The Deep Conversations will be an opportunity to share in-depth viewpoints with Thought Leaders about some of the key issues facing the future of our civilisation today. It will be dialogue, not monologue! The sessions will be facilitated by leading moderators.

Wednesday 8 September (10.00am - 12.30pm) (book now)

Does it always take a war to make peace? Or can peace be built like a bridge, one agreement at a time?

Moderated by Beverley O'Connor
Peace-lovers are forever failing to stop wars because they do not understand their logic. Good intentions never stopped wars. But fear often has - the fear of losing. That tells us how to pursue peace.

Edward Luttwak Ian Rogers Andrew MacLeod
Wednesday 8 September (2.30pm - 5.00pm) (book now)

Creativity - the most endangered species of the 21st Century?

Moderated by Tania de Jong AM
Never has the need for creativity been so compelling and never has genuine creativity been in such short supply. We have built a broadband culture but not the creative content to fill it. How can we re-invent the future by thinking differently?




Edward de Bono Rufus Black Austin Williams