Imaginatik and The Financial Times Team Up to Create the FT Innovate Summit: Europe’s Landmark Innovation Event

September 2006— London, UK. Imaginatik and the Financial Times have partnered up to deliver the 2006 FT Innovate Summit, which will build on the early success of Imaginatik’s innovateEurope conference series to become the must-go-to corporate innovation conference in Europe.

The 2006 conference, themed “Innovation for Growth,” will combine Imaginatik’s expertise in the corporate innovation space with the FT’s unrivalled ability to deliver world-class conferences aimed at CEOs and other senior-level executives. This high-profile two-day international conference for CEOs and their innovation leaders will be the hallmark of the corporate innovation calendar.

Imaginatik’s highly successful annual innovation event, innovateEurope, was the first in Europe specifically focused at providing business executives a forum in which to discuss and share real-world best practices for establishing successful corporate innovation programs. However, because Imaginatik is not a specialist conference company, the event was limited in its growth potential—a limitation overcome with the addition of the FT’s Conference group as a partner.

“I’m really pleased for Imaginatik to be working with a company of the FT’s reputation and ability to continue our push to drive the innovation agenda in Europe. They are the ideal partner for us to succeed in this endeavor”

“Innovation is increasingly becoming the main driver for achievement in the business world, and for most major corporates it is now considered vital to maintain a certain level of innovation in order to support business success and growth. Building on the success of Imaginatik’s innovate Europe event, The Financial Times and Financial Times Conferences are ideally placed to deliver this exciting conference to the wider business audience and beyond.”

About FT Innovate 2006

FT Innovate 2006 will bring the industry’s leading thinkers and practitioners together to explore questions that get at the fundamentals of innovation and bring new thinking to current challenges. It will provide an unrivalled opportunity to network with the most ingenious lateral thinkers in the global business community, and will bring innovation practitioners up to date with the latest trends and developments in process innovation, product innovation, global product development, and new business models for innovation.

www.ftinnovate.com

About Imaginatik plc

Imaginatik is the number-one provider of Innovation Infrastructure to the world's leading companies. More than 110 clients rely on Imaginatik's software, consulting, and research to enable their best-of-breed innovation activities. Imaginatik's flagship solution, Idea Central, is designed to elicit ideas and insights from employees and extended enterprise partners, as well as provide a shared collaborative space to develop those ideas. Idea Central is also equipped with sophisticated tools to then evaluate and select the top ideas for implementation. Idea Central has won numerous awards and is in use by clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Cargill, Georgia-Pacific, Cadbury Schweppes, W.R. Grace, Bayer AG, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber, to name a few. Imaginatik’s software and consulting services have helped clients discover significant sources of additional revenue, as well as tangible cost savings, process improvements, and increased product pipeline. Imaginatik is also committed to developing strategic solutions in the field of innovation, working with academic institutions such as the London Business School and the Cass School of Business, London, as well as leading practitioners of corporate innovation.

www.imaginatik.com

About Financial Times Conferences

Financial Times Conferences has long-standing experience, an international reputation for quality, agenda-setting programs, and the ability to attract speakers of the highest caliber. FT Conferences events offer senior executives the opportunity to attend proven forums, facilitating debates on key business issues, while providing a unique opportunity to network with high-level peers and potential clients.

Financial Times Conferences is part of The Financial Times Group, one of the world's leading business information companies, and aims to provide a broad range of business information and services to the growing audience of internationally minded business people The Group also includes The Financial Times newspaper, one of the world's leading business newspapers, which is recognized internationally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment, and analysis, the newspaper is printed in 19 cities across the globe, has a daily circulation of over 480,000, and a readership of more than 1.6 million people worldwide.

www.ftconferences.co.uk/