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How LEGO was saved from bankruptcy by turning around its innovation system 

David's speech will focus on his current book project, “Rebuilding LEGO”, the story of how the LEGO Group rescued itself from bankruptcy by turning around its innovation system. Using stories from the development of LEGO toys such as Bionicles, Mindstorms, and LEGO City, the book will help managers understand how to manage innovation across the company to get greater returns from their innovation investments. David is also co-author, along with Jeanne Ross and Peter Weill from the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, of the best-selling book Enterprise Architecture as Strategy from Harvard Business School Press. David is currently working on the sequel to that book, to be titled Transforming Enterprise Architecture.

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David Robertson is a Professor at IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland where he teaches Innovation, Technology Management, and IT to IMD's executive and MBA programs. At IMD, David is co-Director of the Program for Executive Development, IMD's largest executive education program. He is also currently directing executive programs for Credit Suisse and EMC2. Prior to IMD, David was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 5 years, and an executive at four enterprise software companies. In addition to his responsibilities at IMD, David serves as a consultant to companies on issues related to innovation and technology management.

Mr. Farhat Ali

President and Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu America

Mr. Claude Bélisle

Vice-President, Satellite Communications and Radio Propagation Research Branch, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)

Mr. Daniel Blanche

President and CEO, CRIM

Mr. Jim Carroll

Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert

Mr. Patrick Chanezon

Team Manager, Client and Cloud Advocacy, Google

Mr. François Coallier, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

Mr. Robert Courteau

Senior Vice-President, Business Solutions, Fujitsu Canada

Mr. Mourad Debbabi, Ph.D.

Vice-President, NCFTA, and CIISE Director & Professor, CU Research Chair Tier 1 in Information System Security, Concordia University

Mr. François Gratton

Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Business Solutions, TELUS Québec

Mr. David E. Hershberg

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Globecomm

Mr. Austin Hill

Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor, Co-founder and CEO, Akoha

Mr. Tom Jenkins

Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation

Mr. Henri Kaufman

President, HiP iP iP

Ms. Najoua Kooli

Project Manager, CEFRIO

Mr. Sylvain Lafrance

Executive Vice-President, Radio-Canada

Mr. Claude lemay

Vice-President Québec, ITAC and Chief Executive Officer, WCIT 2012

Mr. Mark Lowenstein

Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

Mr. Yannis Mallat

Chief Executive Officer, Ubisoft Montréal & Ubisoft Toronto

Mr. Stéphane Marceau

Chief Marketing Officer, Yellow Pages Group

Mr. Jeff McDowell

Senior Vice President, Business Marketing & Alliances, Research in Motion (RIM)

Mr. André Mondoux, Ph.D.

Researcher, columnist and professor, UQAM

Mr. Andy Piper

Consulting IT and Social Media Specialist, IBM Consulting

Mr. Sébastien Provencher

Co-founder, Praized Media

Mr. David Robertson, Ph.D.

Professor, Innovation, Technology Management, and IT, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Ms. Clara Shih

CEO, Hearsay Labs and Author, The Facebook Era

Ms. Jennifer Stoddart

Privacy Commissioner of Canada