07:00 – 07:10 AM (WAT)
10:00 – 10:10 AM (EAT)
12:45 – 12:55 PM (GMT +5:45)
02:00 – 02:10 PM (ICT)

Welcome

Douglas MacKevett

Moderator

07:10 – 07:35 AM (WAT)
10:10 – 10:35 AM (EAT)
12:55 – 01:20 PM (GMT +5:45)
02:10 – 02:35 PM (ICT)

Opening Keynote WIForum Agenda 2030

Equal Prosperity 2030 Throughout history, the purpose of innovation was highly questionable, driven by extraordinary people with unimaginable economic results. In the 1880’s Germany was poor and did not need an automobile. In the same time period, Switzerland was the poorest country in Europe and did not need a Railroad. In the 1900′, the US west coast was a poor farmland and did not need a high tech industry. In the 1990’s South Korea and in the 2010’s Africa. This decade will be a defining time period for most emerging countries but also for the developed world. Innovation will be seen across the planet. And that innovation will no longer come from the old sources but from the world. There will be more innovative and prosper nations by 2030 than ever before imaginable.

Axel Schultze

Chairman World Innovations Forum

07:35 – 07:55 AM (WAT)
10:35 – 10:55 AM (EAT)
01:20 – 01:40 PM (GMT +5:45)
02:35 – 02:55 PM (ICT)

Learning in extraordinary times: understanding and embracing learning variability

By 2030, the Jacobs Foundation aims to become a leading learning foundation, supporting learning systems in selected low–, middle–, and high–resource contexts. Over the next ten years, Jacobs Foundation will seek to promote evidence-based decision making in public policy and corporate practices, with a view to providing children with relevant learning opportunities so that they are able to acquire the skills they need to thrive, and to improving society in the face of change and uncertainty.

Fabio Segura

Jacobs Foundation, Switzerland

07:55 – 08:15 AM (WAT)
10:55 – 11:15 AM (EAT)
01:40 – 02:00 PM (GMT +5:45)
02:55 – 03:15 PM (ICT)

Entrepreneurship Development

Podium Discussion on emerging and developing countries. What works what didn’t. An amazing opportunity for prosperity by the end of the decade.

Axel Peyriere

Entrepreneurship development expert, Startup Investor, Mentor for Emerging Markets, Australia

Alex Lanz

Happel Foundation, Switzerland

Teresa Widmer

SwissContact, Switzerland

08:15 – 08:30 AM (WAT)
11:15 – 11:30 AM (EAT)
02:00 – 02:15 PM (GMT +5:45)
03:15 – 03:30 PM (ICT)

Innovative Startups present

Pitch 1, Q+A, feedback

Owen Sakawa

RepairNet Inc.
Kenya

08:30 – 08:45 AM (WAT)
11:30 – 11:45 AM (EAT)
02:15 – 02:30 PM (GMT +5:45)
03:30 – 03:45 PM (ICT)

Innovative Startups present

Pitch 2, Q+A, feedback

Eddy Richauvet

ShopRunBack
Cambodia

08:45 – 09:00 AM (WAT)
11:45 – 12:00 PM (EAT)
02:30 – 02:45 PM (GMT +5:45)
03:45 – 04:00 PM (ICT)

Vietnam

Entrepreneurs & Innovation Ecosystem progress and opportunities for the country and foreigners coming here.

Dung Trung Nguyen

Country Ambassador

09:00 – 09:25 AM (WAT)
12:00 – 12:25 PM (EAT)
02:45 – 03:10 PM (GMT +5:45)
04:00 – 04:25 PM (ICT)

Check your BS! A mindset for success

Future is the only time we can influence How you can set your mind as entrepreneur for the future you shape

Michael Vaz

Accor Group, Singapore

09:25 – 09:40 AM (WAT)
12:25 – 12:40 PM (EAT)
03:10 – 03:25 PM (GMT +5:45)
04:25 – 04:40 PM (ICT)

Innovative Startups present

Pitch 3, Q+A, feedback

Lin Hwang

DamoGo
South Korea & Indonesia

09:40 – 09:55 AM (WAT)
12:40 – 12:55 PM (EAT)
03:25 – 03:40 PM (GMT +5:45)
04:40 – 04:55 PM (ICT)

Startup Success Story

Tobias Gunzenhauser

Yamo
Switzerland

09:55 – 10:10 AM (WAT)
12:55 – 01:10 PM (EAT)
03:40 – 03:55 PM (GMT +5:45)
04:55 – 05:10 PM (ICT)

Building the Innovation of Nations

To innovate is to set a new basis of competition in an economy, business sector or market. Most times, it results to disruption. The speech is designed for private (large, SMEs, startups) and public institutions audience. We will connect prosperity to accumulation of capabilities and the diffusion of innovation systems.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe

FASMICRO Group, Nigeria

10:10 – 10:30 AM (WAT)
01:10 – 01:30 PM (EAT)
03:55 – 04:15 PM (GMT +5:45)
05:10 – 05:30 PM (ICT)

The Innovations Age

What it will mean to live in the Innovations Age. Innovation started 300,000 years ago with the sophisticated stone headed spear. It took another 270,000 years to evolve the spear to bow and arrow. only 30,000 years to the catapult, but also to the plow and other tools and today we have daily patent registrations and new innovations. Every innovation drives at least two new innovations – an exponential growth. A glimpse into the very near future.of the current decade.

Axel Schultze

Chairman World Innovations Forum

10:30 AM (WAT)
01:30 PM (EAT)
04:15 PM (GMT +5:45)
05:30 PM (ICT)

Closing Statement Day 1

Douglas MacKevett

Moderator