2nd National Innovation Forum

Making Innovation Deliver Results

11 September 2008 – Croke Park, Dublin

Success in business has become increasingly dependent on the ability to deliver greater customer value through innovation.  To be successful, innovation must deliver tangible outcomes.  This year’s National Innovation Forum Making Innovation Deliver Results will show how you can use the latest innovation strategies to improve your level of innovation and drive growth and competitiveness in your organisation.

Innovation involves doing new things or old things in a new way. How do we develop new thinking ourselves?  How do we influence our colleagues to think and act in new ways?  The Forum will enable you to hear at first hand from some of the world’s pre-eminent innovation practitioners and thought leaders such as Robert Shelton, former senior executive at Arthur D. Little and the Stanford Research Institute, author of Making Innovation Work and Leader of PRTM’s Innovation Practice in the USA, and Dr Elena Lurie-Luke, Director of BioScience Business Development, Middle East and Central & East Asia for Procter & Gamble and member of P & G's Connect & Develop team.

A unique aspect of this year’s Forum will be the ability for participants to network with the expert speakers during the break intervals.

Who should attend?

• CEOs, senior managers, and executives responsible for driving and delivering innovation.
• Start up firms and entrepreneurs looking to develop new businesses.
• Established firms seeking new ways to innovate in order to access new customers and markets, and deliver increased value to existing customers.
• Senior staff from Third Level Institutions committed to supporting excellence in innovation in Ireland.
• Consultants engaged in delivering innovation strategies for their clients.

Why should you attend?

• Learn the latest techniques and thinking that will enable you to deliver winning innovation strategies for your organisation.
• Hear from international experts to discover how you can lead the innovation strategy and develop an innovation culture in your company.
• Network with the Forum’s international panel of expert speakers.

The forum will be chaired by Miriam O’Callaghan of RTE.  It will include both plenary sessions and parallel breakout sessions that focus on innovation as it is practised in services, new product development and advanced manufacturing technologies.

Speaker Networking

During lunch and the two coffee breaks, there will be an opportunity for participants to network with the individual speakers in small groups at prearranged table sittings.  Participants will be requested to indicate their preferences upon registration.  In this way, there will be an opportunity to engage with up to three of the Forum speakers.