‘ Conferences ’ Category

Design (thinking) & Innovation

Fast Track was invited to the World Innovation Forum 2011 (June 7&8, New York City). This annual conference on innovation covers bestselling authors and authoritative speakers. Design seemed to be the pervasive topic throughout the event this year, touched on by many, including Roger Martin (business), Paola Antonelli (art & technology), but also Tony Hsie [...]

The Future of Innovation? – Tel Aviv, December 16, 2010

A presentation on the Future of Innovation, with a focus on its organizational, methodological, and social aspects.

Is there a secret sauce of Innovation?

I was lucky enough to be invited to the World Business Forum 2010, this week Tuesday & Wednesday in New York. On the 2nd day, there were three talks which touched on innovation, and where I believe that interesting associations can be identified. The question we’re pursuing is: Is there a secret sauce of Innovation?

Innovation Unconference – New York, Ocober 3 & 4, 2010

Fast Track facilitates an innovation unconference in New York, October 3 & 4. The Friday event is being hosted by Kalow & Springut, LLC. The event starts with Sunday dinner, which is open to everyone at Beacon, 25 W. 56th Street.

The collaborative enterprise – June 24, 2010

On June 24, Fast Track participated in a local event organized by the Digital Innovators Tour, labeled “The collaborative enterprise and its new social interactions”. Christian DE NEEF was invited to present the introductory keynote on Enterprise 2.0 and to facilitate a discussion on “The New Enterprise Frontiers”

Innovation Unconference – New York, June 10 & 11, 2010

Fast Track supports an innovation unconference in New York, June 10 & 11. The Friday event is being hosted by Kalow & Springut, LLC. The event starts with Thursday dinner, which is open to everyone at Pasta Lovers, 142 W. 49th Street, New York.

Open Infrastructure discussion on #Innochat – June 3, 2010

Christian DE NEEF will facilitate an Open Infrastructure discussion on #Innochat (Twitter) on June 3, 2010, starting at 6PM (EST).

Innovation Unconference – Brussels, May 21, 2010

Fast Track, in collaboration with the WENOVSKI design thinkers network and the Ad!dict Lab, organizes an innovation unconference in Brussels, May 21.

Crowdsourcing Engineering Designs? – Phoenix, April 15-17, 2010

Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving approach, whereby “Seekers” broadcast challenges to “Solvers” (the crowd). In the end, “Seekers” select and reward the best solution(s). Crowdsourcing is coming to the engineering community. Challenges include technology, process, legal, competency, organizational, and financial. Will it fly? What are the implications for software vendors?

Best Practices Aren’t Good Enough! – Phoenix, April 15-17, 2010

On Saturday, April 17, Christian DE NEEF will participate with Martin Fischer & Richard McFall in a roundtable discussion: Best Practices Aren’t Good Enough!