Programme

Braving the new world – an introduction to the new global paradigm by Josephine Green, Mads Thimmer and Preben Mejer.

Morning
Chuck House, Stanford University
Stanford University – models for next generation collaboration and thoughts on future formats. (Onsite visit & talk)

Josephine Green, a hands-on session
A glimpse into new business modes, new markets, new processes, and new ways of orchestrating organisations to fit the rapidly changing surroundings. (Workshop)

Afternoon
Insights from Pixar - How to shape an environment for extremely creative people. (Talk)
Insights from Google - Googles tool-box: How to create a lasting innovation culture. (Talk)

Evening
Networking dinner with seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

Morning
Institute For The Future
Institute For the Future advises Forbes 500 clients and help some of the worlds greatest companies understand the Scenarios ahead. The executive director Marina Gorbis will take us through the new roads IFTF prepare e.g Intel and Pepsi on – and will shed light on how to organize, revamp old structures and create the culture and agility needed to take on the opportunities ahead. (Talk & workshop)

Afternoon
Innovation Lab & Dag Hinrichs – a workshop & session in Transformational Innovation
Dag Hinrichs, TED speaker and the Frm Head of Global Commercial Innovation at Vestas – has with his Silicon Valley roots and long time C-level experience, a great understanding of the transformation organizations must go through to succeed in the coming years. Successful organizations are agile and have incorporated renewal or “innovation thinking” in their DNA - so how to scale the best of small and downsize the worst of big, to handle the obesity of corporate grandeur? (Workshop)

Evening free

So how did they do it - and keep doing it? The DNA of relentless progress as unfolded at world top brands and shooting stars. We´ll take you for a tour in the inside track with key execs and characters sharing invaluable insights.

Morning
Singularity University
Singularity University ´s mission is to assemble, educate, and inspire leaders who understand and develop exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity´s Grand Challenges. We want a piece of that – and learn what the DNA of incubated companies at the NASA camp looks like! Join the quamtum leap frogging with global thought leaders at the world’s most ambitious university, founded and fueled by NASA & Google. (Onsite visit & workshop)

Afternoon
Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford University (Talk)
A glimpse into a Silicon Valley start-up (Talk)

Evening
Networking dinner in San Francisco @ Michelin-starred One Market Restaurant

Morning
Auto-Desk
Auto Desk and TED has a close collaboration – how will this foster design innovation through technology as a mean to solve many of today´s global problems – and what key learning points can we take away from this? (Onsite visit)

Afternoon
Collective Inventions
What is the new pradigm of coorporation - and how do you design futures in which you can make complex decisions? Insights from the strategic advisors who among global clients hold A.P. Moller Maersk. (Talk)

TCHO – a virtual organization
Besides crafting what have several times been awarded the best chocolate in the world, TCHO also crafts radical new thinking in how to employ a factorywith virtual employees and cloud access. Meet the company lead by Wired Magazine founders Jane Metcalfe & Louis Rosetto – for a taste, a tour and some new thinking. (Onsite visit)

Evening free

We´ll meet two of the worlds greatest think tanks to learn their takes on what rules the world from two different poles – Strategic design thinking and new technology.

Morning
Frog Design
Since Frog designed Apples first computer in 1981, much has happened. Their creativity and fleur for strategic design thinking has nonetheless stuck – we will have a glimpse into this amazing think tank, to learn their take on innovation and beyond. (Onsite visit)

Wired Magazine
Exclusively, Wired Magazine editors have welcomed us at their San Francisco HQ. Here, the worlds leading technology magazine no 1, will give us a glimpse of what´s next in tech. (Onsite visit)

Afternoon and evening
Napa Valley
After crossing Golden Gate we will drive into the Wine country and NapaValley. We will stretch our thinking together, sum up, debate the strategicoutput of the week, further steps and the future of organizational innovation – before indulging in Michelin stared restaurants & local wines!