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A New Zealand couple are joining more than 100 entrepreneurs from Australia this weekend heading for the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica for an 11-day think-tank aimed at "raising financial intelligence".
Jeff and Donna Ghaemaghamy, who have a multimillion-dollar anti-ageing business and property portfolio between them, are among those paying up to A$27,800 ($29,800) for the voyage with the group known as "The Unstoppables".
Renewable energy, sustainability and the pursuit of happiness are among the lofty issues to be tackled by some local entrepreneurs on a floating think tank in Antarctica.
The WA entrepreneurs are among more than 100 Australians who will travel to the end of the earth this month to brainstorm solutions to environmental and social problems.
The country's wealthiest families are increasingly chasing the newest new ideas and driving an entrepreneurial culture not seen since the height of the last internet boom.
s AFR Weekend reported on Saturday, a decade of reticence after the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, has given way to buoyant projections, eye-popping investments and market-shaking IPOs.
Wollongong environmental activist Parrys Raines will take her passion to the next level in January when she travels to the remote southern tip of the Earth for an 11-day conference in Antarctica.
Two-thirds of Australian fathers would think twice before approaching a child in distress in public over fears they would be labelled a predator, new research shows.
The survey conducted to coincide with the launch of Skynanny.net, a GPS tracking device for children, found that 45 percent of fathers said they would be reluctant to help a child, unless the child was in great distress and action was needed.
MORE than two thirds of Australian men admit they would be at least somewhat reluctant to help a lost child for fear they would be viewed as a pervert.
CLIENT: UNSTOPPABLES
OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU
IT COULD make a great reality TV show: Extreme Networking: Antarctica. But rather than a reality TV show, it’s just reality.
We all know entrepreneurs love a bit of networking — it’s how they get things done. Milling around at some nondescript city hotel or conference centre, they sidle up, shake hands, flash smiles and talk the smooth talk.
Imagine this: 100-plus entrepreneurs on a boat in Antarctica for 11 days with no smartphones allowed.
It is real, planned for January 2015 and it’s called the Unstoppables expedition. The trip was announced earlier this year, but now about 50 entrepreneurs have confirmed their attendance - including BlueChilli co-founder Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin and BRW Young Rich lister Dorry Kardahi.
It’s at the end of the earth, in Antarctica, where multi-millionaire and entrepreneur Julio De Laffitte hopes 117 Australian business people will be inspired with new ideas.
Next January he’s flying some of the country’s smartest entrepreneurs to Antarctic waters, where they’ll be met by a chartered boat that will take them on an adventure which has to be one of the harshest-ever backdrops for a brainstorm.
