The green economy heralds a new era of opportunity, growth and sustainable development, placing a higher value on social equity, natural capital and ecological services. Delivering this will require an unprecedented level of collaboration, innovation and commitment to action. But what does this actually mean for business?

The B4E Global Summit 2012 in Berlin will define the role of business in shaping and building a global green economy.  With the theme “Collaborate, Innovate, Act – Delivering the Green Economy”, the summit will explore transformative business models, smart cities and innovative financial solutions, with proposals for a better, more sustainable future. The outcome of the B4E Summit discussions will be shared with key decision makers at the 2012 Earth Summit in Rio.

The landscape of the digital world is rapidly changing. These changes are no longer a crossroad decision. Enterprises now need to stay abreast and transform with these changes in order to maintain a competitive advantage and sustain growth. Beyond the crossroads, there are new challenges and paradigm shifts for the Executive Team, especially for CIOs.

This program is based on MIT's powerful strategic framework, the Delta Model, which offers senior managers a fresh and pragmatic approach to critical business thinking. At its core is an understanding that traditional competitive approaches that rely on product differentiation do not produce optimal results, nor do they take advantage of new sources of profitability that the connectivity of a networked economy offers. To survive and prosper today, companies must shift focus from products to customers and create a business plan based on:

• Innovative restructuring of customer relationships
• Segmenting customers more creatively
• Delivering a value proposition that places the customer at the center of the company's overall strategy

Join the MySloanExecEd Community Group for this program to network with past, present, and future participants.

InnoTown is a truly unusual business conference for people who want to open up to the new opportunities that lie beyond the traditionally tried and tested. The aim of InnoTown is to move people's minds, both rationally and emotionally; to inspire and enhance creativity and innovation, to help motivate people to think new thoughts and dare to fail – to succeed.

The conference emphasises innovation, vision, inspiration, strategy, creativity, promotion and internationalisation. It creates good relations between people from different countries, trades, environments and professions. This results in stimulating new ideas and the developing, deepening and widening of existing knowledge and values.

InnoTown is a door-opener to increased innovation. Behind the door the opportunities are waiting for you. Come to InnoTown and see!

The XXIII ISPIM Conference – Action for Innovation: Innovating from Experience – takes place in Barcelona, Spain on 17-20 June 2012. Organised by ISPIM, and hosted by La Salle University in partnership with Orbita97, this conference will bring together around 450 innovation experts from 55 countries.

The three-day programme will include: Industry-Leading Keynote Speakers; Luminary Speakers; Innovation Thought Leaders; "Hot Topic" Roundtable Discussions; Facilitated Themed Sessions with over 200 Academic and Practitioner Presentations (see Call for Papers); Workshops; Special Interest Groups; Research Development Sessions.

As with all ISPIM events, delegates will experience a taste of local culture at magnificent dinner venues so there will be plenty of time for networking.

Challenge reality. Provoke change. Shape the future.

In 2012 the most successful organizations will be the ones who know where to discover the potential of, and lead innovation...

Next year the World Innovation Forum returns to New York City to bring together a whole new group of experts and practitioners who are shaping the way we do business.

In an evolving business arena, a strong track record does not guarantee future success. To ensure longevity, organizations must continue to fund innovation by creating a mix of existing and new sources of revenue. Harvard Business School (HBS) helps companies develop a portfolio approach to growth through Building New Businesses in Established Organizations—a unique Executive Education program that provides proven strategies for building startups within a large corporation.

Two days. Thirty storytellers. Over 400 innovators, troublemakers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and transformation artists.

BIF-8 is a national gathering of amazing people who are driven by their passion, creativity, and smarts to create value in entirely new ways. Believing in the power of stories to change the world, the BIF Summit is a storytelling jam, peppered with tales of personal discovery, innovation, and transformation.

Now in its eighth year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as "one of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action" (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators.

A transformative experience dedicated to building better businesses, better people, a better world. In 2012 the World Business Forum returns to Radio City Music Hall, where the inspiration all began. Join the most powerful minds in business along with the top executives from around the world for an unforgettable two-day experience.

The Esri Business Summit offers ideas and insight from some of the best minds in business. Learn how commercial organizations worldwide are using place-based decision making to support the corporate mission, grow profitability and manage change in a world of increasing business complexity.

Don't miss out; be part of the gathering that takes business knowledge to a whole new level.