Have we bragged about our 2022 APF Student Recognition award winners yet? This past year, 3 students entered the Masters Individual, and 2 teams submitted to the Masters Group category. Congrats to all who entered!

Masters Individual

1st place – Kiran L Carpenter

Read the report: The Future of U.S. National Health Security

Those entrusted with the protection of domestic Health Security in the United States face a future with challenges that are likely to be very different from those they face today. Powerful drivers of change such as population growth, climate change, resource scarcity, inequality, polarization, individualism, and decreasing trust, are already reshaping the landscape in which they operate causing issues with delivering on their mission and achieving successful health outcomes.

Key Questions:

  • What is the future operational environment in which a National Health Strategy would need to function?
  • What health security and broader landscape needs, barriers, opportunities might exist that the strategy would need to address?

3rd place – Eben Kowler

Check out the website: Local Foods in 2035

For the past decade, the Local Food sector has been steadily growing. But what is next? This foresight project aims to address the following questions:

  • In 2035, how does “local food” fit into the American diet?
  • How will local food systems evolve to compete with or complement the globalized economy?
  • What will “local food” mean in the future?
  • What are the biggest challenges to overcome?

Submission – Mark E. Koltko-Rivera

Read the report: The Threat of US Societal Collapse by 2040

The Threat of U.S. Societal Collapse by 2040 addresses the following questions:

  1. What are the current threats to the endurance of society in the United States?
  2. Could American society actually collapse by 2040? If so, how?
  3. What can the Executive Branch do to ensure the endurance of American society?

Masters Group

3rd place – Jt Mudge, Mary Tim, Daegon Lee, Elizabeth Herfel

Read the report: The Built Strategy

What happens after scenarios?
Our report, The Built Strategy, takes you beyond the scenarios and provides a tailored strategy for Jacobs Engineering Group. This proposed strategy is based on the potential future scenarios identified in the forecast report conducted for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) that examined The Future of the Built Environment.

This approach combines scenario planning with advanced business strategy methodologies to get the best of both worlds. The outcome is a more powerful and specific actionable strategy that looks to the future. More significantly, this approach allows for those outside of the futures field to better understand how futures work can utilize forecast outcomes into an actionable plan that suits their business.

Submission – Heather Benoit, Liza Hurtubise, David Jonker, Ryan Lanyon, Hauson Le, Sarah Wheeler 

Read the report: Days of Futures Past: 2040

Days of Future Past: 2040 explores the implications of major, present-day change factors through the lens of a global, systemic collapse by the year 2040.

To craft this scenario, the research team spent 14 weeks examining global trends and issues across nine selected dimensions, before synthesizing the findings into 6 key themes. These themes were used to construct a potential future timeline and explore what life may look like for individual stakeholders living in a collapsed society in the year 2040.