At a Glance

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Monday 23 March – DAY ONE
Pre-Conference Master Classes and Deep Conversation

MORNING
Master Classes – Morning Sessions (9:00am-11:30am) includes morning tea

MC1 Scott Anthony (Singapore) Solving the Transformation Equation
MC2 Yamini Naidu (Australia) Triple your influence with business storytelling
MC3 Jim Grant (Australia) In the mood for creating
MC4 Steve Lennon & Justin Jones (Australia) Business Growth: A leadership journey

Deep Conversation over Lunch (12.00pm – 2.00pm)
From Disruption to Sustainable Growth

Featuring key speakers including Dr Peter Diamandis (USA), Nolan Bushnell (USA), Dr Ernesto Sirolli (USA), Danna Hochstein Mann (Israel), Scott Anthony (Singapore), Dr Rufus Black (Australia) and the audience.
Moderator: Jon Faine, presenter of Mornings on 774 ABC Melbourne

AFTERNOON
Master Classes – Early Afternoon Sessions (2:15pm – 4:45pm) includes afternoon tea

MC5 Ernesto Sirolli (USA) Applying the Trinity of Management
MC6 Matt Barrie (Australia) Opportunity Knocks – Opportunity is everywhere
MC7 Tim Dalmau and Jill Tideman (Australia) Disruptive Innovation: How to make it happen
MC8 Stuart Taylor (Australia) Enable Creativity and Deal with Disruption by Building Resilience

Extended Master Class (4.45pm – 8.45pm) Includes supper

MC9 Dan Millman (USA), Sustainable Success and Mindfulness in Business and Life (Note: Four hour session – surcharge applies)

Master Classes – Late Afternoon Sessions (4:15pm – 6:45pm) includes afternoon tea

MC10 Craig Mounsey (Australia) Using Design Thinking + Behaviours to create customer focused culture
MC11 Gabrielle Dolan (Australia) Stories, Disruption and Sustainable Growth
MC12 Roger La Salle (Australia) Opportunity Capture – A new paradigm in business innovation

EVENING
Master Classes – Evening Sessions (7pm – 9.30pm) includes supper

MC13 Tansel Ali (Australia) Master Your Memory
MC14 Nicole Velik (Australia) Creativity is Everyone’s Business – Techniques to generate game changing ideas
MC15 Charles Kovess (Australia) Barriers to your organisation’s growth? How to smash them down!

 

Tuesday 24 March – DAY TWO

8.30am The Official Opening of Ci2015 with VIPs, speakers, performers and politicians

Following this, each session will involve keynote speakers, a scholarship winner (60 seconds) and will be followed by Q & A/debate with the audience

9.30am Plenary 1 – Disruption, Innovation and Growth

Dr Peter Diamandis (USA) Chairman and CEO, X Prize Foundation; Co-Founder Singularity University
From Linear to Exponential Growth: Using disruptive technologies to leapfrog your competitors

Joyce Phillips (Australia) CEO and Group Managing Director of ANZ Global Wealth
The economic implications of living longer

Scott Anthony (USA) Strategic transformation and disruptive innovation expert; Harvard Business Review Author; Managing Partner Innosight
Tips from the trenches of innovation

11.15am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

11.45am Plenary 2 – More Disruption, Innovation and Growth

Pip Marlow (Australia) Managing Director, Microsoft Australia
Goodbye to command and control; how to successfully manage disruption

Nolan Bushnell (USA) Founder Atari; Co-creator of GPS and touch-screen technology
Innovation, intrapreneurship and the future of technology and gaming

Provocateur: Brad Howarth, writer, speaker, facilitator and consultant

1.00pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

2.00pm HOT SPOTS

Subject matter HOT SPOTS around the Sofitel with selected speakers and provocateurs. Choose your area of interest and join a circle discussion.

