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Future Shock 2025: Inquiring Into a New Path Forward for the Engineering Community (Exploring the Impacts of Federal Disruption)
Virtual Preview – October 7, 2025 (Tentative)
In-Person Summit – November 5-6, 2025, Austin, TX (Tentative)
The uncertainty driven by the disruption and change within the federal government, combined with the acceleration of artificial intelligence, distrust in institutions, and economic uncertainty, are presenting increased challenges and complexities to the work of the engineering community. Many long-established conditions and societal expectations that shape our profession and work outcomes will have been stretched well past their point of elasticity. We cannot expect that they will ever snap back to their previous shape or assumed trajectory.
This summit will explore this changed landscape and imagine a positive new path forward for the engineering community as stewards of technology and the built and natural environment on behalf of society,
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Learning Objectives for ECL Summits
Learning objectives for participants in our summits include helping members of the engineering community to be able to:
- Perceive and address systemic challenges and dynamics.
- Imagine and explore possible futures.
- Take responsibility for action and catalyzing change.
- Pursue positive change strategies within organizations and communities.
- Adopt and evolve an ethic of stewardship of technology and nature on behalf of society.
About Our Events
Each year, Engineering Change Lab–USA (ECL) hosts virtual summits and in-person summits. We convene to learn from thought leaders, share perspectives, provoke new ways of thinking, deepen understanding of engineering’s emerging future, and launch experiments and focused initiatives.
Contact us to learn more about how you or your organization can engage with and benefit from ECL events.
Anyone who is connected to the engineering community is welcome to join us — no membership is required.
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