POSTPONED: Scaling for Global Diversity - WEF GLF Workshop at CERN IdeaSquare

Europe/Zurich
CERN IdeaSquare

CERN IdeaSquare

Markus Nordberg (CERN), Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN), Santeri Palomäki (Aalto University (FI))
Description

This event will not be organized on 1st - 2nd April - it has been postponed until further notice.

 

We live in the global “acceleration society."

The challenges we will confront in the next decades will no longer be local but of planetary scale.

The motto “think global, act local” is no longer valid. We need to develop scalable solutions.

 

At the same time, scalability needs to take into account diversity.

Our planet is also global in diversity. No one size fits all.

How is it possible to scale from the specifically local to the diversity of the global? Certainly new ways of thinking and doing will be necessary.

 

Inspired by CERN IdeaSquare

As a facility inside CERN looking into disruptive social innovation, IdeaSquare offers a unique opportunity to think and do differently. 

Its origins and methodologies root in the mindset of an organization worldwide recognized as a forefront in fundamental research and breakthrough innovation.

CERN’s mission is to uncover the building blocks of the universe. Incrementalism is not an option. Disruptive thinking, experimentation and scalability is.

In this spirit, we like to share who we are, what we do and how we do it, while walking together into a breakthrough-thinking journey. We would like welcoming the World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows to this pilot workshop.

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  • Wednesday, 1 April
    • 08:00 09:00
      Arrival at IdeaSquare, welcome coffee 1h
    • 09:00 11:00
      Why are we here? 2h

      An excursion through ideas behind fundamental physics transformed society. What is next? What is the mind-set at CERN?

      Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)
    • 11:00 11:50
      Non-linear thinking: When exponential is not enough 50m

      What is exponential? What does it mean? Is it sufficient to think exponentially for tomorrow’s challenges?

      Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)
    • 11:50 12:00
      Coffee break 10m
    • 12:00 13:00
      Thinking in New Boxes 1h

      Creativity, it is said, demands the ability to unshackle ourselves from conventional ways of thinking, to “think outside the box.” But we need to go a step further. Once outside the box, we need to construct a new box or boxes (that is, new intellectual frameworks or models) to help us structure our thinking. Only once we have done so can we generate truly game-changing ideas.

      Speaker: Luc de Brabandere
    • 13:00 14:00
      Networking Lunch at IdeaSquare 1h
    • 14:00 16:30
      Does big and complex mean disruptive? 2h 30m

      What is truly disruptive? Is a big complex airplane disruptive? The participants will design a commercial aircraft, ideate new business models around it and pitch them.

    • 16:30 19:00
      Visit to the CMS Experiment 2h 30m
    • 19:00 22:00
      Dinner at CERN 3h
  • Thursday, 2 April
    • 08:00 09:00
      Arrival at IdeaSquare, welcome coffee 1h
    • 09:00 09:15
      Reflections on day one 15m
      Speaker: Luc de Brabandere
    • 09:15 09:30
      Reflections on day one 15m
      Speaker: Knut Haanaes (World Economic Forum)
    • 09:30 10:30
      When thinking global and acting local is not enough 1h

      How can we understand scalability if our planet is diverse? Can science and technology help?

    • 10:30 12:30
      Scaling the Planet 2h

      Are you ready for scaling the Planet Earth? The only limitation is your own imagination.

      Speakers: Markus Nordberg (CERN), Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN), Santeri Palomäki (Aalto University (FI))
    • 12:30 13:30
      Networking lunch at IdeaSquare 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      Scaling the planet (continued) 1h 30m
      Speakers: Markus Nordberg (CERN), Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN), Santeri Palomäki (Aalto University (FI))
    • 15:00 17:00
      Wrap-up (WEF + IdeaSquare) 2h