Innovation Realized: Agenda

Conversation leader: Lloyd Adams, Managing Director, East Region,  SAP North America; Speakers: Rana El Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO, Affectiva and Jaron Lanier, Scientist, Musician, Visual Artist and Author of Who Owns the Future?

In this segment, you will participate in a selected workshop, master class or corporate challenge:

Workshop:

• Realizing global scale with innovation
  Innovation requires new operating models, mindsets, organization designs, funding sources and leadership to achieve global scale and full market impact.
• Innovation at speed — do you buy or build?
  In the era of digital disruption, where growth strategies get outdated by the minute, should your strategy focus on build or buy?
• Workforce transformation — the agile speed of talent
  When faced with scarcity of talent and shorter shelf life of skills, how will you address the changing landscape of your workforce?
• The superfluid enterprise — from fixed to variable organizational fluidity
  Meeting the needs of superfluid markets require dynamic models for finance, talent and organization, as well as open architectures for collaboration. Is your organization fluid enough?
• From compliance to growth — trust as a competitive differentiator in a complex and evolving risk landscape 
  If the risk management of tomorrow enables confident decision-making and enhanced customer experiences, in what ways will you create business value and competitive advantage?

Master class: 

• Capital structures for transformation — reimagining corporate venture and innovation funding
  This working session will identify the right way to plan, manage and enable a more aggressive growth model for building and acquiring new capabilities. What is the governance challenge around transformative change? How do you defend and protect today's business, and grow tomorrow?​

Master class leader: Richard Suhr, EY Global Digital Advisory Leader

In this segment, you will participate in a spark session or master class:

Spark sessions:

• Provide the opportunity to build on learnings throughout the summit
• Facilitate design for participants to work together, creating practical and actionable steps to generate value

Master class:

• Confronting deep uncertainty
  Leaders often make common errors as they make strategic decisions about the future: they either under-predict or over-predict change. But, why do they do it? Most of us find uncertainty uncomfortable, so we are reluctant to confront it. We can’t solve for a future uncertainty, but we can prepare ourselves to think critically about signals and decisions – to understand all the dependencies that might impact the future. In this master class, learn how to deal with complexity and confront deep uncertainty to make better strategic decisions. Then hear from some young entrepreneurs from the Forbes Under 30 community on how they deal with uncertainty in their ventures. 

Master class leader: Amy Webb, Founder Future Today Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business