Name: Parag Khanna - Complexity is Destiny
Start: 2024-11-21T19:30:00+08:00
End: 2024-11-21T20:30:00+08:00
Location: The British Club

Parag explores the role of global megatrends in reshaping our increasingly complex world and the ways we visualise and comprehend it.
About this Event

Geography is considered immutable, while complexity is intangible. But what happens when the unstoppable force of accelerating global complexity meets the immovable object of Earth? How are the megatrends of geopolitics, economics, demographics, technology and climate colliding and impacting the map of the world?

Join RGS-Singapore and leading global strategy advisor Parag Khanna in our 21 November event "Complexity is Destiny" to discover the role of global megatrends in reshaping our world and the ways we visualise and comprehend it. Come find out how geospatial technologies and data visualisation strategies have evolved in response to the increasing complexity of geography, hence producing intricate maps that serve as powerful tools in helping global organisations develop solutions to sophisticated problems.

About the speaker:

Parag Khanna is the Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial predictive location analytics platform. He is the internationally best-selling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). Parag is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).

Parag was named one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, and featured in WIRED magazine’s Smart List. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Event Details:

Date & Time: 21 November 2024 (Thursday), 7.30pm to 8.30pm (Doors open at 7pm)

Venue: The British Club Singapore, 73 Bukit Tinggi Road, Singapore 289761

Ticket Information:

Standard: $25++ (inclusive of one alcoholic drink)

Concession (non-alcoholic): $15++ (inclusive of one non-alcoholic drink)

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