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Detailed Program: Monday 13
MONDAY MORNING, 21 NOVEMBER, CONT.
PLENARY: FUTURE SCENARIOS & STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
CHAIR: NINA MAPILI
INTRODUCTION TO SCENARIO THINKING; EXAMPLES OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION-RELATED STRATEGIES
11:00-11:50 Using scenario thinking
to develop strategies
for a sustainable
future
11:50-12:10 Working toward a
Sustainable Future -
a Business Perspective
12:10-12:30 Strategies for ensuring
the relevance of
educational institutions
in the knowledge-based
economy
12:30-12:45 Discussion
12:50-13:00 Group photo (to be taken outside conference venue)
13:00-13:40 Lunch
Ms Chantell Ilbury
Ms Chantell Ilbury is one of South Africa's leading strategists and facilitators, working both locally and
internationally. She specialises in guiding companies and other organisations through their strategic conversations
on the future, and she believes passionately in the power of scenario thinking to unlock the best ideas on strategy.
While at UCT Graduate School of Business in 2000, she first met Clem Sunter. They shared their ideas on
scenario planning that led to the writing of their best-selling book The Mind of a Fox. The second book Games
Foxes Play was launched in April 2005; and their third, Socrates & the Fox, in November 2007.
Dr Beate Schlageter
Corporate Technologies, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany.
Dr Schlageter is an international business and technology consultant, with cross-sectional business units/divisions
experiences especially in strategic marketing, international new business development, technology evaluation and
R&D-portfolio-management.
In Siemens AG, Dr Schlageter leads strategy and innovation projects to enhance and build-up product, business
and R&D portfolios for the Siemens Operative Divisions and Corporate Technology, to understand and address
future market, business needs and technology requirements.
Her current focus is in the area of smart sustainable cities in general and related city infrastructure issues e.g.
energy, water, lighting, buildings for different regions. She developed a comprehensive scenario of a smart
sustainable city in 2030 - 2050 to understand the main city challenges and to derive potential innovative solutions
for the future.
Dr Ronny Adhikarya
Dr Adhikarya had a long career in international development assistance, serving for 35 years at the World Bank,
United Nations and other international organizations.
At the World Bank, he directed the Knowledge Utilization through Learning Technologies (KULT) Program which
included franchising and marketing demand-driven educational/training services to ensure financial heath/
sustainability as part of institutional/staff capacity development programs. He promoted the improvement of
training quality and effectiveness through a 5-year program that benefited 922 senior education or training
executives from 258 development institutions in 63 countries.
He was then appointed as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/United Nations Representative & Country
Director for Pakistan where he served until 2005.