Agenda People Partnerships Policies Performances
:: Conference-at-a-Glance


The Summit consists of inspiring themes that will captivate and engage the most innovative people worldwide to strike partnerships, challenge the policies of  'business-as-usual', and celebrate the World's most remarkable achievements through a series of illuminating performances.

The agenda of the 2008 WSIE is outlined below:
 

07:30AM - 10:00AM Summit Registration & Welcome Continental Breakfast 
10:30AM - 11:00AM Official Opening Ceremony: Our Future. Inspired by Innovation
11:00AM - 11:30AM Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of Rwanda 
11:30AM - 11:45AM Special Brand Announcement
By Summit Partner Nakheel 
11:45AM - 12:15PM  Innovivor: A Better Generation in the Making
The future of youth is uncertain. Uncertainty leads to debate. And so the great debates will be an engaging, inspiring look at how the future will unfold. This session sets the stage for 3-days of live coverage of the challenges, the experiences, the surprises, the brilliance, the splendor, the tears, the laughs, and the foresight of these future leaders – while they embark on their mission to bring intellect, humor and peace into the hearts of one of the most intractable conflicts on the planet.
12:30PM - 01:15PM Using New Science to Rewire the Brains of Youth: Education that Dazzles
01:15PM - 02:15PM Networking Luncheon 
02:15PM - 04:00PM Innovation for Peace: Achieving Greatness, Transforming Societies
04:15PM - 05:30PM Architecting Future Capitals: Practicing Diversity. Growing Communities.
05:45PM - 07:00PM The Customer Innovation Joy: In Human-Centered Design We Trust
07:30PM - 10:00PM Welcome Culture Night 
 

 

 

 
09:00AM - 10:15AM Blue Beginnings...
10:30AM - 11:00AM Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of a Chief Executive 
We constantly hear that the role of private sector for shaping the future of society is changing and the CEO's must change with it. The most common message is that CEOs must act like inventors and innovators, but the shift goes much deeper than that. This interview will explore what is really different about the CEO's role of tomorrow and how established or aspiring CEO’s can prepare.
11:15AM - 12:45PM The Chief Innovators Hall of Fame: Visions for the Future of Information Technology
12:45PM - 01:45PM Networking Lunch
02:00PM - 03:45PM Parallel Innovation Mindspaces 
Business Innovations: Decoding the Future of Connected Innovation CommunitiesTM
Corporate Blue Responsibility
Social Innovations: Moving Beyond the Star, the Cross & the Crescent (conducted in the dark)
Media Unbound: Unchain the Channels
Healthcare Innovations: Beyond Modern Medicine and a Healthy Body
04:30PM - 05:45PM Parallel Innovation Mindspaces 
Luxury & Leisure Innovations: Prepping for the Experience Economy
Technology Innovations: Enter the Age of the Connected Generation
Environmental Innovations: Healing the Earth One Individual at a Time
Financial Innovations: Competitiveness through Transparency
07:30PM - 10:30PM Gala Dinner & Award Ceremony
 
09:00AM - 10:15AM The Power of Entrepreneurs to Change the World: Living a Life of Chaos and Creativity
The US Greatest Challenge: The Rise of the Asian-Arab-European Innovation TriangleTM
10:30AM - 11:15AM Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of Dubai 
This interview provides a first-ever inside look into the innovation foresight, courage, leadership, benevolence and execution capacity of Dubai's Father - His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Vice President of the U.A.E., and Ruler of Dubai.
11:30AM - 12:45PM The Shape of Innovations to Come: A Whole New World
Beating the Gender Odds: Creative Minds Gone Right
12:45PM - 01:45PM Networking Lunch
02:00PM - 03.30PM Innovation Blog: Yalla Imagine 
To prepare for the future, we will ask you to envision multiple scenarios for collaborative discussion. That's what our Innovation Blog is all about - we call it UNSESSION...
Administered By: Innovivor
03:30PM - 03.45PM Innovation Cockpit: Visions Worth Fighting For
Wrap-up, summaries and key findings 
Closing Plenary
 
   

Nick Donofrio

Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology
IBM
   

 


 
 

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