Event Date: November 12-14, 2021

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Journey towards Hiraya 2050 

Philippine Futures Summit

The Philippine Futures Summit is the first scenario and action-driven gathering on the futures of education, work, and technology in the Philippines. Inspired by The Millenium Project Work and Technology Report 2050, UNESCO’s Learning to Become and global futures literacy initiative,  and the hearings and proceedings of the Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Innovations, and Futures Thinking.  The Summit will reveal, reframe, reimagine, and consolidate insights and strategies to shape the futures of education, work, and technology from a human-focused, nature-first, regenerative, and indigenous perspective.

The PhilFutures Summit will be in a hybrid conference format to spark conversations and gather intelligence, explore underlying issues, map emerging risks and opportunities, build futures competencies and capabilities to craft antifragile programs and policy agenda.

The proceeds of this PhilFutures Summit shall support Hiraya Foresight initiatives, specifically the research and publication of the Philippine Millenium Project State of the Future Index 2050: Scenarios and Actions, the development of an SDG-driven Hiraya Foresight Toolkit and the democratization of futures literacy. 

Leading experts, voices, and representatives from private, public and communities like The Millennium Project, the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), UNESCO, World Futures Studies Federations (WFSF), Asia Pacific Futures Network (APFN), Philippine Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Innovations and Futures Thinking, Center for Engaged Foresight (CEF), Philippine Society for Public Administration (PSPA), Development Academy of the Philippines – Graduate School of Public and Development Management (DAP-Graduate School), University of the Philippines – National College of Public Administration (UP-NCPAG),  and many others will share their perspectives and scenarios, methodologies and approaches to futures of education, work, and technology. 

Paglalayag Tungo sa Hiraya 2050
Journey towards Hiraya 2050 

The Futures Summit on Education, Work, and Technology is a journey towards Hiraya 2050 inspired by Philippine Futures Thinking Hiraya Foresight, The Millennium Project, The Futures of Work and Technology 2050, and UNESCO’s Learning to Become. The Futures Summit will delve into frontier technologies in rethinking and reshaping knowledge and learning to prepare human resources to become futures-ready in a technology human-centered society.

Hiraya Foresight (Perante-Calina, 2021)

Hiraya as a concept has ancient Filipino roots, only word that gives the potential of the future, of tomorrow, to illuminate on the present.  The simple word is kinabukasan, or future. There is no other word that comes closest to the future and the promise that the future may hold. The future here is assumed to give a better outcome. And that is the glow of the word hiraya for it subsumes in it the idea of hope, of getting and realizing soon-to-come benefits. 

So then, what does hiraya connote?  As a stand-alone word, it means:  the fruit of one’s hopes, dreams and aspirations.  Any person always has dreams, dreams of becoming one someday, say, become a doctor, a bank teller, a computer manager, a teacher.  A person who keeps on hoping, continue dreaming and aspiring would reap the fruit of his/her efforts:  the hiraya.  These fruits would be the realization of one’s dreams and aspirations.  It would come in the form of benefits, like the goodness of health, the stability of one’s finances, the permanence of one’s relationship with a beloved, and for young people, the realization of being someday a doctor, a nurse, a teacher. 

In usage, hiraya is usually attached to another word to become the phrase, Hiraya Manawari, which is wishing good to someone who is close to the well-wisher, a friend, or a relative. The two words together get transformed to wish someone: May you reach your dreams! (Sana ay matupad ang iyong kahilingan at pangarap!).  It may also mean:  May the wishes of your heart be granted!  Still the phrase also means, this time with some unfortunate event in mind:  Hope it comes to pass – the “it” referring to some misfortune that is hoped to last as soon as possible without much damage on those affected by the ill event. 

May you reach your dreams!  Sana ay matupad ang iyong kahilingan at pangarap!  Matupad is the verb form for “may it become a reality.”  Kahilingan means wish or request.  Pangarap refers to one’s dreams and aspirations.  Thus, Hiraya manawari translates to “May your request be granted!”  “May your dreams come true!”  Hiraya manawari! refers to the act of someone wishing another that he/she may be able to succeed and reach his/her dreams of becoming a doctor, and so on in the future.  It is a wish for the good of someone.  

