Innova Flanders 2022 - Make Innovation Real

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Innova Flanders is the first cross-industry and cross-technology innovation-focused conference of Europe. At Innova, we do not just show you innovations and technologies that are happening right now, but we will actually show you how to innovate as a company, how to innovate as an organization, and how to collaborate in order to drive innovation within your own organization or company. We will also help you in building out your local ecosystem; collaboration is our main focus point.

When you leave Innova Flanders after the third day of the conference we want to make sure that you make innovation real.

With our Keynote Sessions, you will be inspired by six cross-industry disruptive trends:

- Digital transformation

- Sustainability

- Robotics

- Health

- 21st-century Workforce

- Education

Some of our Global Keynote Speakers

• Daniel Deneffe - Harvard University
• Amair Saleem - Dubai RTA
• David De Schutter - AB InBev
• Brecht De Roo & Benjamin Vandeputte - Agoria
• Nicola Palmarini - NICA
• Joyce & Raissa De Haas - Double Dutch
• Babatunde Akindele - Verizon
• Pedro S. Pereira - SAP
• Joan Van Loon - IBM
• Hitendra Patel - Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI)
• Maarten Leyts - Trendwolves
• Vince Tobias - Ayala
• Bruno Reyntjens - VITO
• Omar Hatamleh

The Break-out Session will give you the added value that you need. We will discuss:

- Make It Real - Innovation Management: these break-out sessions will make innovation real for your specific organization. We discuss and show how an organisation can build innovation strategies, capacity and discipline in order to accelerate strategic growth (Innovation 4.0, Future Foresight, Innovation through Certification)

- Go Beyond - Open Innovation: connecting the world together. Speaker Sessions, workshops, and testimonials that will show you how to work effectively and efficiently go to market Faster, Cheaper, Better, Bigger, and Bolder. Turning ideas into reality through Open Innovation initiatives (Innovation Olympics, Innovation Centers of Excellence)

- Winning Together - Ecosystem Innovation: speaker sessions and workshops focusing on Economic Development and Social Innovation. The Founding Members of the Global Council of Innovative Entities will present how Innovation initiatives have contributed to economic growth and development over the last decades and how they will continue to do so. Learn how to develop your ecosystem to Make It Real (City Innovation, Market Expansion Innovation through Collaboration, Global Council for Innovative Organisations)

- Change Together - Social Innovation: create the ability to generate and enable business model, organization, and system-level innovation to advance both business and social value. Shift your organization's collective focus from reactive problem-solving to co-creating a better society with your stakeholders (Social Innovation Crowdfunding, Do It Yourself Consulting, Small Business Innovation)

Some of our Global Speakers from the Break-out sessions

• David Neef - Plug & Play
• Catherine Van Der Straeten - MedTeg
• Carolina Duran - Former Secretary of Economic Development Bogota
• Vincent Defour - Trensition
• Serena Leka - Aarhus
• Leo Van de loock - VLAIO
• Benjamin Sywulka - QuickGrowth
• Jef Hooyberghs - VITO
• Glen Mathijssen - Alberts
• Boris Bogaert - Pitchdrive
• Maarten Callaert - Paperbox
• Rafael Lemaitre - SIA Partners
• Marc Engels - Flanders Make
• Dries Depoorter - Artist
• Tim Dieryckx - Voxdale
• Migena Gjerazi
• Eugenie Harvey - The Funding Network
• Liesbet Matthys & Dries Vanacker - Artevelde Hogeschool
• Stijn Ronsse, Eva Ryckeboer, Johan Bil - University of Gent
• Dr. Hazza Alneaimi - Global Council for Innovative Organizations
• Dieter De Smedt - City of Ghent
• Tom Braekeleirs - Bluehealth Innovation Center
• Pieter Deleye - Verhaert

Program Overview of Day 1 (June 15)

08:00 - 09:00 Welcome Session

09:15 - 12:55 6 Keynote Speakers, 2 Panel Discussions, & 1 Coffee Break

12:55 - 14:20 Lunch

14:20 - 17:15 15 Break-out Sessions & 1 Coffee Break

17:15 - 17:45 1 Keynote Session

17:45 - 19:00 Networking Drink

Schedule of the Opening Night

19:00 - 20:00 Reception with hors d'oeuvre

20:00 - 20:20 Speech by Jan Jambon (President of Flanders) & Mathias De Clercq (Mayor of Ghent)

20:25 - 21:30 Concert Experience Lumen Symphonicum

21:30 - ... Networking Dinner

Program Overview of Day 2 (June 16)

08:00 - 09:00 Welcome Session

09:00 - 12:40 6 Keynote Speakers, 2 Panel Discussions, & 1 Coffee Break

12:40 - 14:05 12 Break-out Sessions & 1 Coffee Break

17:00 - 17:50 1 Keynote, Closing presentation & announcement of the Winner of the Global Innovation Olympics

17:50 - 19:05 Networking Drink

Program Overview of Day 3 (June 17)

09:00 - 17:00 Training Day for Certified Innovation Professional Certificate (Level 1 & 2) / Training Day for Certified Innovation Manager Certificate (Level 3)

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Company Visits

Get an exclusive look behind the scenes of some of the most innovative companies in Belgium!

- Barco

- Living Tomorrow

- Tech Lane Ghent Science Park

- Fabriek Logistiek

Join us from June 15th till June 17th in Gent, Flanders, and become a global innovator through Innova Flanders!