Innovation & You from the Creators of World Business Forum

Business Wire,  March 23, 2007  

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NEW YORK -- HSM, a foremost global innovator in executive education, presents the WORLD INNOVATION FORUM (www.hsm-us.com/wif). It is the only event of its kind to discuss innovation from a 360-degree perspective, focusing on the competitive advantage to be gained from embedding innovation as a core competency of the organization. As the dialogue around innovation grows increasingly complex, companies need to carefully examine where and how best to focus their innovation efforts.

Presentations that will be given by innovation heavyweights from Google, Cirque du Soleil, Whirlpool, and Microsoft; the leading thought leadership from Harvard, MIT, and INSEAD; and the most influential writers, inventors, and futurists are eagerly anticipated. Sign-up is advancing at a sell-out rate as C-Suite executives, anxious to hear the secrets and strategies to be revealed from the premier innovation "doers", continue to submit their registrations.

"As innovation continues to evolve beyond a company's four walls and out into the wiki-nomic marketplace, the World Innovation Forum is uniquely positioned to address the benefits to be derived through CEO-driven cultures of collaboration, peering, and sharing," says Carlos Rohm, CEO of HSM, the organizer/producer of the Forum.

Confirmed speakers and topics include:

*CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, Harvard professor and bestselling author of: Seeing What's Next, The Innovator's Dilemma, and The Innovator's Solution

    "Disruptive Innovation: The Dynamics of Creative Organizations"

*MALCOLM GLADWELL, author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers: The Tipping Point and Blink

    "Marketing & Innovation"

*RENEE MAUBORGNE, co-author of the highly acclaimed Blue Ocean Strategy and professor at INSEAD

    "Blue Ocean Strategy: Designing a Winning Strategy"

*RAY KURZWEIL, pioneering futurist and one of the most provocative thinkers on technology's future impact

    "Science, Technology, and Invention: Strategies to Create the
    Future"

*LYN HEWARD, Cirque du Soleil's Executive Producer for Special Projects

    "Igniting the Spark of Creativity and Keeping It Alive"

*VINT CERF, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist and widely known as the "founding father" of the Internet

    "Building the Next-Generation Internet"

*MICHAEL THIENEMAN, Global Innovation Sponsor, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer at Whirlpool

    "Whirlpool's Innovation Journey"

*RICK RASHID, Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Research

    "Research, Product Development, and Future Technologies"

Due to the feedback at last year's Forum, the program will take place on both coasts: West Coast, Orange County, CA (April 17-18) and East Coast, New York City (June 5-6).

This conference has been developed in partnership with Toshiba, imaginatek, Allergan, Skyteam, Boeing, Kodak, Pitney Bowes, The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.

For more information about the World Innovation Forum and Special Registration Offers (now through April 13th), visit www.hsm-us.com/wif.

For Media Inquiries and Press Registration, contact:

Melissa Nosal
mnosal@hsm-group.com
212.812.9604

About HSM

HSM (www.hsm-group.com) is an international firm that brings together the world's top executives and thought leaders to analyze and debate developing trends in business, science, and technology, and the global economy. In addition to the World Business Forum, HSM also organizes the World Innovation Forum and a series of Special Management Programs--in-depth, two-day programs available for only 100 executives and team leaders. Five unique, one-on-one programs: Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, Patrick Lencioni, John Davis, and William Ury.

Founded in 1987, HSM believes that knowledge is the critical driver for change and development.

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