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Schedule

8:30 Registration, Coffee, Networking

9:00 Igniting the Genius Within: Innovation and Leadership in Action

Speaker: Prasad Kaipa

Program Description: Silicon Valley companies have to address three gaps to successfully compete globally in the post 2000 period. They are the: Performance Gap, Leadership Gap and Opportunity Gap.

Many companies have been successfully addressing the first gap by reducing their infrastructure costs, sharply focusing on their core competencies and outsourcing everything else from global providers.

The second gap continues to be an issue because there are three blocks that prevent people from taking leadership roles. They are: fear of losing their job, the pressure of the mounting work-load (and lack of work-life balance) and the disconnect between their own aspirations and those of their company.

The third gap can only be addressed if leaders in the organization begin to focus on ‘top line growth’ through innovation and invention. That means that organizations have to create and promote a culture of innovation by encouraging employees to take risks, feel ownership and synergize with other team members.

After working with over 100 senior executives in 30+ Fortune companies, Dr. Kaipa has found that provoking innovation and leadership does not happen through external benchmarking. By igniting the genius within and aligning people’s aspirations with business goals, companies can inspire employees to risk, stretch beyond their perceived capacity and invent industry leading products and services.

10:00 Innovation, Creativity & Change: Overcoming Predictable Levels of Disharmony: Michele Jackman

Program Description: This presentation examines the notion of "Innova Teams" (a kind of Special Forces "star team") and presents the five core values this cross organizational team must foster in the culture as "evangels" for better mousetraps, products, or processes to ensure support. Learn how these teams can nurture the innovation, and keep focusing the organization and its doubters away from dysfunctional conflict by fostering specific supportive behaviors. Learn how to counter and overcome the underlying emotional and power issues any "great idea" will encounter, and keep it fun!

11:00 Smart Start-up: Simply Powerful Tools for Creative Collaboration:
Geoff Ball, Simon Pennington, Sandra Florstedt

SmartGroups™ is a radical approach that engages working groups in learning ways to work together much more creatively. These shared capabilities allow them to innovate, work passionately, and commit to needed collaboration through which innovation and creativity occurs.

SmartGroups™ captures the very essence of tricky situations that occur and reoccur whenever people work together. Each situation is revealed in a 4-5 minute video. There are 21 in our series. The Tools show how to manage these situations to avoid frustration and confusion while focusing efforts toward high quality results.

Innovation requires nurturing of fragile ideas into robust products and services. Effective working groups – SmartGroups™ – grow great ideas and see them to market.

In new companies – Smart Start-ups – the SmartGroups™ Approach puts down good rootstock on which to grow a vibrant, creative, innovative and healthy company.

12:00 Lunch and Networking

1:00 The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Engine of Innovation: Matt May, Director, Aevitas Learning Management

Program Description: Toyota implements a million ideas each year. Perhaps that’s why they’re the most profitable carmaker in the world, one of the planet's ten most profitable companies, with a market value greater than that of GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler and Honda put together. What drives their success? It’s not the cars, and it’s not their production system, because those are only the visible manifestation of the relentless everyday innovation that pervades every level of the organization. It’s the search for elegant solutions, tiny ideas with huge impact that lie on the far side of complexity. Matt will discuss the 3 principles and 10 practices that make it all possible.

2:00 Creating, Protecting, and Developing Innovation: James Pooley, Yolanda Harris, Bill Tobin, Naomi Fine, and Simon Taylor: Panel Run by Pat Reilly

Panel Description: Hear a panel of experts discuss a complex of factors that make innovation happen, grow and succeed. Our experts have backgrounds that range from financing to company structures to IP issues. Points of view include large company IP protection, VC Investment Banking, a Leading IP Lawyer, and a Technology Executive and Director of Emerging Company Venture Capital.

3:00 Vision-Driven, Real-World Innovation and Implementation at PARC: 
Scott Elrod, Markus Fromherz, Teresa Lunt, and Damon Matteo.  Panel led by Simon Taylor

Panel Description:  As the cost and breadth of research needed to succeed in technology markets increases, the integration of multiple disciplines by teams using multi-faceted, creative and pragmatic approaches becomes critical.  One of the keys to creativity and innovation in such a changing and challenging environment is the ability to adapt and find solutions from an accrued base of knowledge and skill.  In this context, the model of outsourced innovation makes more economic sense than ever before.  The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), one of the country’s premier inter-disciplinary research centers, is at the vanguard of this movement.

Since PARC was established as a research outpost in information and physical sciences by Xerox Corporation in 1970, PARC has stood as one of the quintessential examples of a dedicated research and development center, in this case focused on vision-driven, real-world opportunities and tasks.  PARC is well-known for laying the groundwork for many transformational innovations with technologies such as the graphical user interface, the Ethernet, laser printing and concepts of ubiquitous computing. While PARC has been instrumental in research vital to Xerox, its incorporation as a separate company in 2002 marked a new era in the Center’s history.  The transition from corporate lab to research business involves broadening internal perspectives on where research can have impact and engaging companies with the vision to make use of innovation outside their corporate boundaries.

Building on a record of accomplishing breakthroughs in pure and applied research carried out with Xerox and others, PARC continues to conduct pioneering inter-disciplinary research in physical, computational, biological and social sciences.  Members of PARC’s senior team will discuss current opportunities that are being advanced at PARC in areas as diverse as energy, biomedical, modularity, intelligent control, ubiquitous computing and user-centered design.  The science and management team will address key aspects of PARC’s approach, including inspiration in real-world problems, extending its bases of expertise into new areas, inter-disciplinary problem-solving, forging successful partnerships and value-creation with its technologies and partners.

3:45 The Biodesign Innovation Process - Creating the Future of Medicine and Surgery: Josh Makower, M.D.

Biodesign is a broad collaboration between faculty and students at Stanford who share a vision for technology innovation in biomedical engineering through

  • Invention & Discovery
  • Education
  • Ethics & Policy
  • Technology Transfer

Our mission is to promote the invention and implementation of new health technologies through interdisciplinary research and education at the emerging frontiers of engineering and the biomedical sciences.

4:30 The Ten Faces of Innovation, Jonathan Littman

This presentation will explore the team-centered strategies that IDEO, the world-famous design firm, uses to foster innovative thinking.

Devil's Advocates are bad for business. They invite idea-wreckers to assume the most negative possible perspective. Over the years, IDEO has developed ten flexible approaches that organizations can use to foster innovation and new ideas that effectively counter naysayers. Mr. Littman will discuss how companies, teams and individuals can embrace positive roles that lead to lasting innovation. He'll introduce the audience to the Anthropologist - the person who goes into the field to see how customers use and respond to products, to come up with new innovations; the Cross-pollinator who mixes and matches ideas, people and technology to create new ideas that can drive growth; and the Hurdler, who constantly works to overcome obstacles. Learn how companies like Procter and Gamble, Samsung, Pixar, Kraft and the Mayo Clinic have incorporated IDEO's thinking to transform the customer experience and their own operations. The Ten Faces of Innovation is an extraordinary guide to nurturing and sustaining a culture of continuous innovation and renewal.

5:30 Reception and Networking

 
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