Elina Hiltunen Biography

Forbes has named Elina Hiltunen as one of the world's top 50 futurists. Hiltunen has a lot of expertise in foreseeing and inventing the future. Her background covers futures in general, as well as methods for futures thinking, megatrends, weak signals, technology's future, and consumer trends. Hiltunen is a dynamic public speaker with extensive experience in Finland and other countries (in Finnish and in English). Hiltunen is the author of eleven novels. A book on strategic foresight is Foresight and Innovation: How Companies are Coping with the Future (in Finnish: Matkaopas tulevaisuuteen). Talentum published it in Finnish in spring 2012, and Palgrave released it in English in October 2013. Hiltunen and her husband, Kari Hiltunen, a Dr.Tech., have also authored a book about the Future of Technology in 2035. Talentum released the book in Finnish in 2014, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing published it in English in 2015. Hiltunen has also published books on consumer trends (2017) and megatrends (2017). (2019). Currently, these books are only accessible in Finnish. Hiltunen not only talks about innovations, but she also produces them: she's been working on tools for futures thinking, such as Futures Windows and Strategic Serendipity. She is also the creator of the TrendWiki application, which allows organizations to crowdsource their futures. She's also started an initiative called Tiedettä tytöille (Science for Girls) to encourage young women to pursue STEM careers. Hiltunen's other passion is crocheting. She worked for Novita as a freelance amigurumi designer. She released her first book in the subject of crocheting in November 2012. She has written three books about amigurumis in all. In 2015, she and her children co-wrote a children's book about computational thinking. In 2016, the second book on computational thinking was released, and the third book on Scratch was released in the spring of 2017.

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