Topic:MINITRENDS: Seizing the Future Before It’s Defined
Abstract:Minitrends are emerging trends that promise to become of significant importance within the next 2 to 5 years. When applied properly, Minitrends provides you with the opportunity to utilize and express your imagination, your perceptiveness, your originality, your logic, your innovative nature, and your basic good sense. Minitrend involvement also provides you a way to distinguish yourself from your colleagues and contemporaries. For more information, please visit the Minitrends website.
Speaker:Dr. John Vanston
Speaker’s Bio’s:Dr. John Vanston is Chairman of Technology Futures, Inc. (TFI), a company he founded in 1978 and has built into a leading authority in custom research, forecasting, and trend analysis in telecom and other high-technology industries. John has conducted analyses of emerging technologies for a wide range of Fortune 500, governmental, and academic organizations. Prior to TFI, John served as a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and as Deputy Director of the University’s Center for Energy Studies. Earlier, John served as a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army.
Date & Time:Wednesday, September 22, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.)
Location:China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX
Directions:Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35
Cost:$5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost.
Reservations:Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend.