AGENDA / BOOKING: http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/page.aspx?pid=716

Objectives:
~ involve companies, investors & advisors interested in business and technology innovation.
~ connect large & small companies that can help each other's businesses.
~ profile innovative SMEs (online Innovation Directory).


SPEAKERS
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Please see speaker biographies below.

~ Dr Tidu Maini, Pro Rector, Imperial College London

~ Dr. Mike Addison, Section Head, Corporate R&D, Procter & Gamble. "How a multinational can help you get to market"

~ Chris Eldridge-Hinmers, Business Development Director, Oracle "Corporate Partnering? Prey or predator? JGD Analysis and Oracle as a case study."

~ Dr. Roland Harwood, Project Leader NESTA Connect. "Connect and Collaborate – new experiments in Open Innovation across disciplines, organisations and places."


CORPORATE VENTURING
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"...is the process of two companies entering into a mutually beneficial partnership. Usually in this form of relationship the larger of the two companies will invest either money or goods and services into the smaller company in return for access to technology or skills held by the smaller.” http://www.venture-capital.adopto-finance.com/glossary.html


OPEN INNOVATION
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"NESTA is about maximising the UK's capacity for Innovation. We know from our research and experience of investing in early stage companies, that open networks can increase a company's innovation potential. What excites us about Open Innovation is that innovation happens through collaboration, rather than in isolation." Roland Harwood, Project Leader NESTA Connect.

Reference books/authors:

"Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm" by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West. Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. http://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Researching-New-Paradigm/dp/0199290725

"Democratizing Innovation" by Eric von Hippel. Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging user-centred innovation system. The trend toward democratised innovation can be seen in software and information products - most notably in the free and open-source software movement - but also in physical products. http://www.amazon.com/Democratizing-Innovation-Eric-von-Hippel/dp/0262002744


NESTA CONNECT
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NESTA (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts): http://www.nesta.org.uk.

Open and collaborative approaches to innovation are on the rise. Books, articles and conferences are being developed around helping us all find new ideas and partners for collaborative innovation. We aim to generate new insights into innovation. We'll do this by testing and supporting unique or unexpected collaborations between different disciplines, organisations and places.

Key strands of our work will focus on the principles of open innovation, user-led innovation, open source innovation, and collective intelligence. We're developing a series of practical projects that explore how innovation can be stimulated by collaboration between individuals, businesses and organisations. This will generate insight and learning in three key areas:

ORGANISATION - value or supply chain innovation between different types of organisation. For example, linking corporates, suppliers, universities and consumers.

DISCIPLINE - bringing together researchers from different disciplines to review and solve specific problems. For example, we may do this through our Crucible programme for post-doctoral researchers.

PLACE - we want to find out if collaboration (on and offline) is influenced by where people live. In particular, we're keen to explore the impact of the emerging social networking culture enabled by the web on the future of work, education, arts, media and entrepreneurship.

We plan to launch NESTA Connect in May 2007. In the meantime, we are very keen to talk to any potential partners about our plans and opportunities for collaboration. Please contact us as at connect@nesta.org.uk. NESTA Connect: http://www.nesta.org.uk/programmes/connect.aspx.


DR TIDU MAINI, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
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Dr Maini, Pro Rector of Imperial College London, is responsible for Technology Transfer, Consulting Services, Strategic Business Alliances, Development and Alumni affairs. He is a member of the College's Management Board and sits on a number of other College academic and business committees.

Tidu Maini has 30 years of experience in the Management of technology companies in the Defence, Electronics, Energy and ICT sectors. His extensive experience includes management of business in Europe, US, Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Imperial College Dr Maini was Senior Vice President of Schlumberger Inc, Main Board Member of Sema Group plc, Deputy Chairman GEC Marconi, Managing Director GEC Software Systems.

Dr Maini is a Trustee of the Emirates Foundation, United Arab Emirates and the Goodenough College, London. Dr Maini's current positions include non Executive Board positions of Ranbaxy Fortis Healthcare Ltd India, Imperial College Abu Dhabi Diabetes Clinic, United Arab Emirates, Imperial Innovations Ltd and Inforsense Ltd. Dr Maini is a member of the Joint Advisory Board of Texas A & M Qatar University, The India-UK Roundtable, Advisory Board of CSC Europe and Chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Technology Board. He is also a member of the Microsoft European Round Table.

