When with global economy recover? FUTURIST Q&A
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Qs to www.twitter.com/patrickdixon When will global economy recover? Most senior executives of large corporations expect that global recovery will be by 2011 at lastest, yet most strategic planning is still to do with managing economic downturn. Expect inflation to rise as we head into later 2010. Comment in April 2009 by keynote conference speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon
How can we feed the world? FUTURIST Q&A with Patrick Dixon
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Q via www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on global food shortages and the moral challenge of eliminating hunger when billions have too much to eat. Need for green revolution in Africa - agriculture transformation, new crops, better land use, better use of fertilisers and pesticides, more irrigation and better water use, and ban on converting food into biofuels. Comment by Futurist and conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon
Water Wars Risk? Futurist Q&A with Patrick Dixon
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Q via www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on risk of conficts over water shortages. Political challenges over water supply. Could war result? Environmental challenges of growing population and climate change. How water shortages could be solved.
Leadership, Motivational Management Training - Great Events - keynote at conference for 4,500
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Patrick Dixon ranked one of world's 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005) Great events change people: 4,500 event organisers(MPI. Keynote conference speaker (MPI).Future corporate events: motivational leadership programmes, executive education, team development, seminars, workshops, groups, forums, think tanks, team building exercises and client events. Effective management depends on great communication of leadership vision, mission and strategy. Conference organisation and event planning. Great leadership speeches, motivational tools for team leadership, and how to communicate with large audiences. Change management, business transformation and vision building. Video by keynote conference speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon. How to motivate business leaders for high performance, profitability and shareholder value. Industry trends for successful events in banking, insurance, retail, manufacturing, services, marketing, aviation, travel, transport, tourism, government and non profit organisations, energy, food and drink, IT and communications and other sectors. Secrets of successful corporate events, and how to give a great, inspiring, uplifting, encouraging, powerful CEO keynote speech. Effective programme development and manager training. Work-life balance and workplace motivation, leadership styles. Why staging, lighting, theatre and performance really matter in successful corporate events. Videoconferencing, virtual teams, virtual working and virtual organisations why most people do not like videoconferencing and how to make video interviews or presentations work in conference programmes. How to create and deliver great lectures using powerpoint and other technology. Innovation and creativity in conference planning or business school programmes. Impact of global warming, climate change and energy prices on demand for corporate events, corporate travel and event location. Secrets of great event production, staging and use of multimedia.
2020 Future seen from 2015: Futurist Mobile World. Consumer Trends:keynote conference speaker
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2015 scenario: Future by 2020. communications, marketing, management, leadership, virtual teams and virtual organisations. Customer focus in product design, advertising, brand development, software and hardware. Mobile marketing and positional advertising trends. Consumer use of personal organisers and mobile devices, mobile phones and other technology. Virtual switchboards, virtual meetings and distance learning. Future bandwidth, video streaming demand, convergence and divergence of technology. Future innovations in communication. Mobile phone strategy for emerging markets and developed markets. Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks using personal organisers. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. All innovation is divergent - doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.image, branding, winning customers, online marketing and building trust. Consumer changes, preferences and lifestyles. Energy saving, global warming, carbon neutral business and helping climate change. Videoconferencing and virtual teams. Winning the war for talent - motivation and leadership styles.
Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry - keynote conference speaker on health trends
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Future trends in the pharmaceutical industry. Lack of innovation in pharma companies and empty product pipeline. Generic competition and product recalls. Drug development and novel substances. Large molecule and small molecule therapeutics. Risk profiles and clinical trials. Side effects, gene profile typing and pharmacogenomics. Health care, wellness, enhanced performance and lifestyle drugs. Patent expiry and intellectual property protection. Legal challenges and research scandals. Biogenerics and large molecule therapeutics. Cellular mechanisms of disease. Unmet needs. Government purchasing policies, future of medicare and health insurance cover. Online pharmacy price pressures. Over the counter and pharmacists - pharmacy products. Neutraceuticals and cosmetics. Search for new treatment blockbusters. Chronic disease, childhood disease, vaccines and orphan therapies. Rheumatoid and asthma. Antibiotics and multiple drug resistance problems. Search for powerful antiviral therapy. Future health funding and ageing populations. Contrast with emerging markets. Health economics: treatment access and justice issues. Pharmacogenomics and gene prophecy. Ethical issues in pharmaceuticals. HIV and AIDS. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.
