The Economist's Seventh Annual Innovation Awards Ceremony and ...

The Economist’s Seventh Annual Innovation Half-day Summit
Friday, October 31st 2008, The Landmark Hotel, London
Collaborative innovation: A new approach to new ideas
Held at The Landmark Hotel, London on October 31st 2008, The Economist’s Innovation Summit
will enable you to:
• Discuss strategies that leaders of innovation should employ both outside and within their
organisations to best nurture and capture untapped ideas
• Assess the effectiveness of collaborative platforms such as Web 2.0. Do they genuinely enhance the
performance of businesses, or is this a short-lasting fad with little mileage?
• Understand how start-ups can best utilise collaboration in their development
Summit Programme
Joe Batista,
Director and Chief
Creatologist,
Hewlett-Packard
Shai Agassi,
Founder and
Chief Executive,
Project Better Place
Nancy Snyder,
Corporate Vice-president
of Leadership and
Strategic Competency
Creation,
Whirlpool Corporation
Ori Gal,
Chief Executive Officer,
NuLens
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.30 Chairman’s welcome and introduction
Tom Standage, Business Editor, The Economist
09.40 The 2008 Winners: their approach to new ideas
The 2008 Economist Innovation Award–Winners will share their achievements in innovation and how their ideas
became successes and created new markets. They will discuss how things have changed since their careers
began, and how they see user and partner driven innovation shaping future business strategies.
2008 Innovation Award–Winners to be announced at the event
10.40 Innovation redefined: relying on customers and partners
• How can you understand your customers needs and best reward your top users?
• How do you most effectively capture ideas from partners and suppliers? And how do you best track
and develop these ideas over time?
• What are the pitfalls to look out for with customer-centric and partner-driven innovation?
• What of intellectual property? With a broader-based innovation strategy, who owns the new ideas,
products and processes?
Joe Batista, Director and Chief Creatologist, Hewlett-Packard
Gregory Balestrero, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project Management Institute
David Macnair, Chief Science and Technology Officer, Cadbury Schweppes
11.30 Refreshments and networking
12.00 Redefining the start-up: finding the means for collaboration from limited resources
• How is the diffusion of distribution changing, and will this affect start-ups in the future?
• What are best practices when moving from a start-up to a more mature, established business,
with further potential for growth?
• What is driving small-company entrepreneurship today, and what is the role of the financier within this?
• How can large and mid-sized companies best work with start-ups?
Peter Corsell, President and Chief Executive Officer, GridPoint
Ori Gal, Chief Executive Officer, NuLens
Anne Glover, Chief Executive and Co-founder, Amadeus Capital Partners
12.50 Global innovation redefined: what solutions are to be found in emerging markets?
• Is it easier for young companies in developing nations to innovate than in the West?
• Is it possible to measure innovation country-by-country, and compare success across different market places?
• What is the best approach for global companies who want to roll out their own innovative strategies
across the world?
• How does collaboration play a part for companies in emerging markets?
Nancy T Snyder, Corporate Vice-president of Leadership and Strategic Competency Creation, Whirlpool Corporation
Kanwal Singh, Managing Director, Helion Ventures
David Roche, Senior Vice-president Hotels.com and Expedia Private Label, EMEA, Expedia
13.40 Closing keynote address: ‘Clean technology: innovation’s next wave?’
Shai Agassi, Founder and Chief Executive, Project Better Place
14.10 Chairman’s summation
14.15 Lunch and networking
15.15 End of summit