SEBN manager Sandra George and guest speaker Bernard Salt at the group’s annual dinner last week. 52003
ABOUT 200 people flocked to Sandown Race Course last week for the South East Business Networks (SEBN) 17th annual dinner.
SEBN Sandra George welcomed guests to the event before they were provided with insight from key-note speaker Bernard Salt and had ample time for networking with the traditional game of musical chairs.
“This region is blessed in many ways,” Ms George said.
She said there were many successful companies in the area, some which were “quiet achievers.”
Mr Salt, a business analyst, cultural trends commentator and author of Globe Trends and Opportunities, delivered an interesting and dynamic expose on global trends and opportunities from changes in population over the past five decades.
He based his informative presentation on recent demographic, business and social information gathered from research from almost every market in Australia.
He also gave guests quirky facts about Australia, Melbourne and the City of Greater Dandenong, including that 50 years ago the Gold Coast did not exist on the census and that today there were 30,000 more teenagers in Melbourne than there were 10 years ago.
Mr Salt also recommended changing the name of Chandler Road to ‘The Road of Love’ as there were more single women in Keysborough than men, and more single men in Dandenong than women, or what he called “a sheila shortage”.
