Dublin to host Open Innovation conference

The global thought leadership conference, Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2.0), will be hosted at the Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland, on 12 June marking the second year the event will be held in the city.

The conference, to be attended by Horizon 2020 Projects, will bring together over 300 high-level decision makers, leading innovation experts and practitioners from across the globe for this one day event, with the purpose of encouraging practical innovation adoption for the betterment of society as a whole.

OI2.0 is intended to come up with new solutions to issues such as healthcare challenges, transportation, climate change, youth unemployment, financial stability, prosperity, sustainability.

Professor Martin Curley, vice president and director of Intel Labs Europe, and Bror Salmelin, advisor for innovation systems at the European Commission, Directorate-General Communications Networks, Contents and Technology, will chair the first plenary, ‘Open Innovation 2.0 in Theory and Action’.

Commenting ahead of the event, Curley said: “This conference is a wonderful opportunity to bring together like-minded innovators to co-create a new innovation ecosystem to better enable the quadruple helix of government, industry, academia and the general public to collaborate together for better progress. Last year, the conference generated fantastic results and we’ve really seen impressive movements forward in Europe in the last 12 months with regard to innovation progress and adoption. The 2014 event will build on the successes of 2013 and move into the next stage of Europe’s innovation development.”

Topics for discussion at the 2014 event include ‘Living the Dublin Innovation Declaration’, ‘Internet of Everything and Smart Cities’, ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’, and ‘Innovation through the Crowd’. OI2.0 is organised by Intel Labs Europe, the European Commission, the Open Innovation and Strategy Policy Group and Dublin City Council.