6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

DECEMBER 12 – 13, 2019 – ROME, ITALY

HOST: LUISS UNIVERSITY

Annabelle Gawker

Chaired Professor in Digital Economy

Annabelle Gawker

Chaired Professor in Digital Economy

6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

DECEMBER 12 – 13, 2019 – ROME, ITALY

HOST: LUISS UNIVERSITY

Keynote: John T. Chambers



Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures
Former Chairman & CEO, Cisco

Learning from Experience

Keynote: Baoqiu Cui


VP of AI and Cloud Platform, Xiaomi Inc.

Fastest Internationally Growing Disruptive Business 

Conference Chair: Henry Chesbrough


Professor & Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

Father of Open Innovation 

 

Industry Chair: Solomon Darwin


Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

 

 

5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

DECEMBER 13-14, 2018 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Digital Transformation for Sustainability

Keynote: Melissa Schilling


Professor of Management & Organization, NYU Stern

Keynote: Scott Stern


Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Call for Challenges


Submit a challenge on managing open innovation in your organization. Each challenge will be evaluated based on the applicant’s ability to articulate an important open innovation challenge that other organizations are also likely to experience.

Categories Include: Organizational Culture; Business Model; IP Policy; R&D issues

Call for Papers


We specifically call for research that shows how digital solutions help address sustainability challenges in the context of open innovation as well as related work that addresses such interconnections.

Topics Include: Open Innovation Behavior & Cognition; Open Innovation Strategy and Design; Open Innovation Communities and Users; Open Innovation Ecosystems; Open Policy & Governance.

Keynote: John T. Chambers



Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures
Former Chairman & CEO, Cisco

Learning from Experience

Keynote: Baoqiu Cui


VP of AI and Cloud Platform, Xiaomi Inc.

Fastest Internationally Growing Disruptive Business 

Conference Chair: Henry Chesbrough


Professor & Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

Father of Open Innovation 

 

Industry Chair: Solomon Darwin


Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

 

 

5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

DECEMBER 13-14, 2018 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Digital Transformation for Sustainability

Keynote: Melissa Schilling


Professor of Management & Organization, NYU Stern

Keynote: Scott Stern


Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Call for Challenges


Submit a challenge on managing open innovation in your organization. Each challenge will be evaluated based on the applicant’s ability to articulate an important open innovation challenge that other organizations are also likely to experience.

Categories Include: Organizational Culture; Business Model; IP Policy; R&D issues

Call for Papers


We specifically call for research that shows how digital solutions help address sustainability challenges in the context of open innovation as well as related work that addresses such interconnections.

Topics Include: Open Innovation Behavior & Cognition; Open Innovation Strategy and Design; Open Innovation Communities and Users; Open Innovation Ecosystems; Open Policy & Governance.

Keynote: John T. Chambers



Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures
Former Chairman & CEO, Cisco

Learning from Experience

Keynote: Baoqiu Cui


VP of AI and Cloud Platform, Xiaomi Inc.

Fastest Internationally Growing Disruptive Business 

Conference Chair: Henry Chesbrough


Professor & Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

Father of Open Innovation 

 

Industry Chair: Solomon Darwin


Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

 

 

5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

DECEMBER 13-14, 2018 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Digital Transformation for Sustainability

Keynote: Melissa Schilling


Professor of Management & Organization, NYU Stern

Keynote: Scott Stern


Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Call for Challenges


Submit a challenge on managing open innovation in your organization. Each challenge will be evaluated based on the applicant’s ability to articulate an important open innovation challenge that other organizations are also likely to experience.

Categories Include: Organizational Culture; Business Model; IP Policy; R&D issues

Call for Papers


We specifically call for research that shows how digital solutions help address sustainability challenges in the context of open innovation as well as related work that addresses such interconnections.

Topics Include: Open Innovation Behavior & Cognition; Open Innovation Strategy and Design; Open Innovation Communities and Users; Open Innovation Ecosystems; Open Policy & Governance.

Conference Theme:

Opening Up for Managing Business and Societal Challenges

In a time of slow growth and rising uncertainty, businesses can find hidden growth opportunities in societal challenges to enable transformation. Societal challenges (or grand challenges) bring together resources and knowledge from different fields, technologies and disciplines, including social sciences and the humanities. These challenges expand the range of what is possible, creating new sources of growth. At WOIC 2019, Open Innovation experts combine their business experience with transformational objectives, with academic perspectives on societal challenges. This year’s conference theme: “Opening Up for Managing Business and Societal Challenges” brings together conceptual research theories and pragmatic insights that will be presented by Open Innovation thought leaders in academia and industry. Our keynote speaker will be Francesco Starace, CEO of Enel, and a visionary who has led remarkable developments in green and renewable energy.

Join us at the 6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference at Luiss University in Rome, Italy!

WOIC 2018, Corporate Challenges presented by: