Two days dedicated to Frugal Innovation!

Focus on the plenary presentation and thematic workshops

Frugal innovation: more ingenuity, less waste?

Wednesday 11 June from 10am to 12.30pm

Opening presentation of the 8th Eco-Technologies for the Future Congress at Lille Grand Palais Exhibition Centre

Changing processes, looking at progress from a different angle, doing more with less, and innovating with panache while ensuring resources are preserved

Against a backdrop where the more sustainable and economical solutions there are, the better, take advantage of an exclusive preview of new ideas for promoting innovation that are winning over an ever-increasing number of businesses and engineers…    

With a keynote speech by Navi Radjou, an  innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley and co-author of “Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth” 

Between limited resources and financial restrictions, what are the prospects for daring innovation for the cities, factories and mobility of tomorrow?

Workshop

Urban communities of tomorrow / 11 June  /  2.30pm-5pm

Cities and frugal innovation: how do we go about designing to reduce wasting raw materials, energy, water and space in urban areas?

Overview of innovative cities in Europe and presentation of a model citythat is putting

in place over 200 projects for a “greener” city.

Differing viewpoints of entrepreneurs developing novel approaches for urban areas:

• Managing rainwater 

• Simplified and optimised homes

The factories of tomorrow / 12 June /  9.30am-12pm

Factories and frugal innovation: faced with the constraints on industry in Europe, what will

the factories of tomorrow be like? Will they seek inspiration from the frugal innovations of emerging countries?

Differing viewpoints of manufacturers and engineers who are already preparingthe outlines for tomorrow’s factories:

• Optimising resources in industrial plants

• Industrial ecology viewed from Quebec

Mobility tomorrow   / 12 June /  2.30pm - 5pm

Mobility and frugal innovation: when changing constraints creates new forms of mobility,new products and/or services and new markets.

Differing viewpoints of manufacturers providing new products and services and logistics players:

• Analysing the changing nature of constraints and factoring them into product/ /service offerings

• Stating new requirements, new organisational methods, and new prospects for growth applied to goods and passenger transport

Registering is free but compulsory HERE