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Welcome to the Proteus Canada Institute

Proteus Canada is a not-for-profit institute. Its aim is to bring together sector leaders and strategic foresight practitioners concerned with the challenges of anticipating and understanding global change, and with exploring the related implications for their surroundings.

Proteus Canada is also the cross-border strategic conduit in the Canada-USA Proteus Consortium.

Programs

Training -- Our Core program is the Protean Critical Thinking Game, unique interactive simulation games.

Forums -- seminars and discussion meetings with subject area experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs.

Virtual Consulting in Protean Thinking – review apprehended situations; examine opportunities and vulnerabilities, identify potential scenarios and provide interactive simulation training to operational personnel.

Virtual Conference Centrelive-online or on-demand participation to forums, discussion groups, consultancy.

Events

December 2005

Globalization: The Survival Imperative
 -Finding ways to see over the horizon
held at the National Press Club of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

A conference that dealt with detecting the issues --
Participants have heard expert presentations from top leaders in the areas of policy, national security and science and technology foresight.  These experts provided a conceptual framing of international and domestic issues that have important implications for Canada, for its leaders and for its policy advisors. Participants did participate in Protean Critical Thinking Games - an interactive simulation game aimed at helping participants develop greater awareness of “how collective and individual biases may influence operational thinking.”
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February 2006                    dates 21-24

Making Virtual ... a Training Reality:
The Advanced Simulation Technologies Symposium
held at the Combat Training Centre, CFB Gagetown, NB

This Advanced Simulation Technologies Symposium is presented by LearnNB in partnership with The Canadian Army Individual Training Authority, The Office of the National Science Advisor and the Proteus Canada Institute.

Concurrent to the speaker presentations on Day 2 and 3 of the Symposium, there will be a one-day exercise using Proteus, a critical-thinking game for training and collaborative efforts that explore the ability of individuals and groups to adapt to conflicting goals and to complex and ambiguous surprises. This particular demonstration will utilize a scenario of multi-agency interaction in a complex security environment (similar to that which may be seen at the Vancouver Olympics, for example).  >more

April 2006                           date 12

Effects-based Analysis of (Adversary) Systems and Decision Frameworks
Organized by: Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre

Conference is a bi-annual meeting of senior researchers from Australia, UK, New Zealand and Canada interested in the “effects-based operations”. Presentations will be delivered by representatives of the Proteus Canada Institute on Science and Technology Foresight as well as on the Protean Critical Thinking Simulation.  >more

August 2006                        dates 22-24

Analyzing Future complex National Security Challenges within the Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational Environment
held at the Center for Strategic Leadership, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania

The US Army War College, in collaboration with the Office of the Director National Intelligence (DNI) will conduct an academic workshop to explore the complexity of the future global security environment, its discrete threats and opportunities and examine new and emerging Proteus related strategies and processes to meet the 21st century
U.S. national security needs. 
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