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The Economist calls for nominations for the 2010 Innovation Awards.
Nominations for The Economist's Innovation Awards are now open and will be accepted until April 1st 2010. Readers may nominate individuals (not companies) in one of the seven following categories: bioscience, business process, computing and telecoms, consumer goods and services,...
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Werner Vogels, Vice-president and CTO of Amazon and John Linwood, Chief Technology Officer, BBC will join an array of discussion leaders at the CIO Agenda in June this year.
Werner Vogels is in charge of technology innovation at Amazon, and is an expert on cloud computing. He has his own blog about distributed systems and is considered to...
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On January 28th 2010, Economist Conferences, in association with Accenture, held its third Davos breakfast forum, based on the results of an ongoing research programme on globalisation conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. To watch the full discussion, please click here
The twin forces of globalisation and technology will...
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Watch the summary video of the 2009 Pharma Summit featuring Andrew Hotchkiss, Managing Director at Lilly UK; Richard Barker, Director General at ABPI and Wim Leereveld, Chair of the Access to Medicine Index.
This video briefly covers the discussions surrounding "agility and innovation in emerging markets".
For information on this year's Pharma...
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The president and CEO of GE International is joining us on day two of the Redesigning Business Summit in March. Nani Beccalli-Falco will be addressing an audience of 250 business leaders on the business model changes that have been implemented at GE, and he will look at the extent to which design can play an influential role in driving business...
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In the last five years we have seen the role of IT in the business evolve almost beyond recognition. No longer a discrete entity, technology is present throughout the workforce but not necessarily integrated. Social media are driving a major shift in the way our society interacts and collaborates, and one of the key challenges for the CIO is to...
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We are pleased to announce that Andrew Palmer, Finance Editor of The Economist will chair The CFO Summit, taking place in London on March 4th. He joins a distinguished list of speakers that includes the CFOs of seven FTSE 100 companies.
Confirmed speakers now include:
- Ian Dyson, Chief Financial Officer, Marks & Spencer ...
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For immediate release:Wednesday, October 14th 2009
The Economist’s Innovation Award for Computing and Telecommunications given to pioneer Raymond Kurzweil for contributions to optical character recognition and speech recognition technology
Come and meet Mr Kurzweil, inventor and futurist, as he accepts an award at The Economist’s Innovation...
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For immediate release:Monday, October 12th 2009
The Economist’s Innovation Award for Bioscience given to J. Craig Venter Ph.D., for contributions to genomic research
Winner’s genomic research recognised as potential to revolutionise personal medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biofuels
Come and meet Dr Venter, president of the J. Craig Venter...
