KIN SUMMIT TOPICS

Summit Format

KIN Global is a platform for innovation and action. In addition to curated keynotes, content is driven by our delegates. KINians bring current challenges and potential opportunities to KIN Global and collaborate with fellow delegates.

2013 TOPICS
KIN Global seeks to discuss what prosperity means within various regions and contextsand how we work together to achieve it. We think and act in terms of three interrelated types of prosperity: Economic, Environmental and Community. The specific focus areas addressed by KIN Global are determined based upon issues individual member organizations submit.

These topics are at the center of KIN Global 2013:


  • The Next 10 Years: Energy & Natural Resources, Cyber Security and Health & Wellness
  • Creating Our Future: Entrepreneurship, The Next Generation & Business as a Global Force for Prosperity
  • Big Data = Big Potential
  • A Vision for the Global Economy: Governance, Transparency & Prosperity
  • No Boundaries: Earth, Space & YOU
  • The Next 100 Years—Yes, 100!
KIN SUMMIT SESSIONS
Each day at a KIN Summit is different. KIN Global strives to customize the right format for addressing the unique topics of each event. In lieu of the traditional panel format, every KIN delegate participates. Delegate numbers are purposely capped to allow for lively small group work sessions. Kellogg faculty members facilitate. Everyone contributes.

A sample of KIN Summit Sessions:

Macro-Trend Breakout Sessions

All KIN participants break into small work groups to address one of the topics of the summit. Delegates identify implications and opportunities of key macro-trends and share strategies for engaging senior leadership, collaborating with colleagues and motivating teams in increasingly complex, geographically and functionally distributed environments.

KIN Prize

Northwestern University students bring fresh ideas, boldness and rigor necessary to solve tough challenges—from healthcare to plastic waste. Student teams compete to become one of four KIN Prize finalists. During the working sessions, delegates share expertise and help refine students’ ideas. The teams then pitch to the KIN Global audience and each delegate is given $500 to allocate to the best idea for positive impact.

Mission Match

A platform for collaboration, KIN Global encourages delegates to bring their missions to the summit. During the first day, groups of five delegates will be given five minutes each, helping make connections with people who can move forward each delegate’s goals.

Toolset Presentations

Kellogg Faculty led delegates on an exploration of a number of developments within the practice of innovation at global organizations. The entire group is engaged in a dialogue regarding how new innovation models can be used to assess and build innovation infrastructure within a complex enterprise.

Executive Perspectives

Employing executive perspectives, we take the opportunity to focus on one corporation¹s path to innovation and sustainability. Delegates take away from the talk both practices and insights that can apply to any organization.

Synthesis Sessions

Incorporating the learnings from the day, KIN colleagues explore and translate. Delegates’ output answers the question on behalf of their respective companies: How can we apply what we¹ve heard today?