Diary

Article Type: Diary From: Strategic Direction, Volume 28, Issue 8

Strategies, Governance & Social Research Conference

2-3 August 2012, Doha, Qatar

Sponsored by Global Journal of Strategies & Governance (Canada)and several other refereed journals, this conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of strategies, governance and social science (accounting, banking, finance, economic, management, marketing,business statistics, business law and business education, business administration, public administration, sociology, psychology and children’s studies).

Contact: Web: http://sgsrconference.review-gjsg.com/

2012 3rd International Conference on Innovation, Management and Service:ICIMS 2012

4-5 August 2012, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

All papers for ICIMS 2012 will be published in IPEDR (ISSN:2010-4626) as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering &Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, WorldCat, Google Scholar, CNKI and sent to be reviewed by ISI Proceedings.

Contact: Web: www.iedrc.org/icims/

Sustainable Technology Showcase. The Global Summit 2012 “Future Faire”

15-17 August 2012, Pleasure Gardens, London

Based on the belief that necessity is indeed the mother of invention, The Global Summit 2012 taps the grassroots of our planet to source the innovations needed to save it.

Designed to break down silos of industries through cross-sector collaboration, the Sustainable Tech Showcase accelerates the transfer of disruptive innovations to whole new markets.

A major attraction of The Global Summit “Future Faire”, the Sustainable Tech Showcase, will open to thousands of London Pleasure Garden guests starting August 15 and runs parallel to The Global Summit main speaker program (1PIE Convergence) through August 16 and 17.

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  Impact:

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  • Catalyze economic development and climate change solutions.

  • Demonstrate breakthroughs to the public, businesses, governments,nonprofits, and investors.

  • Accelerate innovation and dissemination of technologies that resolve our most critical issues.

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  Features:

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  • Investment Forum Mixers and Innovator Presentations link businesses, policy makers and technologists.

  • World’s first crowd-source investment platform of its kind –Crowdcube.

  • Global Citizen’s Choice Awards expanding global market awareness and assessment.

  • Eight impact areas:–Energy.–Transportation.–H₂O.–Health.–Agriculture.–Waste.–ICT.–Construction.

Contact: Web: www.theglobalsummit.org/index.html

11th International Entrepreneurship Forum. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: From Lifestyles to Innovative Enterprises in Creative and Sustainable Environments

3-5 September 2012, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This conference is being organized by the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (CER), Essex Business School, University of Essex in partnership with the International School of Entrepreneurship, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,and with the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Local Employment and Economic Development at Paris, France.

Contact: Web: www.essex.ac.uk/conferences/ief/11th/index.html