FORUM AGENDA

  AGENDA - Day Two | Tuesday, 24 January, 2012
8:30 Registration and Coffee
9:00 Welcome back address by the Chair
9:10 Keynote :

  • Mohamad Mourad, Gulf Regional Manager, Google
9.50

Designing a strategic approach to implementing innovation through information technology

  • Understanding what your business needs are to help foster a culture of innovation

  • Designing an architecture which promotes a sense of innovation

  • Getting the fundamentals right to enable innovation to flourish in your organisation

  • Strategically enabling the business to innovate and removing obstacles in the way

  • Lessons learned from the Emirates experience

Neethan Chopra, VP - IT Strategy and Architecture, Emirates Airline

10:30 Morning Break
11.00

Developing an idea into a commercial reality  

  • Discovering how best to harness innovative ideas

  • Finding out which ideas are worthwhile exploring

  • Understanding how you can transform an idea into a product or service

Eng. Haitham Sibai, Regional Technical Manager, 3M Gulf

11.40

Generating and driving innovation through consumers

  • Examining why customers make ideal sources of innovation

  • Understanding how to capture insights and ideas from your customers

  • Taking the customer-organization relationship to a new level

  • Developing and designing new products based on changes in consumers’ needs              

Mohammed Sheta, Head of Marketing Middle East & Africa, Johnson & Johnson

12:20

Networking Lunch

13:30

Measuring innovation and creating innovation KPIs

  • Measuring and quantifying innovation in your organization

  • Aligning innovation KPIs with your strategic goals

  • Measuring innovations as a portfolio

  • Understanding how to measure the effectiveness of innovative projects and ideas

  • Aligning individual performance incentives to innovative practices

  • Improving innovation performance

Nour Shakhour, Senior Organizational Development Officer, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

14:10

Panel discussion: Examining the future of innovation and key trends you have to be aware of

  • Innovation as a long term sustainable advantage

  • Key market, social and economic trends that will drive innovation

  • When is innovation needed and how is it best enabled?

Wael Tawil, CEO, Baniyas, UAE

Shatha Ahmad, Innovation Center Manager, Dubai – EMEA, Hewlett Packard

Jeremy Foster, Head of Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson

14:50

Closing remarks from the Chair

15:00 End of Forum
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