Attendees for the closed expert session will get the chance to attend the Mobile Convention event afterwards, and get a taste of new possibilites and opportunities in the mobile realm. With over 30 keynote speakers among which Russell Buckley (AdMob) and Steve Wing (The Guardian), Raimo van der Klein (Layar) and Emil Salonen (Mobiento), this is a not to miss opportunity to stay ahead. Please send us an email if you want to attend (very limited seating capacity)

We all recognize that innovation is one of the few and perhaps the only consistent source of long-term competitive advantage in most industries and markets. Yet in so many organizations the innovation process is broken! How do we know this? Because cross industry success rates for new product innovations continue to hover around a dismally low 10-30%.

It is of vital importance for companies to improve their innovation success rate. This afternoon provides an important foundation for that change.Tony Ulwick will demonstrate how companies can develop a well-founded plan for growth using the latest thinking and research on innovation. You will leave knowing how to turn your innovation process into a lean, linear and predictable process. A process with proven tools that can be deployed in any organization to dramatically improve the success rate of innovation, create market growth opportunities and boost the bottom line.

Who should attend?
Directors, General Managers, Managers; anyone whose role it is to ensure that their company’s products and services gain profitable market share Marketing, R&D, Business Development, Product Management, Divisional
Management, C-level executives. If you would like to attend, please read on..

All businesses will benefit from this presentation including companies from Industry, Retail, Banking and Insurance, IT, Trade and Services. Per company a maximum of four people can attend.

Registration information and Details
Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to Miranda.Schot-Rovers@nl.abnamro.com This event will take place at the Dialogues House (for address details, please visit www.dialogueshouse.nl), 13.30-16.00 Dialogues House is located next to
Amsterdam Bijlmer station. Parking space is limited. If you would like to reserve a parking space, please reply timely with confirmation of your number plate

About Tony Ulwick
Author of bestselling book “What customers want”, a distinguished lecturer and world thought leader in the field of innovation. Over the past 20 years, Tony Ulwick has developed a groundbreaking methodology which is emerging as a new global standard for the front end of innovation, changing the way leading companies approach markets and pursue
opportunities. Tony Ulwick is founder and CEO of Strategyn.

Hans Rosling at Incubator Exchange during eDay09 from 10 on Vimeo.

After making guest appearances at Emerce eDay and Picnic, the latest installment of the Incubator Exchange brings the worlds of sports and innovation one step closer.

The 37th edition of the World Tennis Tournament, which takes place at Ahoy in Rotterdam from February 8-14, will sport the likes of Rafael Nadal, Robin Soderling and Novak Djokovic on its center court; an ideal occasion to bring Holland’s top innovators together as well. The 4th edition of the incubator exchange is scheduled in the morning of February 9. Attendees are thereafter invited as a VIP guest of ABN AMRO/Incubator Exchange, for the tennis tournament.

The preliminary program for the 4th edition of the Incubator Exchange is as follows:

program

9.30 Welcome
10.00 Introduction Jaspar Roos & Auke Ferwerda
10.30 Update Incubator Exchange
10.40 Institute for brilliant failures Paul Iske
11.20 Guest Speaker
12.00 Lunch in ABN AMRO VIP lounge
13.00 Tennis

If you feel your organization should be present at this event but has not been invited yet, please feel free to contact us. For more information about the World Tennis Tournament, please visit www.abnamro.nl/wtt

Venture watch
In close collaboration with our new partner Emerce, we are about to launch a blog (as part of the emerce website), reporting on relevant new ventures within (and beyond) the Netherlands. During the sessions @ eDay, we have already collected a list of some of the ventures you are working with; at Venture Watch we want to create a platform to provide coverage and exposure on these new startups. If you have venture launches or press releases of relevance, or if you feel you (and your organization/incubator) can contribute as a contributor or guest writer, please contact us.

Thematic session
Based on your feedback, the incubator exchange network will organize several thematic sessions, in addition to the semi-annual networking events, based on a similar open format, but wrapped in a central theme. We have already received several suggestions from various participants, and are currently working on a definitive format.

Over 70 parties have already enlisted for our coming event September 17. Those lucky to have been granted a ticket, please check your inbox for the latest registration information. As Emerce eDay has just sold out, there are no more seats available!