Etienne F. Augé (France) is Principal lecturer at Erasmus University in Rotterdam where he is teaching Strategic and international communication, but also film studies and science fiction. He is the director of Community for Histories of the Future (CHIFT) a platform dedicated to use science fiction to prepare societies and as such is working with major organizations on their futures. Etienne is a published and translated author, with books on cinema, propaganda, the Middle East, and superheroes. He has given talks at major festivals such as Brain Bar Budapest, Heartland in Denmark, TEDx Cyprus, or Brave New World in Leiden.