Innovation, and how it is shaping tomorrow’s printing industry, will be a key focus of the Forum Series at PrintEx11 at Sydney in May with renowned strategist, innovator and educator Göran Roos to head the flagship Friday session in the series.
Printing Industries, which is co-ordinating the PrintEx11 Forum Series, has announced that the session to be held on Friday 6 May at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre will explore opportunities for print service providers to create entirely new and profitable business models by successfully capitalising on new fields of technology like Augmented Reality, Social Media, Synthetic Biology and Cleantech.
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The keynote speaker at this session will be the extraordinarily knowledgeable Göran Roos – professor, strategist, innovator, award-winning author, educator and ‘global personality’, who was recently named one of the 13 most influential thinkers for the 21st Century by the Spanish business journal “Direccion y Progreso” and has been appointed ‘Thinker in Residence’ by the South Australian Premier for the period commencing 2011.
“Göran is one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science and a recognised world expert in this field,” says Printing Industries’ Joe Kowalewski. “He has authored or co-authored over a hundred books, chapters, papers and articles on his areas of expertise and is a major contributor to the thinking and practice in the areas of strategy and innovation management as well as industrial and innovation policy.
“Goran is Professor and Founder of Intellectual Capital Services, a strategy consulting firm and ‘think tank’ in the fields of innovation management, value measurement, strategy and management of intellectual capital and strategic learning experiences. He is also the founder or co-founder of numerous companies in several countries and former senior manager with several European and US-based corporations. Very few people have his exceptional qualifications to advise businesses on strategy and opportunities and we are very fortunate to have secured him for PrintEx.”
In addition, says Kowalewski, Professor Roos has a long association with the printing industry, dating back to the early 1990s, when he was then appointed as the principal consultant to the Federal Government and worked closely with industry stakeholders like Printing Industries, GAMAA, the National Paper Council of Australia and Australia Paper, to develop the Print21 Action Agenda.
“In Australia, Göran is perhaps best known for his work on the Print21 Action Agenda, an industry blueprint which was designed to help print service providers move towards more innovative and profitable business models and capitalise on new opportunities,” Kowalewski explains.
“His Business Diagnostics tools became a key feature of the Agenda and have helped countless businesses develop into more successful and profitable operations in the ensuing years.”
Such qualifications make Professor Roos a much sought-after consultant around the world and Kowalewski says a very important element of the Forum Series.
“Göran is a truly world-class speaker whose strategies and approach may hold the key to future success for many businesses in our sector,” he says, “and I would urge visitors to PrintEx11 to take advantage of this opportunity to benefit from his expertise by registering for the free Forum Series.”
For more information about the PrintEx11 Forum Series, or to book online for the Forums closer to the date, go to www.printex.net.au
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