7.45-8.00 Registration & Networking

Vision for Australian innovation – Return on Imagination

8.00-8.20 Welcome to InnoFuture 2008
Margaret Manson , Founder, InnoFuture and Michael Ossipoff, Director of Capability and Innovation, Telstra (Chair, Day1)

8.30-8.50 Vision for Australian Innovation - Gavin Jennings MLC, Victorian Minister for Innovation

Victorian State Government has lead innovation ahead of other states for the past two decades. We have a unique mix of industries here to create a sustainable economic model lead by innovation. What’s holding us back?

8.50-9.50 Return on Imagination - Tom Wujec Autodesk ( Canada)

Why, what and how of innovation. Problem seen is half the solution. How to identify the right business problems; practical approaches that encourage exploration, clarification, customer engagement, prototyping and testing; how to measure return on innovation success; take away five universal principles to apply to your business.

9.50 – 10.30 Break: InnoFuture Interactive – World Café: InnoPod topic discussions

Strategic innovation

10.30-11.15 Granularity of Growth, the secret of Strategic Innovation – Mehrdad Baghai, Alchemy Partners

How to uncover white spaces for growth. Executives looking for meaningful growth opportunities must adopt a more granular perspective on market segments, theri needs and the capabilities required to satisfy them. Find out how.

11.15-12.00 Collaboration 21 st century style - the thrill of Speed - Peter Williams, Deloitte Digital & Hfeez Bana, JMango

No one can do it alone. Collaboration is the fastest and safest way to market. What are the best ways to align for success and how to find the right partnerships that result in breakthrough opportunities

12.00-1.30 Lunch Break Break: InnoFuture Interactive – World Café: InnoPod topic discussions

Innovating for global market opportunities – the Future is here

1.30-2.20 Future horizons: Drivers of Change - Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism ( USA)

Using Natural Capitalism to Deliver Competitive Advantage. Leaders in environmental protection, social policies and good governance apply Natural Capitalism principles that make them more profitable. Find out how you achieve dramatic improvements in resource use efficiency, product design based on approaches like biomimicry and cradle to cradle and managing institutions to restore both human and natural capital, and create durable competitive advantage.

2.20-3.05 The Case for Open Innovation - Richard Jefferson, Founder, Biological Open Source (BiOS), CEO, CAMBIA and Patent Lens, open access platform for patent transparency

What is the imperative of open innovation in the connected Knowledge-based world? Why does it thrive in the age of ubiquitous computing and internet? What are the benefits for business? The IP paranoia: can the old tower be defended or has the war moved onto the even field?

3.05-3.30 IP-Open Business Model: Breaking down the Walls – Steve Telburn , Secret Sauce

Exploiting the potential of IP in the accelerating, Open Knowledge Economy. How to innovate to turn your cost centres into profit.

3.30-4.00 Break: InnoFuture Interactive – World Café: InnoPod topic discussions

Imagination and Creativity – the essence of Innovation

4.00-4.45 The Alternative Futures Of Innovation - Prof Sohail Inayatullah , Tamkang University, Taiwan and University of the Sunshine Coast, Political Scientist and Futurist, metafuture.org

Discover the emerging issues likely to impact on how we think and innovate. Learn about radical concepts that drive innovation at the cutting edge: meditation; mindful leadership; new economic indicators such as the gross national cool; scientific developments via the transparent brain/mind/spirit and, lessons from macro-historians, those who seek to understand the future through grand patterns of change. Explore a depth approach to innovation, where data, system, worldview and inner story all need to transform if we wish to create a culture of innovation. Case studies from city, national and organizational projects.

4.45-5.15 Turbo-charging Business Creativity - Dr Amantha Imber, Inventium

Psychological side of engaging ‘creativity’ in every aspect of business – mind games to give results and develop new creative habits across the entire enterprise.

5.15-5.30 Summary: Tom Wujec / MC

5.30-7.30 SPECIAL SEGMENT: 'JAM' Session with Cocktail & Networking Function

All that Jazz… The Art Of Business
‘Jam Session’ designed to break thinking boundaries through diversity. ‘Jammers’ from diverse businesses will share their inner thought processes that lead to creativity and innovation in: performing arts, music, business and science. Revisit your own source of passion and inspiration.

