Innovation Ecosystems Summit - Featured Speakers

“In periods of industry turmoil, industry transformation is a given. In industry there are two kinds of companies, ones that play chess and ones that play checkers. The chess players shape their destiny while the checkers players have it inflicted upon them. . . You have to consider the total ICT ecosystem, its funding base and its diverse global customer base.”

- John Roese, Senior Vice President and GM North American R&D at Huawei

“To accelerate innovation ecosystems, we need social innovation - to create new markets, to create new jobs, and to change our idea of what constitutes growth and improvement.”

- Diogo Vasconcelos, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco

“Complex systems have underlying organizing principles. Understanding the properties of scale-free networks will be valuable as we move beyond network topologies to probe the intricate and often subtle dynamics taking place within those complex systems.”

- Albert-László Barabási, Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University

“A dramatic change in approach to innovation is required if we wish to sustain our competitive advantage. . . Innovation is not a singular and independent activity but is more appropriately described as a multi- dimensional system of interacting factors, processes and agents.”

- Egils Milberg, Executive Director, Washington Economic Development Commission

“Cities may be the key building blocks for a sustainable planet, where innovations can quickly scale to impact the lives of millions of people. Cities provide opportunities to more rapidly deploy and scale up smarter systems and maybe even discover an equivalent of Moore’s Law for improving value in service interactions between entities.”

- Jim Spohrer, Director, Almaden Services Research, IBM Almaden Research Center