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Future in Review is an action-oriented annual conference that provides executives and investors with a roadmap for the next 5-10 years of technology and the global economy. Started in 2003 by the team behind Strategic News Service, Future in Review is a gathering place for global leaders using technology to change the world for the better. FiRe’s intimate size and trust-based culture cultivate lon

g-term relationships between speakers and attendees that drive innovation, strategy, partnerships, investments, and recruiting. Strategic News Service is the world’s most reliable source of advanced information at the intersection of technology and economics. Its publicly graded prediction rate in these areas is unmatched, and its success in pointing out critically important new strategic issues to global thought leaders – often in their own areas of expertise – is well-established. Our goal is to produce dynamically useful, focused information not available anywhere else. We are proud that Accenture, Nuance, Symantec, Intel, Adobe, Deutsche Telekom, and other great companies have chosen to provide the SNS Weekly Report to their entire teams, in recognition of its standing as a powerful competitive weapon.

10/31/2025

Speaker Announcement: Bill Hilf joins FiRe 2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Bill Hilf, board chair of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and American Prairie, to this year’s Future in Review (FiRe) conference, taking place May 31–June 3, 2026, at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.

Bill will lead a featured conversation on Imagination As Infrastructure for Our AI Future and Global Conservation.

With more than 25 years of leadership at the intersection of technology, science, and impact, Bill has transformed some of the world’s most influential organizations – from IBM and Microsoft to HP and Vulcan Inc. Today, he continues to shape the future of ethical AI and environmental resilience through his work with AI2 and American Prairie.

Bill is also the author of the forthcoming sci-fi thriller The Disruption, which imagines a world in which AI has no limits – and what that means for humanity’s future.

Join us in San Diego this spring for FiRe 2026, where global leaders, investors, and innovators gather to chart the next decade of technology and the global economy.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4mtrfjY

10/30/2025

Ep. 2 of the Future in Review Podcast, Season 3, just launched!

Why does Sam Altman keep cutting huge chip deals on behalf of OpenAI? What’s the real story behind LLM business models? And what are the impacts of these deals on valuations and stock prices for AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and other companies across the LLM ecosystem?

In Episode 2 of the Future in Review podcast, host Berit Anderson and SNS CEO Mark Anderson delve into the current state of AI business strategy, focusing particularly on OpenAI, the economic nature of large language models (LLMs) and their perpetual need for funding. They discuss the concept of LLMs as a mirror reflecting human behavior rather than a window into new ideas, highlighting the limitations of current AI technologies. The conversation shifts to Altman's efforts to secure funding for OpenAI amid rising costs and competition and the absurdity of projected spending on chips by OpenAI. They explore the overcapitalization in the LLM industry, the role of human intelligence in leveraging AI, and the potential future of mobile devices. The episode concludes with reflections on the path forward for AI and its impact on society.

Mark Anderson is the chair and founder of Future in Review, which the Economist calls “the best tech conference in the world”; CEO of machine-learning unicorn Pattern; and CEO of Strategic News Service, publisher of the SNS Global Report.

If your success depends on understanding what’s really happening with OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom – and not just Sam Altman’s latest media hype – this episode is a must-watch.

https://youtu.be/e8kt_UoL90g

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10/29/2025

This week in the SNS Global Report …

Evan Anderson dives into how Vietnam got to where it is today, and where the opportunities and risks lie as the country seeks to walk the tightwire between China, the US, and Europe. From having one of the world’s fastest-growing economies to being caught between the CRINK alliance and the US & Europe, Vietnam now stands as an economic flashpoint in the global trade war.

See why Evan says: “Pinched between a geopolitical rock and a hard place; in position to lead economic growth in Asia for the next few decades; a hotbed of Chinese transshipment, tourism, and new American business: Vietnam is walking a tightwire between growth and diplomatic risk." In this week's Global Report: "GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM: THE PRECARIOUS RISE OF AN ASIAN TIGER.”

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Tell us in the Comments: How do you think Vietnam can best maintain its trajectory of economic growth while navigating relationships and tensions with both China and the US & Europe?

