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  THE DAY OF THE SWAN III   

24 HOURS OF COMMON SENSEMAKING

On Thursday May 25th to Friday May 26th, Grey Swan Guild will hold a series of back-to-back one-hour events developed and hosted by our all star collective of guild members.

This year we commemorrate the third anniversary of our Guild and this year’s theme is “Common Sensemaking”. The event will have three tracks: People (Health, Aging, Ethics), Technology (GAI, Cloud, Next) and  Process (Work, Play, Other).

With a focus on sensemaking, uncertainty, learning and networking, the events have no prescribed format and will be  conducted as panel discussions and/or interactive workshops via online video. 

Representing the globalization of our Guild, the full day will have three international segments for: Asia/Pacific/Oceania, Europe/Middle East/Africa and The Americas.


Join us for one session or 24 hours? See our evolving full schedule of events and full details  about the event below or downlaod the full program here.
Anchor 1
GSG News Hour

May 25, 2023

12:00 p.m.

Rob Tyrie

Zoom event

#1 Day of the Swan III: News Wrap Hour

Headlines from the Three Month Future - what are the lead stories over the next 90 days, what are we excited to cover and how will today's headlines evolve?

Hosts:

Rob Tyrie

Sean Moffitt

Swancoin

May 25, 2023

2:00 p.m.

Thomas Euler

Zoom event

#3 Swancoin

Join Thomas Euler and Rob Tyrie on the Day of the Swan introducing #Swancoin. In this session, we will talk about WEB3 and Fan Tokens, The Behavior Economy, and What Happened to NFTs. Thomas will cover his view on the success and usage of blockchain based on the success of his company.ahead.

Hosts:

Thomas Euler

Rob Tyrie

Omni Future

May 25, 2023

4:00 p.m.

Howard Fields

Zoom event

#5 The Omni Future - The End of Snow

The OmniFuture podcast will explore "How The End Of Snow Will Change Our Lives" during this year's "Day of the Swan" (DOTS) event. In advance of the DOTS, you'll participate in an online Four Futures exercise that will examine one of the four scenarios listed below and contribute to a story about how the end of snow will change our lives by 2033:

Hosts:

Howard Fields

Gina Clifford

Cygnus Sprints

May 25, 2023

6:00 p.m.

Mitchell Halpern

Zoom event

#7 Cygnus Sprints - Consulting of the Future

Cygnus Sprints powered by the guild is a new approach to consulting. Join Mitchell Halpern PhD in talking about this new approach of working with you instead of consulting at you.

Hosts:

Mitchell Halpern

Aaron Mikulsky

Happiness

May 25, 2023

8:00 p.m.

Samantha Yarwood

Zoom event

#9 Happiness - An Exploration

Happiness - the world is making progress but why are we so unhappy, and what can we do about it

Hosts:

Samantha Yarwood

Sean Moffitt

1,000 Day Radar

May 25, 2023

11:00 p.m.

Sean Moffitt

Zoom event

#12 1,000 Day Radar - Three Years is Faster Than You Think

A preview and teaser to our Guild's marquee June event and how we get ahead of our next three years, Futures, Foresights, Forecasts. Assemble.

Hosts:

Sean Moffitt

LatAm Futurisms

May 26, 2023

1:00 a.m.

Fernando Gutierrez

Zoom event

#14 LatAm Futurisms - Sensemaking Commons

Ana Paula Medeiros and Fernando Gutierrez will be discussing the various Futurism movements that have sprung up in Latin America, including Brazilian AfroFutirism, Amazofuturism, Andean Futurism, ChicanaFuturism, and others!

Hosts:

Fernando Gutierrez

Ana Paula Medeiros

Deepest Fears

May 26, 2023

3:00 a.m.

Eva Tomas Casado

Zoom event

#16 What are you afraid of?

Gary Monti and Eva Tomas explore the implications of our fears on our life transformation. What is holding us back? How do we find out what really is holding us back from transformation? And how can mindfulness and meditation help us in that process? Join our session and let us know your experiences with transformation periods in your life.

Hosts:

Eva Tomas Casado

Gary Monti

Dark AI

May 26, 2023

5:00 a.m.

Doyle Buehler

Zoom event

#18 Dark AI

We are diving into the dark avenues of AI - the ethical quandaries, existential questions and unstoppable trajectories.

Hosts:

Doyle Buehler

Rob Tyrie

Leaders I

May 26, 2023

7:00 a.m.

