We organized some of the activities at the CIO Innovation Tour to enrich the experience of Spanish leaders at Oracle OpenWorld
One of the key aspects of our work here at Opinno is to place ourselves wherever technology is being created in order to form part of the latest innovations and collaborate with alike minds that share our motivations. This is exactly what we did when Oracle Ibérica entrusted us with the organization of some of the activities for their CIO Innovation Tour: a series of meetings and workshops for Spanish CIOs to complete the agenda of their international Oracle OpenWorld 2015 event, which took place between October 25th and 29th in San Francisco (USA).
Oracle OpenWorld is one of the most important cloud computing events worldwide. This event, organized by Oracle, attracted more than 60,000 attendees from 141 different countries. Motivated by the desire to deliver solutions for the major challenges of the future, we, Opinno, prepared a series of parallel activities for 45 CIOs from Oracle Ibérica's top clients and partners, which include some of the largest companies in Spain.
The central theme that we chose for the CIO Innovation Tour represents one of the key challenges of the future: mobility. To this end, we coordinated a series of exclusive visits at some of the most modern hubs of innovation, such as Silicon Valley.
One of the first meetings was with three executives from NASA to learn firsthand about the most disruptive new projects, such as the use of suborbital flights in commercial aviation. We also organized an encounter with the Vice President of Business Strategy at Uber, David Richter. This was an exclusive meeting in which Richter shared the keys to the company's international expansion and challenges the company faces in countries like Spain.
Another activity that we designed for these CIOs was a design thinking workshop moderated by experts from the d.school at Stanford University (USA) to offer solutions for the challenges of Spanish workforce mobility by 2030. As explained by our Strategy Designer and one of the project leads, Noemí de la Fuente, "All of the activities fall within the framework of an experience designed to inspire, analyze and debate about the 'future of commuting'; the challenges we face in this area and how we are going to tackle them." And, as an example of our online innovation philosophy, we prepared a breakfast event with a panel of mobility experts. This encounter transpired as a debate around such relevant these as smart cities, the rural-urban divide or new types of transportation like autonomous vehicles.
The objective was to offer these CIOs the opportunity to connect and share their ideas with some of the most relevant personalities within the current innovation ecosystem, including experts from Silicon Valley. Rather than simply organizing one-off activities, we aimed to create a global focus for a specific problem area to help these important companies lead in the resolution of tomorrow's problems.
