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On Friday, September 16th, Churchill Club proudly presents Igniting Innovation & Mastering Change: A Day-long Conversation in Three Acts, a series of discussions presenting new perspectives and examining opportunities for advancing information locally, nationally, and around the world. Speakers and audience members will engage in discussions and focus on takeaways and insights throughout the day in three segments:  Here: Innovation in Silicon Valley,  There: Innovation in America and Around the World,  & Then: Inventing the Future. Reserve your space today!

The stellar list of speakers will include

• Shubber Ali, Innovation Lead - Silicon Valley, Accenture
• Dave Blakely, Head, Technology Strategy Practice, IDEO
• Curt Carlson, CEO, SRI International 
• Russ Conser, Head of Game Changer Program, Shell 
• Gordon K. Davidson, Firm Chairman & Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West
  
• Richard Dickson, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP
• Ricardo dos Santos, Senior Director, Business Development, Qualcomm
• Steve Hoover, CEO, PARC
• Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Rhythm NewMedia
• Randy Komisar, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
• Geoffrey Moore, Author, Speaker, Advisor
• Will Price, CEO, Flite
• Sudhakar Ramakrishna, EVP & GM of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer, Polycom
  
• Roy Rosin, VP Innovation, Intuit
• Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics
• John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, USC; Independent Co-director, Deloitte Center for the Edge
• Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley and Columnist for the Washington Post and BusinessWeek
  
• Ann Winblad, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Eric Young, Partner, Canaan Partners
  

The Churchill Club Awards on 9.15 and Igniting Innovation & Mastering Change, A Day-long Conference in Three Acts on 9.16 are presented as the final events of Churchill Club's 25th anniversary celebration year.

*Combo ticket price for Igniting Innovation & Mastering Change: A Day-long Conversation in Three Acts and Churchill Club Awards.

Event Schedule

8:00 a.m.               Registration/continental breakfast

9:00 a.m.               Welcome & 25^th Anniversary reel

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ACT I: HERE         INNOVATION IN SILICON VALLEY

                             Leaders and innovators in Silicon Valley/the West Coast share perspectives, examine opportunities and debate challenges for ratcheting up innovation and growth

 9:15 a.m.               Silicon Valley Innovation – An Endless Frontier?

                             Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics

                             Geoffrey Moore, Author, Speaker, Advisor

10:00 a.m.             Innovation in Silicon Valley – Whose Game is It?

Gordon Davidson, Firm Chairman & Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West

Steve Hoover, CEO, PARC

Ann Winblad, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad

Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics (moderator)

 11:00 a.m.             Break

11:15 a.m.             Interactive breakout sessions

1)     Innovation: From Serendipity to Predictability

Lessons learned at Intuit and Accenture on building an effective and rapid innovation capability with Brainstorm. Led by Roy Rosin, VP of Innovation, Intuit; Shubber Ali, Global Lead, Accenture Innovation Center of Excellence

 2)     Reinvention and Pivoting 

Takeaway session about what can be learned from companies who have reinvented themselves or pivoted. Led by Richard Dickson, Partner, Fenwick and West, with Sudhakar Ramakrishna, EVP of Unified Communications Solutions, Polycom; and Randy Komisar, Partner, Kleiner Perkins, Will Price, CEO, Flite; Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Rhythm NewMedia Inc.

 Noon                     Lunch & networking            

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ACT II: THERE      INNOVATION IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD

Conversations about the evolution of innovation in other parts of the nation and world.  

 1:00 p.m.               An Abundance of Opportunities, a Scarcity of Innovation

Curt Carlson, CEO, SRI

1:45 p.m.               Mastering the Global Innovation Economy

                             Russ Conser, Head of Game Changer Program, Shell

Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley and Columnist, Washington Post and BusinessWeek

Eric Young, Co-founder & General Partner, Canaan Partners

Curt Carlson, CEO, SRI (moderator).

 2:45 p.m.              Break

 3:00 p.m.               Interactive breakout sessions

1)     Innovating Innovation

In speed dialogue fashion, a demonstration of innovation by creating an experience through dialogues and illustration that covers the evolution of innovation, the importance of improved partnering/connectivity and reflects on innovating innovation to create new possibilities. Led by Russ Conser, Head, GameChanger Program, Shell

2)     Collective Entrepreneurship

A candid discussion about motivation, accomplishments, and challenges in designing and managing the five years of Qualcomm’s internal venture accelerator program, the Venture Fest., which fosters a global culture of competitive entrepreneurism. Led by Ricardo dos Santos, Head, Innovation Network and Venture Fest, Qualcomm; and Dave Blakely, Head, Technology Strategy Practice, IDEO.

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ACT III: …& THEN INVENTING THE FUTURE

                              A provocative and inspiring view of the future

 3:45 p.m.              Enacting the Future: Socio-technical Perspective and the Next Cambrian

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                              John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, USC, Independent Co-director, Deloitte Center for the Edge

 4:30 p.m.               Closing session

Review of takeaways from the day, and a toast

4:50 p.m.                Cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception

Event Contact Information
Please send questions to info@churchillclub.org or 408.265.0130

Sponsorships and Tables
For details and availability, contact Marcia Loggins at mloggins@churchillclub.org or 408.979.5126

Corporate Members
Passes are not accepted.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Contributing Sponsors:

	The Moon Agency
	Filiberto Rodriguez, Churchill Club Award Designer