Frost & Sullivan’s Growth, Innovation & Leadership 2011 Asia Pacific Congress emphasizes on Meg

Oct. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- Singapore, 13 October 2011 – Frost & Sullivan’s flagship community of visionaries, innovators and leaders, GIL Global, held its 2011 Asia Pacific congress on 13 October 2011 at the Resort World in Sentosa, Singapore. This year’s annual gathering focused largely on how CEOs and their management teams can further uncover growth opportunities by anticipating and responding to the various industry transformations referred to as ‘Mega Trends’ emerging around us.

Mr. Aroop Zutshi, Global President & Managing Partner of Frost & Sullivan presented his keynote address on Will You Be a Victim or a Victor of the Future Economy: Role of Visionary Innovation. Mr. Zutshi spoke on why innovation is critical to success, where innovation comes from, how to become a visionary innovator and the next steps for individuals and companies to survive and thrive in the future business environment.

Following this, Mr. Manoj Menon, Partner & Managing Director for Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific expanded on the Top 10 Global Mega Trends and Their Impact on Business, Cultures and Society. In his presentation, Mr. Menon suggested some of the key areas to watch would include an increase in Urbanisation, e-Mobility, Innovating to Zero, New Business Models, and Connected Devices; trends that will influence and shape the world in the coming years.

“Identifying such trends signifies the start of contemporary business management. Our main objective is to help CEOs better understand the evolution of these global trends, it’s opportunities and threats, so they can better anticipate and respond in the world’s rapidly changing environment,” says Mr. Menon.

This year’s congress also featured an interactive panel discussion on The State of Innovation: Does innovation really matters to your business? Moderated by Mr. Andrew Milroy, Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific Vice President of ICT Practice, industry luminaries Mr. Andrew Chong, Infineon Technologies’ Asia Pacific Regional President & Managing Director, Mr. Virender Aggarwal, HCL Technologies’ President, and Mr. Aroop Zutshi, Frost & Sullivan’s Global President & Managing Partner, discussed the foundation of nurturing a sustainable culture of innovation and growth for the future.

Later in the day, concurrent career tracks titled Corporate Strategy, Marketing, and Innovation/R&D were conducted where delegates networked with cross-industry executives who share functional responsibilities, to benchmark, validate strategy, and share best practices, pitfalls and successes in growth championship.

This was followed by dedicated tracks in the industries of Automotive & Transportation, Healthcare, Energy & Power Systems, Environment & Building Technologies, and Information & Communication Technologies. These concurrent business tracks explored the impact of urban mobility, the changing healthcare business model, the development of clean technologies, and the rise of cloud computing.


“Despite this being GIL’s second consecutive year in Singapore, we are always so inspired by the commitment to growth and innovation exhibited by the region’s senior executives,” explains Mr. Brian Denker, Vice President of Growth, Innovation and Leadership for Frost & Sullivan. “The visionaries, innovators and leaders which make up our global community are committed to developing their analytical, strategic, visionary and innovative skills. Today’s blockbuster turn-out reaffirms Singapore’s continued emergence in world markets illustrated through the many best practices and inspirations shared among this year’s participants for innovating and accelerating growth.”

This year’s GIL 2011: Asia Pacific concluded with a Bite-Size GIL showcase where GIL community thought leaders shared life-changing inspirations which provide new ideas, perspectives and propelled change. Notable speakers include Mr. Jack Woo, Plus! BigDeal’s Co-founder, Mr. Manoj Menon, Frost & Sullivan’s Partner & Asia Pacific Managing Director, Mr. Andrew Milroy, Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific ICT Vice President, and Mr. Vivek Vaidya, Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific Vice President for Automotive & Transportation practice.

To obtain additional information on Mega Trends, detailed presentations from GIL 2011: Asia Pacific or the global 2011 GIL schedule, please contact Donna Jeremiah at djeremiah@frost.com or visit http://gil-global.com/

GIL 2011: Asia Pacific was held in cooperation with members of the Frost & Sullivan Strategic Partner Consortium. Members of this global alliance of world-class growth solution providers, non-profits, media and regional event partners include BrightTALK, Eloqua, GlobalSpec, HCL, Lenos Software, LivePerson, PR Newswire, SABIC Innovative Plastics, Sales Element, Underwriters Laboratories, ConferenceGuru, Innovation Management Magazine, itToolbox.com, Polycom, The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), Appropedia, Business Marketing Association (BMA), Carbon War Room, GreeenStar, and the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Regional media partners for this year’s congress include BoogarLists, CIO Asia, Computerworld Singapore, Enterprise Technology Management, Exec Digital, Green Purchasing Asia, MIS Asia, Technology Digital and ZDNet Asia.

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