LEAD brochure May 2011

Distinguished LEAD Lectures

Magnus Lindkvist and Emily BradyMonday 9 May 2011The Al Manaar Ballroom, The Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Leading Business into the Future

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The world is changing faster than ever before and the future poses great opportunities for business as well as threats. What are the decisions that business leaders need to take advantage of these opportunities? This LEAD lecture will give you the insights to direct your strategy and your innovation programmes, and help you establish new businesses to take advantage of the future as it unfolds.

Magnus Lindkvist is Director for Trendspotting and Future Thinking at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and is an active member of TED – the world’s leading trends forum. He also heads an influential Swedish agency, Pattern Recognition; he has an international reputation as a futurologist and is one of Europe’s most in-demand conference speakers.

The future holds opportunities and threats for all business and organisations and understanding how to recognise trends and changes for the future is an important issue for all leaders. Will the global economy continue to recover from the financial crisis of recent years, will the price of oil continue to soar, will stability return to states in the Middle East and the Gulf region, will business collaboration with China and India bring increased opportunity? We all have a host of questions we would like to have answered but how can we define the future? Magnus does not have a crystal ball that tells him what is going to happen; more importantly, he has developed a set of approaches and tools that helps to identify trends and the changes that will lead to an understanding of what is likely to happen. Magnus will let us into these secrets and will excite us with his insight into the way to think about the future and to plan how to make the most of the opportunities in a changing world.

Emily Brady is the founder and CEO of ExpertKonnect, the leading on-line connection tool for the supply chain industry. She is a graduate of the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Emily will talk about how entrepreneurs can shape the future and what those entrepreneurs need to do to make their future successful. Emily has worked for many years in large multinational businesses in senior supply chain roles, including a considerable amount of time working in the Gulf States. Emily has made the important move from large companies to becoming an entrepreneur. She will also tell us how the future provides us with opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship – how to devise new products, processes and services and bring these to market through your won new business.

Peter Hiscocks, Faculty Director of the LEAD Programme Cambridge Judge Business School

As part of ALDAR Properties’ ongoing initiative to bring outstanding learning and development opportunities to the UAE, we have created an exceptional new series of lectures for 2011.

Our second event in this new series of Distinguished LEAD Lectures offers a timely and unparalleled learning opportunity. It will showcase the latest innovative thinking from two of the world’s premier voices in the realms of international politics, leadership and management.

Please join me on 9 May 2011 to continue in our journey towards leadership excellence.

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Distinguished LEAD Lectures

About the Distinguished LEAD Lectures

The Distinguished LEAD Lecture Series provides a platform for inspirational thinkers and leaders to explore some of the major trends and challenges affecting business today. Through the unique partnership of ALDAR Properties and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, academic insight and real business challenges are combined to bring new perspectives to the changing face of leadership. The series examines how the world is changing and how business and governments are responding to this change, introducing leading-edge thinking from the academic world and inspiring stories from business and creative leaders to help shape a new leadership for the 21st century.

Leading Business into the FutureMonday 9 May 2011

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ALDAR Properties PJSC

ALDAR Properties is a leading property development company, with strong investment and management capabilities. ALDAR Properties was established primarily to create world-class real estate developments for the nation of Abu Dhabi, whilst providing a stable and profitable investment portfolio for investors.

ALDAR Properties is dedicated to achieving new standards of innovation, excellence and value in urban design and sustainable development for the future benefit of Abu Dhabi and its residents.

www.aldar.com

The Leadership Excellence Applied Diploma (LEAD)

The Leadership Excellence Applied Diplomais a unique and exclusive executive development programme taught by the faculty of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. This prestigious programme was launched in May 2007 by ALDAR Properties.

The curriculum was strategically designedfor those who wish to take the next steptowards fulfilling their potential in high-levelbusiness and government positions.

Due to the support of numerous companies,this development programme has substantial credibility in the local market. The programme is unique to the whole region enabling students to participate without leaving full-time employment. LEAD is enabling students to develop into strategically sound leaders and world-class managers capable of achieving UAE’s vision in becoming an international hub for education.

For more information about the LEAD Programme please email [email protected]

Cambridge Judge Business School

Cambridge Judge Business School is internationally recognised as one of the leading providers of innovative, intellectually challenging and practical business management education across a portfolio of undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes.

As a fully integrated department of a world renowned university, Cambridge Judge Business School hosts one of the largest concentrations of interdisciplinary business and management research activity in Europe. Built on an ethos of collaboration, the School is a unique place where policy makers, regulators, industry leaders, not-for-profit organisations, entrepreneurs and academics can meet, interact and share ideas. Cambridge Judge Business School delivers business education for the 21st Century networked economy, fostering collaborative leadership skills, developing communities of partners to meet the challenges of the new global business landscape.

Ranked 21st in the 2010 FT Global Rankings of business schools, 11th in the 2009 Economist Intelligence Unit Global MBA Rankings, and 3rd in the 2009 Forbes Global Rankings for one year MBA programmes, the Cambridge MBA sits alongside the very best in the world.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk

Cambridge Executive Education

As part of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Executive Education inspires, educates and engages the leaders of today and tomorrow. Cambridge Executive Education delivers programmes to help achieve operational excellence and business results. Cambridge Executive Education’s open programmes are designed for business professionals, managers, leaders, and executives who strive for professional and personal growth. Customised programmes for organisations are also developed and delivered to support strategic objectives and improve performance.

