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Creative Innovation Global | Creative Innovation is an annual future shaping conference event. It is the place to learn from world changing innovators, futurists, inspired thinkers and curious souls gathered together in an interactive community.

Michio Kaku, PhD is a theoretical physicist, best selling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist and a popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything.

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Creative Innovation 2015 | From disruption to sustainable growth.

Creative Innovation Global | We need to find innovative solutions to the great problems of today to make them the opportunities of the future. Creative Innovation 2015 will feature over 40 global leaders, innovators and thinkers and deliver world class creative ideas and pragmatic solutions.

It will offer credible forecasts, strategies and practices to help transform you and the leadership of organizations.

Join big and small business, educators, entrepreneurs, creative and government leaders, emerging talent and leading thinkers from around the world. This is a must ­attend event for everyone seeking fresh insights, ideas, tools and connections.

Strategy, vision, innovation and growth. Innovate or die? Disrupt yourself or pay the price! The challenge of this century is to transform our organizations to adapt flexibly and rapidly to the ever ­changing and volatile environments we face. Giant disruption always heralds huge opportunities.

Nearly every industry today faces the risk of technology disrupting their existing business models by taking away their customers or changing the economics of their supply chains. In a world of change, standing still is no longer an option, but participating in disruption also has risks. How can leaders and organizations navigate this?

As industries such as finance, tourism, media, retail and education become global, new markets open up. Ideas become reality very quickly — just look at Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. New entrepreneurs are emerging in major new industries, ranging from social media and big data to biotechnology and neuroscience. Entrepreneurs are innovators.

Entrepreneurs are innovators. Businesses and business leaders need to be able to identify, develop and successfully market emerging, disruptive technologies.

This is daunting because, as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen observes, “markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed.” Leaders need to be discovery driven in their strategy and planning.

One of the key obstacles to success with this approach is our innate fear of failure. We will have to reduce cost structures while increasing productivity, adapt new ways of working, be willing to invest in what may be potentially disruptive technology and invent business models that challenge old ways of thinking.

We must find the great and small ideas, opportunities and human energy to create our future success. We have to maintain our commitment to creativity, innovation and growth even as we leave behind established business and market models that have served us so well in the past. We need to be willing, able and brave enough to lead the way into a new world.

Creative Innovation 2015 is a place to gain insights into how you can do this in your organization, your profession and your life.

This theme will be addressed at the personal, organizational and global level across the major sectors of business, industry, community and government. Sessions will allow delegates the opportunity to expand their scope of creative understanding and learn new strategies while also leveraging their innate, but sometimes hidden, right brained creative capabilities. Artists in residence will create moments of non-verbal content that help to change traditional mindsets.

Using innovative audience interaction the sessions will provide an exchange between presenter and audience.

The one way communication presentation style that stifles many conferences will be transformed by world class dialogues, facilitators, performers, provocateurs and “hot spot” debate centers.

The theme will also facilitate a deep conversation around important and challenging issues we face. A series of master classes with leading facilitators will enable delegates to take away new strategies and inspiration into their work and lives.

The gala dinner will feature discussion, world class speakers and entertainment and will allow for plenty of time for further networking and conversation.

Learn, think and debate with over 40 leading innovators and thinkers including:

• founder X Prize Foundation and co-founder Singularity University Peter Diamandis
• theoretical physicist, renowned futurist, scientist and best selling author Michio Kaku
• venture capitalist and CEO Our Crowd Jon Medved
• innovation expert and Harvard Business author Scott Anthony
• founder of Indiegogo Danae Ringelmann
• mindfulness expert and author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior Dan Millman
• UK government innovation leader Rory Gallagher
• design thinker, IDEO partner and Stanford University’s Institute Design Brendan Boyle
• economic development leader Ernesto Sirolli
• CEO of ANZ Global Wealth Joyce Phillips
• incoming CEO of CSIRO and venture capitalist Larry Marshall
• VC of Swinburne University Linda Kristjanson
• Telstra Director and leadership guru Steve Vamos
• Managing Director Microsoft Australia Pip Marlow
• scientist Tim Flannery
• founder of Freelancer Matt Barrie
• former Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner
• Coles and Wesfarmers CEO Ian McLeod
• ethicist, public policy and education leader Victoria University Rufus Black

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