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Promote the concept of intrapreneurship within Europe corporations
THE HUB BRUSSELS – 02 DECEMBER 2011 – INTRAPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE
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Read MoreIntrapreneurship is a rising concept that tries to gather the natural objective of any organisation in the 21st century to be more innovative with the often non-tapped energy dug into any would-be entrepreneurs. Intrapreneurship create a framework where the latter is granted some freedom to try out a project of his/her own, the benefit being shared with the employer in the case of a succesful experimentation.
The Intrapreneurship Conference, on December 2nd, aims to cover this growing trends in corporations’ life, which adresses both the need of companies to produce more innovations and the will of talented people to find achievement opportunities.
Engage, Empower, Motivate while boosting your Company Innovation
Intrapreneurship is a rising concept that tries to gather the natural objective of any organisation in the 21st century to be more innovative with the often non-tapped energy dug into any would-be entrepreneurs. Intrapreneurship create a framework where the latter is granted some freedom to try out a project of his/her own, the benefit being shared with the employer in the case of a succesful experimentation.
The Intrapreneurship Conference, on December 2nd, aims to cover this growing trends in corporations’ life, which adresses both the need of companies to produce more innovations and the will of talented people to find achievement opportunities.
“Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur within a larger organization.”
Experts and representatives of some of the most innovatives companies, such as Exki, Gemalto or Google, among others, will share their view on why intrapreneurship is positively impacting their organisation and how they implement it.
The conference is designed for human ressources managers, chief strategy and chief operating officers, as well as everyone who is interested in the new growing management trends for change.
Book Now >>The conference will be held in English
| Name & Company | Subject | Timing |
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| - | Accueil & Inscriptions | 9.00 |
| Jean-Yves Huwart | Entreprise Globale | Welcome speech | 9.30 |
| Thierry Geerts | Google | “How Google has become one of the most innovative and most respected company thank to intrapreneurship“ | 9.45 |
| Nicolas Steisel | Exki | “Exki : born from an intrapreneurial project, run with intrapreneurial principles“ | 10.05 |
| Olivier Leclerc | Alcatel-Lucent | “How the Alcatel-Lucent Bootcamp stimulates both innovation and employees’ motivation“ | 10.25 |
| Paul Bloemen | Riddervis (former Transformation manager Rabobank) | “Rabo Unplugged: entrepreneurship within a large financial.“ | 10.45 |
| Pause | 11.05 | |
| Miguel Meuleman | Vlerick School | “Key Succes Factors to Promote Intrapreneurship” | 11.20 |
| Olivier Basso | Singleton with Sabine Henrichfreise | Phinea | “Obstacles and enablers for Intrapreneurship” |
11.40 |
| Frédéric Williquet | SD Worx | “How to turn your employees into intrapreneurs and raise their engagement ? An HR view” | 12.00 |
| Philippe Meda | “Innovation Camp“ | 12.20 |
| Short Q&A | 12.40 | |
| Walking-Lunch with interactive “World Café” facilitation | 12.50 | |
| Displaying of the three thematic workshops and dispatching | 13.50 | |
| Workshop 1 | Obstacles and enablers of intrapreneurship | 14.00 |
| Workshop 2 | How to deal with the intrapreneurs – About the HR techniques | 14.00 |
| Workshop 3 | Social media and digital tools to manage a new kind of organisation | 14.00 |
| Plenary during the extended afternoon coffee break | Interactiv speach transfer - speed facilitated peer to peer knowledge transfer | 15.30 |
| Break out workshops – collective intelligence | Where do I start monday morning : Action plans | 16.30 |
| Plenary session | Where do I start monday morning – Collective debriefing | 17.05 |
| Wrap up and conclusion speech | 17.30 | |
| Cocktail | 17.40 |
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Thierry Geerts is the general manager of Google Belgium. The Google company is itself a story of intrapreneurship. Some of the most famous Google services, such as Adsense, Gmail, Google News, and more have initially been proposed and developped by individual employees. Google allows its staff members to allocate 20% of their working time to pursue own projects. Before being appointed as MD of Google Belgium, Thierry Geerts was in charge of the business development at the Belgian publisher Corelio. | |
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Nicolas Steisel is the co-founder of the high quality fast-food international chain Exki. He is manager of the year 2009, in Belgium. Exki is born in 2000 as an intrapreneurial project within the GIB holding, specialised in the restaurant and distribution sectors. Ten years later, Exki counts dozens of restaurants across Europe and considers to expand in North-America. Nowadays, Nicolas Steisel supports intrapreneurial dynamics within the company he co-owns. | |
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Olivier Leclerc is the director of the Entrepreneurial Initiatives at Alcatel-Lucent. Among other things, Olivier Leclerc is in charge of the Alcatel-Lucent bootcamp for employees aiming to develop their own entrepreneurial project. Nowadays, bootcamps are organised in sevral countries where the group is operating, such as Belgium, France, the US or China… | |
