INNOVATION SOCIETY BOARDROOM MAKING INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS (Invitation Only)
TYPE Boardroom LOCATION Al Bandar Ballroom  Qalhat, Tiwi, Assifah DATE Saturday, April 01, 2006  TIME 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM    Introduced By Mr. Sam Hamdan, Chairman, Global Leadership Team Orchestrated By Mr. Tom Stewart, Editor in Chief, Harvard Business Review Challenger  Mrs. Maria Livanos Cattaui, Vice Chairman, International Crisis Group	FEATURED SPEAKER H.E. Maqbool bin Ali Sultan Minister of Commerce and Industry Sultanate of Oman   FEATURED SPONSOR

Speakers

• H.E. Maqbool bin Ali Sultan, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Sultanate of Oman
• H.E. Dr. Hassan bin Abdullah Fakhro, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Kingdom of Bahrain 
• H.E. Eva Biaudet, Member of Parliament & Former Minister of Health & Social Services, Finland
• H.E. Dr. Marwan Hamadeh, Minister of Telecommunications, Lebanon
• H.E. Montasser Ouaili, Minister of Communications Technology, Tunisia
• H.E. Noel Dempsey T.D., Minister of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Ireland
• HRH Prince Feisel Bin Al Hussein, Deputy Chief of Staff, Kingdom of Jordan
• H.H. Dr. Sheikha Hissah Saad Al Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah, President, Council of Arab Women
• H.E. Romain Murenzi, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research, Republic of Rwanda
• H.E. Dr. Rawya bint Saud bin Ahmed al Busaidiyah, Minister of Higher Education, Sultanate of Oman
• Mr. Michael D. White, Chairman, PepsiCo International
• Mr. Richard Stephens, Senior VP & Member of the Executive Council, HR & Administration, The Boeing Company
• Mr. Steven R. DuMont, VP & Global Managing Director, Cisco Systems IBSG
• Dr. Claude Béglé, COO, DHL
• Mr. Joseph Hanania, Managing Director, Hewlett Packard
• Mrs. Vasumathi Briquez, Vice President Innovation and Pervasive Computing, Oracle Corporation
• Dr. Jonathan Lord, Chief Innovation Officer, Humana Inc. 
• Mr. Mishal Hamed Kanoo, Deputy Chairman – UAE & Oman, The Kanoo Group
• Dr. Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General,  Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships,UNDP
• Dr. David E. Reisner, President & CEO, The Nano Group, Inc. 
• Dr. Naomi Tutu, Founder, Tutu Foundation for Development & Relief
• H.E. Etienne Sinatambou, Minister of Information Technology & Telecommunications, Republic of Mauritius
• H.E. Philippe Petit, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
• Mr. Robert Lifton, Chairman of the Board, Medis Technologies Ltd.
• Dr. Bob Bechtold, President & Founder, Harbec Plastics Inc.
• Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Director, BU Center for Remote Sensing
• Dr. Tayeb A. Kamali, Vice Chancellor of Higher Colleges of Technology & Vice Chairman of CERT, U.A.E.
  
  

EXECUTIVE BRIEF

The future course of the innovation society is fueled by two critical components - innovation and entrepreneurship. Their successful fusion is effectively transferring the global communities into a set of innovation societies that are moving rapidly toward an integrated uni-global economy, with challenges that will dramatically shape the face of humanity, and ensure that equitable benefits - poverty alleviation or eradication; improved health care; basic and higher education - are shared among all. 

An action plan will be offered on why innovation must be a key outcome for all public/private sectors and NGOs to seek through entrepreneurship - as one of the primary sources of global competitiveness. It will explore how leaders can set up the appropriate mechanisms and implement action plans to enter and succeed in developed and emerging markets, as well as to enable developing populations to leapfrog into the innovation age.

The goals of this leadership action plenary is to develop a 2010 action plan that addresses key opportunities in: 

Infrastructure & Competitiveness

• What innovation practices have proved most effective in reshaping public sector competitiveness?
• What is the role of multinationals in fueling the engines of society’s entrepreneurial growth?
• What policy reform measures must be taken by the public sector to create the innovation society?

Knowledge & Development

• How can knowledge work for the development of emerging populations? 
• What collaborative actions are required to inspire and empower youths to face new global challenges? 

Disruptive Innovations

• What disruptive innovations will create the most significant value on how societies collaborate?
• How should organizations change their plans and approaches based on these new opportunities?

Growth Economy 

• What are the key growth industries and markets through year 2010? And Why? 
• What factors will affect the transition of growth industries from governments to the private sector through 2010?
• What are the critical actions in the next three to five years?

Energy

• Why must sustainable communities be the responsibility of both oil addict and oil producing nations? 
• What are the emerging environmental trends through year 2010? And Why? 
• How can oil-producing nations transform oil wealth into human capacity and private enterprise?

Geopolitics

• What sociological, political, and demographic trends in major geographies are amplifying the impact of consumerization on the make-up of the Innovation Society?
• What types of public/private partnerships are working to enable religious innovation?
• What are key actions to improve participation of women in the development of emerging markets?