Futureproof voice · Vancouver 2026

Toshi Anders Hoo

Principal, Possibility Spaces

Former Senior Research Director, Institute for the Future

October 28–30 · Vancouver

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What they're bringing

Toshi Anders Hoo, principal of Possibility Spaces, spent a decade at the Institute for the Future, where he founded the Emerging Media Lab. He’ll talk about the future of collaborative intelligence: people and AI thinking together.

What you'll walk out with

A picture of what collaborative intelligence between people and AI could look like, from someone who spent a decade researching what comes next.

About

About Toshi Anders Hoo

Toshi Anders Hoo runs Possibility Spaces, a design strategy studio that helps organizations think, decide, and imagine together in the age of AI, through research, keynotes, workshops, and working decision tools. For a decade he was Senior Research Director at the Institute for the Future, where he founded the Emerging Media Lab. Before IFTF he was media technology advisor to Ray Kurzweil and co-produced and directed the documentary The Singularity Is Near. He is also a media artist, creative technologist, and experience designer whose work has been featured at the United Nations, TED, SXSW, Ars Electronica, and the Dubai Future Foundation.

At the festival

Where to find Toshi

  1. Thursday · October 29
    11:50 AM–12:10 PM

    Collaborative intelligence, and who gets a say in it

    Thinking through models: what collaborative intelligence between people and AI looks like when it works, from a decade of futures research. Then the Q&A with Jos.

  2. Thursday · October 29
    12:10–12:25 PM

    Q&A

    Then both on stage, taking questions from the room.

    On stage with Jos Duncan-Asé.

Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program

One Festival Pass covers every session. See tickets

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