What: The Babson Innovation 2.0 Summit—a meeting of some of the world’s brightest minds on innovation including business leaders from Intel, Partners HealthCare, and others.

When/Where:  Babson Executive Education, Wellesley, MA; March 27-28, 2008

The two-day conference will deliver the nuts and bolts of innovation, the sort of practical and hard-hitting success stories that executives need to lead innovation initiatives that will differentiate their organizations.

Some of what’s on the agenda:

·     Drucker on Innovation: The legendary Peter Drucker, presented by USA Today's Bruce Rosenstein, one of the last people to interview Peter Drucker. Bruce will share a never released video of his interview with Peter and share Drucker's wisdom on innovation and leadership.

·     Innovation Life-Cycle:  Listen to Babson Professor Jay Rao as he describes one of the most thoroughly researched models of the innovation life-cycle.  A core learning for any organization interested in achieving effective innovation. 

·     Innovation Practice: Extensive case studies on innovation in practice that have been developed to share lessons learned in a clear and articulate manner - NOT just PowerPoint presentations!

·     The Business Innovation Factory: A case study of one of the world’s leading communities of innovators collaborating to explore business model innovation through a series of experiences designed to get ideas off the white board and onto the ground quickly and cost effectively. 

·      Benchmarking Innovation:  Learn what some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations are doing to reinforce the right innovation behaviors to dramatically change business outcomes.  Presented by George Weathersby, CEO of Genesys Solutions, LLC.

·     Innovation Methods Workshop:  Join one of the world’s leading experts in the field of Innovation Discipline, Sam Kogan, CEO of Gen3 Partners, Inc. who will conduct a workshop on the next generation of innovation tools.
 

·     Interactive Sessions: Round Table discussions and forums with corporate leaders on how they have deployed leading-edge innovative initiatives. 

·     Innovation in Large-Scale Organizations:  Learn how Intel fosters and sustains a Culture of Innovation.

·     Additional sessions include Inspiring a New Generation of Inventors; Innovation Gets Personal; Awakening the Entrepreneurs Within; The Innovation Zone; MIT Invent Teams; Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Tour; and much more!

Babson’s Center for Business Innovation at Babson Executive Education is a research consortium of companies dedicated to identifying insights, best practices, and practical applications to improve innovation’s business performance.  Its Executive Director, Thomas Koulopoulos, is also the president and founder of Delphi Group, a Boston-based technology management and advisory firm.  Prior to founding Delphi Group, Tom was CEO of Conversion Technologies, one of the first companies to develop automated products to help organizations migrating from third generation programming languages to fourth generation languages. He has authored seven books most recently, How to Drive Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in the Age of Globalization.