Innovation occurs at the intersection of invention and insight. With the example of IBM, the presentation will describe how ICT has fundamentally changed IBM's innovation process, how it has enabled massive and global collaboration around new ideas on a scale impossible before. It will then describe some exemplary innovation projects that are of importance to emerging geographies or deal with pressing problems such as the increasing cost of energy and CO2 emissions. It will close with a look at how some of the innovations for the emerging geographies, also hold the potential to significantly impact the developed first world.

Matthias Kaiserswerth, Director IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and Vice President Global Systems Management and Compliance Area Strategy, IBM Research
Since January 2006 he has led the IBM Research Strategy in Systems Management and Compliance, coordinating the research work across IBM's eight global research laboratories. In addition in June 2006, he was reappointed director of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.
Dr. Kaiserswerth holds a PhD in Computer Science. He is an honorary professor at Friedrich-Alexander University where he teaches applied computer science.