4th GLOBAL FORUM ON INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP“Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy”May 28 – June 3, 2011 in Helsinki Finland (Grand Marina Congress Center)
PROGRAM OVERVIEWMay 28 (Sat) / May 29 (Sun) / May 30 (Mon) / May 31 (Tue) / Jun 1 (Wed) / Jun 2 (Thurs) / Jun 3
(Fri) / Jun 4
(Sat)
SME Fair – meet innovative technology entrepreneurs from around the world / / Vote for your favorite SME to win the Financing Prize – live & online! /
Global Community Lounge– network & re-energize / Hotspot to access infoDev toolkits & communities
Training for incubator managers & ToT
Format:
5 parallel sessions / Training for incubator managers & ToT
Format:
5 parallel sessions
Partnership Meeting for infoDev Donors & Partners
Format: by invitation only
SME Fair opening & Welcome cocktail / Global Forum Inauguration
Format: formal plenary
The Power of a Global Community – Transform!
Format: “TED Talk”
Building Industry Competitiveness through Effective Innovation Systems
Format: Davos style
Innovative SMEs in the Global Market Space
Format: Q&A with SMEs at Fair
Policymaker Roundtable
Format: closed door
Regional network meetings
Format: closed door
M-Apps Mobile Monday networking event / Parallel deep-dive discussions (all day)
Mobile Applications
Climate technology
Agribusiness
Format: workshop, all day
Business-to-Business, Business-to-Investor and Idea-to-Idea Twinning
Format: “Speed dating” / Technology Financing: Challenges & Opportunities
Format: Davos style
Incubating Innovation: the know-who and know-how through networks
Format: Davos style
Global Community Commitments: what have we learned, what will we do next, where is GF2013?
Format: Davos style
Technology SME Financing Prizes – Awards Ceremony
Closing session for core GF program
Format: formal plenary / M-Labs Business Plan Brainstorming
Format: workshop
Agribusiness training for incubator managers
Format: workshop
Day trip to Tallinn, Estonia for site visits
Or to Turku, Finland, European Capital of Culture / Site visits in Helsinki, held in parallel sets
- Nokia
- Aalto University
- VTT
Weekend tourism & informal networking program
(Cruise to Stockholm) / Jun 5 (Sun)
All participants depart Helsinki
Internal/closed events / Policymaker roundtable • infoDev regional networks’ meetings • infoDev Donors’ meeting • High-level side meetings • Finland Steering Committee meeting
PROGRAM BREAK-DOWN
Day / Session & Format / Target participants & numbers / Topics & Potential Speakers/ Facilitators / Deliverables & CSBKE/infoDev Value added
May 28 (Sat) / 9:00 – 17:00
Training for incubator managers & Train-of-Trainer
Format: 5parallel sessions (1 full day per module) / Min. 10, max. 25 participants per training session – to sign up with registration / Trainers:
* infoDev Master Trainers: Jill, Julian, Steve, Heinz
* infoDev Master Observers: Stefan, Cesar, Mustapha
Trainers in training:
* 14 altogether, incl. 6 carrying over from initial ToT in March
Topics:
* 11 Modules
* New pilotmodule on agribusiness incubation : training on Thurs, June 2
* Participants to choose 2 modules each, for 1 module on Sat and 1 on Sun / Capacity building for business incubator managers across infoDev’s training curriculum.
Training of trainers to ensure continued training opportunities to global network of business incubators.
May 29 (Sun) / 9:00 – 17:00
Training for incubator managers & Train-of-Trainer
Format: 5 parallel sessions
(1 full day per module)
Location: Marina Congress Center / Min. 10, max. 25 participants per training session – to sign up with registration
15:00 – 17:30
Partnership Meeting for infoDev Donors & Partners
Format: by invitation only
Location: Marina Congress Center (30 pax)
Session owners: Stig Trommer & Rachel Fano / Invited donors & partners: Finland, DFID, DANIDA, Brazil, Korea, Germany, Canada / Chaired by Mr. Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD), The World Bank Group / *Engage infoDev’s donor community to showcase infoDev’s work in the context of the Global Forum
* Create awareness of infoDev’s recent move to FPD and strategic shift towards a mission that promotes the growth of local technology entrepreneurship to enhance sustainable inclusive growth, competitiveness and employment.
* Report to donors on infoDev’s work plan, results and implementation plan.
