Bahadir Akin has extensive experience in public, private and voluntary sectors. Prior to started working as a professional engineer in the private sector, Bahadir Akin has spent 11 years working in the academic and research institutes. In the university (METU) he lectured industrial engineering junior classes. In the research institute (TÜBİTAK) he was responsible for the management of large-scale World Bank funded projects ranging from selection of appropriate building technologies to assessing the macroeconomic impacts of community housing projects. As a professional engineer and senior manager, he worked over 20 years with the largest companies in their sector, petrochemicals (PETKIM), glass (Şişecam) then electrical domestic appliances (Arçelik). In his private sector years, Bahadır has developed extensive knowledge, skills and experience in a great number of fields of management, especially total quality, process management, six sigma, innovation and business excellence. He assumed active leadership roles when Arçelik applied...

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Roger La Salle, trains people in innovation, marketing, business management and the new emerging art of Opportunity Capture. "Matrix Thinking"™ was developed by Roger and is now licensed more than 29 countries and used in countless organisations worldwide. He is speaks on Innovation, Opportunity and business development and is the author of four books and a Director and former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC) as well as a number of companies both in Australia and overseas. He has been responsible for a number of successful technology start-ups and in 2004 was a regular panellist on the ABC New Inventors TV program. In 2005 he was appointed to the "Chair of Innovation" at “The Queens University" in Belfast. Roger is not only a speaker but an innovation practitioner...