John Orr Memorial Lecture by Clem Sunter a great success

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John Orr Memorial Lecture by Clem Sunter a great success

Friday, 06 December 2013 (2 Comments)

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The 2013 John Orr Memorial Lecture was a huge success. The Lecture was presented by Clem Sunter, South Africa’s leading and most well-known global strategist and scenario planner.

The topic was: "The World and South Africa beyond 2013 - The latest scenarios, flags and probabilities.” Clem covered these three issues under this topic:

1. How to look at the future like a "foxy" engineer;
2. The latest global economic scenarios; and
3. The possibilities for South Africa.

The Lecture was most interesting and, as always, Clem was delightfully entertaining and held the audience captive throughout his presentation. The venue was even overfilled with guests eager to listen to Mr Sunter.

The Lecture was streamed live, with local screenings at some of our branches. The recording of the Lecture is available at the following link:

http://results.antfarm.co.za/saimeche/November_2013_01.

We recommend a ‘decent’ internet connection for viewing. Some of the photos taken at the Lecture can be viewed here.

Please feel free to post and share your comments here regarding Clem's presentation.

Comments...

Dayn Fasson says...
Posted Sunday, 12 January 2014

Superb! Entertaining and insightful. Thank you and congratulations Clem and SAIMechE for a wonderful lecture. I have already shared the link with a few friends and colleagues and cannot wait for the debates we will have in the months to come on similar topics such as this. A friend of mine who practices as an Actuary has always informed us to plan for the future, not your own future, but of one's "childrens' childrens" future. I guess he must have been talking about using the skills of scenario planning and looking out for the flags. I guess a couple of Clem's books will be finding their way to my bookshelf soon. PS, Vaughan, please get Clem to deliver a similar TedTalk discussion (the major constraint been 20min time limit I guess). And lastly, we should do more to promote the efforts of our great minds such as Siyabulela Xuza and similarly supporting SME's in our own communities.

Vaughan Rimbault says...
Posted Friday, 06 December 2013

It was an absolute pleasure to host Clem Sunter for the lecture. He is one of the most relaxed and accommodating people I have met, and freely shares his world outlook with anyone who cares to pay attention. I can't wait for his discussion with Julius Malema.