Cambridge Executive Education helps organisations meet the demands of changes in their own business and in the marketplace, working in partnership to provide an environment of collaborative learning.

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Professor Christoph Loch Director, Cambridge Judge Business School

Cambridge Judge Business School is pleased to partner with ALDAR to offer you the Distinguished LEAD Lecture Series.

This series, offered twice a year in Abu Dhabi, features leaders from the private and public sector, who offer their perspectives on leading organisations and the challenges and opportunities to create value.

The speakers will discuss their own experiences leading organisations and relate it to context of the UAE given its ambitious agenda to develop human capital.

We look forward to welcoming you to the event.

The Distinguished LEAD Lecture Sponsors

The Distinguished LEAD Lecture 2011

8.30am Coffee and registration

9.30am Facilitator introduces the lecture

9.50am Magnus Lindkvist speaks

10.35am Magnus Lindkvist Question and Answer session

11.00am Tea and coffee break

11.30am Emily Brady speaks

12.15pm Emily Brady Question and Answer session

12.45pm Session closes

1pm Lunch

The agenda

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This is a closed session which requires pre-registration.

Please register for the lecture at:www.distinguished-lead-lectures.com

Follow the links to the ‘Register now’ section.

Please contact Mercedes Steiner, Programme Manager at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education should you have any questions or require further assistance.

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How to register

Leading Business into the Future

Magnus Lindkvist Emily Brady

The Distinguished LEAD Lecture 2011 speakers

Emily Brady is the founder and CEO of ExpertKonnect, the leading on-line connection tool for the supply chain industry. She is a graduate of the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Emily will talk about how entrepreneurs can shape the future and what those entrepreneurs need to do to make their future successful. Emily has worked for many years in large multinational businesses in senior supply chain roles, including a considerable amount of time advising Gulf State companies.

Emily has made the important move from large companies to becoming an entrepreneur. She will also tell us how the future provides us with opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship – how to recognise opportunities for new products, processes and services and bring these to market through the adoption of innovated business models.

Magnus Lindkvist is Director for Trendspotting and Future Thinking at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, and an active member of TED – the world’s leading trends forum. He also heads an influential Swedish agency, Pattern Recognition, which he founded in 2005. As one of Europe’s most in-demand conference speakers he is one of its most unusual, often beginning a speech with a cartoon or ending up with a performance on the ukulele! Along the way he dispenses insight, wisdom and solid research to deliver a wake-up call to business. A management consultant and filmmaker by background, Magnus mixes quantifiable business facts with the visionary art of futurology.

Magnus’s presentations are based on the principle that we used to think tomorrow would be more or less like today and we were often right: but now, this is no longer the case. Whilst the brain is wired to think in a linear way, we are living in exponential times in which we need to harness our imagination to prepare for the opportunities and challenges that lie just around the corner. Magnus’s presentations focus on the rise of ‘creative’ consumers like bloggers and tweeters, and he believes business has to offer customers a piece of the action: they must respond to the principle of ‘profit for effort.’ If businesses create something, be it a viral campaign or ideas to improve a service, then they will get a reward – whether it’s recognition or money (or both!).


Peter Hiscocks

Peter built the entrepreneurship resources within the University of Cambridge, from the original Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre to Cambridge Enterprise and achieved a considerable increase in the level of commercialisation. He currently teaches Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge Business School and is managing several research projects on the success factors for new hi-tech business ventures.

He is a scientist who worked in business; initially large companies, then consultancy and finally starting his own companies. Peter is the principal inventor of six patents, is Chairman of two early stage companies and is on the Board of three others: he has achieved the successful sale of three companies. He is the co-founder of a seed fund in the North East of England and is on the advisory board of a VC firm.

For more information about the Distinguished LEAD Lecture speakers, please visit the website atwww.distinguished-lead-lectures.com


With a truly breathtaking location set half on land and half on water, you have never seen another hotel quite so excitingly distinctive, inside and out.

From the outside, the incredible gridshell can be seen for miles, whilst inside, design influences everything in the contemporary and modern 499 rooms and suites. Situated on Yas Marina, Yas Marina Circuit and close to the 18 hole links golf course, the recreation on Yas Island is an impressive complement to the hotel’s 13 restaurants and lounges, 8 treatment room spa that includes a dedicated spa suite and rooftop swimming pool.

The Yas Hotel

The Distinguished LEAD Lecture 2011


Situated on Yas Marina, Yas Marina

Circuit and a short distance from

the first 18 hole links golf course in

the region, The Yas Hotel boasts an

impressive 8 treatment room spa,

gym and rooftop swimming pool.

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• Develop new insights into the some of the major forces shaping the world today

• Inspire new ways of thinking about the role of business and leadership

• Look in depth at how global forces play out in the Gulf region and what context they are setting for the future of the region

• Share personal experiences of leadership in very different challenging scenarios

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