Imagination turns into Innovation

Creativity and ingenuity is the biggest value of humanity. It makes us different from any machine ever created.

Event Agenda

Wednesday, April 21st at:

  • 9:00 AM CET | 2:00 PM ICT | 4:00 PM KST (EU/Asia Session)
    Duration 90 minutes
  • 5:00 PM CET | 11:00 AM ET | 8:00 AM PT (EU / Americas Session)
    Duration 90 Minutes

Let us celebrate ingenuity and creativity – the biggest difference between humanity and robotics. We may get to nearly 100% automation; industrial automation, office automation, and any other repeatable job. By then Ingenuity and Creativity will remain to be our biggest assets. Let’s cultivate, develop embrace and seriously enhance our most important talent.

Welcome Note to World Innovations Day
Axel Schultze (Chairman)

  • Ingenuity relative to AI and its future  
  • Ingenuity in the context of full automation
  • Ingenuity and our education system

Introduction to the Ingenuity Cup and World Innovations Day
Cleo Dan (PM) and Axel Schultze

  • Introducing top innovation teams from around the world
  • During this online event, we will discuss with some experts and you:
    • Imagination and innovation. A perfect pairing
    • Why nobody will be able to copy the disruptive ideas of the teams
    • How is an open innovation project organized
    • Intellectual property ruling in an open innovation project
    • Ingenuity Cup: An open innovation challenge
  • Q & A 

Next steps in the Ingenuity Cup Contest
Alyssa King (Marketing Manager)

  • How you can follow the team’s progress over the next 40 days
    • Learn from the public open project  by joining it, following it, staying in touch
    • How you could still join the competition
    • The award ceremony on June 22
  • Q & A

This online event is aimed at everyone who wants to turn imagination into innovation and wants to bring “outside of the box” thinking into their company. 

PREPARE YOUR QUESTIONS
You may want to send us your questions ahead of the event so we can address them

We look forward to welcoming you as a guest to our free online event.

Background Information

What is World Innovations Day? 

World Innovations Day is celebrated across the world on April 21. It started originally in Brazil, then was supported by the United Nations, and is also celebrated as Creativity and Innovations Day. At World Innovations Forum, we prefer using ingenuity over creativity because we feel ingenuity best reflects the talent to innovate.

Background of Human Ingenuity

Homo Sapiens made the first attempt to innovate about 300,000 years ago, and then a major boost in ingenuity happened around 12,000 years ago in the Agricultural Revolution. With the understanding of farming and domesticating animals, homo sapiens were able to produce more food than they needed. This allowed others in the community to develop tools, build huts, and more. The more tools we built, the more specialized we became, the more productive was our hunting and farming.

We began to complement the lack of our natural powers with tools. About 5,000 years ago, we began to actually teach people the art of craftsmanship to specialize further. We could not swim long enough so we built boats. We found not lift enough so we built cranes. We could not travel fast enough so we built wagons. By then, already 10% of our working population were able to care about security and comfort, no longer caring about food production.

Another big boost happened around 200 years ago during the Industrial Revolution. We augmented almost all our powers with machines. We crossed our entire planet in a matter of hours by flying, we built stronger material like steel, we built bigger and higher houses, we calculated almost any task through computers, communicate around the world via the internet and we showed the ability to leave our planet to go to another planet. We harness almost every physical power we needed.

The ratio between food production and producing from 90% and 10% flipped to 10% and 90%. Top nations even have a production ratio of 97% and 3% food production. The number of highly innovative people however was still very small, around 0.007% across the planet. Yet it rose to over 5% in the most developed and emerging nations. Looking after the ratio between Creative Work versus Repetitive Work appears to be the next major shift in humanity. If Homo Sapiens wants to solve all of its biggest challenges, it needs far more creative people and needs to tap into its final frontier – augmenting their intellectual powers with machines. Only then, our abilities are only limited by our dreams.

With that development, homo sapiens will be able to sustain life on earth beyond the lifespan of our planet. We may even consider Earth the nest that bred our species to carry it forward outside that nest like any other species – in just a bigger dimension. Life on earth has its natural timely limit, but our natural given ingenuity may be given to us to overcome even that limit.