Innovation - the new management mantra - tops today's business agenda. Yet, despite all the brainstorming initiatives, corporate venture funds and smartly-furnished "innovation centers", most organizations would admit that innovation is still more rhetoric than reality, more buzzword than core competence. Rowan Gibson aims to change that. In his keynote speech at CoreNet Global Berlin Summit, the bestselling author of Rethinking the Future and Innovation to the Core will outline exactly what it takes to make innovation a deep sustainable capability throughout your organization - and how CRE can act as a catalyst.

For years, the industry has been saying that companies should integrate CRE, HR and IT if they really want to raise productivity, harness talent and make corporate strategy happen. For the first time, Rowan Gibson describes how these three functions actually fit together to drive innovation to the core of the organization. His groundbreaking insights provide a blueprint for boosting your company's innovation performance, and for making innovation an all-the-time, everywhere capability - a new corporate way of life.

Rowan Gibson (www.rowangibson.com) is a global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical innovation. The media have labeled him "a guru among the gurus". His bestselling books include Rethinking The Future, now published in over 20 languages, and his latest book Innovation to the core (co-authored with Peter Skarzynski) which was published in March 2008 by Harvard Business School Press.

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Jason Harper, Facilities Manager - Deutschland, Google Germany GmbH

Andrew Laing PhD., Managing Director, DEGW

Productive, flexible, collaborative, engaging, sustainable - these are the functions and attributes of successful workplaces. Most corporations have achieved at least one of these, but what would happen if they all came together at the same time?

Google has been identified by Fortune Magazine as the best company in the world to work for - and their workplace has been a large part of that success. In partnership with DEGW, Google is rolling out global workplace guidelines to their offices all over the world - and applying those guidelines with a local flavour.

In Munich, Google has created a workplace that is flexible enough to accommodate rapid growth, successfully houses two disparate business units, incorporates Google's corporate sustainability strategies, and is a tool for attracting and retaining the best talent. This they have accomplished whilst incorporating the feeling and influence of the city. The result is an office that is uniquely Google Munich.

Designing, planning, and executing a mission to space is a complicated process, involving many people with different areas of expertise. However, with lives on the line, these people must embrace a common vision and share a common goal. They must come together and work as one to successfully complete their mission - to send humans into space and bring them home again, safely.

In business, we rarely engage in enterprises with life-and-death stakes, but all of us know the power of a group of people who share a vision and work with passion and purpose to achieve a goal. So how do you build a team that is united by their commitment to, and belief in, the mission they must achieve?

In 1993, Ulrich Walter successfully completed his assignment as a science astronaut and research specialist for the German D-2 Mission. Living the dream of many scientists, he traveled in space for 10 days on board the space shuttle Columbia and the European Space Station. Since March 2003, he has been a Professor at the Institute of Astronautics at Munich University teaching and researching satellite technology.

Dr. Walter brings his special insight into the areas of teamwork and self motivation. Drawing on his experiences as an astronaut, he engages and inspires audiences to achieve their personal best, in all facets of life.