Creating and Leveraging Innovation Ecosystems (Valo Park Auditorium)

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation ecosystems play a pivotal role in driving growth, fostering collaboration, and unlocking new opportunities. Whether you are a corporate leader or part of a regional initiative, creating and leveraging ecosystems can maximize results. This keynote panel brings together a group of international leaders and experts with experience and knowledge in developing innovation ecosystems. The panelists will explain how to create innovation ecosystems and leverage them to foster entrepreneurship and drive growth within a business or at a regional level.

MODERATOR:

Tien Wong
Chairman & CEO, Opus8, Inc.
Mr. Tien Wong is a tech investor, entrepreneur, and CEO. He is Chairman & CEO of Opus8, Inc., a private investment and advisory firm investing in exceptional life science and tech enabled services companies, as well as specializing in raising capital for promising tech companies and alternative investment fund managers. Read full profile…

PANEL:

Jack McDougle
President and Chief Executive Officer, the Greater Washington Board of Trade
Jack McDougle is the president and chief executive officer of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, a business organization that has served the District of Columbia, Northern
Virginia, and suburban Maryland for more than 130 years. Read full profile…

Limor Schafman
Director of Strategy, LG NOVA
Limor Schafman is the Director of Strategy at LG NOVA, a team within LG Electronics dedicated to working with the startup and entrepreneurial community to innovate and create impactful technologies that will lead LG, its partners, and the world into the future. She also heads the Cleantech-OverDrive Task Force which is developing NOVA’s first new venture in this market sector. Read full profile…

Kashif Siddiqui
Head of Global Payments Solutions Innovation, Bank of America
Kashif Siddiqui is the Head of Innovation for Bank of America’s Global Payments Solutions unit. In his role, Kashif leads the team responsible for managing the payments innovation pipeline, strategic analysis of emerging payment capabilities, and delivering transformative solutions across Consumer, Small Business, Business Banking, Merchant, Corporate and Large Corporate Business lines. Read full profile…

Natcha Thawesaengskulthai, PhD
Strategy | Innovation | Human Capital Development
Dr. Natcha serves as a Board member of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency, CU Enterprise, Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation. She is the Global Chief Innovation Officer, Chairman of the CUE Foundation, and an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Chulalongkorn University. Read full profile…