
The fourth annual gathering that convenes global stakeholders and influential leaders from the public, private and social sectors in the field of sustainable African agriculture. Participants will discuss, collaborate and chart the course to reduce hunger and poverty in alignment with the UN Millennium Development Goals.

The Cisco CIO Summit will host more than 100 chief information officers representing global Fortune 500 companies, as well as leaders from government and education to collaborate and share strategies on today's key business issues. Interactions among thought leaders will lead to lively discussions and healthy debates on a range of topics including globalization, the evolving nature of the CEO-CIO relationship, collaboration and the use of Web 2.0 technologies, the advent of the new green business, and strategies driving global IT innovation. Cisco CEO John Chambers and CIO Rebecca Jacoby will spearhead the two-day dialogue.

SYPartners Leadership Lab: Leading Through the Unknown, is a mini-consulting Lab led by SYP executives, peer-to-peer learning, and exercises focused on the participant's specific challenges. SYP teaches tools and methods to help those who want to increase their capability to envision, build, test, experiment, learn, and generate solutions to prototype and create extraordinary new business models, customer experiences, products, and services.