Enter to Win a Free Ticket to The Economist's March Event

Want a chance to win a free ticket ($1,500 value) to The Economist's event - "Innovation Fresh Thinking For the Ideas Economy" at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley on March 23-24, 2010?

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Enter by midnight GMT on March 2, 2010. Winner will be announced March 3, 2010.

If you don't want to enter the contest but would like to save $150 off event registration, see the discount code at the bottom of this article.


There will be a lot of great, top-flight speakers at this event, including:

• Clayton Christensen and Michael Porter (by Video Link)
  
• Arianna Huffington - Editor in Chief, Huffington Post
  
• Tim Brown - CEO, IDEO
  
• David Kelley - Head, Stanford Design School
  
• Judy Estrin - Author, "Closing the Innovation Gap"
  
• Scott Berkun - Author, "Myths of Innovation"
  
• Roger Martin - Dean, Rotman School of Business
  
• Paul Saffo - Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media X Network
  
• Matt Mullenweg - Founder, Wordpress
  
• John Kao - Author, "Innovation Nation"

As an added value for our loyal Blogging Innovation readers, we have negotiated a $150 discount when you register using our discount code - "BLINN" - register now.

We hope to see you there!


EDITOR'S NOTE: Winner is still responsible for all travel costs and the ticket is granted at The Economist's discretion not ours. There is only ONE (1) ticket up for grabs in this contest and it will be awarded to ONE (1) winner.


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Braden Kelley is the editor of Blogging Innovation and founder of Business Strategy Innovation, a consultancy focusing on innovation and marketing strategy. Braden is also @innovate on Twitter.

World Innovation Forum Posts (updated)

I recently updated some of my World Innovation Forum (May 5-6, 2009) posts to add slides for some of the presentations.

You can also download the World Innovation Forum Executive Summary from our site - lovingly assembled by business analysts from ExecuNet.

The conference lineup included - Paul Saffo, CK Prahalad, Vijay Govindarajan, Clayton Christensen, Fred Krupp, and Dan Ariely

Here is a list of all of the posts from my World Innovation Forum trip with the posts that have been updated with slides at the top:

• Paul Saffo (updated)


• Vijay Govindarajan (updated)


• Clayton Christensen (1st Session) (updated)


• Dan Ariely (updated)


• ?WhatIf! Innovation Field Trip (Apple Store and OZOlab)


• Interview with CEO Alexander Tsiaras of TheVisualMD


• Brightidea visit with Co-founder Vincent Carbone


• CK Prahalad


• Clayton Christensen (2nd Session)


• Fredd Krupp

A thank you goes out to HSM Americas and the presenters for the slides.


Braden Kelley (@innovate on Twitter)

Top 10 Paul Saffo Insights - World Innovation Forum

Taking a slightly different approach than other World Innovation Forum bloggers, I've distilled my time with Paul Saffo down into these Top 10 Insights:

1. There are times when the uncertainty is so great that you shouldn't even forecast at all


2. Google becoming richer as people 'contribute' search strings - Where else do you think you are consuming but actually contribute?


3. 2/3 of Roomba owners give them a name - 1/3 take them with them to friend's house or on vacation


4. Innovative ideas often take about twenty years to succeed - If you find something that has been failing for almost 20 years, pay special attention


• LucasFilm Habitat failed 20 yrs ago, others followed in failure, then Second Life took off


5. People tend to substitute forward velocity as a measure of succcess


6. Sometimes bad management is what allows innovation to happen


7. The innovators' trap is mistaking a clear view for a short distance


8. People talk about innovations as an S-curve. Most people look at the inflection point. Look at the flat spot instead.


9. Forecasters tend to over-estimate the short-term and under-estimate the long-term


10. If you want to make sense of the future, look back - Look back twice as far as you are looking forward

Finally, I'd like to end with a quote from Mark Twain:

"History doesn't repeat itself, at best it sometimes rhymes"


UPDATED May 24, 2009 - Here are the slides from Paul Saffo's presentation at the World Innovation Forum:

Paul Saffo - World Innovation Forum

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What do you think?


Braden Kelley (@innovate on Twitter)