About

Two-day AI workshop
Tokyo · Adelaide · 2026

Who's behind this.

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Founders

Make It So Camp was created by Igor Schwarzmann and Noah Raford.

Igor Schwarzmann ↗︎

Independent strategist and researcher working at the intersection of culture and technology: cultural and trend research, brand and growth strategy, and AI strategy. He ran a foresight and strategic-design studio out of Berlin, which he sold in 2022. Recent clients include frontier AI labs, luxury fashion houses, and home-appliance makers.

Noah Raford ↗︎

Futurist and strategist. Managing Partner at EMIR, he advises businesses and governments on emerging technologies and foresight. He spent a decade in the Government of Dubai as Futurist-in-Chief — founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation and the Museum of the Future, and senior advisor to the UAE Prime Minister's Office. He holds a PhD from MIT.

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Collaborators

Each camp was built with someone on the ground. They brought the room, the cohort, and the institutions behind it.

Joseph Austerweil ↗︎

Cognitive psychologist and machine learning researcher. Principal Investigator of the Computational Mind Lab and Academic Director of the School of Design & Science, the Henkaku Center's academic arm at Chiba Institute of Technology. He believed in the camp early, helped shape what it became, and brought it to Tokyo.

Ariella Helfgott ↗︎

Co-founder of the SA Futures Agency and Professor at the University of Adelaide. Systems thinker working across complexity science, policy, and institutional change. She opened Adelaide to the camp and had it scheduled within weeks.

Tokyo
Henkaku Center for Radical Transformation at Chiba Institute of Technology
Adelaide
Flinders University New Venture Institute and SA Futures Agency
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Request an invitation

Tell us which camp, what work you would bring, and why now.

hello@misocamp.com