Eva Tomas Casado

Zoom event

#20 How do we all become leaders? Part 1

In this first part of "How do we all become leaders?" Anna and Eva are going to explore the mental demands of our current life, discuss the need of looking deeper in order to change and why we all need to be leaders to make sense of the ongoing cultural transformation.

Hosts:

Eva Tomas Casado

Anna Hummel-Gumaelius

Leaders III

May 26, 2023

9:00 a.m.

Anna Hummel-Gumaelius

Zoom event

#22 How do we all become leaders? Part 3

Explore with host Anna Hummel-Gumaelius and her guest Liz Murphy the concept of sophrology and how expanding our consciousness and going to full awareness can help us grow. Abel Buko will introduce the locus of enunciation, asking from where are we thinking.

Hosts:

Anna Hummel-Gumaelius

Liz Murphy, Abel Buko

Wicked Problems

May 26, 2023

12:00 p.m.

Jake Hoban

Zoom event

#25 Embracing Wicked Problems

Jake Hoban will explore the nature of wicked challenges, find out why linear thinking does not lead to solving those, and how sense-making and embracing uncertainty can help to build more effective and resilient ways into the future.

Hosts:

Jake Hoban

DoTs Guests

The DoTs Wrap

May 26, 2023

3:00 p.m.

DoTs Captains & Hosts

Zoom event

#28 DoTs Epilogue: Does this make sense to you

A lively discussion of the results of the survey "Making Sense of a Pandemic" - the first public-facing event of the Grey Swan Guild.

Hosts:

DoTs Captains & Hosts

DoTs Guests and Panelists

Depth Pyschoilogy

May 25, 2023

1:00 p.m.

Gary Monti

Zoom event

#2 The Impact of Depth Psychology on the Bottom Line

The Impact of Depth Psychology on the Bottom Line - Show the connection between a person's perception of themselves and the world on business success/failure. This includes the impact of personality structure on business decision-making and performance.

Hosts:

Gary Monti

i4T

May 25, 2023

3:00 p.m.

Paula Papel

Zoom event

#4 Internet for Trust

UNESCO Internet for Trust (I4T) Cosultation. UNESCO is engaged in a series of consultations to develop Guidelines focusing on the structures and processes needed to ensure users have a safer and more critical interaction with online content, to simultaneously support freedom of expression and the availability of accurate and reliable information in the public sphere. The Conference will be a key moment to gain further insights from the various stakeholders to inform the Guidelines. UNESCO will be undertaking further consultations to finalize the Guidelines in the months following the conference. The Guild will be running local consultation to give feedback and consideration to the Guide Lines being proposed

Hosts:

Paula Papel

Rob Tyrie

FF Leadership

May 25, 2023

5:00 p.m.

Lousie Mowbray

Zoom event

#6 Future-Focused Leadership

Join Louise Mowbray in exploring and discussing 5 Vital Lenses to make sense of the world including systems thinking, complexity/sensemaking, futures thinking, agile thinking/innovation & conscious leadership/teams. It is going to be enlightening!

Hosts:

Lousie Mowbray

Uncertainty

May 25, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Gordon Withrow

Zoom event

#8 Uncertainty - The Book by Cygnus Publishing

The Swans have a lot to say. 120,000 words or so. UNCERTAINTY is in the final publication steps with offical Launch events set to take place on June 6 & June 8. UNCERTAINTY takes the 7 Sprints model from the Cygnus Sprints Consulting arm of the Guild and expands it into detailed insights about how to embrace uncertainty and lead effectively in this superCAFFEINATED world driven by rapid technological change. Editors and Authors speak to the lessons of UNCERTAINTY.

Hosts:

Gordon Withrow

Deb Dimoff

The Brain

May 25, 2023

9:00 p.m.

Brad Schmidt

Zoom event

#10 Going Deep Inside the Brain

Join Brad Schmidt and Sean Moffitt on the Day of the Swan, when we take a trip with a panel of fantastic voyageurs deep inside the brain!

Hosts:

Brad Schmidt

Sean Moffitt

Tricia's Treasures

May 26, 2023

12:00 a.m.

Scott Phares

Zoom event

#13 Tricia Treasures 2.0

Join Scott Phares as we host “Tricia’s Treasures 2.0, New Roads in a Recessionary World” to explore a multi-prong small business from a founders perspective, we will be highlighting our progress with each prong and share our accidental journey towards a recession-resistant small business model.

