Luncheon Keynote
Richard Worzel, C.F.A.
One of North America's leading Futurists and best selling author of
Who Owns Tomorrow, The Next Twenty Years of Your Life and Facing the Future.

Most of us think about the future, but Richard Worzel makes his living that way. He is one of North America’s leading futurist, with a client list that includes IBM, pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, 3Com, IMAX, Microsoft, and Ford Motor Company, among many others. Last year at this time, Richard was the closing keynote speaker for the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing in Orlando.

Richard studied computer science, economics, and world trade in university, and has written hundreds of articles on preparing for the future, as well as six best-selling books, including The Next 20 Years of Your Life, which reached the national best-seller list in its second week after publication.

He started work in the investment industry as a stock market analyst, and earned that industry’s Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation before starting his own consulting company in 1979.

He is a Scout leader, and lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.