Accelerating ecosystem innovation into scalable growth
Sessions in rooms
Chair: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Comms, Media and Technology, Accenture14:15 - 14:30
Case study: Scaling IT for software defined B2B products
Anand Ganapathy, VP Platform Delivery, Deutsche Telekom
14:30 - 14:45
Case study: Mixing culture with organization to create innovation pipelines and transform your company
- Learning from innovation initiatives
- Open innovation
- Empowering employees
- Local / global
- Designing the right innovation organization
- Blending process with culture
- Innovation team
- Generative AI input
14:45 - 15:15
Panel: Building connectivity marketplaces for the digital infrastructure economy
Moderator: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Comms, Media and Technology, Accenture
Philip Sharpe, CEO, Sonalake
Nisreen Elkaloush, CCO, AllPoints Fibre Networks
Ben Edmond, CEO, ConnectBase
Kristian O. P. Freiesleben, Managing Director, OpenNet
Session speakers

Nicolas Bry
Innovation Booster Orange Africa


Anand Ganapathy
VP Platform Delivery


Joann O'Brien
VP Digital Ecosystems


Chris Anderson
Managing Director, Comms, Media and Technology


Philip Sharpe
CEO


Ben Edmond
CEO

Nisreen Elkaloush
CCO


Kristian O. P. Freiesleben
Managing Director
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