Agenda Day 2 Alliance Summit — Thought Leader Global

09.00 – Opening Remarks

09.00 – Accelerating Innovation through Public Private Partnerships

Pierre Meulien, Executive Director, Innovative Medicines Initiative

09.45 – Multi-Stakeholder Public-Private Partnerships for Drug Development

· New alliance business models for pharma in the drug discovery and development ecosystem

· Working with academics as the innovators

· Relations with charities, consortia, etc.

Julie Little, Associate Director Strategic Alliances, Cancer Research

10.30 – Impact of COVID on Partnership Development, a CEO Perspective

· Dealing with the immediate impact of COVID on BRRC’s operations

· Strategic realignment with external stakeholders after the first COVID wave

· Increased competitiveness or new era for cross-industry collaborations?

· The urgency for next-generation leadership development

Annick De Swaef, CEO, Belgian Road Research Center

11.15 – Virtual Networking Break

11.45 - Smart City Ecosystem Frameworks & Strategies

· Why cities must take an ecosystem approach to smart city projects

· Understand the smart city ecosystem framework and tailor it to your smart city vision

· The key value creators (governments, businesses, communities, citizens)

· The use of digital ecosystems to improve outcomes: safety, health, jobs, environmental quality, energy, transportation, economic development, etc.

· Capability layers: value, innovation, governance, policy & data/connectivity

· Bring to market both physical and digital services for smart cities

Jacques Vermeulen, Director Future Cities, Nokia

12.30 – Collaboration of Alliance Management and Business Development across the Alliance Lifecycle

· Causes of alliance failure that can be influenced by collaboration of Alliance Management and Business Development

· Business Development-type tasks handled by Alliance Management throughout the alliance lifecycle for optimal alliance value

· Current alliance model developments and their impact on the interaction between Alliance Management and Business Development

Christoph Huwe, Ph.D., CSAP, Director Strategic Alliance Management, Open Innovation & Digital Technologies, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

13.15 – Lunch Break

14.15 – Facing the Sustainability Shift: The Role of Partnerships across Industries and Sectors

· Background and drivers for cross sector alliances

· Discovering opportunities and facing the challenges

· Examples on partnership cases

Reza Ghahary, Director Innovation Networks, Evonik

15.00 – Digital Ecosstems: Orchestrating, Co-Creating and Curating your Online Ecosystem

· Orchestration has become a new buzzword in ecosystem thinking. It sounds good, but what does it mean (if anything)?

· What are pitfalls in managing ecosystems around platforms and how to avoid them?

· What are the unique characteristics of platform based ecosystems and is there still a role for alliance managers when everything moves online?

Ard-Pieter de Man, Professor, VU University Amsterdam

15.45 – Virtual Networking Break

16.00 - Digital Ecosystems: Using Platforms to Bring your Partnerships to the Next Level

Andrea Monaci, Marketing & Strategy Director IT Services, Ricoh

16.45 - Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Summit