Dr Maini has a PhD and BSc in Engineering from Imperial College and was a Post Doctoral Fellow of the University of California Berkeley.


DR. MIKE ADDISON, PROCTER & GAMBLE
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Mike Addison is a Section Head within Corporate R&D for Procter & Gamble. He is responsible for the identification and early evaluation of external business opportunities and transitioning the most promising to the appropriate business units within P&G. Mike has pioneered this work in Europe from mid 2002. Prior to this Mike was involved with all aspects of developing new products primarily for the fabric detergent and dishwashing markets, successfully managing a number of major initiatives from initial concept to market introduction. From ’98 to ’01 he managed an $1 million internal innovation seed fund. Mike has a BSc and Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and completed one year of post doctoral study at the University of Southern California before joining Procter & Gamble in 1981.


CHRIS ELDRIDGE-HINMERS, ORACLE
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Chris Eldridge-Hinmers offers over twenty years commercial expertise from around the world. He has significant bluechip management experience having worked with household marques including Guinness, Jaguar, Mercury Communications, Orange, BT and Cable & Wireless. All roles have been involved in adopting technology and significant change management programmes such as business turnarounds through to introducing high growth business strategies.

He has spent the last 8 years within the Small and Medium business environment applying the same principles, where he has helped numerous high growth companies raising in excess of $1bn funding, developing effective management and accelerating profitable growth. Over the last few years he operated as Business Transformation Director at Business Link where he helped develop and deliver business support services and programmes for small and medium businesses in London, which is now helping over 100,000 businesses a year. He has subsequently helped other organisations in related organisations adopt similar approaches exploiting the technology available to undertake major sustainable step jumps in performance.

Chris is now working with Oracle, helping to build their SME divison. A core component of this role is the development of the companies’ innovation strategy - designed to engage and support fast growth companies.


DR. ROLAND HARWOOD, NESTA CONNECT
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Roland Harwood, Project Leader NESTA Connect, Cityzone profile: http://www.city-zone.com/modules_cityzone/membership/memberdetails.aspx?uid=1353.

Roland has recently joined NESTA to head up a new programme called NESTA Connect which explores and showcases successful collaborative innovation that disrupts organisational, sector or geographic boundaries. He is passionate about connecting people and ideas into new business opportunities, and has experience across both the technology and creative industries and in both the private and public sectors.

Graduating with a PhD in Physics from UMIST, he started his career as an industrial research scientist for EA Technology focusing upon product development services for range of Global Utility companies including EDF Energy and United Utilities. Then, at IET he was responsible for developing new technology media publishing services including joint ventures with BT & IBM. Most recently, at LDA, he has worked with 100s of early stage technology companies through developing and launching a series of 3 business incubators and a Proof of Concept Seed Fund with 24 Universities.

Also, for the past 10 years he has worked freelance as a music producer for SonyBMG, writing numerous soundtracks for TV and film, including for the film American Psycho and the Cosby Show.


EVENT MODEL
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The event used the classic Cityzone Enterprise Network format which includes:

:: a Business Clinic with short (5 minute) presentations and Q&A;

:: Elevator Pitches from growth companies to a panel of specialists;

:: the “Time Lord” role for keeping the agenda on track;

:: Advice Zone areas for specialist advice;

:: the Dance Card mechanism for helping attendees to meet others.

We will be promoting an online Innovation Directory (also printed in the event agenda booklet) where attendees can send text that profiles their company's innovation.

AGENDA
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Details to follow. Please contact Cityzone if you are interested in any of the following roles:

SPONSORSHIP: Business Clinic speaker, elevator pitch panelist, Advice Zone stand + promotion

ELEVATOR PITCH: http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/Page.aspx?pid=500

INNOVATION ZONE: http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/Page.aspx?pid=544

Past Cityzone event agendas + attendee lists: http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/Page.aspx?pid=497

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