Program - Day 2

Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
One United Nations Plaza
44th Street (Between First and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10017

Learn how Open Collaboration and Incentivized Competition can drive innovation for healthcare companies while providing solutions for the entire healthcare system.

There is near-unanimous agreement that traditional approaches to healthcare are not working, with devastating consequences for millions of people. Fresh solutions are urgently needed to provide access and find cures.

The experts will highlight concrete ways in which the healthcare industry has used open collaboration and incentivized competition to spur advancement.

The panel will serve as a launching point for small-group discussions among participants on how they can bring these principles and best practices into their industry and their organization.

The moderator will facilitate a discussion about the “best solutions” that came out of the conversations, by asking individuals from each group to share their best ideas.

Chairman & CEO,
X PRIZE Foundation

As the founder of the largest professional networking service with over 40 million members worldwide, Reid Hoffman will share his views on how entrepreneurial ventures must either innovate against no competitors or bad competitors.

Thomas Kalil will share his insight on the government’s role in driving innovation.

These experts will engage the audience in a conversation about how principles and tools, currently being employed by the rapidly growing and innovating energy and environment sector, can be used.

Chairman
Freedom Prize Foundation

 

The breakout groups will discuss ways in which they can leverage prizes in their own work.

The moderator will discuss best practices from amongst the breakouts and ask the panel to react.

CEO, InnoCentive

To achieve maximum ongoing results, innovation can’t be a one-time fad, but needs to be embedded within an organization’s culture. Learn from some who made the change, how they did it and about the benefits they continue to realize.

Mr. Spradlin will discuss how InnoCentive works to radically change corporate culture by “bringing the outsider in” through crowdsourcing, which accesses the collective intelligence of external scientists and engineers around the world.

A conversation with leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors on how they’ve collaborated to spur development and advancement on a global scale. The experts will discuss how our global world creates increasing opportunities for innovative partnerships.

The breakout groups will discuss ways that they can leverage open collaboration and prizes in their own work.

The moderator will discuss best practices from amongst the breakouts and ask the panel to react.

Co-Author Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World