Dr Bettina von Stamm is the founder of the Innovation Leadership Forum. Her first degree is in architecture and town planning. She also has an MBA as well as a PhD from London Business School and has developed an expertise in innovation and new product development and design. Her work, which spans research, teaching, consulting, and speaking assignments, has resulted in the writing of two books - The Innovation Wave (2002) and Managing Innovation Design & Creativity (2nd Edition, 2008). Dr von Stamm has the role of 'catalyst' to help speed-up the creation of innovative organizations in a number of large organizations: (e.g. DSM, Hibernian, Mars & the Financial Ombudsman Services). In addition she teaches innovation and design management at a number of leading universities in the UK, Germany and France, and shares her passion for innovation at conferences, workshops and other events. Dr Anna Trifilova's particular interest is in understanding innovation and its management in the global context. Her areas of research interest are international technology collaboration, Russian R&D organizations on the global innovation arena, managing for global innovations. In Russia she published two books on innovation management. Currently, she is the head of the Management and Marketing Department at Nizhny Novgorod Architecture and Civil Engineering State University. She writes in her own section: International Kaleidoscope, for the Russian journal INNOVATIONS.