Draft 2019 Version 2

The World Summit on

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

April 8-10, 2019 | NEW YORK CITY

DESIGNING INTELLIGENCE, DRIVING INNOVATION

The 2019 theme investigates the role of design intelligence as the catalyst to drive new innovations that shape the future of work and society. Because when companies design higher intelligence that are aligned with people’s goals, they 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, transportation 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.

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 to
Drive New Transformations

FUNCTIONALITY
Apply Intelligence to
Shape Work & Society

LIVABILITY
Tap into Nature’s Wisdom to 
Create Higher Intelligence

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.

Are we at the cusp of a design revolution TO INNOVATE HIGHER INTELLIGENCE THAT CAN SHAPE THE WORLD?

AN IMPRESSIVE LINE-UP OF 100 PRESENTERS WILL POINT THE WAY

Robin Chase

Co-Founder and Former CEO
Zipcar

Robert S. Langer

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

The Langer Lab

Guo Pei

Fashion Designer

Michael D. White

Chairman & CEO

Direct TV

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium

Rose Center for Earth and Space

Dava Newman

Deputy Adminstrator

NASA

Bjorn Kjos

Chairman & CEO

Norwegian Air Shuttle

Adi Ignatius

Editor-in-Chief

Harvard Business Review

George Logothetis

Chairman & CEO

Libra Group

Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Chief Scientist, MIT Media Lab

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

Ed McLaughlin

President of Operations and Technology

Mastercard

Laurie Olson

Executive Vice President, Pfizer Strategy & Commercial Operations

Pfizer

Stefanie Tompkins

Acting Deputy Director

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Padmasree Warrior

CEO

NIO U.S.

Stanley Bergman

Chairman & CEO

Henry Schein

Bernard Luthi

CEO

Monoprice

Jamil Mahuad

Former President

Republic of Ecuador

H.E. Dr. Rawya bint Saud bin Ahmed al Busaidiyah

Minister of Higher Education

Sultanate of Oman

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

Matt Rogers

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Nest Labs

Joe Liu

SVP of Research & Development

3M International and APAC

Ann Rosenberg

SVP, Global Head of SAP Next-Gen

SAP SE

Barbara J. Bennett

Chief Financial Officer

US Environmental Protection Agency

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

Jon Oringer

Founder, Chairman and CEO

Shutterstock

Danae Ringelmann

Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer

Indiegogo

Marcus Weldon

President of Bell Labs and Corporate CTO

Nokia

Don Tapscott

Author, Speaker,

Futurist

Jane Stevenson/h4>

Vice Chairman Board & CEO Services

Korn/Ferry International

Ryan Leslie

Multifaceted Musician and Founder of Disruptive Multimedia Officer

Gregory Colbert

Canadian film-maker and photographer

Rick Cook

Founding Partner

COOKFOX Architects

TESTIMONIALS

WE LEAVE IT TO THE WORDS OF OUR GUESTS

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.

OUR PARTNERS

DESIGNING DIFFERENTIATED OFFERINGS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL AND LIVABLE

LINK WITH THE WORLD’S TOP DISRUPTORS

EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE

A stage for multinationals and startups to team up to transform the most relevant ideas into scalable intelligent innovations.

Past Innovation Partners:

THE 2019 VENUE

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