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SA: Statement by South Africa Innovation Summit, SA's premier innovation event, on the 6th Innovation Summit (15/05/2013)

15th May 2013

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Speakers for the 6th annual SA Innovation Summit were announced in
Johannesburg today as six heavyweights from various industries added
their name to the exciting bill.

The much-anticipated SA Innovation Summit is set to take place from 27
to 29 August 2013 at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in
Johannesburg. Registration is now open on its website at
http://innovationsummit.co.za.

This year the summit's theme entices delegates with a bold statement
that Innovation goes viral, catch it for growth, promising three
days of expert engagement on innovation.
The SA Innovation Summit is made possible by the Industrial
Development Corporation (IDC), The Innovation Hub, Sasol, Spoor &
Fisher, the City of Tshwane, the Mail & Guardian, mLab Southern Africa
and Social Factory.

The aim of the summit is to create a platform for innovators to share
ideas, success stories, lessons learnt and inspiration, while also
networking with their peers. Innovation never stops and what we knew
about it 20 years ago is vastly different from how we view and
practice it today. It is imperative that we come together as
innovators to continue igniting the spark of our imagination towards
creation and advancement, said organisers of the SA Innovation Summit.

Organisers add that the speaker line-up is sure to whet innovators'
appetites.

Renowned business innovation thought leader, Rowan Gibson, or Mr
Innovation as the media calls him, is going to be a treat for
delegates. Gibson has spent the past two decades teaching some of the
world's largest organisations how to seize new growth opportunities,
create new markets and transform entire industries by changing their
entire organisational system around the innovation model.

We are extremely excited to share Rowan with the innovation community
through the SA Innovation Summit. He is one of the innovation gurus in
the world, who is known for his inspiring and dynamic  public speaking
that has taken him to some 60 countries around the world in the last
four years. We have no doubt that his turn at the podium will have a
major impact on the minds and subsequent actions of innovators,
organisers enthused.

Technology futurist and serial entrepreneur, Stafford Masie, needs no
introduction as the man credited for establishing Google's presence in
South Africa. Masie will share more than 18 years of expertise in the
IT field with delegates.

Stafford brings a wealth of knowledge to the summit, more
significantly his experience in forging global partnerships and
developing corporate technology strategy for numerous international
territories, including Southern Europe and the Middle East, said
organisers.

Executive Director of the Business Performance Innovation (BPI)
Network in Silicon Valley, California, Donovan Neale-May will in turn
help delegates to take concepts to commercialisation. He will
elaborate on the need for more applied, market-directed product
development when entrepreneurs, investors and researchers take their
technologies to the market.

Financial Directors will gain insight into the implementation of the
new R&D income tax incentive and other industry must-knows from Darren
Margo, founder of MargoTM Attorneys, Inc. - a specialist IP firm and
tax consultancy.

Margo has enjoyed quite an extraordinary career journey, which he
started as a patent attorney, specialising in the drafting and
prosecution of patent applications. He has worked for the likes of
and Touche, Adams & Adams and also acted as an advisor to the
National Treasury, the SA Revenue Service (SARS) and the Department of
Science & Technology. Delegates will be sitting up and taking note
during his presentation, said organisers.

And finally, author, speaker and strategic advisor, Stefan Lindegaard,
will  shake things up a bit by coaching delegates on how they can
strive to be competitively unpredictable through innovation.
Lindegaard has written a couple of books on the subject of open
innovation and his blog 15inno is a globally recognised destination
on the subject.

The SA Innovation Summit also presents theInventor's Garage
Competition, which invites individuals or groups from any industry to
enter their inventions under the theme ?Innovation goes viral, catch
it for growth.

The 10 best entries will not only be exhibited at the three-day
summit, but the first, second and third places will also be receiving
prizes at the summit. Voting for entries will be facilitated via the
SA Innovation Summit Facebook page, allowing a wider pool of
adjudicators comprising members of the public. More details about
the competition  is available on our website.

Without YOU, innovation will not move forward. It is important to
keep the creative juices flowing and challenging our minds to propel
our world forward. The SA Innovation Summit offers YOU an opportunity
to truly unlock innovation and discover potential in the most
extraordinary ways,organisers added.

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