Inaugural UQ Ipswich Oration gives glimpse of the future
Dr Peter Ellyard, one of Australia's leading spokespersons on global, regional and national futures, will deliver the inaugural UQ Ipswich Oration, Planning for thrival in the 21st century, at 6.30pm on Friday, June 22.
The Friends of UQ Ipswich have organised the free event, beginning with refreshments at 6.30pm in the UQ Ipswich Refectory Centre, to commemorate the campus' official opening in June 1999.
Bookings are necessary (telephone the UQ Ipswich Student Centre on 3381 1011) for catering purposes.
Dr Ellyard, author of the book Ideas for the New Millenium, is a former Executive Director of the Australian Commission for the Future. He coined the word "thrival".
"Thrivability", he says, requires new ways of thinking and behaving plus awareness of long-term trends - for example the fact that 70 percent of job categories, products and services of the year 2020 have yet to be invented.
Dr Ellyard is acknowledged as a speaker with challenging vision, wide practical knowledge and dynamic delivery whose talks provide imperatives for all kinds of audiences.
A graduate of the University of Sydney and Cornell University, he is Executive Director of Preferred Futures, which he established in 1991.
He is an Adjunct Professor in Integrated Strategies at the University of Queensland's Graduate School of Management and the School of Natural and Rural Systems Management. He also chairs the Universal Greening Group, a group of companies concerned with environmental technology, waste management and sustainable agriculture.
Dr Ellyard has been Senior Advisor to the United Nations system for more than 25 years, helping government agencies, foreign governments and companies to plan for the future. He is Project Manager of KUMUL 2020, to develop a vision for Papua New Guinea in the year 2020, and an advisor to the Malaysia 2020 program.
He also recently completed Education 2010, a vision for education in the year 2010 for Victorian state school principals.
For more information, contact Professor Trevor Grigg (telephone 3365 7366) or Moya Pennell, UQ Communications (telephone 3365 2846).
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