A one-day workshop: Designing Innovation - Design for Innovation
LEARNTEC is the leading international trade fair and convention for vocational education, learning and information technology. The fair in 2010 is the 18th of its kind and will take place at Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center from the 2. to 4. February 2010.

The workshop facilitators
Pia Betton, Founder and Managing Director of framework identity will conduct a one-day workshop on 4. February together with a team of great thinkers and practitioners from the fields of strategy, innovation and design:
Thomas Fundneider, Founder and Managing Director of tf consulting, a consultancy for Strategy and Innovation.
Thomas focuses on collaborative innovation processes (open innovation, crowd sourcing and creating and executing development/design competitions), radical innovation, design thinking, supporting start-ups and conceptualising and creating innovation hubs and enabling spaces.
Markus F. Peschl is professor for Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science at the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Markus’ focus of research is on the question of knowledge (knowledge creation/innovation, construction, and representation of knowledge) in various contexts e.g: in natural cognitive systems, in science, in organisations and in educational settings. Markus follows a radically interdisciplinary approach integrating concepts from the natural sciences, philosophy of science, from the humanities, as well as from knowledge technology.
Peter Friedrich Stephan is a designer and writer focusing on Design Thinking: He works on various projects within Knowledge Design and Creative Business Design helping organisations develop clear concepts for internal and external communication. Concepts that meet user needs and promote tangible business results. Furthermore Peter is a professor in Theory and Design at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and a tutor at the Masterprogramm Leadership in digitaler Kommunikation at Berlin University of the Arts.
The workshop…
At the Leading Edge Workshop, “New Methods and Tools for the innovation and knowledge generation”, participants will gain insight in what new tools and approaches are used when working with innovation and generating knowledge.
The workshop will be conducted as an open space workshop, where the different tools will be introduced in short group sessions. The participants will get a hands-on experience with how to use the tools and be able to discuss, in which situations what tool will be appropriate to us.

*About LEARNTEC *
LEARNTEC is a top notch source for information about different approaches to learning, using online and traditional media, which are both effective and free of time constraints.
During the three days more than 170 providers will be showcasing their solutions for vocational education, e-learning and knowledge management. International experts from both practical and theoretical fields will bring together business, science and academia and present the future of learning at Germany’s largest congress, complete with best practice examples.
If you wish to know more go to LEARNTEC’s website