18:00
SME Fair opening & Welcome cocktail
Format: Informal cocktail + networking in main lobby
Location: Congress Center, main lobby area
Session owners: Oltac Unsal & Fernando Lolo / All participants / Speakers:
* Valerie D’Costa, infoDev Program Manager
* Pertti Ikonen, Aid-for-Trade Coordinator, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland – / To inaugurate SME Fair and open Global Forum participants’ voting for Technology SME Financing Prizes
May 30 (Mon) / 9:00 – 10:00
Global Forum Inauguration
-Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
-Nokia
-IFC/World Bank/infoDev
Format: formal plenary in main conference hall
Location: Main auditorium
Session owner: Tim Kelly / All participants / Potential speakers:
* Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Ministry for Foreign Affairs or Finnish Undersecretary of State, Ritva Koukku-tbc
* Mr. Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia -
* Mr. Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD), The World Bank Group -
* Mr. Jyrki Koskelo, Vice President, Global Industries, IFC – tbc
10:00 – 10:30
The Power of a Global Community – Transform!
Format: “TED Talk” – external, inspirational visionary
Location: Main auditorium
TED Talk background:
Session owner: Heidi, in cooperation with Pertti / All participants / Speakers:
* Pekka Himanen: new information & innovation societies -
* Erik Hersman, Kenya (Global TED fellow, self-proclaimed “white African”). iHub and Ushahidi founder and mLab Consortium winner– / Visionary speakers to set the tone for the Global Forum.
10:30 – 11:00
(time TBC – depending on availability of speakers)
Press conference
Session owner: Oliver Griffith & Felicia Haladner / Inaugural speakers
Finnish and international media / GF press lead at WBG: Oliver Griffith, IFC Paris
MFA media contact: Marja-Leena Kultanen
Finpro media contact: -tbc
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Building Industry Competitiveness through Effective Innovation Systems
Format: Davos style
Location: Main auditorium
Session owners: Ilari Lindy & Stig Trommer / All participants / Moderated by Mr. Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD), The World Bank Group –
* Finland: PPP model as backdrop
*Eduardo Costa, former Lead of Brazilian Innovation Agency
* South Africa: Phil Mjwara, Director General, Department of Science & Technology, South Africa –
* Singapore: National Research Foundation –
* China: Torch High Technology Industry Development Center / 4-5 panelists representing both the public and private sector discuss and debate the enabling environment for growth, employment and income opportunities in developing countries
12:30 – 13:30
Networking lunch for all participants
Location: 2nd floor restaurant
12:30 – 14:00
Closed door policymaker lunch – TBC
Location: TBC
13:30 – 15:30
Innovative SMEs in the Global Market Space
Format: Q&A with SMEs
Location: Scandic Grand Marina
(manned booths from 13.30-15.30, networking to continue informally after 15.30)
Session owners: Oltac Unsal & Fernando Lolo
/ 50 Entrepreneurs at their booths + all participants mingling with them / Special “reporter-style” tour of fair organized for high level participants (e.g. inauguration panel), Q&A with SMEs, edit into video material to show at technology prizes ceremony
Reporter candidate AndreMr. André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus Oy identified / An opportunity to get to know entrepreneurs at the SME Fair and to begin to cast votes via online voting platform provided by Nokia
15:30 – 17:00
Policymaker roundtable (closed door)
Format: Davos style
Location: Scandic Grand Marina
Session owner: Ellen Olafsen / Policymakers
Target countries Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Cambodia, Nepal, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Nicaragua / Led by Mr. Janamitra Devan, World Bank & Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland – representative tbc / Respond to recommendations set forth to policymakers, share challenges, lessons and ideas amongst peers to create a peer-to-peer community of practice amongst policymakers interested in this agenda.
