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CONVERGENCEThe Journey to Visionary Innovation

GIL 2015: GERMANYThe Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership

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17 November, 2015 | Jumeirah Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany

Dear Colleague,

It is our pleasure to once again extend a personal invitation to you to join us and our global community of senior executives onthe next phase of our Journey to Visionary Innovation, “Convergence”.

In our third consecutive year, GIL 2015: Germany continues to bring together a global network of todayÊs best thinkers, visionariesand thought leaders, learning how to leverage innovation as a resource to address global challenges.

We are inspired and even more enthused about the unlimited potential that exists in our quest for excellence driven by all themonumental and innovative visionary perspectives shared around the globe, in more than twenty countries that comprise ourGIL community.

This year, as we continue sharing, engaging and inspiring one another, we are proud to welcome Frost & SullivanÊs Best PracticesAward recipients and their management teams to our community. These distinguished guests - visionaries, innovators and leaders- represent Frost & SullivanÊs 2015 „Best-in-Class‰ organisations and are a key driver fuelling our communityÊs thought leadershipand global think tanks. The positive impact of these superlative performers' innovative solutions and services across a diverserange of markets will be formally recognised during our prestigious Growth Excellence Awards Banquet.

Reinforce your commitment to Growth, Innovation and Leadership and join our 2015 Journey to Visionary Innovation today.

We look forward to seeing you at GIL 2015: Germany.

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Dorman FollowwillSenior PartnerFrost & Sullivan

Klaus HuhnVice President of Consulting,Head of German OperationsFrost & Sullivan


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08:30 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

09:00 WELCOME TO THE GIL JOURNEY

Klaus Huhn, Vice President of Consulting, Head of German Operations,Frost & Sullivan

09:10 KEYNOTE: NEW BUSINESS MODELS

Dorman Followwill, Senior Partner, Frost & Sullivan

Executive managers have to strategise and execute today amidunprecedented uncertainty. This keynote explores how to navigatethese choppy waters by understanding the new convergence-drivenbusiness models, partnership platforms and service models that areenabling companies to continue to win amid the disruptions, collapses,and transformations we are seeing across geographies, markets,industries and companies today.

09:35 KEYNOTE: INDUSTRIE 4.0: EXAMPLES IN ACTION

Thorsten Schröer, Director Electronics Industry Europe, IBM

09:55 THE NEXT FRONTIER OF GROWTH: WOMEN AS ACUSTOMER AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ECONOMIESAND BUSINESSES

Olivia Price-Walker, Principal Consultant, Visionary Innovation,Frost & Sullivan

Leaders and innovators all the over the world are looking for the nextgrowth opportunity - whether it’s an emerging market, digitaltransformation or new service industries. This presentation examinesthe growing body of evidence that by addressing female consumersand harnessing the power of females in your economy or organisation,you will yield significant returns and uncover your trillion dollarcustomer.

10:15 NETWORKING BREAK

10:35 WORKSHOP: CREATE A COMPELLING BUSINESSMODEL AND DEVELOP KEY ELEMENTS OF ABUSINESS PLAN

Dorman Followwill, Senior Partner, Frost & Sullivan

11:50 EUROPE'S TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA FOR THENEW AGE: THE IMPACT OF MEGA TRENDS ONEUROPE'S COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT

Sarwant Singh, Senior Partner, Head of Automotive & Transportationand Visionary Innovation Group, Frost & Sullivan

Europe is bound by an enormous number of out of date regulationsand systems. New environmental, economic social and politicaldevelopments and trends have challenged these systems forcing theEurope to rethink strategies for the future. With the new growthstrategy the European Union is re-enforcing its commitment tobecoming a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. The Union hasset ambitious objectives - on employment, innovation, education, socialinclusion and climate/energy to be achieved over the next decade.This presentation will examine these developments along with otherexternal factors with a Mega Trend lens to highlight macro to microimplications on businesses and the society.

