i4j Co-Founders/Chairs David Nordfors and Vint Cerf
Monique Morrow, Cisco
i4j Founding Partner
Dane Stangler, Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation
Foundation Partner
Stefano Scarpetta, OECD
Strategic Partner
Jacob Ziv, Prof. Em. Technion, Co-inventor LZ compression
Academic Advisor
Esther Wojcicki, Educator, Vice Chair Creative Commons
Sven Otto Littorin, co-founder i4j. CEO, Founder Serio
Anders Flodström. co-founder i4j. President Em KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
i4j Sponsors and Partners
ANALYZING THE ECOSYSTEM:
DISRUPTING EDUCATION:
EMERGING ECONOMIES:
JOB MATCHING: TALENT AND OPPORTUNITY:
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THE DISCIPLINE OF INNOVATION:
We have an innovation issue. Not a job issue. We can become as innovative in creating good jobs as we are in developing innovative products and services. How do we go about innovating meaningful work for everyone? How can we create a strong middle class innovative economy? What would it take for business, policy, and education leaders to work together to make it happen? The innovation economy is not only possible but sustainable. In this workshop we discuss Innovation is a discipline that can be applied to just about anything. What are the main rules of the discipline and how is it applied to innovation for jobs, based on the well-founded experience of innovation for products and services?
PASSION
Traditional wisdom tells us to follow the market in order to earn a living. We discuss ‘marketable skills’, ‘employability’ and so on. And still, Steve Jobs never believe in market research, and everybody loves the stories about people who followed their passion, ‘did it their way’ and succeeded. With new technology, better matching mechanisms, new ways of approaching the labor market, might following your passion be gaining a competitive advantage?
HEALTHCARE AND BENEFITS:
THE ON-DEMAND ECONOMY: GIGS AND SHARING:
ECOSYSTEMS:
BUSINESS IDEAS AND MODELS FOR MEANINGFUL WORK:
Venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and participants exchange creative ideas about how a venture backed startup economy can disrupt today’s labor market dysfunctions. We will be discussing where to find the best opportunities and how to approach them.
MAN AND MACHINE: TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTING JOBS:
This conference is about ‘disrupting unemployment’. Is this a realistic notion? This is not the first time we have feared automation of all work. Each time some have said ‘it won’t happen this time, either’. Each time some say ‘this time it is different’. Is this the time it will be different and all jobs will go away? This is the i4j ‘Terminator’ workshop, for a deeper existential discussion about the future of work and man vs. machine.
PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNMENT:
The US spends in the order of $100 Billion each year on supporting people who can’t find jobs. How can government support innovation that disrupts unemployment? This workshop intends to bridge that long-standing gap between innovation policy and labor policy as both desire to increase the workforce to eliminate unemployment, using very different approaches, having challenges blending. How can innovation policy measure the success of innovative entrepreneurship in sustainable improvement in job creation, inclusion and job satisfaction? How can labor policy measure success of job creation in improving economic growth and fiscal balance? How can they mix?
STORYTELLING:
A Common Language for Disrupting Unemployment
CASE STUDIES:
Companies that are disrupting unemployment
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
The i4j Innovation for Jobs Summits http://i4j.info brings together innovative leaders in creating shared language across silos, enabling stakeholders and change agents to disrupt unemployment.
What are your hopes and fears about the future of meaningful work? Voices from the i4j Leadership Forum: