Events: innovation

• London EASY Summit
  • Starts: June 26, 2008 at 09:00 am
  • Ends: June 26, 2008 at 03:00 pm

  Speaker:

  None listed

  Location:

  NESTA, , 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

• NESTA Policy Breakfast with Rt Hon John Denham MP, Professor Luke Georghiou and Ian Pearson MP on The Future of Europe’s Research and Innovation System
  • Starts: July 03, 2008 at 08:00 am
  • Ends: July 03, 2008 at 09:30 am

  Speaker:

  Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State at the Department of Innovation, Skills and Universities
  Professor Luke Georghiou, Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management and Deputy Dean of Humanities at the University of Manchester
  Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for Science and Innovation
  

  Location:

  NESTA, , 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

• Innovation Index launch
  • Starts: July 07, 2008 at 05:00 pm
  • Ends: July 07, 2008 at 06:30 pm

  Speaker:

  Lord David Currie, Chairman of Ofcom
  Richard Halkett, Executive Director of NESTA's Policy & Research Unit
  Ian Pearson MP, Minister for Science & Innovation
  Vicky Pryce, Joint Head of the Government Economic Service and Chief Economic Adviser at BERR
  Ben Verwaayen, former Chief Executive of BT
  

  Location:

  NESTA, , 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

• The Future of the Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  • Starts: July 08, 2008 at 04:00 pm
  • Ends: July 08, 2008 at 07:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web
  Andy Duncan, Chief Executive of Channel 4
  Charlie Leadbeater, author of 'We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity'
  

  Location:

  NESTA, , 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

• NESTA Research Launch: Path Dependence and Innovation in British City Regions
  • Starts: July 09, 2008 at 03:30 pm
  • Ends: July 09, 2008 at 05:00 pm

  Speaker:

  None listed

  Location:

  NESTA, , 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

• "Green R&D": Developing products for a low-carbon and sustainable future
  • Starts: July 15, 2008 at 02:00 pm
  • Ends: July 15, 2008 at 05:30 pm

  Speaker:

  Ahmed Hashmi, Technology Vice President of BP plc
  Dr Mike Pitts, Manager of the Sustainable Technologies Priority for Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network
  Dr Robert Trezona, Head of R&D, The Carbon Trust
  

  Location:

  The Royal Society, , 7 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom

• The 2008 Duncan Davies lecture: The challenges of the 21st century, with Sir David King
  • Starts: July 15, 2008 at 06:00 pm
  • Ends: July 15, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford
  

  Location:

  The Royal Society, , 7 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom

• The Local Wellbeing Conference 2008
  • Starts: September 09, 2008 at 10:00 am
  • Ends: September 09, 2008 at 05:00 pm

  Speaker:

  Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive, Turning Point
  Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
  Professor Paul Dolan, Professor of Economics at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College
  Claire Fox, Director, Institute of Ideas and journalist
  Lucy de Groot, Executive Director, IDeA
  Ian Johnston, Apprenticeships Project Leader, Local Wellbeing Project
  Professor Lord Richard Layard, Founder and Director of LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, author of ‘Happiness: Lessons from a New Science'
  Sir Richard Leese CBE, Leader, Manchester City Council
  Irene Lucas, Chief Executive, South Tyneside Council
  Geoff Mulgan, Director, Young Foundation
  Paul Ormerod, Economist and author of “Why Most Things Fail... And how to avoid it'
  Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
  Rt Hon James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Department of Work and Pensions
  Dr Martin Seligman, Director of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Centre, and founder of Positive Psychology
  Nicola Steuer, Head of nef's Centre for Wellbeing, New Economics Foundation
  Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown, Chair of Public Health, Warwick University Medical School
  Caroline Tapster, Chief Executive, Hertfordshire County Council
  Diana Whitworth, Consultant
  

  Location:

  Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, , Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE United Kingdom