Andrea Saveri
Speaker Bio:
Director, Institute for the Future
Andrea is a director in IFTF's Emerging Technologies Program and has worked at IFTF for 12 years. Her work focuses on identifying the long-term demographic, social, and technological trends that shape the transformation of work, the workplace, and household life. In particular, Andrea examines the underlying factors and unarticulated needs and desires that shape the diffusion and adoption of information and communications technologies at home and at work. She is interested in describing the dynamic reinvention of technology, the social institutions of work and household life, and the consequences for businesses and other organizations. She helps to identify and describe strategic organizational and management issues related to globally interdependent work, the integration of physical and electronic workspace, and the future of the infomated household.
Andrea's research includes in-depth primary research studies-ethnographic interviewing, surveys, and participatory and action-oriented research methods-in North America, Asia, and Europe. She is currently working with local high schools to develop a futures research collaborative to study important issues for the future as defined and studied by teenagers.
Andrea has presented her work internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America. She has contributed chapters in two publications, Web Weaving: Intranets, Extranets and Strategic Alliances, Peter Lloyd and Paula Boyle, editors, Butterworth-Heineman, London, 1998; and New Directions in Career Planning and the Workplace, Jean Kummerow, editor, Consulting Psychologist Press, Palo Alto, 1991 (currently being updated).
Andrea holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Harvard University.
