Our Geek Dinner [THANK YOU so much to geek marketing maven Dave for organising this!! :-D] happening next week (30 August ’06). It promises to be a riot of dazzling minds, blazing new ideas and business opportunities brought back from the very edge of fresh tech, design and marketing.. all swimming in Stormhoek wine (sponsored by the marketing genius Graham Knox).

We’ll have some speakers offering just a teaser of their insights.. with the likes of Mike Stopforth (GoForth.. and wow! is this man going forth>> get connected to Mike while you can), Gavin Chait (Whythawk, WikiMedia: the night will be worthwhile if just to hear this maverick economist’s potent keynote.. register on the wiki NOW), Jonathan Cherry of Cherryflava (reporter from the edge of the freshest marketing and business trends), Conrad Strydom (SERIOUS programming clarity from the man who brought us SA’s 1st BarCamp) of Geekspin and someone called Maximilian Kaizen ;-) of maxkaizen.com

[Thanks to the exquisite Pilobolus dancers for their bodies to express the beauty that can be achieved working together.. I discovered them through the throbbing genius gathering TED (which I do secretly have on my 101 Things To Do Before I Die list).. please feel free to grab the pic above to publicize the geekdinner on your site].

All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly -Martin Luther King, Jr.

The theme of the evening is from the Zulu saying Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu.. for those of who need to slip the babel fish into your ear: “we are who we are because WE are” (huh?) or as Rafiq has it with more precision: people are people because of other people. We are moving into a new renaissance period and once again the collective intelligence of the passionate, determined, creative and visionary will MOVE the world. Looking forward to some Richter scale TECHtonic rumblings at the GeekDinner..see you there>>