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Simon Ostergaard
Director, Head of Strategic Foresight & Foresight Training at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and a futurist specializing in scenario planning and trend analysis.
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Oct 13, 2026
Rethinking Megatrends
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Toke HanghøjHOST
So how, how are people to, to use this report other than for, uh, for inspiration?
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34:05Simon ØstergaardGUEST
I think, I think it's important to say that we don't approach megatrends as just an analytical outcome in itself.
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34:16Simon ØstergaardGUEST
Um, for us, the applicability lies in whatever downstream analytical activity that you decide to use it for.
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34:24Simon ØstergaardGUEST
We outline a few things in, in, in, in our report here, but one of the important things, and I kinda wanna throw this over to Martin in a, in a second, is that we talk about what we call the nexus of megatrends.
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Toke HanghøjHOST
Th-this is a, a base, base starting point, and then you can, you can cross them, and you can do exercises and workshops and, and from there, it's-- there's still a lot of work to do to reach some strategic decisions, right?