Innocentive Economist Conference September 2010 (21st Century DESIGN Insights)

About the event

Today, humanity is on track to advance mentally, physically and economically more than ever before. But there are still serious challenges ahead. For instance, how do we educate billions of new people in the coming decades—and manage their successful entry into the global economy—in an age of high unemployment and aging demographics? It is this kind of global challenge that can only be resolved by bringing together the smartest minds from government, academia and business—including education, human resources, healthcare, design, policy, science and technology—to debate tough issues and collaborate on practical solutions. With a new workforce that will be unlike any ever seen—a generation of young workers demanding entirely new work environments, and an aging population that requires heavy resources—the nature of work and talent development must evolve dramatically. The Ideas Economy: Human Potential event is an opportunity to understand these important issues from every perspective—and meet the leaders who can help optimise human potential, for individuals, companies, and society at large in the decades to come.

Venue

Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers
23rd Street and the Hudson River
New York, NY 10011


Programme

Download programme (pdf).

Day One — Wednesday, September 15th 2010


Act I


Top down: The rules of the game

8.00 am Registration and refreshments

9.00 am


Welcome and introduction

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist

9.30 am


Is demography destiny?

An exploration into the grand challenges of worldwide population

Richard Florida, Author, The Rise of the Creative Class

10.00 am


The new global dream

An investigation into the systems and structures needed to respond to the population explosion

Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist
Jim Clifton, Chief Executive Officer, Gallup
Joel Kotkin, Author, The Next Hundred Million

10.45 am


9 minutes with Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University

11.00 am Morning break

11.30 am


The rules of human potential

What are the rules that enable human flourishing?
The geography and politics of human potential
How can education propel positive rule-making?

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times
Paul Romer, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

12.15 pm
9 minutes with June Arunga, Founder, Open Quest Media

12.25 pm
Lunch
Interviewer: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit

2.00 pm
Intellectual diversity in an open world

How open innovation is changing the way we work
Global perspectives on managing a global workforce
The state of the talent war

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Massimo d’Amore, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Beverages Americas
Zabeen Hirji, Chief Human Resources Officer, RBC
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, 20-first

2.45 pm


9 minutes with Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

3.00 pm


The great brain race

What are the next best higher education models?
Training multidisciplinary leaders of tomorrow
The challenges and opportunities of the global campus

Introduction: Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Jordi Canals, Dean, IESE Business School
John Sexton, President, New York University
Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Jeff Lehman, Chancellor, Peking University School of Transnational Law

3.45 pm 9 minutes with Rob Carlson, Principal, Biodesic, Author, "Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life"
3.55 pm A brief musical interlude with Evelyn Troester, Columbia University

4.15 pm


Afternoon break and Human potential un-conference (breakouts)

• Redesigning corporate cultures
• Twenty-first century movements

Act II


Bottom up: Power to the people

5.30 pm


9 minutes with Paul Bloom, Psychologist, Yale University

5.45 pm

A history of violence
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
6.15 pm


Concluding remarks

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist

6.30 pm


Cocktail reception

8.00 pm


End of day one






Day Two — Thursday, September 16th 2010

8.00 am


"The Global Company of the Future" breakfast with the Economist Intelligence Unit and SHRM

9.00 am


Opening remarks

9.15 am


Building lifelong innovators - in five easy steps

Inspiring innovation at every stage of life

Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist
Sohrab Vossoughi, Founder and President, Ziba Design
Susan Peters, Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer, GE
Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley
Amy Kaslow, Senior Fellow, Council on Competitiveness


10.00 am 3 minutes with Georgia Everse, Partner, genesis

10.05 am


The twenty-first century school

Global education best practices
Free market solutions to education
The testing dilemma
Can online learning transform our schools?

Interviewer: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Joel I Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Sir Ken Robinson, Author, The Element

10.35 am


3 minutes with Alan Tripp, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, InsideTrack

10.40 am 9 minutes with William Julius Wilson, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

10.50 am The Economist-InnoCentive Challenge Interview: Designing the 21st Century Cyber School

11.20 am


Networking break

11.50 am 9 minutes with John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design
12.00 pm


Mini-debate: The nature of learning

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Eva Moskowitz, Chief Executive Officer, Success Charter Network
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University

12.15 pm


9 minutes with Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog design

Act III The way forward: Management for the twenty-first century

12.25 pm


3 minutes with John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge

12.30 pm
9 minutes with Alan Gershenfeld, Founder and President, E-Line Media

12.40 pm


Gen why: Social media and the convergence of work and life

Designing for technology natives
Is social media anti-social
Do video games make us more creative?
Moderator: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Neil Howe, President, LifeCourse Associates
Tammy Erickson, Author, “What’s Next, Gen X?”
Linda Stone, Writer and Generalist, LindaStone.net
Colleen Fahey Rush, Executive Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, MTV
Alexandra Suich, Finance Correspondent, New York, The Economist

1.25 pm


Lunch
The modern workforce
Interviewer: Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor, The Economist
Dr. Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS

3.00 pm 9 minutes with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Founding President and Chairman, Center for Work Life Policy

3.10 pm
9 minutes with Steven W. Casteel, Senior Vice President, Raphael Group

3.20 pm
Case studies: Making human-centered organisations

Should employees change for the sake of change?
The rise of the flat company
What is human-centered design?
Moderator: Michael Beer, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Doug Conant, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company CristóbalConde, President and Chief Executive Officer, SunGard

4.00 pm


Afternoon break

4.30 pm


6 minutes with Don Eckenfelder, Chief Executive Officer, Social Operating Systems Ltd and Douglas Nagan, President, Nagan Research Group

4.40 pm

9 minutes with Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager, IBM North America
4.50 pm


An Economist debate on motivation
Using traditional debate rules, a proposition is set forth and each team of
expert speakers – one proposing the motion and one against – will advance their position. A straw poll will be taken ahead of the debate and again at the end. The moderator will declare the winner live.

The proposition: Purpose is more effective a motivator for workers than profit

Moderator: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Pro: Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Pro: Clay Shirky, Author, "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age"
Con: Yaron Brook, President, The Ayn Rand Institute

5.50 pm


9 minutes with Robert Fabricant, Vice President, Creative, frog design

6.00 pm Closing remarks

6.30 pm End of event