2012 T-HT Conference Growing through Knowledge
Croatian Telecom is organizing this year again the conference Growing through Knowledge. For the fifth consecutive year, this established event hosts the world's leading experts, visionaries and thinkers who will share with us their knowledge and progressive ideas of today. Thematic focus is placed on innovation and achievements in the development of technology, and applied science that push the limits of human communication, interaction and business. Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most distinguished scientists in the world, and Sarah Lacy, a world renowned author on innovation and entrepreneurship, and award-winning journalist will take guests through the vision of the future in the coming years and new entrepreneurship of the 21st century.
As a prominent physicist and futurologist, professor of theoretical physics and a big advocate of scientific ethics and social responsibility in science, Dr. Michio Kaku will discuss how science will change daily lives in the coming decades, what the future of people and organizations will be like, and will explain how science opens completely new avenues and creates new opportunities for individuals, organizations and society as a whole, leading, among other things, to the major turning point in the development of the economy.
Sarah Lacy, through her 40-week experience traveling the Middle East, South America, Africa, India, China and Southeast Asia will talk about the inspirational and daring entrepreneurs around the world, the visionaries who see the world differently, who put priority on innovativeness and creating opportunities to make positive changes.
These two distinguished speakers will present their knowledge, interdisciplinary approach and fresh ideas on the future of technology and social progress on Thursday, October 4, at Hypo Centre in Zagreb.
Driven by the idea of the importance of knowledge sharing as the main driver of individual and social development, and turbulent events, and constant changes on the local and global levels, T-HT Conference was for the first time held in 2008. The conference that highlights the importance of acquiring knowledge and the growth and development of individuals, companies and society, in previous years hosted respected individuals such as Maestro Benjamin Zander, Jimmy Donal Wales, Muhammad Yunus, Dan Ariely, Jeremy Rifkin, Nicholas Christakis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Amber Case.