On Thursday you can gain the edge over everyone else before the start of the new year by attending this year’s Annual Conference. 10 leading trend experts, all in specialist areas have been asked to come up with then things for 2010.

In every way, 2010 is a landmark event for South Africa as we host one of the world’s great sporting events. What most South African business people need is intelligence, a blueprint, a GPS system that will point out opportunities and pitfalls. This event is sure to provide some interesting insights and impressive ideas.

The team at Virtuosa will be attending the event hosted at the Wanderers Club and once again keep you up to date with live blogging and tweets. So if you are not able to be there in person be sure to follow us on the day.

The line up of speakers includes:

• Dr Nikolaus Eberl – CEO, Nation of Champions
• Prof John Simpson – Director, Unilever Institute for Strategic Marketing, UCT
• Matthew Buckland – General Manager Publishing & Social Media, 24.com
• Dion Chang – Trends Analyst, Flux Trends
• Lebo Biko – Managing Director, BBDO Consulting
• Dr John Ledger – Associate Professor of Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg
• Dr Iraj Abedian – CEO, Pan-African Investment and Research Services
• Glen Lomas - CEO, DDB South Africa
• Martin Rosen - Managing Director, Mega Vision Media
• Alan Knott-Craig – Former Vodacom CEO