whatIf? Technologies is pleased to annouce a strategic partnerhip with Shaping Tomorrow, a firm which helps 12,000+ people and 6,000+ organizations anticipate and better prepare for emerging global opportunities and risks.

Shaping Tomorrow's clients gain fresh strategic foresight, agility and resilience through earlier warning of change, better informed investment and structured decision-making, enterprise-wide knowledge management, innovation and in-time threat intelligence leading to significant competitive advantage.

whatIf? Technologies and Shaping Tomorrow have combined their respective service offerings to provide an unparalled qualitative and quantitative foresighting capability. For more information on Shaping Tomorrow visit their website.

whatIf? Technologies Inc. has teamed with Navigant Consulting, Canada's premier electric utility consultants, to provide an offering to help Canadian electric utilities explore future electricity markets in order to manage power planning uncertainty and investment risk using the Canadian Energy Systems Simulator (CanESS).  This offering leverages Navigant's vast experience and expertise in the energy industry with the unique features of CanESS to analyze the dynamics of electricity markets..

Michael Hoffman, whatIf? co-founder and principal, was invited to give a seminar on the Canadian Energy Systems Simulator (CanESS) to the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, organized by Keith Hipel, in December 2009.  The seminar marks the beginning of an exciting collaboration between whatIf? and the University in which Waterloo researchers will both access and contribute to the model for various studies.  A Master's candidate has already identified CanESS as a useful tool to explore energy options for Ontario and has started using the model.  Such collaboration contributes to whatIf?'s goal of making CanESS accessible to all stakeholders with an interest in examining energy futures for Canada.

Michael Hoffman with Professor Keith Hipel and University of Waterloo graduate students

A new whatIf? release is ready for download!  This release includes client software 4.6.0, an improved SAMM server 4.1.0, and a new set of TOOL tools 3.3.0.  It has some great new features to improve the model building experience and efficiency, as well many bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Robert Hoffman, President of whatIf? Technologies, has accepted the invitation to become an Associate Member of the Club of Rome for a five year term. 

The Club of Rome is an independent global think tank with no particular political, ideological or religious affiliations. Its essential mission is “to act as a global catalyst for change through the identification and analysis of the crucial problems facing humanity and the communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision-makers as well as to the general public.” Its activities should “adopt a global perspective with awareness of the increasing interdependence of nations. They should, through holistic thinking, achieve a deeper understanding of the complexity of contemporary problems and adopt a trans-disciplinary and long-term perspective focusing on the choices and policies determining the destiny of future generations.”