World Futures Day 2026
Celebrate the 6th annual World Futures Day - Young Voices 24-hour around the world conversation. Join young people and futurists across 24 sessions to celebrate World Futures Day on March 1st, 2026.
Why?
World Futures Day is an annual global event held on March 1st to spark conversations about the future. But whose future are we discussing? Young people deserve a seat at the table—their voices, ideas, and visions should shape the world they will inherit. That’s why Teach the Future, in partnership with the Millennium Project and friends, launched the Young Voices Edition.
What?
For 24 hours, we invite young people from around the world to engage in conversations about the future alongside futurists, educators, and visionaries of all ages. Each hour, a new session will take place, featuring discussions, insights, and collaborative explorations of what the future could hold.
Join Us!
💬 Want to hear young people’s visions for the future and share your own? Learn more community porjects from around the world? Play cool foresight games? Join our live Zoom sessions happening all day round on March 1st!🌍
What is World Futures Day?
World Futures Day was founded by The Millennium Project in 2014 and is celebrated annually as a 24-hour global conversation about the future. The event brings together people from all over the world to discuss what lies ahead, with sessions hosted by The Millennium Project, the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF).
What is the Young Voices Edition? (WFD-YV)
Since 2021, Teach the Future has hosted the Young Voices Edition of World Futures Day to ensure that young people are actively involved in shaping future discussions. Every hour, young leaders and futurists co-host sessions to explore emerging trends, challenges, and possibilities. This platform empowers young people to share their ideas, be heard, and contribute to building the future.
Sessions
Below is the 24-hour schedule. Each session is at 5pm of the major city column. Check what the session time is using the world clock link. You can join as many sessions as you'd like!
This year, there are multiple timezones where 2 sessions will occur at the same time, look for session a and b in each timezone to find out what sessions are coinciding. These will be facilitated in the same Zoom link but in breakout rooms. Facilitator Bios
Session # | Major City | Time Zone UTC/GMT | Convert session time to your local timezone | Youth Facilitator(s) Name age 25 and under | Facilitator(s) Name age 26 and over | Session Title/Topic |
1 | Aukland Aotearoa NZ | 13 | Enya, Niharika & Jae | Lionel Goh & Carol Lim | Beyond School: Reimagining the future of youth third spaces | |
2 | Pacific Harbor, Fiji | 12 | Young Voices Council 1/2 | Lisa Giuliani & Randi Millard | Generation Future(S) | |
3 | Sydney, Australia | 11 | Hazel Mulligan | Jade Tang-Taylor | Food Across Generations | |
4a | Brisbane, Australia | 10 | Clare Beaton-Wells & Paris Riebling | Planning Saw & Tanisha Frescon | Reimagining Leadership Systems for Long-term, Intergenerational Governance | |
4b | Guam | 10 | Godfrey Gozberty & Jiayuan Tian | Rustam Shariq Mujtaba, Olesia Maibakh, & Adeola Ojoawo | How Future Technologies Are Reshaping Human Agency | |
5a | Tokyo, Japan | 9 | School | Kazim | The Transformation of Education | |
5b | Seoul, South Korea | 9 | MOD | Brooke Ferguson & Dylan DeLosAngeles | Imagining a World Without Trust | |
6a | Philippines | 8 | Jaanvi Nawalgaria, Maryam Wangeshi, Yasmine Abdelkhalek & Sebastian Poe Ryu | Tricia Friedman & Aziza Silwimba | From Play to Policy: How We Turn Everyday Experiences into Future-Ready Systems | |
6b | Singapore | 8 | Ayaulym Tauyekel & Ayush Sankaran | Theo Silberston & Scott Jordan | Need - Want - Hope: Connecting Visions for the Future | |
7a | Bangkok, Thailand | 7 | Rafaela Valencia-Dongo | Erica Austin | Choose Your Future: Co-creating Life in 2070 | |
7b | Jakarta, Indonesia | 7 | Jezrel Larry Caunca & Marein Joan Bermudez | Stephanie Jane Bonilla | Futures-Ready Youth: Why learn the future? | |
8a | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 6 | Rabia Memon | Salman Khatani | AI Futures for Social Good: Building Ethical Intelligence for Tomorrow's Leaders | |
