Inspiring Themes:

The Summit consists of inspiring themes that will captivate and engage the most innovative people worldwide to strike partnerships, challenge the policies of 'business-as-usual', and celebrate the World's most remarkable achievements through a series of illuminating performances.

The agenda of the 2008 WSIE is outlined below:

April 1st , 2008
7:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m: Summit Registration & Welcome Continental Breakfast
10:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m: Official Opening Ceremony: Our Future. Inspired by Innovation
11:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m : Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of Rwanda
11:30 a.m - 11:45 a.m: Special Brand Announcement By Summit Partner Nakheel
11:45 a.m - 12:15 p.m: Innovivor: A Better Generation in the Making
The future of youth is uncertain. Uncertainty leads to debate. And so the great debates will be an engaging, inspiring look at how the future will unfold. This session sets the stage for 3-days of live coverage of the challenges, the experiences, the surprises, the brilliance, the splendor, the tears, the laughs, and the foresight of these future leaders – while they embark on their mission to bring intellect, humor and peace into the hearts of one of the most intractable conflicts on the planet.
12:30p.m - 01:15 p.m: Using New Science to Rewire the Brains of Youth: Education that Dazzles
01:15 p.m - 02:15 p.m: Networking Luncheon
02:15 p.m - 04:00 p.m: Innovation for Peace: Achieving Greatness, Transforming Societies
04:15 p.m - 05:30 p.m: Architecting Future Capitals: Practicing Diversity. Growing Communities.
05:45 p.m - 07:00 p.m: The Customer Innovation Joy: In Human-Centered Design We Trust
07:30 p.m - 10:00 p.m: Welcome Culture Night

April 2nd 2008
09:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: Blue Beginnings.
10:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m: Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of a Chief Executive
We constantly hear that the role of private sector for shaping the future of society is changing and the CEO's must change with it. The most common message is that CEOs must act like inventors and innovators, but the shift goes much deeper than that. This interview will explore what is really different about the CEO's role of tomorrow and how established or aspiring CEO’s can prepare.
11:15 a.m - 12:45 p.m: The Chief Innovators Hall of Fame: Visions for the Future of Information Technology
12:45 p.m - 01:45 p.m: Networking Lunch
02:00 p.m - 03:45 p.m: Parallel Innovation Mindspaces
Business Innovations: Decoding the Future of Connected Innovation CommunitiesTM
Corporate Blue Responsibility
Social Innovations: Moving Beyond the Star, the Cross & the Crescent (conducted in the dark)
Media Unbound: Unchain the Channels
Healthcare Innovations: Beyond Modern Medicine and a Healthy Body
04:30 p.m - 05:45 p.m: Parallel Innovation Mindspaces
Luxury & Leisure Innovations: Prepping for the Experience Economy
Technology Innovations: Enter the Age of the Connected Generation
Environmental Innovations: Healing the Earth One Individual at a Time
Financial Innovations: Competitiveness through Transparency
07:30 p.m - 10:30 p.m: Gala Dinner & Award Ceremony

April 3rd 2008
09:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: The Power of Entrepreneurs to Change the World: Living a Life of Chaos and Creativity
The US Greatest Challenge: The Rise of the Asian-Arab-European Innovation TriangleTM
10:30 a.m - 11:15 a.m: Inside the Innovators Studio: The Making of Dubai
This interview provides a first-ever inside look into the innovation foresight, courage, leadership, benevolence
and execution capacity of Dubai's Father - His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime
Minister and Vice President of the U.A.E., and Ruler of Dubai.
11:30 a.m - 12:45 p.m: The Shape of Innovations to Come: A Whole New World
Beating the Gender Odds: Creative Minds Gone Right
12:45 p.m - 01:45 p.m: Networking Lunch
02:00 p.m - 03.30 p.m: Innovation Blog: Yalla Imagine
To prepare for the future, we will ask you to envision multiple scenarios for collaborative discussion. That's what
our Innovation Blog is all about - we call it UNSESSION...
Administered By: Innovivor
03:30 p.m - 03.45 p.m: Innovation Cockpit: Visions Worth Fighting For
Wrap-up, summaries and key findings
Closing Plenary

Featured Speaker
Nick Donofrio
Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology
IBM

Featured Sponsor
NAKHEEL

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