SPEAKERS

Sirkka Heinonen

Dr. Sirkka Heinonen is Professor of Futures Research with Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) at Turku School of Economics. Her expertise is concerned with futures research, technology foresight, knowledge society, innovation, social media, and sustainable development.
She is heading the research group on the Future of Media and Communications (FMC). Prof. Heinonen was commissioned to report on futures research activities in other countries to help organise Finnish futures studies in the early 1980s. In the late 1990s she was involved in preparing the Finnish Government's Futures Report to the Parliament and in renewing the Finnish National Strategy for Information Society. She is member of the steering group of the Finnish national foresight network of SITRA (The Finnish Innovation Fund) and an active member of the board of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies.
She is Co-Chair of the Helsinki Node of the Millennium Project and since 2005 Member to the Club of Rome. Prof. Heinonen is keen on identifying emerging trends and issues, as well as anticipating their impacts on society. She has studied the potential of Slow Life and Slow Design in urban and regional planning.