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2014
TOP SPEAKERS

2014 BUSINESS
PARTNERS

Berlin / Germany
2014 POST EVENT REPORT
February 24 25, 2014
150+
Attendees

18+
Case Studies
& Speakers

Trend & Technology Foresight | Trend-based Business Model
Innovation & Business Model Design | Strategy and Process
Application and Realization of Growing Technologies |
Integration of Disruptive Technologies | Effective Innovation-
Management


Technology foresight & anticipation of technological leaps:
From trends to markets

Absorptive capacity and ambidexterity: Key-factors for the
improvement of adaptation and innovation capacity

Factors of success for the implementation of disruptive
technologies

The establishment of viable future innovation and technology
management

Trend based business model innovation & business model design

The DTIM 2014 conference offered a platform where 18 leading companies gave insights and
examples on technology trends and future-research, strategies, processes and effective
innovation-management. All based on the early identification of disruptive technologies and
integration of radical developments.

Over 150 attendees have used the conference actively and discussed contemporary challenges,
ideas and progresses. Our World Caf and Challenge Your Peers roundtable sessions offered an
interactive platform for network-growth and for getting questions on industry-related subjects
answered.

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World Caf themes-overview:
Front End Innovation Shaping processes and structures for market
conditions
Global Product Development Management Benchmark Study 2013
Business Model Innovation Open Innovation 2.0
Future scenarios for strategies, business-models and innovation
Absorptive capacity- Key competences for maintaining innovation-
capacity and overcoming disruptive changes
Instructions for avoiding innovation
Ambidexterity in practice How an innovative climate, utilizing
explorative and exploitative settings can be managed and what levers
can be used


The Challenge Your Peers Session offered 6 different themes, which invited our
delegates for discussion. The Disruptive Intelligence and Innovation Foresight
Minds evolved around six main topics:
Organizing development between incremental improvement and
disruptive innovation
Strategic options when handling disruptive technologies
Effective organization and integration of technology-management
Factors of success for the implementation of disruptive technologies
Conditions and strategies for the marketing of novel technologies
New methods for technology and trend-scouting
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INNOVATIVE-INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
The Icebreaker Session invited to take part in an information rich get to know
each other and relaxed networking at the evening prior to the first conference
day.

Each of the 4 tables featured a short presentation on different topics, which
allowed the attendees to partake in informative discussions.
Attendees of the DTIM 2014

INSIGHTS & IMPRESSIONS 2014































ACCESS TO OUR MEDIACENTER
PROMINENT SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS
WORLD CAF Thomas Andrae, 3M

Thomas Andrae discussed at his World Caf
Session, Open Innovation 2.0 & the targeted
development of new business-models. From
coincidence to strategic routine, corporate
venturing as a key to strategic company-
cooperation and the definition of new business
areas based on innovative start-up ideas.
CASE STUDY Dr. Kai Grassie, Giesecke &
Devrient GmbH
Dr. Kai Grassie spoke to the audience about
innovation in the field of disruptive technologies, by
referring to examples from the field of mobile
security, and gave insights on complex
ecosystems, technology innovation, business-
model innovation and Smartcards to mobile
security.
CASE STUDY Dr. Georg Oenbrink, Evonik Industries
AG
Dr. Georg Oenbrink presented future-compatible
innovation-management and the approaches, methods and
experiences at Evonik Industries. Hereby he focused on the
themes: open innovation, technology scouting and industry
development-cooperation, as well as crowd-sourcing and
social media based innovation of the Evonik Call for
research proposal. All of the topics reflected experiences
and results from the company based knowledge-pool.

2014
PREMIERE DTIM EUROPE


October 13 14, 2014 in Berlin





Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Foresight Minds 2014
INTERNATIONAL
CASE STUDY Dr. Paolo Bavaj, Henkel AG & Co.
KGaA
Dr. Paolo Bavaj analyzed the topic Trend-based
Innovation through Foresight Management and Scouting
and gave insights on the creation of a New Business
Development Group for Breakthrough Innovation and
Foresight Management on the basis of relevant mega-
trends.


CHALLENGE YOUR PEERS Dr. Arndt
Schlosser, Wacker Chemie AG

Dr. Arndt Schlosser engaged the delegates at his
Challenge Your Peers Roundtable in discussion
about success factors for the implementation of
disruptive technologies, in order to inspire new
ideas and solutions.



CiMi.CON Evolution 2014



Smart Variant.con 2014



June 16 17, 2014, Berlin

From Competitive & Market Intelligence to
CI & MI 3.0



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June 23 24, 2014, Berlin

Efficient handling of variant-management and
product-complexity through continuous product
development and engineering-process


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Smart Remote Services 2014


Smart Automotive Variant.con


September 29 30, 2014, Berlin

Global service structures & platform
management, predictive maintenance & sensor,
data & IT-Security, Network production &
industry 4.0

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November 20 21, 2014, Berlin

Variant & Complexity Management, Development &
Growth, Engineering & Construction,
Smart Automotive Variant Planning


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