Well run, very senior level of delegates, excellent venue!
Associate Director
Arup Logistics
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Conference
" Educational. Productive. Inspirational."
European Logistics Manager, Kimberly Clark Europe
This is just one of many quotes taken from the logistics & supply chain professionals that attended the various conference sessions on board Aurora last year.
Should you have any specific questions on this years' conference sessions, please contact Grant Townshend who will be delighted to hear from you.
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2010 Opening Address
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| Challenging Champions |
| Sir Clive Woodward |
Sir Clive is renowned throughout the world of sport for his almost obsessive quest for perfect preparation and attention to detail. When building a high performance team, he applies the same mantra to each and every person, no matter their role.
The quest for building the perfect team starts with the individual, assessing his or her needs so as to identify how they can become the best they can possibly be. The next step then challenges people to seize the opportunity to become great, creating an element of competition spurring on team members to excel and surpass expectations.
In this keynote presentation Sir Clive will share “key measurables”; vital characteristics that an individual needs to attain in order to succeed at the highest level, whether it be in sport or in business.
All of Sir Clive’s methodology is underpinned by the knowledge that talent alone is not enough, it is how you develop the necessary skills to succeed at the highest level that sets even the most talented apart.
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2010 Keynote Address
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| Economic Overview |
| Dennis Turner, Chief Economist, HSBC |
Dennis Turner is the Chief Economist of HSBC. His role involves advising lending bankers on economic trends not only at national level, but also on industries and regions.
Before going into the City in 1978, he worked for four years in Whitehall, for the National Economic Development Office. This was during the Labour government’s Industrial Strategy Initiative, which was an attempt to improve the performance of the UK’s manufacturing sector.
His first job on leaving university (Swansea and University College, London) was as an economist for a national trade union. Here he was responsible for the preparation of pay claims, arbitration cases and the union’s submission to various statutory bodies set up under Edward Heath’s Industrial Relations Act.
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Highlights from Past Conference Programmes
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2009 Opening Address
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| Nature, Nurture Or Neither? The view from the genes |
| Prof. Steve Jones |
| Genetics is a remarkable science in many ways, some obvious and some less so. As I say to my students in their first lecture on the subject, “My job is to make sex boring” and, after thirty lectures on DNA structure and the like they tend to agree. To cheer them up, at the end of the course I tell them that two out of every three of them will die for reasons connected to the genes they carry – and, with so much mortality coming from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and the like (all of which have an inherited component) I am right again. To the public, genetics brings exaggerated fears about inborn fate and over-optimism about gene therapy and “designer babies”. I will talk about the most dangerous word in genetics: the idea of a gene “for” a particular attribute, from alcoholism to religious belief and how DNA and way of life nearly always work together to determine our health, our mood and – perhaps – even our willingness to take risks, go shopping or buy shares. |
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2009 Keynote speaker
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| Entrepreneur |
| BJ Cunningham |
BJ Cunningham established the Enlightened Tobacco Company PLC, and then marketed a brand of cigarettes called ‘DEATH’ as ‘the honest smoke’. This act of heresy, though enormously successful with consumers, didn’t go down at all well with the tobacco industry. It eventually landed him in the European Court of Justice fighting against not only every member state in Europe but also the might of the established tobacco industry.
BJ uses this experience to illustrate his straightforward brand thinking. Be sure of who you are and what you mean before you try to say anything. |
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