What you'll learn:
- Why the future is "plural"—and what that changes about how you plan
- How to build and use scenarios instead of betting on a single forecast, and read the signals already shaping what's next
- A first look at Dan's Prodacity 2026 session
If you're leading through change nobody handed you a playbook for, this is 30 minutes worth your time.
Navigating uncharted territory in GovTech innovation
Learn how to challenge hidden assumptions and prepare for future scenarios using strategic foresight.
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About this session
Every hard problem you're facing has one thing in common: no map, no playbook, no one who's done exactly this before. The instinct is to plan harder for the future you expect. But the future isn't a single destination you can forecast your way into.
In this episode of Mission O/S Live, Rise8 VP of Enablement Adam Furtado sits down with Dan Ward—author, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and co-founder of The SparkLit Group—for a conversation about navigating the unknown, and a preview of the talk he's bringing to the Prodacity stage this August.
Dan has spent a career on the frontier of defense acquisition and now helps mission-driven leaders ask sharper questions and challenge hidden assumptions. He'll connect that work to a discipline most government leaders have never used: strategic foresight—not prediction, but a practical way to see the futures that could actually arrive.