15:00 – 17:00
Meeting of infoDev’s Global Network of Business Incubators
Format: seminar/workshop
Session owners: Regional Facilitators & Coordinators / Meeting for all regional networks of business incubators / 10-minute presentation by each Regional Coordinator to share existing + planned project portfolio, regional challenges + opportunities with others
Speakers:
* Todor Yalamov, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Business Incubators & Technology Parks (ECAbit) –
* Manuel Bello, Latin America & the Caribbean–
* Michael Reddy, Africa Incubation Network (AIN) –
* Suresh Kumar, Asia-Pacific Incubator Network (APIN)
* Mohammad Allam Al-Qaed, MENA network of incubatorsr–
Brainstorming sessions for global network / Break out into groups of 5-8 to brainstorm on global network sustainability and future strategy/ outlook
18:00 –
Regional infoDev business incubator network meetings– regional networks to organize themselves around topics of relevance
(space & dinner provided at Congress Center)
Session owners: Regional Facilitators & Coordinators / Incubators per region (5 parallel sessions) / Theme leads: infoDev’s Regional Facilitators & Regional Network coordinators
Opportunity for online dialogue prior to Global Forum, to define discussion/action areas / * Achievements, trends, future plans for infoDev’s regional business incubator networks
* Cross-regional cooperation in e.g. global communities of practice
* Partnering with other regional entities
18:00 – 20:00
M-Apps Mobile Monday networking event
Location: Helsinki City Hall
(max. 375 participants, buffet dinner included)
Session owner: Toni Eliasz / Program
* Host & welcome words:
Mayor Jussi Pajunen, City of Helsinki –
* Heikki Norta, Head of Corporate Strategy, Nokia – the role that mobile phones and mobile applications can play to help to connect the next Billion people to the internet –
* Interviews & dialogue with three start-ups (TBC through SME Fair selections) – moderator André Noël Chakerto ensure exciting stories related to being an entrepreneur in these markets rather than talk about products and services –
* Spotlight on MFA/infoDev supported Mobile Social Networking Hubs / MobileMonday (MoMo) is an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border P2P business opportunities through live networking events to demo products, share ideas and discuss trends from both local and global markets.
May 31 (Tue) / All day
Parallel deep-dive discussions
Format: workshop
Location: Scandic Grand Marina, various seminar rooms in parallel / Overall deliverables from sessions:
* Parallel, working-level sessions that encourage lively discussion, debate and hands-on peer-to-peer learning opportunities around core issues
* Theme Lead and experienced facilitator to engage infoDev’s global community members and stakeholders before the Global Forum for pre-defined set of objectives for each theme + groundwork for potential deliverables beyond the Global Forum
Mobile Applications
Session owners: Tim Kelly, Toni K. Eliasz, Maja Andjelkovic / Participants:
m-Labs management teams
m-Labs entrepreneurs / *Lessons from new m-Labs management teams
*An enabling business env for innovators and mobile industry stakeholders
*Value chain analyses, marketing and distribution strategies
*BoP mobile apps
09:00 – 09:10: Welcome and introduction: infoDev team
A general introduction to the theme of mobile applications for development by the infoDev team, focusing on highlights from the program and the overall structure of the day. Before the session, perhaps show a brief video on mLabs.
09:00 – 10:10: Theme 1: Mobile applications for development
This session will cover, in general terms, how mobile applications are contributing to economic and social development, with a focus on mobile money, mHealth and mEducation.
Moderator: Richard Scobey, Sector Manager, Africa Region, World Bank
•Michael Joseph, (Kenya) ex-Safaricom, now World Bank senior advisor, on topic of Financial Inclusion via mobile money
•Jussi Hinkkanen, (South Africa) Nokia EMEA –
•Brooke Partridge, (USA) VitalWave, coordinator of eTransform Africa study –
Discussion
10:10 – 11:10: Theme 2: Mobile at the base of the pyramid
This session looks at the usage patterns for mobile phones by users on incomes below US$2 per day, focusing on innovations that seek to address this segment of the population and the role of mobile communications in reducing poverty.
Moderator: Hanna Marttinen-Deakins, (Finland) Finpro Mobile @ BOP project –
•Rohan Samarajiva, (Sri Lanka), LirneAsia presenting the “Mobile @ BOP” report –
•Judith Owigar, Akirachix (Kenya), on how mobile social networking is developing in Kenya, with a focus on efforts to train female developers –
•Paula Uimonen, (Sweden) Director, SPIDER
Discussion
11:10 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30: Theme 3: Mobile entrepreneurship – How to succeed in emerging markets
This session looks at entrepreneurship in the mobile applications space, looking at the role of mobile social networking in promoting collaboration and the possibilities of using mobile communications as a platform for microwork. It also looks at the most challenging issues mobile innovators face including strategies to monetize apps, access to markets, and access to finance.
