I’m at the Disney Dolphin hotel in Orlando, putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s talk titled ‘Aging workforce: Time bomb or Opportunity?’ for the IBM PULSE2008 event. If you are at the conference, stop by and say ‘Hi’ - it is at 10:30 AM ET.

I’ll reference aging statistics from around the world (two contrasting examples: Singapore, where the government offers dating classes to offset a decline in fertility that has been happening for 28 straight years. The contrast is India, where there are 500 million people under the age of 25. )  I’ll draw on research from IBM, Stanford and IBM on online gaming and the lessons business can take from them, particularly in terms of what it means to engage a younger workforce.

Should be fun, it is certainly a different topic and audience. Will be whisked off right after to the airport to make it for the pre-event dinner for the MIT CIO Symposium, where I’ll be meeting with the folks from my CIO Keynote Panel.

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