- FRIDAY 23 November
- Business Link
08:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 Welcome, introduction, key notes
10:00 Presentations by facilitators and mentors
11:00 Networking game
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Challenges and dividing into 3 groups
13:30 Presentations by experts and group discussions
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Start innovating (light brainstorming in teams)
19:00 Dinner
- Become familiar with the innovation process and the course for the next 3 days
- Get to know your facilitators, mentors and each other
- Form teams (if you haven’t already done so) around the themes which resonate with you the most
- Get to know your target audience and talk to them about what their real issues are – hopefully some interesting and even unexpected problems will reveal themselves and give your projects an innovative edge
- SATURDAY 24 November
- Business Link
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Presentation about Ideation
09:10 Brainstorming 2.0
10:30 Status check and mentoring sessions in groups
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Presentation about prototyping
13:40 Prototyping
15:40 Presentation about testing
16:00 First test round of prototypes and mentoring sessions
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Back to innovating
- Deep brainstorming time for ideas on how to tackle the problem(s) your target audience is facing
- Pick your favourite ideas and prototype them into something you can test – whether a mock-up of an app or a rehearsed scene of a new service offered at nursing homes
- Do a first test round of your prototypes, gather feedback and revise and improve your ideas
- SUNDAY 25 November
- Business Link
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Business model presentation (Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation)
09:30 Business modelling
10:30 Presentation about presenting
10:40 Finishing prototypes and preparing presentations vol.1
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Finishing prototypes and preparing presentations vol.2
13:30 Deadline for uploading presentations to Slack
14:00 Presentations/DEMO starts
16:30 Announcement of winners
17:00 Networking
- Time to get serious – polish your revised prototypes to bring them as close to realization as possible after an intensive 3 days
- Present your ideas to everyone, including mentors, board of experts and the public. The winner of this year’s SIW will be selected