08:00 - 09:00
Registration
- Coordinator: Beverly Francis
Dates6-10 July 2026
LocationCardiff University
Sessions39
Day 1
Monday 6 July 2026
11 sessions
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome and opening
- Prof. Bahman Rostami-Tabar: Welcome
- Harsha Halgamuwe Hewage: General Information
09:15 - 10:30
Session 1: Opening Keynote
- Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
- Title: The Art of Uncertainty: planning for a future that is hard to imagine
- Chair: Prof Bahman Rostami-Tabar
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:30
Session 2: Icebreaker
- Lead: Prof. Peter Madden
- Coordinator: Amir Salimi Babamiri
11:30 - 12:30
Session 3: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Mohammed Amin Mohammed
- Title: Decision Quality and Uncertainty
- Coordinator: Fatemeh Monshizadeh
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Session 4: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Mohammed Amin Mohammed
- Title: Decision Quality and Uncertainty
- Coordinator: Fatemeh Monshizadeh
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 17:00
Session 5: Workshop
- Speakers: Dr Laura Barritt
- Dr Theo Humphries
- Title: Agitate, anticipate, aggregate: Worlding new systems for learning and living through poetic engagement across disciplines
- Coordinator: Harsha Halgamuwe Hewage
17:15 - 19:00
Cardiff Tour
- Group 1: Dr Neil Harris
- Group 2: Dr Brian Webb
- Coordinator: Amirhossein Ghadiri
Day 2
Tuesday 7 July 2026
8 sessions
09:00 - 10:15
Session 6: Keynote 2
- Speaker: Dr. Bill Sharpe
- Title: Finding ourselves in the future
- Chair: Prof. Rachel Ashworth
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:00
Session 7: Panel 1
- Title: Uncertainty, the Future, and Better Decision-Making
- Panelists: Prof. Wendy Larner; Mr. Derek Walker; Dr. Fin Monahan; Dr. David Fluck
- Chair: Dr. Rachel Minto
12:00 - 12:30
Session 8: Embracing Uncertainty
- Lead: Prof. Peter Madden
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:45
Session 9: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Michelle Lazarus
- Title: Educating for an Uncertain Future: Pedagogies That Prepare Learners to Adapt
- Coordinator: Udeshi Salgado
14:45 - 15:15
Break
15:15 - 16:30
Session 10: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Michelle Lazarus
- Title: Educating for an Uncertain Future: Pedagogies That Prepare Learners to Adapt
- Coordinator: Udeshi Salgado
Day 3
Wednesday 8 July 2026
6 sessions
09:00 - 10:30
Session 11: Workshop
- Speaker: Dr Nicola Rennie
- Title: Communicating and Visualising Future Uncertainty
- Coordinator: Mustafa Aslan
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:00
Session 12: Workshop
- Speaker: Dr Nicola Rennie
- Title: Communicating and Visualising Future Uncertainty
- Coordinator: Mustafa Aslan
12:00 - 16:00
Session 13: Site visit
- Destination: The Real Underground Experience, Big Pit National Coal Museum
- Packed lunches will be provided as participants board the coach at 12:00.
- Departure: 12:00
- Return to Cardiff: 16:00
- The visit introduces Wales’s coal-mining history and its lasting social, economic, and environmental significance. The underground experience will frame discussion on industrial change, regional identity, and fairer futures after carbon-intensive economies.
- Coordinator: Dr. Thanos Goltsos
17:00 - 19:00
Film screening
- Film starts at 17:00.
- Film: The Coal Beneath Our Feet, The Wind Above Our Heads
- The documentary connects the memory of coal mining with debates about renewable energy, community ownership, regional renewal, social justice, sustainability, and who shapes the transitions ahead.
19:00 - 22:00
Gala dinner
Day 4
Thursday 9 July 2026
7 sessions
09:00 - 10:30
Session 14: Research presentation
- Matthew Ray Bobea, Institute of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Charlie Leedham, Cardiff University, UK
- Amirhossein Ghadiri, DL4SG Research Group, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
- Sode Idelphonse, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
- Coordinator: Udeshi Salgado
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:15
Session 15: Keynote
- Speaker: Prof. Barbara Adam
- Title: Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics
- Coordinator: Prof. Peter Madden
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:45
Session 16: Panel 2
- Title: Advancing Uncertainty and Futures Research: What Editors Look For
- Panelists: Prof. Pierre Pinson; Dr. Christopher Groves; Prof. Aris Syntetos
- Chair: Dr. Thanos Goltsos
14:45 - 15:15
Break
15:15 - 16:45
Session 17: Research presentations
- Steffan James, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
- Elias Peter Mwakilama, University of Malawi, Malawi
- Patrik Dahl, Cardiff University, UK
- Matunga (Mattie) Barwell, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK
- Coordinator: Dr. Xiaoqian Wang
Day 5
Friday 10 July 2026
7 sessions
09:00 - 10:30
Session 18: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Galit Shmueli
- Title: Predictive Inconsistency in Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools
- Coordinator: Rui Xu
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:30
Session 19: Workshop
- Speaker: Prof. Peter Madden
- Title: Planning and Building for the Long-term When the Future Is Uncertain
- Coordinator: Rui Xu
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Session 20: Closing remarks and feedback
- Leads: Prof. Bahman Rostami-Tabar
- Dr Laura Barritt
14:30 - 15:45
Session 21: Closing Keynote
- Speaker: Prof. Michelle Lazarus
- Title: Discomfort of uncertainty or absurdity of certainty: navigating uncertainty in an evolving world
- Chair: Prof. Sara Macbride-Stewart
16:00 - 16:30