Moderator: Madanmohan Rao (Mobile Monday India) –
•Herman Heunis, MXit (South Africa), on diversified revenue strategies in low income markets –
•Nguyen Xuan Tai, Socbay, (Vietnam), on the journey from a team of computer science students to a VC backed company
•Jalak Jobanputra (Omidyar Network) – How the Foundation is promoting entrepreneurship –
Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel session 1: Mobiles in Agriculture
This expert workshop focusses on the use of Mobile in Agriculture and the management of forestry resources. The themes would be drawn from the ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook, to be formally later in the day, at the cocktail reception. This session complements the Agribusiness parallel theme
Moderator:Eija Pehu, Lead Specialist, Agriculture and Rural Development (World Bank) –
•Stephen Rudgard (FAO)
•Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of Economics, Fletcher School, Tufts University –
•Jamila Abass, Founder, mFarm, Kenya –
•Sean Krepp, Grameen AppLab (Uganda) –
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel session 2: Business to Business (B2B) twinning for Mobile-focused SMEs
It is anticipated that around 15 of the infoDev Top 50 SMEs will be focused on mobile applications. In addition, there are a large number of other SMEs, notably from Finland, that are active in this field and which will be present at the SME fair. The aim of this session will be to promote networking amongst this subset of SMEs and to explore business opportunities. Thematically, this session will be organized as follows:
- 14:00 – 15:15 Three-minute “elevator pitch presentation” from 15 or so mobile-focused SMEs, with a mix of developing (10) and developed country (5) companies.
- 15:15 – 16:00 Speed dating. The 15 SMEs each host a table at which interested parties could gather, with groups moving on every ten minutes or so. Interested parties may include financiers, mLabs managers, mobile applications developers, other SMEs etc
Launch of the World Bank Group’s Sourcebooks on Agricultural Innovation Systems Investment and ICT in Agriculture. The Sourcebooks provide a menu of how-to tools and guidance drawn from tested good practice examples and innovative approaches.
Launch is celebrated with a cocktail reception.
Climate technologies
Session owners: Jonathan Coony, Anthony Lambkin / Participants:
- Entrepreneurs and Incubator managers.
- Donors, foundations, investors and potential private sector partners.
- Policy makers / *Outline the “green growth” and “cleantech” landscape to understand key market drivers and potential opportunities for SMEs.
* Provide practical, ground-level experience from SMEs of climate technology activities, challenges and opportunities.
* Explore infoDev’s Climate Technology Program as a mechanism of accelerating the commercialization of domestic climate technology.
* Review models and experience of climate technology focused innovation and incubation.
9:30am – 10:30amEmerging Market Start-ups: Expanding Regional and Global Export Opportunities
How can developing country start-ups participate in global supply chains? Cleantech SMEs will discuss constraints and opportunities in increasing exports to grow revenues and add domestic jobs.
10:30am Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pmFinnish Private Sector: Exploring Partnerships to Access New and Emerging Markets
What are the barriers to doing business in emerging markets? Finnish companies will share experiences in creating partnerships and joint ventures with developing countries firms.
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm Designing a Regional Climate Innovation Center Network in Africa
African technology negotiators and ministry representatives will inform the design of a CIC Network for Africafor discussion at the 2011 UNFCCC COP17 negotiations in Durban, South Africa.
Agribusiness
Session owner: Ellen Olafsen / Participants:
Agribusiness program partners
Best practices assessment implementing organization
Community of Practice members / * Work implemented by a peer-to-peer Global Community of Practice on Agribusiness
* Best practices assessment and training module on agribusiness incubation
* Feasibility assessments for the implementation of agribusiness incubators in Tanzania and Kenya
* Lessons learned from two new SourceBooks on ICT in Agriculture incl. virtually linking in global Sourcebooks’ team of writers
* Strengthen infoDev’s role in agri and cross-departmental (e.g. ARD) cooperation
9:00 – 10:00Plenary: The Journey of Agribusiness Entrepreneurs
Two agribusiness entrepreneurs at different stages of enterprise development present their dreams and challenges. A policymaker and a financier outline their perspectives on the issues raised.
10:00 – 11:30Break-out: Designing an Agribusiness Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center I
The group will be presented with an actual case study of a country, outlining its potential agribusiness growth opportunities and the barriers for entrepreneurs to start and accelerate agribusiness entrepreneurship. Participants will be asked to develop an approach to stimulating the start-up and growth of agribusiness SMEs in this environment.
- Break-out groups of no more than 10, comprising both public and private sector members, will be formed directly at session and facilitators allocated accordingly.