Summary
These remarks have been edited from a 9-minute speech made in Moscow on November 12, 2011 at the 170th anniversary of Sberbank, Russia's largest and oldest financial institution.
Description
Speakers at this panel were introduced by Dr. Hermann Gref (CEO and Chairman of the Board, Sberbank, and former Russian Minister of Economic Development and Trade) and included Vladimir Putin, Prof. Jeff Howe (Northeastern), Prof. Tom Malone (MIT) and Dr. Paul Saffo (Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics), Patrick Howard (Vice-President and Global Cloud Leader, IBM Global Business Services) and Klaus Kleinfeld (CEO and Chairman of the Board, Alcoa).
Sberbank of Russia launched it’s Sberbank21 project in fall 2011, that invites users to offer their ideas, exchange opinions, evaluate ideas of other participants, and to receive feedback on their ideas or proposals. Some information on this project can be found in a statement of Herman Gref, President of Sberbank (English language).
To learn more about the project: http://www.sbrf.ru/en/presscenter/crowdsourcing/
To learn more about Witology crowdsourcing platform: http://www.witology.com