1st Plenary Session - Innovation and Transformation

#FORMAT

The Plenary sessions represent a series of 6 inspiring presentations of 15-minutes, offered by successful entrepreneurs, top executives, experts and professionals with over 10 years of experience with impeccable professional reputation and a modern vision of trends and tendencies redesigning the economy and society. These inspirational presentations have a motivational role, they present various perspectives and focus on trends, tendencies, analyzes, presenting the opportunities and issues that the changes generated by these trends in the business environment and in society reveal.

#TOPICS

Innovation, Technology, Trends, Tendencies, Impact in Society, Impact on the Economy, Entrepreneurship, Future, Digital Environments and Their Influence on the society

#TARGET AUDIENCE

Entrepreneurs and managers from small and medium-sized companies, start-up entrepreneurs, early career professionals, young people concerned about their future.

#TOPIC and CONTEXT *

The times we are crossing are characterized by several forces that remodel and transform the reality we live in, the most dynamic of which are   innovation and technology. Never in the history of dynamic humanity with which innovations appear and are integrated into the business and society environment was not greater than this time. The rhythm in which we adopt innovations and integrate technology into our lives, into the economy and society, produces waves of change that often have unexpected effects and difficult to be predicted. They produce around us profound and rapid transformations at the level of individuals, economically, at the company level, at the government level. Many of them bring joy and happiness, ease our work and life, but many of them come with unwanted, unexpected, and difficult to control effects. We make changes in the way we think, how we live, how we relate, how we behave ... and inherently produce fundamental transformations in society and the economy ... are we prepared for them? Do we know what to expect? Do we know where humanity will evolve? Do you know what price you have to pay for this rapid process of transformation of society, far beyond the speed with which we have become accustomed to adapt to changes?

Here are the themes we are trying to discuss and present from the perspective of entrepreneurs, managers and experts with many years of experience and their own vision of how the world and the reality we are living will evolve in the future.

#QUESTIONS to which the speakers’ presentations will give answers​# RESURSE*

•                What are the main trends in the innovations that appear in the world? What are the benefits of these innovations? How will they change and affect our lives and how we work? What opportunities are hiding in these waves of change and how can we take advantage of them?
•                What are the main challenges that will arise in the context of this transformation of society and the economic environment? Are we prepared for them?
•                What threats do we expect? How will they affect us if they materialize and transform our reality? What can we do now to change this perspective into a better one?
•                What does mean the concept of open innovation and why the innovation experts believe that the future is that?

# RESOURCES *

•                https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2017/sessions/strategic-update-the-future-of-innovation/

•                http://www.businessinsider.com/citi-10-innovations-that-will-completely-change-the-future-of-the-global-economy-2016-7/#epigenetics-4

•                http://money.cnn.com/technology/future/
•                http://www.bbc.com/future/tags/innovation
•                https://www.inc.com/jacob-morgan/why-the-future-of-innovation-is-open.html

It is required for at least Business Trends access type to participate in this session, but those who have access to Business Development and Professional Development access vouchers can also participate.