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10/24/2025

This week in iNews …

Annika Lundstrom, FiRe 2025 speaker and CEO of ReMinded, is featured as one of three startup founders named as finalists in the 2025 eosera Foundation Pitch Competition, a live competition on November 13 in Forth Worth, TX, modeled on the TV pitch show "Shark Tank."

To learn more and read the full article, visit: https://bit.ly/47oIg9k

And to learn about Annika Lundstrom, visit: https://bit.ly/47iOOWP

About iNews:
iNews is our free mailing list spotlighting timely and relevant articles about FiRe thought leaders and other important headlines! If you like what you see but want more, including full analysis of the stories, consider becoming an SNS member to receive our weekly Global Report.

10/24/2025

Food Is National Security

Daniella Taveau, president of Bold Text Strategies – a consulting group specializing in negotiation, policy, regulatory strategy, and non-tariff barriers – led a spirited discussion at Future in Review 2025 around food systems and national security risks.

Taveau was joined by panelists Pablo Breuer, president of Orthogonal Insights and former innovation officer for US Special Operations command; and Karen Boyd, director of Product Sustainability at World Energy, who worked for many years with farmers directly at Land O'Lakes.

Breuer said that we're at the intersection of natural and man-made problems, from climate change to soil exhaustion to loss of arable land, trade barriers, and misinformation, all of which are threatening our food supply. Boyd discussed the modern PFAS poisoning issue on American land and ways in which we're discovering that we can remediate "forever" chemicals. Taveau described some of the opportunities in the agricultural tech space and some of the reasons startups often fail because of misalignment with farmers.

Click through to see the full conversation and hear about the fragility and some fixes for our global food systems: https://youtu.be/1xZY4n_Mt_4?si=J-JBe95lxrgWi__9

10/18/2025

The Business of Embodied Carbon

Cynthia Figge, CEO & co-founder of CSRHub, sat down with Andrew Himes, director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum, and David Victor, director of the Deep Decarbonization Initiative at UC San Diego, at Future in Review 2025 to talk about embodied carbon, or the carbon released throughout a building's entire lifecycle via supply chains.

Victor revealed ways in which countries have backtracked on research and reporting that show the true carbon cost of the life cycles of their products, exports, and industries.

Himes explained that the massive (and largely solvable) climate tolls of new urban construction, vs. rebuilding and remodeling, can only be measured with a deeper analysis of carbon footprints, which is currently lacking and takes years.

Click through to see the full discussion and learn more about how we can measure embodied carbon and mitigate the deeper aspects of climate harm in the building industry: https://youtu.be/d4ITejQNc7Y?si=ylfgPE8NiDlIVU5H

10/17/2025

Family Offices Driving Impact

Nathan McDonald, managing partner of Ecosystem Venture Group and managing partner and CEO of Keiretsu Capital, led a conversation at Future in Review 2025 about how family offices of the world are growing and increasingly driving innovation through the rising deployment of capital.

McDonald noted that there are now over 10,000 family offices in the United States, and growing – but they are still a relatively new phenomenon.

Adam Jacobs, president of Xzom Inc. and co-founder of the Jacobs Scheriff Group, described ways in which young companies in healthcare and biotech can have an outsized impact on human outcomes. The Scheriff Group is focused particularly on impact investing and looks at positive potential human outcomes as a prerequisite for investment.

Neal Bloom, managing partner at Interlock Capital, explained how he and a group of 40 other exited founders banded together to form a startup investment network focused on areas where they could both invest and help, based on their expertise. He announced that he is launching a multi-generational platform, Rising Tide Partners, focused on using new family offices to shape the future for the better.

Click through to see the entire session and hear about the ways in which startup funding is shifting from VC firms to greater participation from family offices, and what it means for founders: https://youtu.be/JbwcfhLVwxM?si=fAfhuCILD-875CjV

10/16/2025

This week in the SNS Global Report …

Mark Anderson dives into the deepfakes, parlor tricks, and plausibility of the AI industry's return on investment and poses the question: Are LLMs a window into the AI-driven world or just a fancy mirror of humanity?

