Summit Format

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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.
The following is a sample of past KIN Summit Sessions:

Morning Delegate Breakout Sessions

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

Afternoon Delegate Breakout Sessions

Incorporating the learnings from the day, KIN colleagues explore and translate. Delegates¹ output answers the question on behalf of their respective companies: How can we apply what we¹ve heard today?

KIN Global Scholars Present

Kellogg students bring fresh ideas, boldness and rigor necessary to solve some of our toughest challenges. Kellogg students compete to become KIN Fellows and participate in research projects with member organizations. KIN fellows present their work and delegates provide valuable feedback.

Toolset Presentations

Kellogg Faculty lead delegates on an exploration of a number of developments within the practice of innovation at global companies. 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.
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 2010 KIN Global:

  • How do we spark interest in broad innovation that leads to global prosperity?
  • How are companies innovating to meet global resource challenges? How are they creating new businesses from the growing demand?
  • What are people doing around the world that is working, and how might we transfer and adapt those programs to other geographies and contexts?
  • How can media contribute to the public good?
  • In our special country focus on Turkey, what is that country’s role in shaping the future?
  • How can large companies deliver innovation healthcare solutions to emerging markets?
  • What role do women play in emerging economies? How can we empower them to do more?