For entrepreneurs, spending time thinking about the future can prove highly profitable. Honing in on and identifying new markets, product ideas, business practices and evolving customer needs can help entrepreneurs drive current business forward and create new ventures.

Futurist Rohit Talwar couldn’t agree more.

In an upcoming EO Webinar – formerly known as Learning GlobalCasts – experience more efficient technology as you listen to Rohit’s presentation, "First to the Future: Identifying and Unlocking Tomorrow’s Opportunities." Rohit will give you a sneak peek into the future and a taste of one of the sessions he will present at the2008 EO New Delhi University. He will serve as your tour guide and explore opportunities and challenges created by long-term trends, emerging ideas and shifts in global wealth.

So what kind of shifts are likely to occur, you ask? Within the next five years:

• China will become the world’s second largest economy.
• Six children will be born in Asia for every one in the United States, Europe and Latin America combined.
• Fifty percent of senior managers in the Fortune 500 will retire.
• Hydropolis, the world’s first "10-star" underwater hotel, will open in Dubai, UAE.
• You will be able to fly to space for US$200,000 with Virgin Galactic; spaceports will be planned in the US, Dubai, Singapore and South Africa.
• Your cell phone will replace your laptop, MP3, camera, credit card and airline ticket— genuinely becoming your life’s remote control.

We have whetted your appetite, right? Within 10 years:

• Forty percent of US scientific and engineering talent will leave the workforce.
• China’s middle class will number more than 500 million.
  Life expectancy in the west will be around 90 years old.
• Hypersonic flight prototypes could be launched, promising a trip between New York, USA, and London, England, in less than two hours.
• Personal "replicators" will let you print a range of products in your own home.

To help you make sense of all these worldwide changes, Rohit will explore how you can:

• Map your business’ future to prepare for planned events and inevitable surprises.
• Profit from the rising populations and growing wealth across Asia and Africa.
• Scan an industry’s future to spot opportunities, risks and tipping points.
• Tap the power of social media as a rapid and low-cost means to finding global ideas, opportunities and partners.
• Develop a flexible mindset for your team and organization to ensure they can respond in an agile and rapid way to change and opportunity.
• Ensure your business is a magnet for new ideas.

To take advantage of this opportunity and meet Rohit in person, register for the 2008 EO New Delhi University and sign up for the EO Webinar with Rohit Talwar, which will take place on 29 November at 13:00 GMT. Register today— spaces are filling up fast. For questions or comments, please email Leslie Baum, Learning Director.