The Summit's 'wild ride'

George Williams | May 7, 2008

Along with a thousand other Australians, I was lucky to attend the 2020 Summit . I was not sure what to expect, but imagined reams of butchers paper and the latest in group management techniques.

I was right about both, but failed to anticipate just how chaotic and challenging the Summit would be. The main problem was how little time there was to spell out, let alone to debate, the key issues. Despite the event running over two days, each of the ten streams of 100 was given only seven hours to come up with its big ideas.