8 Apr 2019
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Innovation Realized: Agenda

By EY Global

Ernst & Young Global Ltd.

8 Apr 2019

The two-day program is designed to convene peer-to-peer conversations, create connections, spark new ideas and develop collaborative answers and meaningful actions.

Innovation Realized Summit is a dynamic and interactive environment for exploring burning issues around transforming your business to operate, compete and grow in a digital world.

Explore the agenda from the 2019 summit, 8-9 April, below or go back to Innovation Realized.

Sunday, 07 April

Monday, 08 April

  • 08:00 - Registration and breakfast

    Registration and breakfast

  • 09:00 - Welcome and opening keynote

    Welcome by Jay Nibbe, EY Global Vice Chair – Markets and Mark Weinberger, EY Global Chairman and CEO.

  • 10:15 - NextWave and master class

    In this segment, you will participate in a selected NextWave session to experience the future scenarios of industries or master class.

    NextWave scenarios with industry leaders:

    • NextWave: Health Sciences and Wellness
      With advancements in technology, power is shifting between established players and in some areas, towards new entrants to the industry. How future value will be realized by unlocking the power within data to fuel innovation.
    • FutureConsumer.Now
      Explore the radically different ways consumers might live in the future, and what the implications are for companies today. We will challenge your assumptions so you can identify actions to remain relevant and shape the future you want.
    • NextWave: Adaptive Digital Enterprise
      Discover how companies can become more adaptive to the unforeseen as they challenge assumptions around how strategy, planning, and growth are intertwined. 
    • NextWave: Mobility
      Examine how a new mobility ecosystem is emerging, attracting new players and driving innovation. Various stakeholders – automakers, media, tech, cities and start-ups – will inspire a lively discussion on how companies can succeed in the coming world of connected mobility. 
    • NextWave: Future Cities
      The session focus is on increasing urbanization, changing demographics, and the rising citizen needs and expectations that are putting cities worldwide under tremendous strain. 
    • NextWave: Financial Well-being
      The need for collaboration and co-opetition between established players and new entrants; unlocking the power of data and new consumer segments; the integration of holistic planning across all elements of well-being; and the opportunities and challenges they create.
    • NextWave: Energy
      With the move towards decarbonisation and innovative technologies disrupting traditional ways of producing, transporting and storing electricity, the way in which we generate power, use it and sell it is changing.

    Master class:

    • Storytelling in the age of agency
      We are heading toward a world where customers increasingly expect to step in as “agents” and help narrate the story of your brand. But, what does it mean to cocreate with your customers? 

    Explore the best practices for engaging your customers in the age of agency.

    Master class leader: Charles Melcher, Founder and Director of Future of StoryTelling (FoST) and Melcher Media, Inc.

  • 12:15 - Networking lunch and private meetings

    Private meetings bring opportunities to share with other game changers in planned, one-on-one peer-learning sessions.

  • 13:35 - Plenary conversations

    • Beyond transformation
      Fireside chat between James C. Collins Jr., Chief Operating Officer, Agriculture Division, DowDuPont and Chief Executive Officer-Elect, Corteva Agriscience, and Mark Weinberger, EY Global Chairman and CEO.
       
    • Technology: The China perspective
      Fireside chat between Wayne Shiong, Partner, China Growth Capital and Kaiser Kuo.
  • 14:35 - Workshops and master class

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

    Workshop:

    • Accelerating and scaling transformation through a digital factory approach 
      Grow beyond innovation labs with the digital factory setup, where a network of labs, incubators, delivery centers and CoEs accelerate digital transformation across the enterprise.
    • Technology and ethics - the trust factor
      Trust can easily be lost and it is very difficult to earn back. Businesses need to ensure that their innovations, initiatives and actions are consistent with the values of the company as well as the community. Learn more about how companies can anticipate unexpected implications of the tools they build and work with.
    • 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.
    • Now, Next and Beyond: Leveraging lean start-up for continuous radical growth
      Join a team of innovators and start-ups to imagine how minimum viable products (MVPs) and lean start-up methods drive breakthrough growth. 
    • The intersection of human and digital – key considerations in designing your customer journey strategy 
      At the face of the intersection between the digital and the human, especially intersection of emerging technologies such as AI and VR, what are the critical questions you should consider?
    • Young China and Its Millennials: Consumer Behavior Frameworks in the New Middle Kingdom
      How is “Old China” different than “Young China”? And how do generational divides impact decision-making and culture within a business?   
    • Driving a successful business transformation:  leadership skills you need to have!
      Tomorrow’s transformation leaders need to inspire, be highly confident and socially mindful. Learn why, and most importantly how. Why should I care? What difference does it make? How can it propel my confidence as a leader?   
    • Overcoming legacy by leveraging AI to advance the diversity and inclusiveness agenda
      To recap the many potential rewards of AI we need to remove bias across the entire lifecycle and make AI systems trustworthy. How can AI be used to identify existing legacy biases in the company and how can AI itself be made neutral?  

    Master class:

    • Future Thinking: Why change is hard and what to do about it 
      Explore the critical role of emotion in influence, the weakness of data and the power of curiosity through this thrilling session which combines the latest research in neuroscience, behavioral economics and psychology.

    Master class leader: Tali Sharot, Director of the Affective Brain Lab

  • 16:15 - Plenary conversation: What technology do we fear most and which do we think brings most upside potential? — Part I

    Speakers: Andrew Hessel, CEO, Humane Genomics Inc. and Prineha Narang, Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science, Harvard University

  • 17:00 - Summary of the day

    Summary of the day

  • 17:45 - Reception

    Reception

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Tuesday, 09 April

  • 08:00 - Breakfast and private meetings

    Private meetings bring opportunities to share with other game changers in planned, one-on-one peer-learning sessions.

  • 09:15 - Plenary conversation: What technology do we fear most and which do we think brings most upside potential? — Part II

    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?

  • 10:10 - Workshops, master class and corporate challenges

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

    Workshop:

    • Accelerating and scaling transformation through a digital factory approach 
      Grow beyond innovation labs with the digital factory setup, where a network of labs, incubators, delivery centers and CoEs accelerate digital transformation across the enterprise.
    • 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:

    • The future (of) business 
      Get ahead of the technological wave and turn your company into an exponential organization by applying three radical news ways of doing business.

    Master class leader: Pascal Finette, Cofounder at radical ventures, and Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation at Singularity University.

  • 11:15 - Workshops, master class and corporate challenges

    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

  • 12:50 - Networking lunch and private meetings

    Private meetings bring opportunities to share with other game changers in planned, one-on-one peer-learning sessions.

  • 14:00 - Spark sessions or master class

    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

  • 15:10 - Closing keynote

    New frontiers: Space

  • ​16:30 - Adjourns

    Adjourns

Summary

The Innovation Realized Summit offers the environment and energy to dive into the beyond.

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By EY Global

Ernst & Young Global Ltd.