Inspiring Innovation -- Step Up to the Intel Challenge
posted by Ken Kaplan on August 21, 2008
This video has the “stuff” we don’t always hear of see at an Intel Developer Forum keynote. Sure Intel Chairman Craig Barrett talked about WiMAX, Digital Health and how technology is spreading across the globe. But that “stuff” was overshadowed by Dr. Barrett’s passion for inspiring innovation, especially in improving education, healthcare, economic development and the environment.
In fact, he put $ where his passion is when he kicked off Inspire-Empower contest calling for the best technology solutions to address these four areas. The contest will award seed funding of $100,000 USD to one winner in each category.
So step up to the challenge from wherever you are.
The contest is part of Intel World Ahead, which you can also follow on Facebook.
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tagged: Craig Barrett, education, environment, healthcare, IDF2008, IDFSF08, Intel Challenge, Kiva, World Ahead
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Aug 25 | Saqib Ali said:
This is a slightly off-topic.
On the 2nd day of IDF, there was very interesting Chalk Talk session titled “Managing Innovation” at 1:40 PM.
Does anyone who was the speaker for that session?
Aug 26 | Annie Rodkins said:
Hello Saqib,
Here is a list of the panelists for the “Managing Innovation” Chalk Talk:
Nov 11 | Saqib Ali said:
Hi Annie,
Do you have the audio/presentation from the “Managing Innovation”ChalkTalk session?
One of the panelist (Gregg Wyant, I think) talked about how Intel’s internal IT dept is using some Web 2.0 tools to provide self-support to the internal users.
Do you have more information about that? Were these tools developed in-house or were they purchased? Any other information about the usability and success of these self-support innovations would be helpful.
Nov 11 | Laurie Buczek said:
I am the Social Computing Program Manager for IT in Intel. Yes, we are deploying a new social computing framework. We are buying, not building ourselves. I am blogging about our efforts over in Open Port. You can check out one of my blog posts http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/it/2008/07/21/testing-the-business-value-of-social-networking-in-the-enterprise. I have several more and I am working on more as I type. I hope this helps.
Nov 12 | Saqib Ali said:
Hi Laurie,
Do you have more information on the cost-savings achieved by moving to a Web 2.0 powered self-support IT Helpdesk? Gregg Wyant touched this subject very briefly in the ChalkTalk at IDF but did not go into details.
Thanks Saqib
Nov 12 | kenekaplan said:
Saqib,
Managing the IT Enterprise of the Future was a session that Gregg Wyant gave in San Francisco and Taiwan IDF 2008. We do not have an audio recording of it, but here are a few links:
US IDF https://intel.wingateweb.com/US08/scheduler/public.jsp
Taipei IDF https://intel.wingateweb.com/taiwan08/scheduler/public.jsp
Hope these help.