Wicked Acceleration

New Approaches to Complex Challenges

8th June 2021, 4 - 5:30pm BST
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In this webinar we will introduce the building blocks of Wicked Acceleration, highlighting the limitations of the current dominant approaches and how Wicked Labs will address this critical systemic gap in practice. We will feature experts from Imperial College London, Royal College of Art, CERN, Telefonica, Daimler, World Economic Forum, Board of Innovation, among others to discuss about their specific approaches to tackle wicked problems via circular economy innovation, deep tech acceleration, corporate new venture engagement as well as moonshoot design and orchestration.

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In this webinar we introduce the building blocks of Wicked Acceleration, highlighting the limitations of the current dominant approaches and how Wicked Acceleration Labs will address this critical systemic gap in practice. We feature experts from Imperial College London, Royal College of Art, CERN, Deep Science Ventures, Telefonica (KOA Health), World Economic Forum, SGInnovate, SOFOFA Hub, UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) and Google X (Loon) to discuss their specific approaches to tackling wicked problems via circular economy innovation, deep tech acceleration, corporate new venture engagement as well as moonshoot design and orchestration.

Program

Panel 1:
Deep Tech Acceleration: Discussion on how to better orchestrate the loop from Scientific Discovery to Enterprise and Societal Value?
Featuring: Nick Leon (RCA & Wicked Acceleration Labs), Markus Nordberg (CERN) and Dominic Falcao (Deep Science Ventures)

Panel 2:
Wicked Acceleration and Circular Economy Innovation: the case of World Economic Forum’s Scale 360 project to envision desirable futures in multiple stakeholders settings.
Featuring: Mike Pinder (Wicked Acceleration Labs Co-Founder), Helen Burdett (Lead Circular Economy Innovation, Scale360°, World Economic Forum), Alan Garcia (Executive Director SOFOFA Hub, Chile) and Sze-Ki Sim (Executive Director – Community & Brand, SGInnovate) and Aisha Al Souqi (Environmental Researcher, green development and environmental affairs dept, MOCCAE)

Panel 3:
How to successfully design and run Corporate Moonshots: Lessons Learned from Telefonica (Koa Health) and Google X (Loon).
Featuring: Erkko Autio (Imperial College Business School & Wicked Acceleration Labs), Ollie Smith (KOA Health), Esra Ozkan (Google X - Loon) and Nicolas Rebolledo (RCA & Wicked Acceleration Labs)

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