‘Festival of Ideas 2010’ unveiled

Legacy and Legacy, the nation’s leading promoters of motivational and leadership conferences has launched ‘Festival of Ideas 2010’, a massive convocation of chief executive officers, corporate executives and business elites.

The purpose of the assembly is to equip participating individuals and organizations with requisite tools to develop their ideas, prepare proposals, forge partnerships, strategies and execute emerging ideas for growth and business success.

The festival which is under the theme “Dominating the World with your Ideas” is slated for the Accra International Conference Center on the 17th and 18th August 2010 and is in collaboration with Otabil & Associates, an executive leadership development consultancy as well as Business and Financial Times, Africa’s leading provider of business information.

‘Festival of Ideas 2010’a newly-introduced high-profile executive business seminar is expected to bring together over 500 top-end corporate executives and business leaders.

Comfort Ocran, Chief Executive Officer of Legacy and Legacy at a media launch in Accra explained that it is expected to provide a stronger focus to the target audience and differentiate it from Legacy & Legacy’s other flagship event, the Springboard Road Show, which targets all categories of people, particularly students and youth.

“Since the maiden conference in 2007, it has grown by leaps and bounds attracting participants from all over Ghana and outside the country. Over the past three years, it has attracted over 4,000 participants who have been assisted with the tools required to make important changes at the personal, organizational and national level,” she stated.

She explained that some of the most significant and fastest growing businesses in the world are products of great ideas conceived and systematically executed.

“Business and corporate organizations seeking to gain and maintain competitive advantage need to consistently reinvent themselves to take advantage of emerging opportunities and deal with the threats of future, some of which are significantly different from the ones we have been used to grappling with.

“Individuals, companies and nation’s prosper when they are strategically able to predict the next big move and take advantage of it. In this regard, ideas have become a significant resource for setting up businesses, strengthening existing organizations and galvanizing teams into action.”

The challenge for many CEOs and leaders is that while lots of creative and potentially beneficial ideas are regularly generated, the wherewithal to implement them is often lacking either because of strategy disconnections, lack of financing, unprepared team members of lack of insight into successful implementation.”

Ms Ama Okyere, Marketing Director, Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, said: “This year, the fourth edition of Infopreneurship is no exception, however the bar has been raised. Participant will not only inspired to nurture ideas, but also equipped with the tools for a flawless execution of ideas.

“If you could conceptualize a forum that allows the birth of ideas and not only ideas, but great ideas. Given that great ideas transcends borders, cultures, gender and time, imagine the impact and celebration in such a world dominated with your own ideas, which encapsulate the theme of this year’s event,” Ms Okyere remarked.

Some of the finest speakers of international repute from both Ghana and abroad who have been co-opted to make presentations at the conference will include; Dr. Mensa Otabil, Daniel Asiedu, Martyn Mensah, Mavi Isibor, George Andah, Joel Nettey, Theresa Ayoade and will be hosted by Albert and Comfort Ocran.

This year, in collaboration with its partners would award prizes to two randomly-selected participants. It will be rewarded on each day with the grand prize winner taking home two Accra-London-Accra tickets from Virgin Atlantic, a Zenith bank account with GH¢500, a weekend’s stay for two at the African Regent Hotel, mobile telephone airtime of GH ¢ 100 from MTN and corporate souvenirs and products from other sponsors like Newmont, Alvaro, Safina Mineral Water, Star Assurance, Combert Impressions, Dream Oval, Busy Internet and Chic Paints.