John Gargani, President of Gargani + Company, former President of the American Evaluation Association, USA
As the AES 2024 conference comes to a close, we gather one last time to consider the journey ahead. We seek a destination none have seen—a profession that in ten years’ time fully supports societal and planetary health—along a path we have never traveled. The urgency of existential threats such as AI, global heating, and pandemics call into question the traditional ways our profession has navigated the future. And new players such as impact investors, social entrepreneurs, effective altruists, and socially responsible corporations ensure that the journey will be crowded and some routes cut off.
With this in mind, we pose two questions to our panelists.
- What milestones and songlines should guide us on our way to an imagined future profession? How will we know if we have lost our way?
- How should we interact with other professions on a similar journey? Like commuters on a train who dare not speak, shipwrecked strangers who must quickly band together, or something else altogether?
Followed by:
Conference close by the AES President, and handover to aes25 Ngambri/Canberra
