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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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Robin Bew, Chief Economist of the Economist Intelligence Unit, met with Sir George Cox, Former Chair of the Design Council, earlier this week to discuss how design thinking will aid the post-recession recovery.
Watch the conversation HERE
Robin Bew and Sir George Cox will be speaking at the Redesigning Business Summit on March 11th and 12th.
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We are delighted to announce that The Emerging Markets Summit will be taking place on September 15th-16th in London. This year we are encouraging potential delegates to feed back their views on what the most important issues affecting emerging markets are.
You can complete the survey by clicking here
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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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For immediate release: Monday, February 16th 2010
Leading economists are supporting the Design Council’s call for businesses to use design to transform how they do business and compete as Britain’s industries battle to recover from the effects of the recession.
Robin Bew, Chief Economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit said “Not only...
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An invited audience of senior finance decision-makers, leading strategists and influential commentators will come together in May to discuss the evolution of the CFO role and its associated challenges.
As they emerge out of the recession, CFOs find themselves with far more influence within their organisations. Technical accounting skills are less...
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For risk professionals the challenge is not solely geared around risk mitigation but the strategic role risk plays in driving business forward in today's recovering business landscape.
The Risk Summit 2010 will gather entrepreneurs, innovators, risk specialists and economists to the stage to debate the changing role of risk within business and map...
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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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The Global Agenda 2009 was held at The Dorchester in November 2010. Although the meeting was strictly off the record, we present the essence of the discussions in this summary paper below. We thank all participants for their contributions and look forward to bringing you news of future Global Agenda meetings.
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