Genevieve Bell grew up in Australia, moving between the working class suburbs of Melbourne and Canberra and the Aboriginal communities of Central and Northern Australia. She has a PhD in anthropology and works as Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group. There she manages an inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers.

We’ve met some interesting people at Lift who are developing practice as consultants and service practitioners in the broad area called “open innovation”. So lets talk about it, and hopefully keep our conversation alive after we leave Geneva.

• Where in the spectrum of “open” is your innovation practice? From crowds to expert panels and networks, what are the various forms of open?

• What are the kinds of clients you have/target and what methods are you using?

• What is your open innovation strategy, for your own practice?

• What is the global community of practitioners in open innovation? Where are they today?

We will meet at the afternoon break today (15:15) in the seating area immediately behind the auditorium.