Hosts:

Scott Phares

Tricia Seeman

Common Sensemaking

May 26, 2023

2:00 a.m.

Chuck Metz

Zoom event

#15 Common Sensemaking - finding the COMMON in commonsense

Join Chuck Metz, Jr. in challenging your perception of AI capabilities and the fascinating concept of common sense. This is more than just a theoretical dialogue—it's an exploration of the strides AI has made, the hurdles it faces, and the exciting future that awaits as it inches closer to mirroring human-like understanding.

Hosts:

Chuck Metz

Memes

May 26, 2023

4:00 a.m.

Doyle Buehler

Zoom event

#17 The Memeing of Life

Doyle Buehler does Common Sense-making with memes. How memes interpret and translate the world? A short discovery into meme-ology as a cultural reference point. Bring & share your favorite meme during the session and see if you can create something new.

Hosts:

Doyle Buehler

Multiple participants

Strategy Stoirming

May 26, 2023

6:00 a.m.

Doyle Buehler

Zoom event

#19 StrategyStoming

Reinventing & rethinking how we develop clear, creative & emergent strategy in an uncertain, unclear world. Making strategic thinking more common sense.

Hosts:

Doyle Buehler

DoTS Guests

Leaders II

May 26, 2023

8:00 a.m.

Daneil Gortz

Zoom event

#21 How do we all become leaders/ Part II

Daniel Görtz, sociologist and philosopher, and Eva Tomas, futurist, will explore the ideas of Utopia, Eutopia and Protopia, and how the transformation of the vision transforms the way there. Find out why in this approach, we all need to be leaders.

Hosts:

Daneil Gortz

Eva Tomas Casado

Youth

May 26, 2023

10:00 a.m.

Besir Wrayet

Zoom event

#23 Youth Foresight - Making Sense

The future is in the minds and hearts of tomorrow's generation, let's spend some time knowing how they think.

Hosts:

Besir Wrayet

Adam Sharpe

Sensemaking

May 26, 2023

1:00 p.m.

Dr. Monica Mastrantonio.

Zoom event

#26 Sensemaking

An Open Exploration of Sensemaking

Hosts:

Dr. Monica Mastrantonio.

Besir Wrayet

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WHAT IS THE DAY OF THE SWAN?

 DoTS is our Guild's biggest event of the year - a 24-hour, multi-segment conference, where we look to the past, understand the present and contemplate the future. It was conceived as kind of a yearbook to look at what way it accomplished after the first year of being together.. This is our third edition. 

DoTS is structured on a theme, & different members of the Guild present their ideas, concepts, creation, art and science. There is no prescribed format for any of the sessions, it's wide open, that's what makes it exciting. We won't know the shape of the show, until It's delivered

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WHO IS THE DAY OF THE SWAN?

Our global-best group of DoTS thought leaders, presenters, builders and faculty is eclectic.and range across disciplines. They are authors, scientists, medical professionals, designers, programmers, strategists, consultants, innovators, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, mixologists, magicians, wanderers, adventurers, thinkers, makers, doers and curious others..

 

All who all want to share in what they're doing with others in the Guild. 30 to 60 minute sessions are open to all those who submit ideas and concepts for the time. Access is open to members, prospective new members & non-members of the Guild. All presentations align to the values and follow the editorial  policies of the Guild

Submit a Panel Idea
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WHY DO THE DAY OF THE SWAN?

DoTS brings together our mission of making sense of the world's biggest challenges into one intensive experience. It consolidates and highlights our work with content, events, intelligence learning, networking and ventures.

it gathering of thought leaders and thought creation and community of what's been done in the past and what helps produce the future. We do it to exercise collective intelligence & collective caring. It's a mission, and punctuation all at once. It seems like a lens to the world to make sense of it all.

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HOW DO WE DAY OF THE SWAN?

The Guild does real-time events all the time, over 60+ per year.. doTs is the first of our 4 Marquee multi-hour events happening in May, June, August and November.. Since the start, we have operated these as free events, live on Zoom and syndicated on YouTube.

We are all professionals that hold many business cards. All the presenters,  producers and organizers consider the Guild a special kind of global "fifth place" where they share, learn, experience and aspire together. with people that like to go deeper, act bolder and sense wiser.  And hopefully, make the world a little bit better than it was before.

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