12:15 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:15 NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN EMERGING MARKETS

Allan Joe, Mobility Business Unit Head, Africa, Frost & Sullivan

Africa is Open for Business: Growth within Reach with MegaTrendsAfrica has been plagued with falling commodity prices, power gaps,political instability and corruption in the past years. The 54 countries,however, are set to change quite drastically in the future and forecastto function as a single continent with population strength of over 625million people in the common trade bloc. This presentation will focuson the exogenous factors or Mega Trends set to positively impactAfrica’s future prospects and the continent’s growth story over thenext ten years. It will further provide visionary insights into theimpact of digital trends, such as virtual currency on Africa's bankingindustry and the growing importance of the mobile economy that istouted to become the second-largest mobile Internet market by 2020globally.

13:35 WORKSHOP: EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES ANDSTRATEGIES FOR YOUR COMPANY IN NEWEMERGING COUNTRIES

14:15 NETWORKING BREAK

14:35 TECHVISION: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGYINNOVATIONS, DISRUPTIONS, AND CONVERGENCETO DRIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GROWTH

Ankit Shukla, Practice Director – Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan

Disruption everywhere is a frightening prospect for most companiesunaware of new technologies that will soon arrive to threaten marketposition and send their strategy, R&D, and product development teamsinto tail spins. Knowing a cool technology is one thing, knowing whatto do with it is another. It is easy for companies to get caught in atrap of the latest fad that never leads to business ROI. In this session,we will be drawing from Frost & Sullivan's TechVision program tohighlight the top 50 disruptive technologies with a powerful messagearound what you should do to get ahead of the threat.

Key Take-Aways:

• Identify the next waves of innovation and white space opportunitiescreated by convergence of top technologies

• Build new concepts for stronger stakeholder return

• Collaborate with peers to evaluate and co-create potential convergence scenarios worth billions of dollars

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15:00 360 DEGREE INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES AND PANELDISCUSSION

15:00 Internet of Things, Services and People

Dr. Zied M. Ouertani, Principal Scientist, Analytics & SoftwareApplications, ABB AG

15:15 Internet of Industrial Things: Vision and Roadmap

Muthukumar Viswanathan, Practice Head, Frost & Sullivan

The vision of the future of manufacturing, also popularly known asIndustry 4.0, will be singularly determined by the design, developmentand implementation of the Internet of Things. This will give raise to anew market called the Internet of Industrial Things - one that includesa combination of disparate market participants, starting from thesegments of traditional industrial automation to commercial vendorsfrom the ICT space, who hold a strong leverage on digitaltechnologies. What will be the roadmap of this ongoingtransformation? How will suppliers from diverse marketenvironments, collaborate, co-opt and compete in the future ofmanufacturing?

15:25 Customer-centric Business Models in Changing Markets

Susana Quintana-Plaza, Senior Vice President, Technology &Innovation, E.ON

15:45 Energy & Environment: Challenges and Opportunities inthe new Wave of cheaper Energy


16:05 Automotive Future Outlook: Identify & Embrace theOpportunities

Franck Leveque, Partner & Business Unit Leader, Automotive &Transportation, Frost & Sullivan

Urbanisation, connectivity , emission regulations, automation are someof the most critical dynamics in the automotive industry withtransformational impact on the vehicle itself (mass-customisation), theusage (new mobility), the business models (vehicle as a service), thedistribution (e-retail), the ecosystem (balance of power) and theplayers (Google, Apple, Tesla).

16:25 Big Data in Automotive Industry: Data driven Automotive,the business throttle

Pascal Pediroda, Product Manager Connected Living, Worldline

Far beyond KPI to monitor standard automotive business operations,Big Data Analytics is a key pillar for automotive business reinvention.This presentation will explore how Big Data allow to learn more &better from the field to improve automotive products, customersatisfaction & and enables new business models.

16:45 PANEL DISCUSSION / AUDIENCE Q&A

17:15 GIL 2015: GERMANY CLOSING COMMENTS ANDNETWORKING RECEPTION



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Allan JoeMobility Business Unit Head, AfricaFrost & Sullivan

Allan Joe has over 17 years of experience in largemultinationals with leadership roles in thefollowing industries - Automotive, Financial Services,Telecommunication and Advisory/Management

Consulting. He has an extensive experience in developing, managing and executingplans to support company specific growth strategies across Africa and keyEmerging Markets. Allan spearheaded numerous growth and expansion initiativesfor multinationals covering multi-countries/regions in North and Sub-SaharanAfrica, Central and Eastern Europe and South East Asia. Acute understanding ofsocio-economic issues and business opportunities in Africa and other emergingmarkets, some of these include Brazil, China and Russia. He holds Masters ofScience in Finance from Georgia State University, Robinson Business School inAtlanta,GA, USA.

