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