Innotown 2014, an experience that challenges your usual mindset

InnoTown Conference was established in 2000, and is regarded as one of the Premier Business&innovation Conference in Europe. Every year InnoTown curates an acclaimed program of world-class speakers that is truly engaging for anyone with an international and innovative outlook.

InnoTown is more than a conference, it is something special. I have good memories from last year when I gave my contribution working as a volunteer with the InnoTown team and it was a fantastic, unusual, innovative and inspirational way to contribute.

This year I attended the conference as a guest and I shoot some photos during the event. I enjoyed a lot the speech of Shannon Deegan, Google's Director of Global Security Operations. I also had the chance to chat with him for a few minutes and share some thoughts.

I had the pleasure to attend the following talks:

• THROUGH ROUGH WATERS: LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP FROM CAPTAIN PHILLIPS. RICHARD PHILLIPS, former Captain of the MV Maersk Alabama;
• THE PATENT WIZARD. BRIAN KESSLER, Inventor and entrepreneur;
• THE FUTURE NEEDS FIXING. JANE NÍ DHULCHAOINTIGH, Inventor and entrepreneur;
• GET READY FOR THE URBANAUTS AND THE WILD KNOWLEDGE! DR. KJELL A. NORDSTRÖM, Top management thinker, Professor and author;
• UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY. DEBORAH PERRY PISCIONE, Entrepreneur, national bestselling author and media commentator;
• CREATING AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE AT GOOGLE. SHANNON DEEGAN, Director - Peoples Operations at Google 2007 - 2013. Now Google´s Director of Global Security Operations;
• NEW WAYS OF WORKING IN THE POST-KNOWLEDGE ERA. JULIAN BIRKINSHAW, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School;
• FUELLING GROWTH WITH INNOVATIVE CUSTOMER SERVICE. DENNIS SNOW, 20 year veteran of The Walt Disney Company. President at Snow & Associates Inc.;
• THINK LIKE A FREAK. STEPHEN DUBNER, award winning author, jounalist and TV personality.

The moderator was PELLEGRINO RICCARDI, Cross-Cultural Expert. Enjoy all the photos :)