In this orientation video, Francis Wade walks viewers through how to make the most of the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2025. He explains the pre‑conference Futures Platform demo on Tuesday, the main conference structure across two days, and the dual offering of downloadable videos (hosted on Strat Cinema, available for 24 hours each) and live panel sessions (starting at 8:45 AM Central Time and ending around 11:30 AM). While live panels run, Strat Cinema is temporarily paused to direct attendees to the live platform. Wade also highlights a free membership to the conference’s online community for discussion and networking. The program includes 16 videos focused on long‑term strategy, organized around the “25 obstacles to game‑changing strategy” framework, which emphasizes handling time horizons (short, medium, long) to achieve breakthrough strategies. He concludes by inviting participants to join, engage, and explore the content.
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Hi, this is Francis Wade at the Long-Term Strategy Conference, and perhaps you're here because you're wondering, how do I make the most of this conference and how do I navigate around it? So I'm gonna share with you a few screens that tell you exactly what to do to find all the different bits of pieces of content. Chances are you're familiar with the Long-Term Strategy Conference website. You registered here, you've come here, and you wanna know when different action items will be offered. So for example, you are, the pre-conference begins on the 24th, and it has a clickable which takes you right to the information about the session. It goes straight to it. You could find more information here. Let's see about the actual session being offered by Futures Platform, a pre-conference session. This is on the Tuesday. It's a demo pretty much. That's Tuesday, but the conference really starts on Wednesday, and I'll take you to the first day because there's two kinds of offerings that we have on each day. And one day mirrors the other. They're pretty much the same. So the two kinds of offerings are downloadable videos and live sessions. And here we have on day one the list of downloads that will be available. Well, Francis, I can see that they're available, but where will they be available? They'll be available on Strat Cinema. So this is Strat Cinema. It's stratcinema.fwconsulting.com. It has— it will have all of the videos from the conference, all available in one place for your easy viewing. It's a little bit like Netflix, as you can see. So on both days, there'll be downloadable videos, videos that are available from midnight for 24 hours each. Okay, so let's go back to— so that's the first set of offerings. During that first day, there are also live events. So the first line has to do with the Tuesday pre-conference with Futures Platform. The second day has to do with the live events that are happening on Tuesday starting at 8:45 AM UCT, UCT minus 5, which is Central Time, and they end at about 11:30, again Central Time. And there's two panels on the first day and two panels on the second day, two live panels. And while the panels are running, we're actually closing down Strat Cinema just so that we can bring everyone over to the live platform. So let's go back. Second day is actually just a copy of the first, the very same kind of routine where we have downloadable streaming videos for 24 hours and we interrupt your binge watching, your viewing to offer these live sessions. And then finally, during the entire conference, we also are offering a membership, free, free, free membership to our online community and The community has been sort of repurposed so that we can talk about all of the contents that are happening in the conference. So you can join the community, it's absolutely free, but this will give you an idea of a little bit different in your screens, but this is what the community looks like. And there'll be a conversation happening between different people who are viewing different pieces of content. And that's about it. Opportunities to share with people. Opportunities to learn, opportunities to attend live sessions with speakers, opportunities to view. I think we have 16 different videos on the topic of long-term strategy, all related to the 25 obstacles that get in the way of game-changing strategy. These obstacles also require a way to deal with time to develop short, medium, and long-term strategies is, or is the key. To game-changing strategy. And that's what our conference is about. Thanks for joining me, and I'll see you inside. Take care. This is Francis Wade signing off. All the best.
