Overview
As a Deep Tech founder or leader, you're faced with making high-stakes decisions today on emerging technologies, fundraising timing, market entry and partnerships. Often, these decisions are made years before you'll know if you called it right. And, what if the future doesn't unfold the way that you had planned for?
Strategic foresight isn't about predicting what will happen. It is about strengthening our ability to hold multiple plausible futures, explore alternative scenarios, and use those perspectives to sharpen the decisions we make today. By spending time with different possible futures, we can challenge assumptions and spot emerging opportunities and risks.
Join Joakim Skog Head of Office & Strategy at Vinnova Silicon Valley and Shawn Chua Practice Lead Serious Games and Applied Simulations at Civil Service College Singapore for this hands-on workshop that is built specifically for Deep Tech founders and leaders navigating today’s uncertainties. We will explore how strategic foresight works as a practical tool for thinking, working and deciding under uncertainty by using the future to think differently about the present.
What you’ll walk away with:
Basic understanding of the necessity of future thinking and strategic foresight
Practical ways to question the assumptions behind your current business strategy
How to consider different future conditions that could impact or shape your business strategy
A repeatable thinking tool you can bring back to your team to shape consequential decisions
If you're a Deep Tech founder or leader grappling with how to plan ahead in an uncertain landscape, this workshop is for you. Come ready to roll up your sleeves and participate — this is a hands-on session where you'll learn to apply foresight tools directly to your own strategy.
Workshop Agenda:
Introduction to Strategic Foresight: A foundational overview designed for those new to the concept.
Fireside Chat & Discussion: Joakim Skog and Shawn Chua discuss and share real-world experiences, lessons, and practical methods from their work.
Hands-On Scenario Workshop: An interactive session applying impactful, easy-to-use methods to construct and work with future scenarios.
Capacity for this workshop is limited to 30 participants. Only participants who have successfully registered will receive a confirmation email.
Schedule
Date: 28 Oct 2026, Wednesday
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: 32 Carpenter Street, 059911
Speakers
Speaker's Profile:
Joakim Skog, Head of Office & Strategy, Vinnova Silicon Valley
Joakim Skog heads Vinnova's office in Silicon Valley, based at Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto. His role is to be Vinnova's extended arm in the United States, driving innovation collaboration between Swedish and US organizations, analyzing emerging tech and policy shifts, and building Vinnova's local network. Joakim's approach is rooted in strategic foresight. Before moving to Silicon Valley, he led Vinnova's futures-thinking unit in Stockholm, managing a cross-disciplinary team exploring strategic foresight and funding early-stage emerging technologies. He also founded Framsynsonsdag (Foresight Wednesday), a monthly Vinnova forum for discussing longer-term change. A frequent speaker, podcast guest, and columnist, Joakim regularly shares perspectives on technology and its plausible consequences. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science, has studied neurology and cognitive psychology, and previously served as Head of Innovation at Dun & Bradstreet Europe.
Speaker's Profile:
Shawn Chua, Practice Lead, Serious Games and Applied Simulations, Civil Service College Applied Simulations and Training, Civil Service College of Singapore
Shawn Chua is the Practice Lead for Serious Games and Applied Simulations at CAST (Civil Service College Applied Simulations and Training) at the Civil Service College of Singapore. He designs and facilitates serious games, simulations and speculative role-play that help public officers and leaders explore alternative futures, surface hidden assumptions and rehearse decisions under uncertainty. His work draws on futures studies, game studies and adult learning, with a particular interest in organisational unlearning and in using preposterous futures to widen the range of possibilities organisations are willing to consider.