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Sabine Henrichfreise is an inspiring and successful business coach and a recognized expert in collective creative intelligence, leading edge management and transcultural executive coaching. She intervenes in three languages for her client base which extends throughout Europe and includes CAC 40 and Fortune 500 companies. She created Philena, her own coaching and consulting company, dedicated to developing multicultural organizations, teams and international executives by strengthening their capacity to creating significant breakthroughs and succeeding collectively. | |
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Olivier Basso (Ph.D) is an expert in corporate entrepreneurship with particular emphasis in the areas of organizational behaviours and firm-level parameters fostering an entrepreneurial spirit. As a former Associate Professor at ESCP Europe and a current partner at Singleton Institute (Brussels), he has developed an extensive experience in designing and launching learning devices to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in several European companies (EADS, L’Oréal, ST Microelectronics, Arcelor-Mittal…). | |
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Frédéric Williquet – My passions always drive me to reach results and manage change with creativity. Result driven and imaginative, I care for the people I work with’s development as well as my own development. Really enthusiastic, I deeply enjoy communicating with others in order to develop new ideas and enhance collaboration through listening, trust and networking.
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After exploring innovation through fundamental research in biotech, and then through management in the private pharmaceutical sector, Philippe Meda founded MERKAPT. This consulting and training agency is focused on copiloting the innovation process of startups, incubators and blue chip companies. Merkapt helps large corporation become agile again and learn from early-stage, risk-taking ventures. His credo is: “to be successful in fast-growing technological markets, corporations must sustain intrapreneurship, innovate their business model, and outsmart competition”. Philippe is also a professor in several international MBAs. Philippe will present his own experience and some best practices from several perspectives (Gemalto, EADS, Pfizer, Bel Group).
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Paul Bloemen is a change manager with a specialty in new ways of working. A style of working in which employees can take responsibility for their own results. Less rules, more entrepreneurship, working at the time and place that suits your customers best. Paul is partner at the Dutch consulting firm Riddervis that specializes in the development of change strategies, mostly for larger companies. He was manager transformation for Rabo Unplugged, the workstyle program of Rabobank.
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Miguel Meuleman obtained his PhD in Applied Economic Sciences at Ghent University in 2007. He was visiting scholar during his PhD at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He works as Assistant Professor Entrepreneurship at the Entrepreneurship Department at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He is specialized in the areas of new venture creation and new venture growth, buyouts, business model generation and entrepreneurial finance. He has has been involved in different projects to make entrepreneurship education more effective. Recently, he has launched an initiatives to bridge entrepreneurship education and design. |
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Global Enterprise is an economic “think and do tank”. We analyse the new trends impacting modern economy dynamics : creativity, networks, collaboration, entrepreneurship, values, innovation… are some of the major topics we are covering every day. Global Enterprise is playing an active role in supporting economic operators to develop and browse new physical and digital ecosystems in order to grow their agility and their innovation potential. More information on http://global-enterprise.biz/ |
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The Hubis a space-based and online community for change makers to access the knowledge and tools they need to build solutions for social and environmental impact.
Located across 5 continents and locally in the heart of Brussels, the Hub provides sustainably designed coworking spaces, events focused on social innovation and professional tools that help members reach their goals faster, surrounded by a community that makes everyone smarter and more effective. More information on http://brussels.the-hub.net |
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Brussels railway station Gare du Midi/ Zuid -Station has connections almost every hour with London, Paris, Amsterdam, Cologne, Francfort, a.o. via fast trains (Thalys, Eurostar, ICE,…)
From the railway station, take the Metro and get off at the Metro Station Porte de Namur/ Naamsepoort (5-10 minutes journey)
Brussels has two main airports
Low costs airline companies (such as EasyJet) and other regular airline companiess have daily connections with all major cities in Europe
The low cost company Ryanair connects, daily, with tens of European cities (Milan, Madrid, Dublin, Rome, Stockholm, etc.).
Low cost airline company Wizz Air connects several Eastern European cities (Warsaw, Katowice, Budapest, Prague…) with Brussels
A shuttle to Brussels (Midi/Zuid railway station) operates frequently from the Brussels-South/Charleroi Airport (40 km)
The HUB Brussels is in the very center of Brussels, closed to the Metro station “Porte de Namur”
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