Innovation Forum Sydney. November 2009.

Last night, uncluttered white spaces hosted an Innovation Forum in Sydney at Danks Street Depot.

The forum was arranged to discuss innovation and idea’s surrounding why innovation has been voted as one of the top 3 most important issues in business globally for every company in every industry and establish how companies are applying innovation to their business, teams and strategies. How are they approaching inovation and what are the killers, what works against it.

The forum was moderated by Ben Rennie, founder of uncluttered white spaces. The Forum covered idea’s and innovations as diverse as the vacuum cleaner, iPhone, snowboarding through to social enterprise, web, process, people and design.

The panel of experts on the night included:

BEN RENNIE: Founder of uncluttered white spaces (Host for the night)
JASON POLLARD: Founder of Public Design Group
LAURA DEMASI: Co-Founder of The Cool Hunter Platinum (www.thecoolhunter.net)
PAUL SWANN: The Executive Idea’s Director from Naked Communications
IAN LYONS: Social Media Practitioner & Brand Expert
JOHANNES WEISSENBAECK: Director and Founder of PLAY Communication
JAMES HEWITT: Strategist & Designer Public Design Group
MICK CALDER: Business & Strategy Expert and Director for 333 Consulting

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PANEL OF EXPERTS, CLICK HERE FOR SPEAKER PROFILES.

The panel discussed varying point of views from backgrounds as diverse as corporate strategy and operation, retail design, ideation, retail strategy, brand communication, product development through to incorporating new methods of business process and structure to facilitate innovation in organizations.

The audience participation came from varying points of view and created a great atmosphere to share idea’s and develop insights into new ways of thinking.

A detailed report on the forum will be drawn up in the coming week and posted on uncluttered white spaces and sent out to the guests on the night.

Thanks to A Bottle Of and Danks Street Depot and the panel for contributing to an inspiring and informative evening with all proceeds going to One Week for STREAT (The night raised $620 for the cause).

For more information on Innovation Forums, contact Ben Rennie.

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