How Do You Innovate in Today’s Economy?: The incentive2innovate Conference 2009

The X PRIZE Foundation is hosting the incentive2innovate Conference June 8 & 9 in New York City with partner BT Global Services and presented by the John Templeton Foundation and the United Nations. The i2i conference will highlight two powerful and significantly underutilized tools: OPEN COLLABORATION and INCENTIVIZED COMPETITION.  We are bringing together some of the world's greatest innovators to share best practices on how these tools can solve the challenges facing businesses, philanthropy and government. 

We will be welcomed to the conference by Amir Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships, and Peter Diamandis, Chairman & CEO, X PRIZE Foundation.  Day One, we will explore how open collaboration and opening doors to the global talent pool helps to power innovation and productivity with a presentation by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World.  We will introduce the new McKinsey & Company report on incentive prizes “And the winner is...”: Capturing the Promise of Prizes” with McKinsey partner Paul Jansen followed by a panel discussion moderated by  Matthew Bishop, Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor, The Economist and  Co-Author of Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World.  Panel participants will include Peter Diamandis on “Making the Impossible Possible” and Dean Kamen, Founder, FIRST and President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation.  Day one will conclude with a keynote address on Open Source Media by Arianna Huffington,  Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Huffington Post.

Day two will continue the discussion with presentation tracks in healthcare, energy & the environment, global development and open innovation culture. The lunchtime keynote address will feature Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States and the day will conclude with a keynote address by Reid Hoffman, Founder, CEO and Chairman, LinkedIn.

 Registration is open to anyone but space will be limited to 350 attendees.  Sign up now for the opportunity to hear about cutting edge solutions to today’s challenges and a chance for unparalleled networking with your peers.

For more information about the incentive2innovate Conference 2009 and to register:  http://i2i.xprize.org/index.php