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Monday 7 November – DAY ONE

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

MC1 – Scott Anthony (Singapore), Making the Exponential Everyday: Creating a Culture of Innovation
MC2 – Corinne Canter, Switch on your SuperMind!
MC3 – Yamini Naidu, Hooked: Business Storytelling to connect, engage & inspire
MC4 – Stephen Johnson, EMERGENT – The Future of Culture

Deep Conversation over Lunch (12.00pm – 2.00pm)

Creating Exponential Institutions
How can governments, large organisations, universities, hospitals and more keep up with the market?

Martin Ford (USA), Leading expert on the robot revolution, artificial intelligence, job automation and the impact of accelerating technology

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japan), Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University

Ramez Naam (USA), Computer scientist, futurist, award-winning author; energy & environmental systems faculty member, Singularity University

Dr Daniel Kraft (USA), Faculty Chair Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University; Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine

Dr Abigail Allwood (USA), Astrobiologist, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA; first female principal investigator on a Mars mission

Professor Tanya Monro, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation and ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow, University of South Australia

Moderator: Scott Anthony (Singapore), Managing Partner Innosight; Harvard Business Author; strategy, growth and disruptive innovation expert

The positive potential of exponential change amazes us. Imagine autonomous vehicles making life more efficient, or precision medicine dramatically increasing life expectancy. Exponential change, however, places clear stress on society and raises numerous questions. How, for example, will we deal with the ethical implications of genetic manipulation? How will we re-train and re-trench the millions of workers that will be automated out of jobs? What is the right taxation and redistribution framework to encourage innovation and growth while avoiding the creation of a permanent underclass?

In the last 150 years schools, hospitals, and government agencies have played a central role in addressing these kinds of issues. However, too many of these institutions are now mired in bureaucracy, and seem utterly incapable of changing at the pace and scale required to confront the existential challenges of exponential innovation.

How might existing institutions transform from stodgy bureaucracies to more dynamic organizations, without losing noble goals of inclusiveness?
What new institutions do we need, and who will rise to the challenge of creating and managing these institutions?
How might we make it as enticing for top young talent to apply their capabilities to these issues as it is for them to join the latest hot startup?

AFTERNOON
Master Classes – Early Afternoon Sessions (2:15pm – 4:45pm) includes afternoon tea 4.15pm – 4.45pm

MC5    Ramez Naam (USA), Exponential Organisations – how to prepare for massive disruption
MC6    Andrew and Gaia Grant, The Innovation Race: How to create a culture that supports sustainable and purposeful innovation
MC7    Dr Amantha Imber, The science of how to create an innovation culture (and why table tennis tables and beanbags are not the answer)
MC8    Craig Mounsey and Liam Casey, Experience Design Thinking in Action

LATE AFTERNOON
Master Classes – Late Afternoon Sessions (4:15pm – 6:45pm) includes afternoon tea 4.15pm – 4.45pm

MC9    Scott Anthony (Singapore), Launching and Landing Moonshots
MC10  Janet Sernack, The breakthrough capabilities of transformational innovation leadership
MC11  Jim Grant, Having the Hard Conversations
MC12 Charles Kovess, The courage to be different: Proven strategies to access your strength and resilience to avoid following the crowd
MC13  Jon Yeo, They Make It Look Easy: Secrets of Pro Speakers to create memorable talks

Tuesday 8 November – DAY TWO

8.30am The Official Opening of Ci2016 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 audience.

9.30am Plenary 1 – Sharing our World with Robots

Martin Ford (USA), Leading expert on the robot revolution, artificial intelligence, job automation and the impact of accelerating technology
The Rise of the Robots – Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Professor Michelle Simmons, Scientia Professor of Physics, UNSW; Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow
The exponential increase in computing through a quantum leap – what will this mean to you and your organisation?

Dr Daniel Kraft (USA), Faculty Chair Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University; Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?

Provocateur: Michael Pope, Master of Ceremonies

11.00am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

11.30am Plenary 2 – Exponential thinking: Fail Fast or Win BIG!

Ramez Naam (USA), Computer scientist, futurist, award-winning author; energy & environmental systems faculty member, Singularity University
Exponential Disruption meets Exponential Organizations

Patrycja Slawuta (USA), NYC-based researcher and entrepreneur; Founder, SelfHackathon
Hacking Failure: The Psychology of Basic Human Fears and How to Overcome Them

David Gonski AC, Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd and Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
How to transform our fear of failure to become an innovation nation

Provocateur: Bill Ferris AC, Chair of Innovation & Science Australia

1.00pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

2.00pm HOT SPOTS

Grab a delicious lunch, connect with someone new and then join a HOT SPOT conversation with some of our speakers and other experts.