See why Mark says: “What if LLMs – which we thought were a window – were just a higher-dimensional mirror, telling us more about ourselves and little or nothing about the real world?" In this week's Global Report: "LANGUAGE MODELS: A MIRROR, NOT A WINDOW."

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Tell us in the Comments: Are we overestimating what these models can actually do – and underestimating their perfect use?

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10/12/2025

Emerging Supply-Chain Risks

In a FiRe 2025 session moderated by CSRHub CEO & co-founder Cynthia Figge, panelists Sydney House, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) product lead at Certa, and Ilya Levtov, founder & CEO of Craft, discussed the delicacy of our global supply chains and what can be done to allay risks.

Levtov, whose company focuses on supplier intelligence and risk management, opened by explaining that our supply chains have become ever more spread around the globe, adding that financial, cyber, and weaponization of supply-chain risks are the top concerns for business leaders to watch today.

House said that despite the US pullback on ESG standards, individual states such as California are pressing ahead with laws requiring the tracking of Scope 3 emissions. And the EU continues to further regulate sourcing relating to deforestation and human rights, as reputational damage for supply-chain issues continues.

Click through to see the full conversation and learn more about how the risk environment has shifted for corporate global supply chains:
https://youtu.be/jfpzeUsmtqA?si=iqk5Bp5P_NU79exq

10/10/2025

This week in iNews …

Sir Richard Dearlove, FiRe 2025 speaker and former head of MI6, criticizes the dismantling of the case against two spies for China, saying China is "indisputably a national security threat" to the UK.

To learn more and read the full article, visit: https://bit.ly/3IQBlNZ

And to learn about Sir Richard Dearlove, visit: https://www.stratnews.com/inews/bio/?clientid=6197

About iNews:
iNews is our free mailing list spotlighting timely and relevant articles about FiRe thought leaders and other important headlines! If you like what you see but want more, including full analysis of the stories, consider becoming an SNS member to receive our weekly Global Report.

10/10/2025

Scaling the Renewable Grid

TS Conductor co-founder and CEO Jason Huang, Skip Technology president and co-founder Ben Brown, and Beech Energy Consulting CEO and founder Wilfred Audley joined host Berit Anderson, Future in Review COO, for a FiRe 2025 panel focused on what needs to happen to build out America's aging electrical infrastructure to enable the transition to renewables.

Brown, who is focused on energy storage and batteries, explained the difference between approaches in California – which has focused on regulation and rewriting of power-purchase agreements to push the local grid toward renewables – and Texas, which he described as a "free-for-all," giving it far faster interconnection times.

Audley, who is currently working to build out a 300-megawatt solar project in Wisconsin, detailed how regulations are indeed the greatest hurdle to overcome.

Huang, an expert in superconductors, talked about the fact that many aging technologies are laced into the global grid, and the global need for rapid replacement of these old cables with newer and more-capable transportation technologies.

Click through to see the full session and hear about the science behind enabling the increasingly renewable generating of power to plug into existing grids, and the grids we will have in the future: https://youtu.be/o9fIwth6R4Y?si=2x8OA87GXEnLUdIl

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10/09/2025

Today’s the Day!

Join us at 10am PT for a special virtual Spark salon with Kim Stanley Robinson, the visionary author behind "The Ministry for the Future," the "Mars Trilogy," and more than 20 groundbreaking novels on climate, technology, and the future.

Together, we’ll explore how scenario planning and actionable climate solutions can guide us – realistically and collectively – beyond the year 2100.

This will be an interactive roundtable, with half the session dedicated to audience Q&A. If you’ve got questions for Stan, this is your chance.

To kick things off, we'll dive into scalable, actionable climate solutions: both what’s working and barriers to the most promising, realizable solutions– and how to overcome them.

As always, Spark salons are off the record, not recorded, and held under Chatham House Rule to create space for candid dialogue and collaboration.

RSVP now to join us for this timely, thought-provoking discussion: https://bit.ly/3KuEEL1

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