National Borders of Innovations: Do they Matter? – a discussion about innovations in a globalized world
On the 31st of January 2018, PLUGin Warsaw will host a discussion panel entitled National Borders of Innovations: Do they Matter? The invited speakers will try to determine whether innovations are global – universal – or limited by national borders and do those borders matter for these innovations? The event will also mark the launch of the Warsaw chapter of PLUGin, the organisation whose main goal is building a community around the Polish innovation and technological diaspora.
The guests of the event, which include representatives of the startup world – Marta Zucker from PLUGin SanFrancisco – academia – Kuba Bochiński from Polonium Foundation – as well as public policy leaders – Marta Poślad from Google CEE – will talk about national identities of innovations in the early development stage and how those identities change in the process of scaling and global expansion. Once an innovation starts expanding and scaling, it becomes international and the market strategy of the innovation has to evolve. What has to change during this process and how do these influence investor relations? Invited panelists will talk about experiences related to these processes as well as other entities participating in them.
Additionally, the discussion will ask whether staying in the homeland of innovation strengthens or limits it, what political activities can keep an innovation in its place of origin, how public policy leaders can help this process and how brain drain affects the innovation potential of a given country and is it a purely negative process, or does it have any positive sides?
Before the discussion, a brief presentation of PLUGin will also take place. After opening its chapters in a few locations across the world – including San Francisco and London, where it organises an annual conference “Polish Tech Day” – PLUGin is launching in Warsaw. Opening a chapter in Warsaw, PLUGin hopes to become a beacon that reminds the Polish technology diaspora of its roots. The goal of PLUGin is to build a global network of Polish technology and innovation professionals who – intentionally or not – represent their motherland abroad. PLUGin’s mission is connecting, inspiring and supporting the transmigrant leaders of the Polish tech and innovation ecosystem, so they can be successful in the fast-changing globalised world. PLUGin promotes skills and ideas necessary for that success and spreads the values of modern, open patriotism.
Agenda:
18:30 Doors open – Networking
19:00 Official Opening and Welcome – Jerzy Brodzikowski, PLUGin
19:05 About PLUGin – Who we are, where we came from and where we’re going – Maciej Halbryt, PLUGin
19:15 – 20:15 Panel Discussion: National Borders of Innovations: Do They Matter?
Topics covered: National vs global innovations; Innovations in a globalized world; Political support for national innovations; National vs individual investor support; Recommendations for policy makers, Investors and innovators; How to make use of the Polish technological diaspora to better innovate and promote Polish innovations.
20:15 – 21:00 Open Space Networking with the panelists and the audience
21:00 Afterparty in Łysy Pingwin Bar at Ząbkowska 11
Catering and drinks will be served after the panel discussion.
This event will be held in English.
Confirmed speakers:
Moderator – Grzegorz Nawrocki – Journalist
Panelists:
Marta Poślad – Head of Public Policy CEE, Google
Marta Zucker – Writer and startup specialist, PLUGin SanFrancisco
Jakub Bochiński – Astronomer, co-founder of Polonium Foundation
More speakers to come!
Organizers: PLUGin Warsaw
Partners: NewEurope100, LawMore, Wills Integrated, Brand24, GetResponse, Young Talent Management
Media: Res Publica Nowa, Link to Poland
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