Ankit A ShuklaPractice Director – Technical InsightsFrost & Sullivan

Ankit A. Shukla is responsible for designing, managingand delivering the Technical Insights value propositionacross industries in Europe, Israel and Africa. Heforesees the evaluation and application of thought

leadership platforms and frameworks like TechVision 2020, Wave of Innovationand Diffusion of Innovation – to name a few. His particular expertise and interestlie in deciphering the complexities of innovation as a process and understandinghow to apply related strategies to achieve growth for clients. AnkitÊs careerhighlights include managing and executing over 75 projects across technologyclusters, establishing regional research groups and expanding the business unitÊshorizon. He holds a MasterÊs degree in Control Engineering from the Universityof Sheffield, UK.

Dorman FollowwillSenior PartnerFrost & Sullivan

Dorman FollowwillÊs inspirational leadership andcontributions to the global Frost & Sullivan team haveaccounted for outstanding performance in regional EIAsales and profit as a Partner, Director and Executive

Committee member for the Europe, Israel, and Africa region, in 2008 and 2009, aswell as record profitability in the Healthcare business unit in North America from2002-2005. Dorman has played a leading role in some of the largest consultingengagements in the history of the firm, including ongoing projects with BayerBiologicals and Philips, and key projects with Merck Chemicals, Montagu PrivateEquity, and Novartis. He also supports several key sales and new businessdevelopment initiatives in EIA. Dorman has a B.A. in The Management ofOrganisations from Stanford University and currently resides in Oxford, U.K., withhis family.

Franck LevequePartner & Business Unit Leader, Automotive &TransportationFrost & Sullivan

Franck Leveque is Partner and Business Unit Leaderwithin Frost & SullivanÊs Automotive & TransportationPractice in Europe. He has more than 10 years of

consulting experience, especially in automotive market research and marketstrategy development. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors,with a special focus on Telematics (PV & CV), Powertrain (including EV), Chassis,Safety, Driver Assistance, Aftermarket, Mobility (Rail & Urban Transport). FranckLeveque was educated in Oxford and joined Frost & Sullivan in early 2001. Sincethen he has been instrumental in the development of the Automotive &Transportation practice in Europe as Partner and Business Unit Leader. He isdriving consulting best practices, and is responsible for the expansion of theTransportation sector, including Future Mobility, Rail & Urban Transport, andIntelligent Transport Systems. Franck is a recognised Transportation expert andspeaks at various events. He has worked and managed numerous high-valueprojects across the value chain with many blue chip companies, including Daimler,Hyundai, GM, Magna, Thales, Nokia-Navteq, Continental, Siemens and many more.

Klaus HuhnVice President of Consulting, Head of German OperationsFrost & Sullivan

Klaus Huhn has over 22 years experience in economicand business research and analytics; strategic andoperational consultancy, merger & acquisitions, strategicpartnerships and due diligence; strategic and business

plans for start-ups. As an experienced manager of team of consultants and countryoperations he is currently the head of of DACH Operations at Frost & Sullivan.

Muthukumar ViswanathanPractice HeadFrost & Sullivan

Muthukumar's functional expertise spans 20+ years ofmulti-cultural exposure across Europe and Asia inStrategy Consulting, Industrial B2B Market Research andGeneral Management. His industry experience covers a

broad range of sectors in the Industrial domain, including Industrial Automation,Process Control, Sensors & Instrumentation, Test & Measurement andSemiconductors. He also possesses emerging market experience gathered in Indiaand Asia and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School ofBusiness. Muthukumar is Practice Director of the Industrial team at Frost &Sullivan working with key clients on developing market strategies andimplementation plans for growth.

