I’m Heading to the World Innovation Forum

I’m heading out to the World Innovation Forum in New York on Monday, May 4. I’m really looking forward to this conference. It has a lot of wattage and great attendees.

Spigit will be there to take in the discussions and meet folks.If you’re going to be there, shoot me a DM or @reply on Twitter. I’d love to catch up. On Twitter, the hash tag for the event is #wif09.

Here’s the speaker list for the World Innovation Forum:

• Clayton Christensen – Disruptive Innovation as a Platform for Growth
• Vijay Govindarajan – Strategic Innovators: From Ideas to Execution
• Fred Krupp – Untangling the Future: Why Innovations Never Follow a Straight Line (eco focus)
• Dan Ariely – Changing Focus: Why Human Behavior is the Hunting Ground for Insight & Innovation
• CK Prahalad – The New Age of Innovation
• Paul Saffo – How Today’s Technology is Defining Tomorrow’s Creator Economy
• Padmasree Warrior – Cisco CTO

There will case studies discussed as well. Media partners are the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Dozens of large corporations will be there too.

There will be a number of specially designated people blogging and tweeting about the vent. Some details about this were put together by EMC’s Stuart Miniman in this presentation: