Workshop on Open Innovation and Digital Transformation

Digital transformation and innovation are on the top priorities of corporate leaders worldwide today. Digital disruption is ubiquitous, and the pace of transformation is accelerating. Non-conventional digital players are emerging in virtually every industry – undermining the dominance of incumbents. Yet, this profound transformational period also presents unprecedented opportunities for legacy companies open to innovation.

The workshop on Open Innovation and Digital Transformation will examine: how digital disruption happens and how forward-looking companies are responding – transforming customer interactions, enhancing asset efficiency and productivity and building new types of organisation with new products, new services and new business models.

The workshop will notably discuss on how these companies partner for innovation, how they engage with external stakeholders to develop innovative solutions that combine internal and external innovation capabilities through acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances, corporate venture capital, entrepreneurial incubators, crowdsourcing, etc.

Discussion will also focus on how the lack of legacy business models and infrastructure combined with new digital technologies can offer a window of opportunity for businesses in emerging economies to leapfrog competitors in the developed world and get ahead in digital transformation.