Strategic foresight is becoming a defining capability of high-performing boards and executive teams. In this keynote, Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen shows how foresight helps leadership move beyond short-term risk oversight toward long-term opportunity creation, resilience, and strategic renewal. Drawing on concrete cases, the session demonstrates how organizations can build future-proof technology strategies, identify breakthrough innovation opportunities, explore new growth spaces, and support major investment decisions under uncertainty. Participants will gain a practical perspective on how weak signals, long-term scenarios, and structured future-oriented methods can sharpen strategic focus and strengthen the board’s role as a shaper of long-term value. The central message is clear: strategic foresight is not an add-on to governance, but a capability that helps secure relevance, legitimacy, and competitive advantage in a world shaped by disruption.
Dr. Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen
As Head of Strategic Foresight, Antti-Jussi leads VTT’s Strategic Foresight unit, a 12 expert team that helps companies detect disruptive signals, evaluate bets across technology, markets, policy, sustainability, and society, building resilient growth strategies when stakes are high and time horizons stretch to 2030–2050. As long time faculty in Aalto EE’s MBA/EMBA foresight modules, he translates complex foresight into practical methods leaders can apply immediately.
Over two decades, Antti Jussi has worked at the intersection of technology, markets and policy. At the Finnish Forest Industries Federation, he advanced RDI and industrial policy at EU and national levels, giving companies a vantage point on how regulation, sustainability and technology co evolve—and how to position ahead of the curve. Earlier at ETLA, he directed multinational, cross disciplinary programs, securing multimillion euro funding while leading large expert teams on the topics of competitiveness and technology-driven business. He has also served as a Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research, contributing to research on radical innovation practices that inform corporate foresight today.
His clients’ outcomes include (1) 2050 horizon technology strategies that anticipate shocks from sustainability, regulation and science; (2) breakthrough materials, processes and product technologies that reset cost/performance frontiers; (3) “New Defense” entry paths for dual use value chains; (4) post conflict, cross border investment theses to de risk capital deployment; (5) data and digital infrastructure monetization via platform, service and ecosystem plays; and (6) user centric mobility offerings aligned with evolving urban lifestyles for the 2040s.
Antti Jussi is co author of the widely used Playbook for Strategic Foresight & Innovation and co editor of VTT’s Guidebook for Organising Corporate Foresight, a practical manual for embedding foresight into decision making. He also writes on how foresight strengthens value creation in the C suite and boards. His expert views have been featured in sector and policy forums as well as mainstream media.
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