DAY ONE Keynote: Innovation’s Burning Platform Professor Roy Marcus, CEO, Da Vinci Holdings Technology Top 100 award for Innovation John Bond, Managing Director, Calibrated Diamond Investment Holdings The new champions in Africa: The rise and influence of the BRIC Economies * Presentation not made available for the portal * Abdullah Verachia, Frontier Advisory Innovation at Sappi Dr. Arlene Bayley, Technology Futures and Exciter Manager, Sappi What drives innovation? How to encourage and reward innovation without limiting creativity Freda Gray, Director, Mindstir Consulting The story of furnaces and veld fires Darrell Vian, Regional SMART Product Optimisation Manager (AME), British American Tobacco Crowdsourcing creativity: Destruction of an industry or a future we need to embrace? Dan Neville, Brand Coordinator, Idea Bounty Building a culture of innovation Anneke de Bod, Senior Researcher, University of Stellenbosch Innovation in action: Starting an innovative SMME Kerryne Krause-Neufeldt, Chief Excitement Officer, I-Slices DAY TWO Introduction to SAINe (South African Innovation Network) Audrey Verhaeghe, Chairman and CEO, SAINe (South African Innovation Network) Innovate your business model – burning platform or hothouse? Different environments drive different innovations Warwick Bloom, Managing Principal: Business Development, Hollard Insurance Group The state of innovation practice in South African organisations – indicators and trends so far Ian Kruger, Director: Da Vinci Research, The Da Vinci Institute Creating an ecosystem for innovation in SA: A collaborative effort between public and private sector, academic institutions and communities Panel discussion with representative from TIA, SAINe, Blue IQ, DTO and Heart Social Investments Changing the world through social innovation Kojo Parris, Heart Social Investments Harnessing design thinking for innovation – blazing the trail Nadia M. Viljoen, Industrial Engineer, CSIR and Ria van Zyl, Designer and Researcher, University of Pretoria WIZZIT: Global pioneers in banking the unbanked (The only African company to feature in Monitor Group’s recently published 101 Innovation Breakthroughs) Brian Richardson, Managing Director, Wizzit Essential role of systemic innovation in sustainable development and economic growth in South Africa Raldu Nel, Director Centre for Sustainability Migration, The Da Vinci Institute