Jeremy Rifkin and Nicholas Christakis to speak at T-HT Conference
23.9.2010
The T-HT Conference Growing through Knowledge, which will take place on Tuesday, September 28, in Zagreb, will once again, for the third time in a row, welcome some of the most sought-after thinkers of today. The renowned economist and social commentator as well as founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends Professor Jeremy Rifkin will talk about globalization and empathy in the light of new technologies and survival of the civilization, while the internist and social scientist as well as distinguished expert in the field of social network research Dr. Nicholas Christakis will focus on social networks and their influence on one’s health, quality of living and longevity.
The conference will take place in Zagreb’s Hypo Center.
The speakers, who will visit Croatia for the first time, at the invitation of the T-HT, will give rather interesting lectures on the emergence of the empathic civilization and the evolution of the human race, but also on the way social networks affect practically every aspect of our lives.
“I am very pleased that I was given the opportunity to visit Croatia for the first time ever to speak at a conference focusing on the importance of our existence on the planet,” Professor Rifkin said on the occasion of the upcoming conference. “I am also pleased that I will be able to share my thoughts on human nature with a Croatian audience. Those thoughts require redefining human nature and a reconceptualization of the meaning of the human journey.”
“The recent increase in the use of mobile phones, internet services and online social networks has put out ability to stay interconnected into the fifth gear, making us hyper-connected. It is the real-time social networks that shape almost every aspect of our lives, from how we feel to which diseases we are predisposed to. I am confident that the visitors of this year’s conference will find this particular issue both interesting and close to their hearts,” Dr. Christakis, the second speaker at the T-HT Conference, said.
About the T-HT Conference
The T-HT Conference welcomes distinguished individuals, experts and scientists who with their ideas, thoughts, actions, engagement and projects on the local and particularly global level in a rather recognizable way contribute to and help the mankind, encourage thinking or move to action. This year’s T-HT Conference also marks the third anniversary of the company’s IPO, which was officially launched on October 5, 2007.
Instructions for the journalists who will attend the T-HT Conference
Taking photos and/or making audio/video recordings of the speakers during their lectures is allowed only at the very beginning, that is, during the first five minutes of each speaker’s lecture and from an appropriate distance from the stage.
Professor Rifkin and Dr. Christakis will be available for brief statements between noon and half past noon (12:00-12:30), at the press center of Hypo Center’s first floor.