4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
WOIC 2017
San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront:
1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010
The World Open Innovation Conference has been a sold-out event for three consecutive years! Innovation executives who attend benefit from:
- Finding Solutions to specific challenges.
- Latest research on innovation and business models from global experts.
- Intensive engagement with innovation peers in leading companies
This year, our conference will have some new aspects:
- We will explore Digital transformations, led by GE’s Chief Digital Officer, Bill Ruh
- We will consider organizational moonshots, led by Arati Prabhakar, former head of DARPA, and Tom Kalil, former deputy director of the US Office on Science and Technology Policy.
- Featured plenary keynote from Berkeley’s own David Teece, on Dynamic Capabilities in the Platform Economy.
- Industry workshops, based on the best challenges we received from leading companies around the world.
Registration is open, so register now to reserve your place. Don’t wait until the last minute.
WOIC 2017 Speakers
Dr. Arati Prabhakar
William Ruh
CEO,
GE Digital
Dr. David J. Teece
Director, Tusher Center for the Management of
Intellectual Capital, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Thomas Kalil
(Former) Director of Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Senior Advisor, National Economic Council
Ernesto Ciorra
Chief Innovability Officer,
Enel
Marisol Menéndez
Head of
Open Innovation,
BBVA
Rajaram Balasubramanian
Tech Mahindra
Prateek Saxena
CEO,
Hygge Energy
Max Winograd
Director
Open Innovation & Venture Investments,
Avery Dennison
Lenny Joseph
Global Vice President Smart Buildings & BMS Commercialization, Johnson Controls
Dr. ZuoZhi Zhao
CTO,
Siemens Power & Gas
Dr. Surendra Chawla
Senior Director,
Goodyear
Henry Chesbrough
Professor,
Berkeley-Haas &
ESADE
Solomon Darwin
Industry Chair,
Executive Director,
Garwood Center
Marcel Bogers
Academic Chair,
Professor,
University of Copenhagen
Ann-Kristin Zobel
Associate Program Chair,
Senior Researcher,
ETH Zurich
Jonathan Sims
Associate Program Chair,
Assistant Professor,
Babson College
Alberto Di Minin
Policy Chair, WOIC,
& Associate Professor
at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna