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Interview Of The Week: Christina von Messling, Strategy Foresight

Who: Christina von Messling is a foresight advisory partner at Foresight Factory, which works with clients such as HSBC, Carlsberg Group, Accor, Ford and British Airways. She has been working in technology and innovation for the past decade, Her current focus is the evolution of AI, meshed realities, and synthetic biology, and how technological innovation intersects with economic relevance and human impact.

Topic: How to prepare for the future

Quote:  “Long-term thinking is short-term competitiveness. The point of foresight is not to know what happens next but to stop being surprised when it does.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.