Similarly, we futures thinkers may say to ourselves, May we reach our dreams!  Or May our objectives and goals succeed!  

May the wishes of your heart be granted!  Hiraya manawari similarly is a wish of someone that what his/her heart desires be fulfilled.  So futures thinkers also wish “May the wishes of our hearts be granted!”  Please take note that wishes come from the heart, not from the brain. 

Hope it comes to pass!  This is another connotation of Hiraya manawari. This is a hope that everyone affected by a calamity or misfortune or problem may get over it at once or quickly.  As a western poet said, “Hope springs eternal.” This is expressed as well in Hiraya manawari, urging each one in the community to bear the temporary sacrifice, to be patient, for the unfortunate event will take its natural course and come to pass.  Like the typhoon, it comes, passes through, and then goes out after a few hours.  We futures thinkers also have such an orientation, saying to ourselves, “Hope COVID-19 comes to pass!”   Or “Hope this typhoon comes to pass!”  

The Hiraya foresight adds specific context, cultural particularities, local color, if not the futures thinker’s quality ways of thinking.  Hiraya connotes other non-verbal significances, for it embeds or contains other but unspoken, unexpressible ideas within just one word.

Hiraya Is Vision

• Hiraya Is Concern, Care, and Love
• Hiraya Is Cooperation and Collaboration
• Hiraya Is Persistence, Perseverance, Patience at the same time Courage, Fortitude and Resilience
• Hiraya Is Optimism, Positive Thinking, Preparedness and Alertness
• Hiraya Implies Wisdom and Ethics in Action

Because the future can be looked at in a positive light, the community has a source of inspiration to do things wisely, appropriately and rightly.  The future can make the community to look for ways of doing things that are good and of benefit to everybody else. 

Hiraya Implies that the Future can be Studied, Analysed, Researched and Planned

With confidence in the future, and with the members of the community prepared and alert, and ready to collaborate and to cooperate, then everyone can study, do research, analyse the future as well as plan for the future. Hiraya guides and teaches what and how to educate futures thinkers, and how to promote and advocate for futures thinking to change the old mindset for a new mindset that is futures-oriented.

Session and Format

We invite leading experts and practitioners, government policy-makers, business leaders and investors, researchers, scholars, designers, strategists, artists, scientists, visionaries, innovators, creative thinkers, students, teachers, school administrators, artists, poets, advocates to participate in the following sections and topics:

1.Futures of Technology

Learning to live, learn and work with frontier technologies, autonomous systems, and satellite technology in a globally interconnected society (e.g AI, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, drones, cloud). How might we ensure open access, universal, and equitable coverage of these technologies for the benefit of humanity and the planet? How might we create technology with a conscience and build citizen’s trust for values-based, ethical, and informed governance?

2.Futures of Education

Inspired by UNESCO’s “Learning to Become”, how will knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet?  What if today’s learners become what they ought to become by 2050? What if learning becomes highly creative, imaginative, and neuro-science-driven? What if professors were knowledge entrepreneurs? What if non-traditional learning paths become the new norm? What if there are 1.5 billion content and knowledge creators by the year 2050? How might a multiversity look like? 

3.Futures of Work

Embarking from Senate PS Resolution 865, how might we prepare for changing industry landscapes? How might we prepare for jobs that are not yet created? How might we foster change from an employment culture to a self-actualization culture? How might education and technology be used to strengthen the capacity of the workforce of the future? What are the strategies we might take to transform our human resources to be productive and self-actualized? What would transformation look like in public organizational culture, structure, and processes? How might organizations strategize to become resilient and futureproof? How might workers’ organizations and employers’ organizations adapt to the changing norms and standards? What would the future of work look like in the public sector?

PAYMENT DETAILS AND PACKAGES

Regular Ticket Price:

Individual – Php 2,000.00 

Student – Php 750.00*

PhilFutures Member Price (w/ Early Bird and Member Discount – 25% off)

Institutional –  2 free tickets for every ten registrations

Individual – Php 1,500.00 

Student – Php 500.00*

*Students must submit a proof of registration

Contact Details 

If you have any questions or clarifications, you may direct your queries to the following:

Email: summit@philfutures.net

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