An Afternoon with Dick Smith
Iconic Australian entrepreneur and adventurer Dick Smith will be the keynote speaker at a one off seminar taking place in Queenstown on Friday September 14. The seminar, ‘An Afternoon with Dick Smith’ is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of some of the challenges facing business and society over the coming years and will give audiences the chance to gain greater insight into the mind of a man renowned as one of Australasia’s most progressive thinkers. Event organiser Andrew Martin of Oneness Publishing said he was expecting there to be a lot of interest due to Smith’s high profile as a businessman and his history of daring exploits with tickets expected to sell quickly. “This is a rare opportunity to hear one of this era’s business leaders and visionaries talk about the world as it is, where it should be going and how we should go about taking it there,” Mr Martin said. ” Dick wants to talk about the real issues our businesses and societies face and what he has to say is thought provoking and possibly even controversial for some.” The founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic Magazine and Dick Smith Foods,Smith is well known for his outspoken views on ‘extreme capitalism’, limits to growth and foreign ownership of agricultural resources. He is a staunch advocate for supporting local industries as opposed to selling ‘off the farm’ and importing cheap foreign goods that destroy local industry and economies. As well as being a successful businessman and iconic character Dick Smith is an avid adventurer achieving many aviation firsts such as flying solo in a helicopter around the world as well as the first to successfully complete an east-west crossing of the Tasman Sea by balloon, from New Zealand to Australia against prevailing winds. Other notable […]