‘Jammers’ : Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Tristram Carfrae (Arup), Peter Bain-Hogg (Renegade Films), Nick Batzias (Madman Entertainment), Richard Jefferson (Patent Lens), Peter Williams (Deloitte Digital), Jason Gann (Comedian, Producer, Actor)

Special appearance and introductions of the Panel by WILFRED, the infamous SBS dog.

Segment proudly sponsored by: Suncorp and 2 nd Road

8.00-8.15 Welcome from the Chair: Gerhard Vorster , Deloitte

8.15-8.55 Australian Innovation Review – Dr Terry Cutler – Chair, National Innovation Review

Close look at the innovation context for Australia as a country engaged in the innovation race: where are we now and where to from here? Findings of the National Innovation Review: the ‘Green paper’

9.00-9.45 The Bilingual Innovators – Richard Paynting - former Director NPD Bose, CTO Klipsch

Real Innovation or genius occurs, when your design staff possesses both intimate insight into what the customer really cares about from personal contextual customer engagement, and the technical or process skills needed to meet those needs. Being Bilingual in both the requirements and solution spaces provides a very high level of Objective Clarity: here is where we are, here is where we are going and here is how we are going to get there.A team’s level of Objective Clarity is a good leading indicator for program profitability. Armed with Objective Clarity design teams intrinsically make the right choices at the 1000s of decision points that are part of every design cycle. In his presentation Richard will outline the process for developing and sustaining a bilingual culture.

9.45-10.30 Break: InnoFuture Interactive – World Café: interest group InnoPod discussions continue

New Approach to Innovation

10.30-11.05 The Gigabyte Future: Technology and the Innovation Helix - Michael Ossipoff, Director of Capability and Innovation, Telstra

Facing the future: technology is an intrinsic part of innovatin today, learn about the trends that will shape the future of business, work, life and economies – and how to harness them through technology.

11.10-12.00 Design Thinking – in search of Competitive Advantage: a Meaningful Experience - Nathan Shedroff California College of the Arts ( USA)

It's no longer enough for organizations to rely on traditional triggers of growth. ‘Meaning’ emerges as the most important strategy for satisfying customer experiences, and deep customer relationships. Find out how to engage meaning, values, and emotion as part of the innovation process. Discover six dimensions of experience design and how design-led innovation increases success in creating meaningful offerings in the future.

12.00-1.30 Lunch Break - InnoFuture Interactive – World Café: InnoPod topic discussions

Culture Transformation for building Innovation Capacity

1.30-2.15 Energising Corporate Culture for innovation – Fitness Program or Plastic Surgery? - Gian Taralli , Johnson & Johnson ( Brazil)

How to weave innovation into the fabric of the organisation? Why is an innovation culture the key enabler for a company's growth? With no single recipe for innovation, what approach J&J has towards innovation; what tools and techniques, and, mostly, what behaviours must be fostered to build and sustain innovation on a daily basis.

2.15-3.15 Innovation Leadership – Imbedding Innovation for success - Panel: Michael Ossipoff (Telstra), David Varcoe (Bluescope), Gian Taralli (Johnson & Johnson), Chris Bartlett (Spectrum Wired), Richard Paynting | Moderator: Gerhard Vorster (Deloitte)

Innovation leaders from some of Australia’s most innovative companies and International Experts reveal what drives innovation success in their organisations and how to get most out of innovation systems and culture to drive opportunities for breakthrough outcomes.

3.15-3.30 Break Wake-up stretch, coffee and chocolate shot!

Takeaway Menu – Getting ready to act

3.30-4.15 Quantum Innovation – the Rise and Rise of an Innovative Organisation - Dr Ian Maxwell R&D Tools (NZ)

How can an organisation adopt the right innovation management model using cycles of disruptive and incremental innovation to ensure growth that defies economic downturns. Learn about low cost disruptive innovation models, secrets of small countries and successful organisations that have built a strong innovative infrastructure and how to allocate resources to different models that work.

4.15-4.40 InnoFuture Interactive:Putting it together - World Café InnoPod Topic leaders with input from Experts on hand

Group exercise: preparing a 3-course Take-away menu for instant execution; Innovation DNA 2.0 – critical elements of successful innovation

4.40-5.00 The Complete Picture - Tom Wujec, Autodesk ( Canada)

Final Visualisation of What’s important to implement innovation in your organisation

5.00-5.15 Summary & Official Closing - Gerhard Vorster , Deloitte