Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Chairman of FASMICRO Group who also writes regularly in the Harvard Business Review will deliver the keynote address of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO)Alumni Biennial Lecture slated for October 24 this year at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Lagos.
He will discuss ‘The Pursuit of Exponential Development’ at the event which would also attract other the best minds for search of solutions for personal and national advancement.
His topic becomes germane as the world is fast moving away from traditional thinking to predictive thinking, a paradigm shift expected to spur innovations and development. It is therefore expected that exponential development will first occur in thinking and subsequently manifest in the environment and the economy.
Any nation ready to pursue exponential development therefore must alter its tradition thinking to futuristic view and prepare its citizens especially the youth on this journey.
Pursuing exponential development has become very critical for Nigeria, the country with estimated population of 198 million which is expected to rise to about 400 million in the next 30 years, to avoid consequential insecurity, economic and environmental disaster. Today, Nigeria must seriously rethink its poverty reduction strategy as the country with over 87 million people living in extreme poverty, has overtaken India as the country with largest number of people in extreme poverty living on less than $1.90 a day.
Ndubuisi Ekekwe’s paper at the FUTO Alumni event will therefore be thought-provoking as he shares strategies to pursue exponential development from many facets.
Other great minds lined up to share their visions and positions on the quest for technological advancement include Kingsley Fregene , Group Leader for Robotics & Intelligent Systems at Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL); Sam Amadi, former NERC MD, the Chief Ideas Officer 6th Sense; John Ugbe, Multi choice MD; Kashim Ali, Partner Impact Engineering Ltd; Lynda Madu, Associate Director Corporate Development and Services, Nestoil Group amongst others.
This year’s lecture is the 6th in series. The first edition held in 2006 on the topic “Power and Development in Nigeria: seeking that workable solution” was delivered by Bart Nnaji under the distinguished Chairmanship of Dora Akunyili of blessed memory.
As technology continues to evolve, and processes become more sophisticated, organizations and nations are racing to improve approaches and models to produce rich governance models.
“Nations, Organizations and people are redesigning and up-skilling their capabilities to take full advantage of digital opportunities for competitive advancement. With these in mind, we continue to raise the bar of our conversation with every topic of the Biennial lecture series. So this 6th edition, we bring that international platform that would allow experts to share and discuss latest practices, ideas and technology that can transform Nigeria and Africa”, explained the Chairman of the Lagos Chapter and the Biennial lecture organising Team, Collins Opara in a statement.
