Beyond careers.
Towards possibility.

Futures Labs HQ uses emerging and high-growth industries, future-facing technologies and shared global challenges as contexts for learning - helping young people build the capabilities, confidence and futures thinking to navigate and shape what comes next.

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Futures
thinkset

Learn to spot signals, explore possible futures and think beyond what's happening now.

Industry
encounters

Step into the ecosystem. Meet the people shaping it, explore where the work happens and discover what's changing, emerging and possible.

Innovation
challenge

Take what you've learned and use it to tackle a real industry or local challenge.

Ecosystem
thinking

See how industries, ideas, people and places connect — and where you might fit in what comes next.

Industry
insiders

Each Lab brings in leaders from across Aotearoa's emerging industries — to share what they're actually doing, answer the questions that matter, and help young people see what's possible beyond the classroom.

  • Miranda Satterthwaite
    Miranda SatterthwaiteCEO · Aotearoa Aerospace Academy
  • Jamie France
    Jamie FranceCEO · Outlier
  • Dan Te Whenua Walker
    Dan Te Whenua WalkerCEO · Te Whare o Toitū AI

Programme
partners

A network of organisations contributing expertise, industry connections, education, funding and support — helping young people explore possible futures and discover where they might fit in what comes next.

Minds Made for More — Education New Zealand

More than knowledge. The curiosity, courage, and resilience to navigate and shape what comes next.

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Aerospace for Good

Ōtautahi Futures Lab · April 2027

Cohort with UC Canterbury rockets
Canterbury Aero Club
Flight simulator cockpit
Simulator session
Aircraft hangar
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