Wired editor-in-chief to speak in SA

Chris Anderson

This year's summit is themed 'Lead by Examples' and is expected to be another sell-out, says CEO of Discovery Invest Herschel Mayers. "The forum presents an invaluable opportunity for first-hand interaction with global leaders who have their fingers on the pulse of macro-economic and management issues and in today's fluid business environment, knowledge and information is more powerful and more critical than ever before."

Programme

• Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, bestselling author of 'Free' and 'The Long Tail' and listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2007.
  
• Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery Holdings and the Sunday Times 2010 Business leader of the Year.
  
• Ricardo Semler, MD of Brazil's Semco S/A group and one of Latin America's most visionary business leaders. He is the author of bestsellers, 'Maverick' and 'The Seven-Day Weekend' and was named 'Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
  
• Maria Ramos, group chief executive of Absa Group, voted 32nd in the Forbes's Magazine's 100 most powerful women in the world in 2010.
  
• Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, founder of the Centre for Advanced Hindsight and a New York Times bestselling author for 'Predictably irrational' and 'The upside of irrationality.' His research has been widely published in leading psychology, economic and business journals.
  
• Graça Machel, founder and president of the Graça Machel Trust and advocate for children and women's rights and President of the Foundation for Community Development.
  
• New York economics professor, Dr Nouriel Roubini, well known for his now-vindicated predictions of the global financial crisis and named on the Foreign Policy's Top 100 and the Global Thinkers 2010 lists.

For more, go to www.theleadershipsummit.co.za.