News Spectator in association with KPMG holds one-day conference on risk and opportunity in a dangerous world
| 30 August 2010
The Spectator and Spectator Business have planned a major one-day conference for the second week of September, 2010 tagged: Risk and opportunity in a dangerous world: geopolitics for investors and business leaders.
Vigilance learnt that the one-day conference which will hold on Tuesday 14th September, 2010 will address the most important issues of a dangerous and exciting 21st century landscape for investors, business leaders and private citizens. The conference will also focus on the threats of terrorism, political instability, mass migration, disease, energy shortage and extreme weather.
It will also explore the opportunities presented by emerging markets, developments in technology and healthcare, and the globalisation of trade and communication. The conference promises to bring under one umbrella and in just one day, high calibre practitioners and expert commentators in all the afore-mentioned fields.
The one-day conference offers a unique platform to put questions to and exchange ideas with some of the most influential persons in politics, business, environmental and health science, strategic consultancy and the media. Amongst the array of speakers the conference hopes to parade include Sir Malcolm Rifkind to Lord Guthrie, Rory Stewart and Lord Levy.
The Spectator‘s involvement in British public debate dates back to1828. In modern times that debate takes the form of a programme of high-profile live events as well as in weekly print and in online Coffee House forum. Spectator Business, launched in 2008 is noted for bringing to financial and economic analysis all the intelligence and wit that readers Spectator titles deserve.