Published on 3/07/2008

Innovative ways to meet the challenges of the future. A morning presentation by Dr Ian Lin - Tuesday 29th July, 2008.

Today we stand at the threshold of a totally new age in human history – the Cyber Age of the 21st century – and the world in which we live and work is going through a period of rapid, radical change and transformation. The future will not be a continuation of the past, and it is not likely that we can use yesterday’s strategies to solve today’s problems and expect to be in business tomorrow. In these circumstances…What is your future? What new opportunities are emerging? What new challenges will you encounter? How do you grow, thrive and prosper in a radically changing world? What are your choices for the future? And how do you choose?

This presentation will help you answer these questions and will exercise your brain, expand your mind, stretch your imagination, and boost your intelligence. You will learn how to create your ‘simulators of the future’ that will let you practice the future without cost or risk. You will enhance your skills as a futurist, and will greatly increase your clarity of foresight. You will gain new dimensions of wisdom, that will let you more effectively meet new challenges and grasp new opportunities for the future. You will learn how to pro-actively create your own future and shape your own destiny!

Date: Tuesday 29th July 2008.
Time: 7am for 7.30am prompt start concluding at 9am sharp.
Venue: Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Olympic Boulevard Homebush.
Parking: Parking is available at the hotel for $20 per day. Alternative parking is available in the adjacent P6 car park at a cost of $3 per hour to a maximum of $15 or there is free parking on the street.
Cost: $120 including GST (includes coffee/tea/juice on arrival and fully cooked breakfast etc).
To Book: Please contact Michelle Conroy on 02 8850 9500.

Speaker Dr Ian Lin Profile

DR IAN LIN, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., FIEAust., CPEng is Managing Director of the acclaimed Quo Vadis Group and is a Business and Social Strategist, and Futurist. He assists
enterprises develop new vision, strategies, and resources needed to improve present operations and to develop new opportunities in the rapidly globalising
business environment.
He has had extensive international business experience in many areas, including manufacturing, information technology, international trading, fi nance, and services; and for many years was the National President of the
Hong Kong - Australia Business Association.
Dr Lin has been a keynote speaker at many conferences in the Asia Pacifi c region, and has been instrumental in the incubation of new enterprises, and the rejuvenation of many more established SMEs, as they search for new
strategies in order to ensure not only survival, but growth and prosperity in the 21st Century.
Dr. Lin is a Consultant and Policy Adviser to both government and private enterprise, and specialises in the use of Strategic Vision and Future Scenarios as the catalyst in the creation of future opportunities, corporate
innovation, and new business. He consults with organisations on the development of Corporate Innovation, Cross-Cultural Communications,
and Multi-Cultural Business Networks; and on the new tier of multidimensional strategies, management skills, and cyber intelligence required for success in the Global Network Society of the 21st Century. For over twenty-fi ve years he was Managing Director of a group of companies with extensive global investment,
manufacturing and trading interests in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China, and he draws extensively on his bi-cultural heritage and global business experience to help companies identify Asian opportunities and
develop cross-cultural strategies for success in Asia. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Australasian Trade Network.
In recent years has been a member of the Australian Government’s Trade Policy Advisory Council; the Asia in Australia Council; the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research; the
Major Organisations Board of the Australia Council; the Customs Advisory Council; the Aid Advisory Council; and the Chairman of a Review Committee on major aspects of Australian immigration policy.
Dr.Lin is an Associate of the Australian Graduate School of Engineering Innovation, and has previously been a Visiting Professor of Engineering and Director of the Centre for Engineering Management and Innovation,
University of Sydney; the President of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacifi c, University of Sydney; and a Visiting Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South
Wales. He sits on a number of University advisory boards and has lectured extensively in Graduate Business Schools throughout Australia.
He was Australia’s business representative at the APEC Human Resources Experts’ Conference in the Philippines; the foundation National President of the Hong Kong - Australia Business Association; and is a Fellow of the
Institution of Engineers, Australia.