2.45pm Plenary 3 – The Disruptors – Creative Destruction and Entrepreneurship

Matt Barrie (Australia) Chief Executive and Chairman at Freelancer.com
Welcome to the Future! A deep dive into technology’s transformational power

Dr Elaine Saunders (Australia) Managing Director of Blamey & Saunders
Are you listening? Disrupting the healthcare system

Dr Larry Marshall (Australia) CEO of CSIRO
Navigating the valley of death and getting from zero to IPO

Danna Hochstein Mann (Israel) General Partner, Head of Investor Relations of OurCrowd
How Crowdfunding is Changing the World of Innovation Finance

Provocateur:Doron Ben-Meir (Australia) Director of the Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme, Australian Government

3.40pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

4.10pm Plenary 3 continued – The Disruptors – Creative Destruction and Entrepreneurship

5.00pm Day One Concludes

7.00pm – 11.00pm Gala Conference Dinner

Sofitel Melbourne On Collins Ballroom, 25 Collins Street Melbourne

Grand Disruptive Debate: “How will we humans compete with machines that can compose, diagnose and savour a rose?”

Fine food, wine, a Grand Disruptive Debate featuring Dr Peter Diamandis (USA), Nolan Bushnell (USA), Scott Anthony (Singapore), Dr Larry Marshall, Joyce Phillips, Dr Alan Finkel AO and world class entertainment including beatboxing virtuoso Tom Thum, sensational songsters Pot-Pourri and the With One Voice choirs.

This dinner will support Creativity Australia’s With One Voice program.

 

Wednesday 25 March – DAY THREE

8.45am Plenary 4 – Large Institutions for a Digital Age

Professor Linda Kristjanson (Australia) Vice-Chancellor and President of Swinburne University
Innovation in Higher Education: Investing in our Future

Dr Rory Gallagher (UK) Managing Advisor and Director of International Programs for the UK Government’s Behavioural Insights Team
Behavioural insights and public policy: From disruption to sustainable growth?

Alison Watkins (Australia) Group Managing Director, Coca-Cola Amatil
From Disruption to Growth: Leading people and customers

The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP (Australia) Former Australian Minister of Finance and Deregulation, leading economic thinker; Co-Author: Changing Shape: institutions for a digital age
AND Martin Stewart-Weeks (Australia) Strategic innovation and policy reform expert; independent consultant and advisor; Co-Author: Changing Shape: institutions for a digital age
Changing Shape: Institutions for a Digital Age

Provocateur: Steve Vamos (Australia),Non-Executive Director Telstra, Chair Reading Room

10.30am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

11.00am Plenary 5 – People and Planet: Towards a new ecology

Dr Ernesto Sirolli (USA) Founder Sirolli Institute, the global authority on bottom up economic development
How do you do well and do good?

Tim Flannery (Australia) One of Australia’s best-known scientists, environmentalists and best-selling author
Power to the people. Amazing, disruptive clean tech

Dan Millman (USA) Author: Way of the Peaceful Warrior; expert on mindfulness
The power of mindfulness in a changing world

Wade Davis (Canada) Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia
A New Dream of the Earth

12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

1.30pm HOT SPOTS

Subject matter HOT SPOTS around the Sofitel with selected speakers and provocateurs. Choose your area of interest and join a circle discussion.

2.15pm Plenary 6 – Creating New Economies and New Leaders

Steve Vamos (Australia) Non-Executive Director Telstra, Chair Reading Room
Staying NEW – how leaders and organisations survive in disruptive times

Nolan Bushnell (USA) Founder Atari; Co-creator of GPS and touch-screen technology
Education Disrupted for the New Economy

Tania de Jong AM (Australia) Founder Creative Universe, Creativity Australia and Creative Innovation Global Ci2010-2015
Communities that care: Re-inventing the social sector bottom-up

Dr Rufus Black (Australia) Master of Ormond College; Principal Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne; Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University
Redesigning the Australian economy bottom up

Provocateur: Joanne Gray (Australia), Editor BOSS Magazine, Fairfax Media

4.00pm Conference Closing Celebration with speakers and delegates

4.20pm AFTERNOON TEA AND POST CONFERENCE DRINKS

6.00pm Ci2015 Concludes

NOTE: This program is subject to change. As this is a creative innovation event we will be adding all sorts of wonderful surprises to make sure this is the best conference ever!