1. World Café @Innovation
19 March 2012
Saba Imru
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Head, Administration & HR Services

2. Innovation & discovery in collaborative conversations
Understand complexity
Explore the views of all stake-holders
Test ideas and assumptions together
Build new knowledge collectively
Generate innovative solutions
Originators of The World Café: Juanita Brown PhD & David Isaacs

3. What it looks like

4. A change of pace Informal, relaxed Frame-breaking Highly interactive
All-inclusive
Connects

5. Goals for this World Café
Working session of the Workshop on ICT Innovations
Ensure active involvement of all participants
Facilitate networking, connection and exchanges
Consolidate a community of interests
Create the foundations for future work

6. Who uses The World Café ?

7. Businesses Saudi Aramco
World’s largest producer and exporter of crude oil.
Over 50,000 employees, 100,000 contractors.
A first World Café in for Engineering and Operations Department, for strategic planning
Over 700 participants

8. Government & civil society
Basque Agency for Innovation
Bilbao 2008, A World Café on renewal and innovation in local communities.
770 participants representing many stakeholders: education, health, business, R&D, regional government, social services, arts.

9. Academia Fielding Graduate University
Strategic insights for academic program development
Designing curriculum
World Café as a research system

10. International Organizations
ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
A World Café on innovation challenges and how to be the best SDO secretariat for the ITU-T membership

11. World Café @ ITU Green Standards Week
9 September 2011, Rome, Italy
A World Café as last and conclusive session of the Workshop on Submarine Cables for Ocean/Climate Monitoring and Disaster Warning: Science, Engineering, Business and Law
Result: Call for Action

12. and many more…… Academia Businesses University of California
MIT Organizational Learning
University of Texas
University of Michigan
Businesses
Nokia
Telia
Ericsson
Intel
Shell Petroleum
Coca Cola
Walt Disney
Chevron
Hewlett-Packard
Agilent
Government and civil society
Scandinavian Sustainability Forum
European Union
Ministry of Information Singapore
Ministry of Education United Arab Emirates

13. How it works Four conversation rounds, each triggered by a question
At each round
Explore questions together
Reflect & summarize
At the end of the round, change table and meet new people

14. The knowledge is in the room

15. Innovative Thinking

16. Collaborative Talking

17. Connect different perspectives
Image: Nancy Marguiles

18. Harvest and share outcome

19. See you at the World Café !