Oslo Innovation Week går av stabelen fra mandag 25. til fredag 29. september 2017. Dermed har arrangøren imøtekommet flere innspill om å legge arrangementet i en uke som har større mulighet til å by på sensommervær i Oslo.
I de ti årene OIW har blitt arrangert hittil har det vært fast den andre eller tredje uken i oktober.
- The Oslo Solution
Arrangøren, det kommunale selskapet Oslo Business Region kaller inn til møte 2. mars 2017, hvor alle som ønsker å lage innslag, møter, workshops og konferanser under den hektiske uken inviteres til å delta.
Det er klekket ut et eget åttepunkts "manifest" for Oslos innovasjonsuke, som lyder slik direkte sitert fra nyhetsbrevet. OIW bruker engelsk som arbeidsspråk:
- Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation to drive global sustainable change.
There has never been a better time for standing up for your values. We are the first generation who can end poverty, and the last that can fight climate change. 193 Member States of the United Nations have defined 17 Sustainability Development Goals. We feel a duty to act on it.
Being an attendee, an event organizer, a keynote speaker or a sponsor of Oslo Innovation Week, we all commit to the sustainability goals, and to this:
- The Oslo Innovation Week Manifesto
- Oslo Innovation Week sets the agenda for business solutions to the UN sustainability goals. Oslo Innovation Week will push the world forward by combining entrepreneurship, technology and innovation.
- Actions speak louder than words. Oslo Innovation Week is all about innovation in action, no inspirational or dogmatic talks about what might come, or what someone else should be doing. No sales presentations either.
- Powercouples drive the future of innovation. The future lies in bridging differences. Between established businesses and the newcomers. Between public and privat, academiad business. Across borders, disciplines and titles. A powercouple consists of great minds of different disciplines, complementing each other in solving the world’s challenges. All OIW events are powercouples.
- New influencers are vital to find new solutions. Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, micropreneurs, impact investors, tech experts, bold explorers and new thought leaders will have a voice at Oslo Innovation Week.
- Gender equality and diversity is a no-brainer. Oslo Innovation Week has in its DNA to achieve gender equality and empower all people.
- Technology is an enabler, not the answer itself.
- It’s a dugnad. We – attendees, keynotes, partners, event organizers – create Oslo Innovation Week together. Networking and co-working are at core at all events.
- Truly international. It takes place in Oslo, only to bring the world forward. All event organisers co-operate with international partners.
- With a shared sense of urgency. SDGs need business solutions, far too important to leave for politicians or NGOs to solve alone.