Big data is changing the way organisations and corporations are innovating. But finding the competitive value hidden in the big data you have gathered can be a challenge. So, how exactly is big data changing the way things are done? And what are the obstacles getting in the way of harnessing its power?

The Consumer Conundrum – How Innovation can unlock Shopper-Centric Retail

Generate ideas and ways of solving problems with corporate leaders and topic experts.

A dynamic 2-hour session in small, mixed-sector groups with a maximum of 12 delegates per group. This is an opportunity for delegates to contribute to the debate, network and discuss the hottest, up-to-the minute topics of interest to those whose job it is to make innovation happen in their companies.

Sessions:

• Cyber Security innovation in Europe: Incentives and barriers
• Taking a good idea to market
• Tags, Sensors and All That Data 
• Innovation and Tough Economics. A commercial imperative or an indulgence?
• Transforming Business with Big Data
• Narrating the Future with Big Data 
• The emperor's new data 
  
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Why different innovations have different foundations, and why that simple fact is a challenge for management

The emerging technologies transforming the business of entertainment.

New technologies are emerging that facilitate collaboration and innovation on a scale and at a speed that we haven't seen before. These new technologies are changing the way business innovates, the way it is structured and the way business is being done. In this session, our speakers will identify what they consider to be the game-changing technologies, and their implications for the world of business - and beyond.

Designing the Future

Dubbed 'The Man Who Can't Stop Innovating', Dr. Moses Kizza Musaazi develops appropriate technology enabled innovations to provide solutions for the economically disadvantaged in Africa.

How Practical Action relates globally to the philosophy of Schumacher today using Technology to Challenge Poverty.

Increasingly, instead of a 'build the product, then ship it' model, new technologies and the data they produce and harness are enabling business to 'build the ship as she sails.' Many new ventures, unencumbered by old ways of working, are already innovating in this way - but they still have their challenges. And what abut the more established corporations, with more rigid organisational structures? How are both these types of company managing to rethink strategy and structure in a rapidly evolving landscape in order to realise the potential of big data and emerging technologies as significant drivers for growth?