Future worlds of technology under the spotlight at the Hub

One of the boardrooms at The Innovation Hub’s Conference Venue.

One of The Innovation Hub's strategic "Knowledge Partners", TechnoScene (Pty) Ltd, in association with Manchu e-Solutions (Pty) Ltd, has announced that they are arranging a conference to consider the impact of innovation on future business solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

TechnoScene recently partnered with the Hub to conduct a unique Innovation Survey, which many readers of NewsBits participated in.

International and local speakers at the conference will investigate how future worlds of business are deploying, and how technology will enable us to enter those worlds. It will be held in the Conference Venue at The Innovation Hub on Thursday 4 August 2005.

The conference is part of the feasibility phase of TechnoLab, a laboratory for futures research that is being planned for establishment at The Innovation Hub.

The TechnoLab concept spans disciplines of science and technology, engineering, economics, human and social sciences and management and will focus on research, demonstration and consulting in emerging technologies and the impact they will have on the worlds where we are going to work, live, play and transact in future.

An essential component of such a research environment is that demonstrators are built where business, higher education, students and the public could have first hand experience of such future worlds.

The TechnoLab will be a living laboratory with broad band connectivity and knowledge transfer interfaces where students, business people and the public can experience future worlds of technology. The foreseen conditions in these worlds will be visually, physically and interactively modelled and simulated.

The international speakers are UK-based Dr Simon Jones, CEO of Ictinos Innovation in Bath, French Innovation Specialist Mr Thomas Hummel from Accenture Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis and Dr Ben Kokkeler, Strategy and Operations Manager of Telematica Institute in The Netherlands.

Local speakers will include Dr Bethuel Sehlapelo, Deputy Director General, Frontier Science and Technology of the Department of Science and Technology, TechnoScene MD Dr Anthon Botha, Dr Neville Comins, CEO of The Innovation Hub Management Company (Pty) Ltd and MD of Manchu e-Solutions Mr Joe Manchu.

Conference delegates will:

• Get an overview of the amazing future that we are racing towards
• Obtain an understanding of future business opportunities based on emerging technologies
• Learn how knowing more about the future could help us innovate today
• Get an insight into the future laboratory planned for South Africa and provide inputs into the concept
• Get an insight into the frontier technologies in the South African and African context
• Obtain new innovation insights in creating, deploying and managing innovation.

All readers of NewsBits are invited to attend this important conference. To register, please complete the on-line registration form.

The registration fee for the one-day conference is R 1 368,00 per delegate (incl VAT), which includes registration for the conference, lunch, conference material, teas and coffees and a cocktail function.

Cancellation Policy

Before 15 July 2005: 50% of fees paid refunded
After 15 July 2005: none of fees paid refunded

To allow us to plan for catering and conference materials, please register for the conference no later than 15 July 2005.

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