How green is your digital world? Saving IT costs and environment - conference speaker
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How IT companies part of $40 trillion global race to reduce energy use over 20 years. IT major consumer of energy. “Greening of IT” is creating major new business opportunities, can improve corporate image, and may increase customer loyalty. Conference keynote speaker - futurist video by Patrick Dixon. 500 million obsolete computers in America, 130 million mobile phones thrown away each year. E-waste 2% of solid municipal waste in America, hazards polluting water supplies or endangering wildlife. lead pollution in land fill - printed circuit boards and components, mercury and cadmium, linked to cancer, reproductive problems, other illnesses. Apple banned asbestos, cadmium, mercury and lead and barium, brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride. recycling. Hewlett-Packard has taken a lead. 1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity was used last year to power the web – 5.3% of all global power use and 9.4% of electricity consumption in the US. Web servers alone already consume more than 1% of global electricity, growing 14-20% a year. A single 50,000 square feet data centre uses around 5 megawatts – enough to power more than 5,000 homes. more efficient power supplies for example. Other ways to reduce web server energy losses include: power management software (Windows Server 2008 boasts 10% energy savings, but Linux does better); more efficient chips; better cooling systems; better use of fibre-optics, turning additional servers on and off depending on load (200,000 servers can be powered up in less than 5 minutes). Other actions we can take include adjusting cooling systems to the numbers of servers actually active; using heat exchangers to cool server farms and heat nearby homes; more efficient data switching / networking and using solar power from local units; separating sections of IT rooms to run at different ambient temperatures according to equipment need; place air conditioning units closer to equipment to reduce distance air has to ...
How Green IT saves money and energy, improves image and environment - keynote
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Green IT for different reasons. Pollution in manufacturing or disposal. Save energy costs. IT directors pressure to save money, increase efficiency. meet environmental standards do all at almost zero cost, if capital outlay on Green IT offset against savings in future.. Corporations changing their hardware, better software, improving operating environment, increasing recycling and encouraging work more efficiently. Greening of IT improve corporate image, customer loyalty, staff retention and productivity. IT, real estate example, electricity bills for office block and financial incentive for the IT department. Save the planet by reducing energy on paper printing and travel. Electrical power used in gadgets, computers and other equipment: mobile phone power supplies, wireless router, computers, plasma screens, digital TV receivers and so on. 1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity was used last year to power the web 5.3% of all global power use and 9.4% of electricity consumption in the US. Video by futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon. Web traffic will grow 40-100 times over next 15 years, mainly as a result of video on demand. Web servers consume more than 1% of global electricity, growing 14-20% a year. 50,000 square feet data centre uses 5 megawatts enough to power more than 5,000 homes. Web servers in large data centres across America use the equivalent of a full years output from seven 1,000 megawatt power plants. Green IT means more efficient power supplies; power management software (Windows Server 2008, but Linux does better); more efficient chips; better cooling systems; better use of fibre-optics, turning additional servers on and off, adjusting cooling systems to the numbers of servers actually active; separate sections of IT rooms at different ambient temperatures; placing air conditioning units closer; using heat exchangers to cool server farms and low energy lighting. Virtual Servers to save energy. Virtual setup allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on same computers not x86 computer hardware. IT infrastructure sharing servers like Norton / Symantec for backup. Plasma screens use four times as much energy as old cathode ray tube displays / TVs. Equipment left on standby which wastes 5 million tons of CO2 every year in the US alone. Attention to disposal and recycling reducing the amount of toxins used in manufacture, reducing lead, cadmium and other pollutants in circuit boards, connectors, batteries and components, and enabling 100% capture after disposal. Hazard reduction in manufacture. More than 1,000 chemicals used during electronics production, such as lead, mercury and cadmium, have been linked to cancer, reproductive problems and other illnesses. Apple has banned a long list of toxic substances from its products, including asbestos, cadmium, mercury and lead. In 2006, the company stopped using CRT monitors, which contain lead oxide and barium. Apple also removed lead from its batteries and has ended use of brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride. Intel has already reduced use of substances which contribute to global warming and is working to replace isopropyl alcohol, a volatile solvent known to contribute to smog, used to clean the edge of silicon wafers during manufacturing. Hewlett-Packard has taken a lead, with 250 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges recovered in 2007, double the previous year. Their target is to reuse 2 billion pounds of products by the end of 2010.
How to lose millions - dangers from "unique" business offers. Business risks and scandals. Lessons from collapse...
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Comment by Patrick Dixon on how millions were lost in Icelandic bank accounts and lessons to learn about how to make money and how to avoid heavy losses. Rates of return on investments. Assessing risks in fund management and real estate investment. Exchange rate risks and how they impact international investment. Economy risks, political risks, industry risks - all need to be priced into decisions about where to put your money. How to make money and increase your wealth. Portfolio management. What economists think about global risks, banks, banking, insurance and other industry investments.
Credit Crunch: Insurance companies and hedge funds crisis. Why economists expect further stock market instability. Comment...
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Insurance companies and hedge funds crisis following credit crunch and stock market crash. Why economists are worried. Impact on global economy. Comment by Patrick Dixon.
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