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The World Summit on

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

APRIL | 8-10, 2019

The World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

April | 8-10, 2019

NEW YORK CITY

The

World

Summit

About The Future

Days of Brilliance.

Evenings of Splendor.

The 2019 Summit sets the scene for some of the world’s eminent dreamers and doers to plot the new frontier for smarter forms of Intelligent Innovations [X].

Explore where the world’s most beautiful Designs

and meaningful intelligent innovations are hiding.

Engage with global entrepreneurs, designers, and executives to strike new partnerships that will alter the way you learn and live... design and innovate... invest and lead. Get the inside stories of what makes very few multinationals. New York City and other future capitals the home to so many dreamers, drivers, and doers.

2019 THEME

DESIGNING INTELLIGENCE, DRIVING INNOVATION

A NEW ERA OF BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL AND LIVABLE INNOVATIONS

Because when we design higher intelligence that are aligned with people’s goals, we create solutions that are really special: beautiful, functional and livable innovations that people truly need. Leading to a new generation of Intelligent Innovations [x] that utilize smarter human/machine partnerships to transform business and humanity in unprecedented ways. Empowered by positive designs that are ethical, experiential, exponential and explainable.

The 2019 World Summit will feature how top companies and cities are creating Intelligent Innovations [x] that solve the tensions that exist around the Intelligence Trilemma (Creativity, Functionality, Livability) to write the future of work, lifestyle, health, services, industrials, infrastructure and cities.

“Designing Intelligence, Driving Innovation” is about re-imagining and applying a new design approach to human x machine innovations that leads to smarter forms of real artificial intelligence that shapes the future of business and humanity through beautiful, functional and livable solutions.

Engage

Deliver an explainable generation of simple, flexible, decentralized and consumer-led services.

Create personalized lifestyle solutions that intersect materials, technology, habits & physical spaces.

Digitalize industrials to support intelligent systems, exponential devices and decisioning.

Design innovation-driven operating models, products, experiences, services & beings.

Build a smarter infrastructure that enables connected work, live and play environments.

Draw inspiration from nature to engineer biotech, digital & visual health innovations.

Create intelligent layers of digital, physical and emotional innovations.

BUSINESS & THE INTELLIGENCE TRILEMMA

SOLVING FOR CREATIVE, FUNCTIONAL & LIVABLE INNOVATIONS

Enterprises often struggle to find a strategic balance between creativity, functionality, and livability. We call this The Intelligence Trilemma. The 2019 World Summit will point the way to solving the tension that exists around the Trilemma to create Intelligent Innovations [x] that shape business and humanity.

We will curate experiences that bind stories from across the Trilemma to innovate a new chain reaction of powerful ideas and images of Intelligent Innovations. A beautiful synthesis between markets segments, social standards, product controls, place-making guidelines, environmental aspirations and technological breakthroughs which might have been regarded as disconnected.

CREATIVITY

Disrupt  By Design

FUNCTIONALITY

Apply Intelligence to  Advance Business

LIVABILITY

 Tap Into Nature’s Wisdom  to Enrich Lives

The 2019 Edition will use several conversational formats and converges the world’s finest people from design, business, technology, science, sustainability, ethics and law to explore how to harness artificial intelligence, internet of things, digital commerce, and experience engineering to create the world’s next great intelligence innovations.

SEE THE PROGRAM

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO CREATE THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE?

George Logothetis

Chairman & CEO

Libra Group

Guo Pei

Fashion Designer

Dava Newman

Deputy Adminstrator

NASA

Manu Asthana

President

Direct Energy Residential

Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Chief Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Co-Founder, Institute for Data Driven Design & Director, MIT Media Lab, Entrepreneurship Programr

Robert S. Langer

David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Langer Lab

Joe Incandela

Particle Physicist, University of California;

Fellow Scientist and Ex-Spokesperson of the CMS Experiment, CERN

Joe Liu

SVP of Research & Development

3M International and APAC

Matt Rogers

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Nest Labs

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium

Rose Center for Earth and Space

Stanley Bergman

Chairman & CEO

Henry Schein

Bernard Luthi

CEO

Monoprice

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Guy Wollaert

SVP, Chief Technical and Innovation Officer, and Chief Architect of Innovation

Coca-Cola

Deepak Chopra

Director of Educational Programs and Founder

The Chopra Center

HRH Prince Feisel Bin Al Hussein

Royal Hashemite Court

Kingdom of Jordan

Bjorn Kjos

Chairman & CEO

Norwegian Air Shuttle

Soraya Darabi

Co-Founder

Zady

Rosalind Hudnell

Vice President, Human Resources, Director, Corporate Affairs, and President

Intel Foundation

Renaud Laplanche

Founder and CEO

Lending Club

Frank van Mierlo

CEO

366 Technologies

Chris Hughes

Chairman of Segovia, Co-Founder of Facebook and

Founder of Jumo

Andrew Ng

Chief Scientist, Baidu,

Co-Founder, Coursera and Faculty of Stanford University

Ben Nelson

Founder & CEO

The Minerva Project

Danae Ringelmann

Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer

Indiegogo

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TESTIMONIALS

WE LEAVE IT TO THE WORDS OF OUR GUESTS

“It was great having a room full of people open to new ideas and pushing the world forward.”

—William Murphy, Chief Technology Officer, The Blackstone Group

“I learned something new from every conversation, ended with few business partnerships. I love how WSIE encourages interaction.”  

—Jessica Greenwalt, Founder & Lead Designer, CrowdMed

“I am blown away by what you have created.”

—Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe, and CEO of Mpule Institute of Endogenous Development

“An outstanding, exciting and fantastic event. You’re a master connector.”

—Geraldin Hamilton, President & CSO, Emulate and Senior Research Scientist, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

“A Privilege. Magnificent. Please do it again.”

—Marria Livanos Cattaui, Vice Chairman, International Crisis Group; Former Secretary General of International Chamber of Commerce

"Transformative. Courageous."

—Asra Nomani, Journalist, Pearl Project

WHO WE ARE

12 YEARS OF INSPIRATION & ILLUMINATION

The World Summit was founded in 2006 and launched in partnership with and under the support of the United Nations, the African Union, International Chamber of Commerce and several multinationals. A circle of disruptors and game-changers committed to creating intelligent solutions to transform how we design, cure, commute, manufacture, transact, work and live together.

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