DAY 1—Creating & Generating Lots of Ideas

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Registration & Check-In for Early arrivals

Monday, March 3, 2008

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome to The Medici Summit

Speaker: Sweet Joy Hachuela
CEO, The Medici Group

Step into the Intersection!

Speakers and attendees break the ice and brainstorm together in a fast-paced exercise to create an immediate explosion of ideas.

The Medici Effect: This is your moment

Speaker: Frans Johansson
Author, The Medici Effect

Frans takes the audience on a fascinating journey to the Intersection, where unexpected ideas meet and collide. See how unlikely idea combinations propel change and why diversity is the key to this groundbreaking process. Learn how global leaders are created and why there's never been a better time to seek for intersectional ideas than now.

Table Discussion: Applying the Medici Effect

Work with your tablemates on how to apply the Medici Effect in today's workplace—and see what it can mean to YOU.

Managing Passion for Innovation

Speaker: Lina Echeverria
Sr. Vice President, Research Lab, Corning

Passion is at the heart of most success stories, and it can lead to many Intersections. But how does one actually 'manage' passion? Hear from one who manages a very unruly and passionate team of innovators.

Table discussion: How can you manage passion?

Learn from your tablemates on the challenges of following your dream or managing people that want to.

Taking Chances & Making Discoveries

Speaker: Omar Hijazi
CEO, Tejari

Risk plays a major role in developing innovative ideas. Omar Hijazi will talk about how he has led the expansion of Tejari, a world class business to business marketplace, from the Middle East and beyond while taking chances and creating new opportunities.

Intersection Hunting

Lunch

NIKE: Creativity & Innovation at the Intersection

Moderator: Gina Warren
Vice President, Global Diversity and Inclusion

Gina Warren leads a discussion on executing innovative ideas with a panel of NIKE executives. Hear how this trend-setting company creates new, hip products from development, through design and marketing, in its quest to continually surprise and delight customers worldwide.

Intersection Break

Summit Conversations: Our Own Peter's Café

Peter's Café is a place in the Azores where sailors from around the world converge, and Intersections are created. Summit will have its own Peter's Café, where conversations with leaders from across the US and around the world create new ideas.

1. Diversity Drives Shareholder Value
   Frans Johansson
   Managing Director, Medici Capital Management
   
   Brooke Harrington
   Research Professor, Max Planck Institute
   
   Ted Childs
   Principal, Ted Childs LLC
2. Stories from the Intersection
   Eric Bonabeau
   Founder and Chief Scientist, ICO Systems
   
   Charita Carter
   Show Producer, Walt Disney Imagineering
   
   Ariel Phillips
   IDDS Coordinator, International Development Design Summit & Harvard University
3. Media Supernova: The Point Where Everything Meets
   Chris Yeh
   VP Enterprise Marketing, PBwiki
   
   Thomas Frostberg
   Editor-In-Chief, Rapidus News Agency
   
   Matt Mason
   Author, The Pirates Dilemma
   
   Jeffrey Thompson
   Vice President, Global Diversity, The Walt Disney Company

Intersection Break

The Pirate's Dilemma: Will you allow yourself to be gutted by a pirate…or will you actually become one?

Speaker: Matt Mason
Author, The Pirate's Dilemma

The Information Age has created a new-style pirate. Modern-day piracy is changing how we use information and conduct business, and tough questions must be answered. Do we fight pirates in the courts, or compete with them in the marketplace? Join Matt on a journey into a new world of piracy.

Day 1 Wrap-Up

Dinner and evening activities

DAY 2—Making Ideas Happen

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Breakfast

Finding Inspiration

Participants gather to generate more exciting ideas through unexpected inspiration.

Executing Intersectional Ideas

Speaker: Lim Chin Wah
CEO, Genesis Education Holding

Frans concludes a journey through the Intersection by focusing on how to execute the ideas we come up with. How do we need to think about risk, failures and those networks working and holding us back? Frans will talk to Lim Chin Wah in how he executes intersectional ideas.

Failures, mistakes and experimentation

Speaker: Jamil Mahuad
Former President, Ecuador

Experimentation comes with mistakes and failures—and these are all a part of innovation. Yet no one enjoys dealing with mistakes and facing failures! How do you embrace and manage these in your own work?

Table Discussion: How do you manage for failures and mistakes?

The Power of Intersectional Teams

Speaker: Jay Lenstrom
CEO, Radiate Group

Powerful, truly innovative marketing campaigns that use zero advertising dollars are born out of global, inter-disciplinary teams. Learn what makes them successful.

Idea Collisions

Diversity is the Key to Business Performance

Speaker: Ted Childs
Princpal, Ted Childs LLC

Are there creative and effective ways to attract diversity to your organization? And once you have that invaluable diverse team, how do you successfully leverage it? Ted Childs, the former Vice President of IBM's Global Workforce Diversity will tell you how you can make it happen.

Lunch

Global Groundbreaking Ideas

Moderator: Kevin O'Conner
Speaker/Consultant, Kevin E. O'Connor & Associates

In this unique panel, we will hear from top innovation leaders on how they ensure that innovation happens in a globalized and competitive world.

Intersection Break

Summit Conversations: Our Own Peter's Café

Today's Peter's Café conversations boast new and exciting topics:

1. Sustainability and Developing World as Idea Generators
   Catherine Laine
   Deputy Director, AIDG
   
   Markus Åhman
   Swedish Environmental Research Institute
   
   Christian Johansson
   President and CEO, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore
2. Leveraging Diversity for Innovation
   Jim Bowden
   Director Diversity and Inclusion Global Strategies, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
   
   Reginald Canal
   First Vice President, HSBC
   
   Dawn Jackson
   Manager Diversity and Inclusion Global Strategies, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
3. Successfully Learning Entrepreneurship
   Anil Rathi
   President and Founder, Idea Crossing, Innovation Challenge
   
   Enrique Garibay
   Director of Center for Innovation, Tec de Monterrey Campus Leon, Mexico

Intersection Break

Closing keynote

Speaker: Nick Donofrio
Executive Vice President of Innovation, IBM

After 40 years at IBM and a lifetime focus on innovation, Nick Donofrio has perspectives and insights that you will want to hear. Nick believes that "when it comes to innovation, there is a need to think collaboratively and in a multi-faceted manner." Hear why he says that innovation today is more focused on services, process, business models and cultural innovation, than discovering the next innovative product.

Day 2 Wrap Up & One More Chance

Speaker: Frans Johansson

Frans will close the Summit and dismiss those headed home—but for those staying another night, he'll offer a last chance to visit and interact informally with colleagues who can help you change the world.