Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Event

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence

Playing the Long Game: balancing the needs of the future against the ever-demanding present

Societies are focused on the now. We are faster, busier, more distracted. The pace of technology and information is blinding. Business needs short-term results. Planning beyond electoral cycles is harder and harder.

Bookings essential as seating is limited:

Book here online or phone 8226 2220

Three of Adelaide’s Thinkers in Residence will return to join Premier Mike Rann in this fast-paced ‘no-holds barred’ forum.

Mike Rann (AUS), Premier of South Australia and founder of the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence program. 

Herbert Girardet (UK), our inaugural Thinker, co-founder of the World Future Council and a world leader in urban sustainability. 

Fred Hansen (USA), helped create Portland Oregon’s world recognised integrated public transport system and was a leader in the Clinton Administration EPA.

Göran Roos (SWE), is a world expert in manufacturing strategy and has been named one of the 13 most influential thinkers of the 21st Century.