‘…With a power you feel in every fibre of your being, but cannot fully explain, you bring the dream to life. And the joy of fulfilment is more intense than you ever could have imagined’

- Ralph Marston

The events of the last decade have changed the way the world thinks of business. As the world becomes ‘flatter’, it is not profits alone, but also a constant evolution with the unrelenting changes that determines a leader.

New advances in science and technology have brought with them new opportunities and challenges. The uncertainty in the global economy still looms large. The divide between the haves and have-nots is ever widening. There is a pressing need to find solutions for a sustainable future to preserve our planet.

‘Fortune favours the bold’

- Virgil

Despite all the ‘chasms’ that abound, success will belong to those, who dare to adapt and turn those chasms into opportunities moving towards the goal and beyond, the ones fuelled by pure passion, who refuse to listen to the naysayers, who compensate every slip with a determined leap of faith, the ones who give all that is, the ones who chase their dreams.

Crossing Chasms, Realizing Dreams will be the theme for Avenues 2011, where stalwarts from the industry, leaders from the social sphere, scholars from the academia and students, will come together for a stimulating series of discussions, knowledge sharing and frenzied activities of learning and fun.

‘If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.’

– Marcel Proust