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.
| Date: | Wednesday, 05 October 2011 |
| Venue: | Adelaide Convention Centre, Hall E, North Terrace |
| Time: | 6.00pm for 6.15pm start (ends 7.45pm) |
| Entrance: | Free |
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.