Rosa Alegria
A pioneer in strategic foresight in Brazil and a professional futurist for 26 years, Rosa holds a master's degree in Future Studies from the University of Houston in the United States. She is among the most recognized futurists in Latin America. Co-founder of Pangera, an organization that promotes intergenerational relations, co-founder of the Brazilian node of the Millennium Project, and a member of the executive board of the World Futures Studies Federation. Rosa is also a specialist in Creativity from CCL – Center for Creative Leadership (USA), in Sustainability from Schumacher College (England), and in Diversity from Morehouse College (USA).
The Future is Ancestral: In Age, In Memory, In Wisdom
Two forces traverse our time: population aging and the urgency to reconnect innovation with accumulated knowledge. If we live longer, we also carry more memory, and it is in this accumulation that a frequently underestimated power resides. The panel invites us to rethink the future not as a rupture with the past, but as expanded continuity, where experience, traditional knowledge, and life trajectories become strategic assets for society. Between longevity and ancestrality, the central question is: how to transform lived time into shared wisdom to guide the next cycles? To undertake, in this sense, is to recognize that experience is also technology.