Jewish High Tech Community

Marina reflects on her experience emigrating from the former Soviet Union and what she learned from that experience that helps her work as a forecaster. Marina will start with an introduction on the Institute For The Future and then talk about her personal journey from Ukraine to her position as the IFTF's executive director, lessons learned from this experience and how they apply them to the group's work.

About the Speaker

Marina Gorbis , Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, is particularly suited to see things from a global perspective. She has directed international programs and led international development projects for SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in China, Japan, Vietnam, India, and Eastern Europe. In addition to serving as IFTF's Executive Director, Marina leads the Technology Horizons Program, focusing on the innovation at the intersection of new technologies and social organization.

She has initiated a Global Ethnographic Network (GEN), a multi-year ethnographic research program which tries to develop an understanding of daily lives of people in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Silicon Valley, in an attempt to integrate their voices into IFTF's forecasts.

Marina holds an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, a certificate in international business from the University of London, and a B.A. in industrial psychology, also from the University of California, Berkeley. California, Berkeley.