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Olivia Price-WalkerPrincipal Consultant, Visionary InnovationFrost & Sullivan

Olivia is a Master of Law with an LLB from DurhamUniversity UK and LLM in International Criminal Lawfrom Nottingham University UK. Her research andconsulting focus is global trends, leading the mega trends

consulting programme for European clients across a range of industries. Recentfocus areas have included smart cities, connected living and workplace of thefuture. A key mega trend is social trends and consequently the impact of theempowerment of women. Olivia has just completed a global study into the futurefemale automotive customer – having done a significant number of interviewswith women car buyers across the globe. Olivia has worked on and managednumerous high-value consulting projects globally, focussed on future trends andtheir strategic implications. Recent clients include BMW, Toyota, Nissan, St Gobain,Hitachi and Continental.

Pascal PedirodaProduct Manager Connected LivingWorldline

17 years in software innovation for the industry. Amongthe first to connect automation machines and washingmachines to Internet in the 90 Âs, he has been creatingLocation-based services since 2004 in various fields such

as eHealth and fleet telematics. In the M2M & IoT business since 2008 when hejoined Atos, Pascal is now leading the Connected Living product line of Worldline,subsidiary of this major IT company, mostly serving discrete manufacturers for anew connected World.

Sarwant SinghSenior Partner, Head of Automotive & Transportationand Visionary Innovation GroupFrost & Sullivan

Sarwant Singh joined Frost & Sullivan in March 1999 andhas managed over 250 strategic consulting projectsacross diverse industry sectors during this time. He

heads up two teams in Frost & Sullivan: the Automotive and TransportationPractice and the Visionary Innovation Research group which works on MegaTrends. Sarwant is responsible for managing the global team and for developing andimplementing business strategies and fulfilling high-value consulting projects.Sarwant is the author of a book titled, "New Mega Trends: Implications to ourFuture Lives." The book has been sold in over 30 countries since its launch inSept. 2012. Sarwant combines his engineering acumen with strong commercialand business awareness.

Susana Quintana-PlazaSenior Vice President, Technology & InnovationE.ON

Since October 2014, Susana has been leading theTechnology and Innovation (T&I) division at the E.ONgroup as Senior Vice President. She first joined E.ON in2009 in its Climate & Renewables division. In 2011 she

took over the role of Vice President of Innovation Scouting & Co-investments atT&I where she was leading the team in search of new trends and innovations thatwill impact the energy world as well as the Corporate Venture Capital activitiesfor the E.ON group. She has over ten years of work experience in aerospace andenergy industries with Boeing, Booz & Co and GE. She holds an MBA fromHarvard Business School and Bachelor and a Masters in Aerospace Engineeringfrom the University of Washington. Susana lives in Cologne. In her free time sheloves to spend time with her husband and two children and travel the world.

Thorsten SchröerDirector, Electronics Industry EuropeIBM

Thorsten Schroeer, based in Duesseldorf, is the industryleader for the electronics industry in Europe for the IBMCorporation. In this position, Thorsten helps IBM clientstransform their business into the new era of Internet of

Things & Industrie 4.0 in the enterprise, cloud, mobile, analytics, social and security.He spent more than 15 years in the industry with extensive work acrossoperations and business strategy.

Dr. Zied M. OuertaniPrincipal Scientist, Analytics & Software ApplicationsABB AG

Zied is a Principal Scientist in Industrial ServiceManagement at ABB Corporate Research Centre (CRC)Germany. He currently leads several initiatives onanalytics, service engineering and business model

innovation for power and automation industry. Prior to this position, Zied hasbeen with the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Researcher and memberof the Distributed Information and Automation Lab (DIAL) at the Institute forManufacturing, the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab and the Cambridge Service Alliance.Zied lead several projects funded by the UK EPSRC funding agency as well asindustrial-funded projects providing consultancy to industries such as Caterpillar,BAE Systems, IBM and ExxonMobil. He also supported the Cambridge UniversityÊsInstitute for Manufacturing and the Judge Business School in lecturingundergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Zied, who has been awarded aUniversité Henri Poincaré (Nancy, France) scholarship for postgraduate studies,obtained a Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2007 and holds a Master of Science inProduction Automation jointly from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris,France) and Université Henri Poincaré.

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