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AGENDA - Day One | January 11th, 2010 |
| 8:30 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 9:30 |
Opening Keynote Address: Innovation in the UAE
His Excellency Abdullah Al Ahbabi, Director of Strategy & Planning
General Secretariat of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council |
| 10:00 |
Presentation: Creating Innovations That Matter
Successful innovations have attributed that can be used to benchmark and qualify new innovations. How can we apply our study of successful innovations to identify innovations that matter? Can we approach identifying innovations in a systematic manner? How can one translate such innovations into successful products and services?
The talk will address these and other related topics.
Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Chairman of The
Business Innovation Generator, SMU |
| 10.30 |
Break & Networking |
| 10:45 |
Pro le: MICROSOFT
We pro le a global success story since 1975, detailing a company that exempli es innovative thinking, getting to grips with what makes them tick, their innovative processes, how they foster innovation and inviting their thoughts, as an innovation blueprint of success, on how innovators can be encouraged and developed in our society.
Charbel Fakhoury, General Manager, Microsoft Gulf |
| 11.15 |
Presentation: Innovation and the Knowledge-Based Economy
By measuring innovation and knowledge management in Natural Resource Rich Economies (NREs) and through comparison and benchmarking between such economies, we can gauge to what extent Abu Dhabi is confronted with a gap in terms of unful lled potential for innovation and growth. This presentation will discuss international rankings of innovation performance, assessing what practical steps Abu Dhabi can take to allow innovation to ourish.
Dr. Thomas Andersson, President, International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and
Enterprise Development (IKED) |
| 12.00 |
Presentation: Towards the next steps in Open Innovation:
Examples from Philips Research
Open Innovation is high on the agenda of many companies and universities. The need to
cooperate with the external world to create new, successful innovations is paramount.
Philips Research practices Open Innovation in two ways:
- Get external world into own organisation and
- Open up internal organisation for external world.
Especially the latter one, is pretty unique for corporate research departments. In the
presentation, pros and cons of both ways of Open Innovation will be discussed, based
on concrete examples.
Dr. John Bell, Head of Strategy & Partnerships, Royal Philips |
| 12:30 |
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| 13:30 |
Panel Discussion: From Silicon Valley to Singapore;
What Infrastructure is Needed to Produce Innovation?
This panel discussion will examine:
1) Access to nancing
2) Creating an ethos of opening and sharing among rms
3) Research infrastructure; how universities function as cradles of innovation
Led by Arcot Desai Narasimhalu |
| 14:00 |
Practical Workshop : “Systematic Innovation” a predictable force for business and government transformation.
Much like Performance Excellence, the success of Systematic Innovation depends on a consistent approach to project execution and well-trained practitioners that know how to identify innovation opportunities, generate internal and external ideas, valuate, design and implement innovative solutions. In this session, we will learn more about Systematic Innovation, tools, methods, and roadmap that works in all times.
Kamal Hassan, CEO of Innovation 360 |
| 14:30 |
End of Day One |
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