2.50pm Exponential Conversation Plenary 3 – Transformational Leadership and Mindsets for the Future of Work

Carolyn Hewson AO, Director of BHP Billiton and Stockland Group; Trustee Westpac Foundation; Member of Federal Government Growth Centres Advisory Committee

Jane King, Deputy Commissioner, Design and Change Management Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

Renee Leon PSM, Secretary of the Department of Employment

Jon Williams, Global Leader, People and Organisation, PWC

Provocateur: Steve Vamos, Non-Executive Director, Venture Investor, Business Advisor and Speaker

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy

If what we have today is a function of what we do or have done, and what we do is a function of how we think, what thinking or mindset shift will be need to transform our business, government, health and education institutions and the way they work?

In this session, leaders from a variety of backgrounds will discuss the new ways of thinking and mindsets needed if we are to transform our institutions, economy and society to be one that best positions us for continued prosperity in changing and uncertain times.

Speakers will describe successes and failures in confronting change and the need for transformation. They will contrast the leadership attributes and mindsets that distinguish between the two.

Beyond the mindsets the session will also touch on the “must-do’s” and strategies that need to be employed if transformation is to occur.

AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

5.00pm Day Two Concludes

7.00pm – 10.30pm Gala Dinner Q&A
Q&A: Is AI going to improve our lives, or doom the human race?

This special dinner will excite and inspire you with fine food, wine, a world class Q & A featuring leading innovators, scientists and futurists and entertainment including  sensational songsters Pot-Pourri and the With One Voice choirs. The Q&A will feature Scott Anthony (Singapore), Dr Daniel Kraft (USA), Martin Ford (USA), Patrycja Slawuta (USA), Dr Alan Finkel (Australia), Professor Michelle Simmons (Australia) and other disruptive guests. The Gala Dinner Q&A will be moderated by Alan Kohler.

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

Sofitel Melbourne On Collins Ballroom, 25 Collins Street Melbourne

Wednesday 9 November – DAY THREE

8.45am Exponential Conversation Plenary 4 – Energising our Intellectual Capacity…turning our ideas into enterprise

Professor Michelle Simmons, Scientia Professor of Physics, UNSW; Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow

Martin Bean CBE, Vice Chancellor and President RMIT University

Dr Pradeep Philip, Founder, Ergo Consilium; Senior Advisor accross politics and business; Former Secretary Department of Health (Victoria) and Founding CEO for LaunchVic

Dr Alex Zelinsky, Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist (DST Group); computer scientist, systems engineer and roboticist

John Stanhope, Chairman Australia Post & AGL; Chancellor of Deakin University

Provocateur: Doron Ben-Meir, Vice-Principal Enterprise, Chancellery, University of Melbourne

The Australian Government invests $9.7Bn every year in an effort to facilitate and stimulate innovation. These funds provide much needed support for a number of nation building activities including (but not limited to):

  • The funding of our Universities and leading research institutions
  • National scientific infrastructure and platforms
  • The CSIRO
  • The Research & Development Tax Incentive

Despite this investment, Australia sits at the bottom of the OECD rankings with respect to the extent to which our research community collaborates with industry. It is well understood that such collaboration is vital for the successful utilisation and commercialisation of research generated intellectual property and, moreover, enriches the ideas pool within which our world class researchers operate.

So why the disconnect? What’s missing and what can/should we be doing about it? What are we doing right and what have we learned from our mistakes? What can we learn from the most successful innovation ecosystems of the world (Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Boston, Cambridge…)? How might we apply those lessons given the cultural, geographic and economic differences that exist?

These questions are very easy to ask and not so simple to answer, so our panel of experts will delve into the underlying issues and discuss a number of the initiatives currently being directed at unlocking the vast potential of our intellectual assets.

This is an unique opportunity not only to hear from our country’s leading thinkers in this area but to engage with them in Q&A and advance our collective understanding of how Australia can transform its economy from a reliance on primary and secondary industry into a genuine innovation powerhouse.

10.30am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

11.00am Plenary 5 – The Future is Stunning!

Dr Alan Finkel AO, Australia’s Chief Scientist
Where today’s ingenuity might take us

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japan), Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University
Robots and the essence of being human

Dr Abigail Allwood (USA), Astrobiologist, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA; first female principal investigator on a Mars mission
The First Female Martian

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.

2.20pm Plenary 6 – Making Transformation Happen

Professor Stephen Heppell (UK), Professor at Bournemouth University; One of the most influential academics in the field of technology and education globally
Leading the change in Learning Innovation: can policy keep up with practice?

Associate Professor Rufus Black, Master of Ormond College and Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University
The innovation we need to avoid the politics we don’t want

Scott Anthony (Singapore), Managing Partner Innosight; Harvard Business Author; strategy, growth and disruptive innovation expert
Dual Transformation: Becoming the Next Version of Yourself

Provocateur: Tania de Jong AM, Founder Creative Universe, Creativity Australia & Creative Innovation Global

Conference Closing Celebration with speakers and delegates

4.00pm AFTERNOON TEA AND POST CONFERENCE DRINKS IN SOFITEL MELBOURNE LOUNGE

5.30pm Ci2016 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!

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