Lisbon Council at Innovation Convention

The Lisbon Council took a leading role in the first Innovation Convention, the European Union’s flagship innovation event, led by José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European research, innovation and science commissioner. Ann Mettler, executive director, opened the conference on Monday, introducing President Barroso’s keynote and assisting in the presentation of the awards for Women Innovators Prize. Later, she chaired the plenary session with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, who delivered a powerful and electrifying keynote on In Search of a Better Problem.

The Lisbon Council also convened an oversubscribed fringe session in the margins of the Innovation Convention, where leading thinkers discussed and debated The Rise of the Micro-Multinational: How Freelancers and Technology Savvy Start-Ups Are Driving Innovation, a flagship Lisbon Council publication. Don Tapscott, award-winning co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and chair of the Tapscott Group, who was recently chosen by Thinkers 50 as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world, keynoted the session. Fabien Curto Millet, senior economist at Google, also joined the debate, giving new insight into evolving trends in collaboration and 21st century business models.

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