and allure? The unknown will answer back with whatever we call into it…

Our President, Derek Woodgate gave a 20 minute interview for CNTV on TFL’s involvement in the creation and development of the Tech Experience at CONEXPO-CON-AGG 2017 in Las Vegas. He also talked about the show production and future learning for show producers.