8b | New Dehli, India | 6.5 | Anisha Mane | Har Suyash Bahadur | Alone Together: AI Companions and the Future of Connection | |
9a | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 5 | Korkemay Mukhitova | Yelena Muzykinam & Emina Yessekeyeva | The Art of Long View from Tien Shan Tops and Meadows: the Kazakhstani Perspective | |
9b | Karachi, Pakistan | 5 | Hiba Umar | Umar Sheraz | Family-Based Foresight: Families, Futures and Fun | |
10a | Seychelles | 4 | Julia Anting Wolff | Olga Skaredina & Elena Müller | What is the Future of Global Environmental Governance? Youth Agency, Intergenerational Equity, and Transformative Change | |
10b | Dubai UAE | 4 | Young Voices Network MENA | Maryam Yousuf & Eman Ebed Alkadi | Voices Shaping the Future: A Dialogue with MENA Changemakers | |
11a | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 3 | Claire Bridgette Ivan & Sofia Londono | Unteaching the Future: Making Space for Entrepreneurial Thinking in Education | ||
11b | Doha, Qatar | 3 | Francisco Vera | Genaro Godoy Gonzalez & Theo Silberston | Building Futures Backwards: Exploring the Peace-Climate Nexus | |
12a | Cairo Egypt | 2 | Gabriela Olinda Pizarro Arteaga | Angela Santivanez | Youth Weaving Cultural Wisdom for Global Futures | |
12b | Athens, Greece | 2 | Benedict Ike | Ebenezer Anyadiegwu | Youth as Future Designers: Co-Creating Sustainability and the Circular Economy | |
13 | Amsterdam,Netherlands | 1 | Young Voices Council 2/2 | Darragh McKee Matthews & Francesca Gottschalk OECD | What does child empowerment mean today? Shaping a shared future | |
14a | Dublin, Ireland | 0 | Michel Monreal & Sergio Torres | Fabiola Marmol & Elvira Luna | Inside the Future Classroom: Data, Experience, and Young Voices | |
14b | London, UK | 0 | Agnes Etuah & Samuel Matemilola | Katarina Lambrinou | The Future of Learning | |
15a | Azores, Portugal | -1 | Shaivi Kant | Amy Daroukakis | 20 Past & Present lessons for the future | |
15b | Praia, Cape Verde | -1 | Alia, Hamza, Wiktoria & Philipe | Raya Bidshahri | Future of Democracy and Autocracy in the Digital Era | |
16a | Nuuk, Greenland | -2 | Lola Kengen | Giulia Sonetti | Nerds are Not Robots: Students Shaping the Future of STEM Sustainability | |
16b | Sisimiut, Greenland | -2 | Mitchell-Pullman | Svenia Busson | Deep Learning vs. Fast Answers: Reclaiming Your Agency in the Age of AI | |
17a | Sao Paulo, Brazil | -3 | Malu, Iandra & Maria Antonia | Wellington Porto | Decoding Brazilian cultural imaginaries | |
17b | Argentina | -3 | Marianne Richard | Catherine Mathys | Beyond the binarity : Exploring signals of a post-gender society | |
18a | Puerto Rico | -4 | Rufina Amondi | Adina-Iuliana Deacu, Alicious Bessiama & Kabir Adejumo | Reclaiming the Right to Shape the Future: Youth, Women, and New Models of Power, Governance, and Economy | |
18b | Barbados | -4 | Teesta B | Rose Rondelez & Elliot Brennan | Climate Policies, Climate Natives & Global Health | |
19a | Toronto, Canada | -5 | Shirley Tian, Arushi Surve, & Eli Goodman | Grace Okubo | ||
19b | New York City | -5 | Kate Barranco | Anatola Araba | Sandbox for Imagination: A Playground for Regenerative Futures | |
20a | Mexico City CDMX | -6 | Belen Yaspana | Maria Antonieta Angarita, Nancy Gutiérrez & Henry Venegas | Cuando escuchas, transformas: Descubre el poder de la escucha consciente para encontrar tu misión de vida. | |
20b | Nashville US | -6 | Roy Gari & Kelly Quispe Flores | Sofía Toapanta Arroyo | Agencia juvenil y capacidad real de moldear el futuro desde los sistemas educativos de América Latina | |
21a | Calgary, Canada | -7 | Lilly Polack & Tyler Tigerino | Sarah Dawne Haynes | Biogenic materials for the 22nd century | |
21b | Denver US | -7 | Mrigank Gunjan Sharma | Greta Anderson | Architecting Just Relationships in a House of Cards: Embracing uncomfortable truths to build a better future | |
22 | Los Angeles, US | -8 | Maahi, Cyrus & Vedika | April Michele | Asking Better Questions: How Youth Can Identify the Problems Shaping Our Future | |
23 | Juneau, Alaska US | -9 | bhakti Jain, Shaibu Mohammed, Kaixin Li | Playing with Alternative Futures in Stories | ||
24 | Honolulu, Hawaii US | -10 | Vedant Tiwari | Shefali Maheshwari | The Experience Gap: A Foresight Crisis We Keep Overlooking | |
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