-- Practical methods to create a culture of innovation through
collaboration
-- Concrete ways to leverage limited resources to innovate through
incentivized competition
-- Proven applications that will help drive innovation and improve bottom-
line performance
Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to engage with Thomas
Kalil, deputy director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Obama
Administration; Reid Hoffman, chairman and CEO, LinkedIn; Dean Kamen,
founder, FIRST, and president, DEKA Research and Development Corporation;
Dwayne Spradlin, president and CEO, Innocentive; Matthew Bishop, chief
business writer/US business editor, The Economist; Paul Jansen, partner at
McKinsey and Company; J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., founder and president of J.
Craig Venture Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation; and Charles
L. Harper, Jr. D.Phil, senior vice president and chief strategist of John
Templeton Foundation, among
many others.
i2i will feature working sessions and keynote addresses focused on the
following topics:
-- Open Collaboration: Leverage investments by recruiting the world's
best talent to solve challenges
-- Incentivized Competition: Design incentive prizes and only pay for the
results you need
-- Health Care: Use open collaboration and incentivized competition to
drive healthcare innovations for individual companies and the industry
overall
-- Energy and Environment: Learn from the leaders who are using open-
source innovation and competition to lead the green revolution
-- Power of Politics and Prizes: Understand the government's current and
future use of prizes as a tool to solve major problems within our
communities and across borders
-- Global Development: Collaborate on a new approach to create
sustainable economies for the developing world
-- Open Innovation Culture: Radically change corporate culture; embed
innovation in your daily operations and unlock your employees' hidden
talent
"We've assembled a dynamic group of visionaries for i2i who are enacting
change and making a positive impact on business that will drive this
economy out of the recession and into the future," said Dr. Diamandis.
"With the support of our partners, the Foundation has pioneered the concept
of innovation through incentivized competition and open collaboration.
During i2i, we will share these tools, and show their potential to create
revolutionary solutions and drive sustainable economic growth for
attendees' businesses."
To register for the conference or to view the complete i2i agenda and innovators'
bios, please visit www.incentive2innovate.com
ABOUT THE PARTNERS:
About The X PRIZE Foundation
The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose
mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In
2004, the Foundation captured the world's attention when the Burt Rutan-led
team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world's
first private spaceship to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for
suborbital spaceflight. The Foundation has since launched the $10 million
Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE and the
$10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation, with
the support of its partner, BT Global Services, is creating prizes in Space
and Ocean Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy and Environment, Education and
Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as the leading
model for fostering innovation through competition. For more information,
please visit www.xprize.org.
About BT Global Services
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and
services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the
provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and
international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home,
at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and
converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of
four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT
Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2009, BT Group's revenue was £21,390 million.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT
Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT
Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt
About The United Nations Office for Partnerships
United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) serves as a gateway for
partnership opportunities with the United Nations family. It promotes new
collaborations and alliances in furtherance of the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and provides support to new initiatives of the
Secretary-General. UNOP provides Partnership Advisory Services and Outreach
to a variety of entities, as well as managing the United Nations Fund for
International Partnerships. UNFIP serves as the interface in the
partnership between the UN system and the UN Foundation. UNOP also manages
the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), established by the
Secretary-General in July 2005, to support democratization around the
world. UNOP is headed by the Executive Director Amir Dossal. For more
information about the UN Millenium Development Goals, please visit
www.un.org/millenniumgoals
About The John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for
research on what scientists and philosophers call the Big Questions. It
supports innovative work at the world's top universities in such fields as
theoretical physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science,
and social science relating to love, forgiveness, creativity, purpose, and
the nature and origin of religious belief. The Foundation also seeks to
stimulate new thinking about wealth creation in the developing world,
character education in schools and universities, and programs for
cultivating the talents of gifted children. For more information, please
visit www.templeton.org.
Contact Information: For More Information: Natalie Mounier Kirvin Doak Communications 702-737-3100 Arron Robinson X PRIZE Foundation 310-741-4899