The WORLD INNOVATION FORUM is the only event of its kind to discuss innovation from a 360-degree perspective, focusing on the competitive advantage to be gained from embedding innovation as a core competency of the organization.
Sounds impressive. Here is a list of speakers:
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, Harvard professor and bestselling author of: Seeing What’s Next, The Innovator’s Dilemma, and The Innovator’s Solution “Disruptive Innovation: The Dynamics of Creative Organizations”
MALCOLM GLADWELL, author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers: The Tipping Point and Blink “Marketing & Innovation”
RENEE MAUBORGNE, co-author of the highly acclaimed Blue Ocean
Strategy and professor at INSEAD
“Blue Ocean Strategy: Designing a Winning Strategy”
*RAY KURZWEIL, pioneering futurist and one of the most provocative thinkers on technology’s future impact “Science, Technology, and Invention: Strategies to Create the Future”
*LYN HEWARD, Cirque du Soleil’s Executive Producer for Special Projects “Igniting the Spark of Creativity and Keeping It Alive”
*VINT CERF, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and widely known as the “founding father” of the Internet “Building the Next-Generation Internet”
*MICHAEL THIENEMAN, Global Innovation Sponsor, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer at Whirlpool “Whirlpool’s Innovation Journey”
*RICK RASHID, Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Research “Research, Product Development, and Future Technologies”
No TOM KELLEY? Perhaps they are not ready for it yet. Hopefully next year.