From SciFi to Startups: We will have an intimate conversation with Futurist Madebo Fatunde about the importance of African-inspired foresight and futures thinking to unleash the continent’s untapped potential.

About Our Guest

MADEBO FATUNDE currently serves as strategic foresight practitioner at Autodesk. He is also a strategist and a writer, building a practice at the intersection of arts, technology, and culture. His passion is using storytelling about the future to empower better decisions today.

Some current projects of his include “The Blackchain”, a speculative future that imagines a world around a Pan-African blockchain network, and “Unmanned Ode”, a poetry collection exploring the codes of masculinity composed alongside and against a neural network. His poems have appeared previously in TriQuarterly and LVNG magazines.

Madebo holds a Master of Science in Foresight from the University of Houston and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from The George Washington University. He is a founding member of The Guild of Future Architects, where he is part of the Guild’s Futurist Writers’ Room as well as a team incubating the Institute for African Futures (IF/AF).

He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

More: In his article Seeding a Futures Imaginarium, Madebo shares his experience at Guild of Future Architects’ inaugural Future Imagination Summit.

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