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Mike Murray leads open innovation at Stanley Black and Decker. Mike is responsible for scaling the global program amongst Stanley Black and Decker’s diverse business units as well as expanding it outside their walls to external partners. His team helps manage the innovation challenge process through deep understandings of business needs by partnering with their multiple innovation teams in order to identify unique problems. And by providing prototyping and data analytics expertise they are able to help drive more results with higher impacts directly to the bottom line.

Kelly is the founding executive editor at Wired magazine, former editor of the Whole Earth Review, founder of various visionary nonprofits and an esteemed writer. He’s admired for his acute perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology and society. His new book, The Inevitable, just published, explores 12 technological forces that will shape our future.

Steve is the Head of the BT New Ideas Scheme within Research and Innovation at BT. The Innovation Central team which Steve is a part of, supports BT market facing units in their growth agenda by offering innovation consultancy services from idea generation to proposition and business case development. In an increasingly connected world innovation does not just happen in one location, so as a global organisation we have adopted an open innovation approach where BT crowdsources ideas from employees to positively impact its customers and its bottom line.