Companies seek to maximise shareholder returns. In our study “The power of diversification - How innovation drives shareholder value”, we were able to identify an underused and underestimated way to do so: diversification, i.e. strategically adding new revenue segments.

Diversification captures a company's adaptability in the face of changing customer preferences. The increase in diversification of revenue segments over time can therefore be considered a good measure of innovativeness of a company as it reflects the creation and commercialisation of new business models and products addressing new markets and customer needs.

We analysed levels of revenue diversification measured by the introduction of new revenue segments in the annual reports of 1,838 listed companies in the US and in Europe together with their stock market performance for the 10-year period between 2010 and 2019. In this session, we'll share the ins and outs of the power of diversification.

Jan Sedlacek is Co-founder and partner of Stryber, a strategic corporate venture builder, and empowers leading organisations to venture into new business and drive growth by building innovative corporate venture portfolios. Prior to founding Stryber in 2016, Jan Sedlacek gained experience as a start-up founder, web designer, manager, marketing expert and strategy consultant. He was part of the management team of a travel start-up and transformed a Swiss private bank into the first hybrid bank.

Julian is an Associate Partner at Corporate Venture Builder Stryber. He is a passionate entrepreneur and former strategy consultant. Julian started his career at strategy consulting firm Bain & Company, where he advised clients from the financial services, private equity and other industries. After his time with Bain & Company, Julian founded a hospitality tech startup in 2016, which he grew to over 100 employees across 3 countries.
He joined Stryber in June 2020 to lead its expansion into the UK market after Stryber had successfully established itself as the largest independent corporate venture builder in DACH.

Learn the methods that the Microsoft Garage uses to help people who think they have brilliant ideas quickly and cheaply test how brilliant they are, and then, if so, right-size them to move forward. This session will cover coaching methods that they use with teams from business model validation, getting sponsorship support, experimentation release, and training intrapreneurship.

Ed Essey helps intrapreneurs incubate new businesses in the Microsoft Garage. An MIT grad, serial founder, and veteran product guy, he's passionate about technology, creating great cultures, and innovating through experimentation.

During his engineering career, he's researched AI, developed intelligent agent-based systems, and democratized parallel computing. He has led company-wide change management programs in innovation, design-thinking, and agile methodologies that have helped over 25,000 employees earn raving fans for their products. He founded the Garage experimental outlet that has delivered over 130 new and exciting projects to market.

Join Nicole as she shares her top lessons learned while developing, launching, and evolving the employee-facing Incubator at Health Care Service Corporation. The largest non-investor owned health insurer in the US.

Nicole Walker is the senior director of the innovation incubator at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC). In this role, Nicole leads a team in exploring new ideas that reimagine the health care experience for HCSC stakeholders through the innovation incubator and accelerator platforms. Prior to this role, Nicole has held leadership roles in the sales operations, marketing and strategy, bringing her keen business perspective, strategic thinking and focus on delivering value. Nicole also is an Adjunct Faculty member of the InterProfessional Program at the Illinois Institue of Technology where she teaches practical applications of human-centered design to undergraduate students via a project-based learning course.

Nicole received her bachelor’s degree in industrial and operations engineering and master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan. She lives in Chicago, with her husband and two children.

History has shown that some of the most impactful innovation has grown from times of crisis – from Apple to Airbnb and even Zoom. The Pandemic has upended everything we know about consumers’ priorities, ways of working, social inclusion and even looming systemic shifts around climate change and the 100-year life.

This upheaval shows that NOW is the most ideal time to innovate in a generation. Join us for this session where we will share real-world examples and practical tools for tackling the future’s big problems, collaborating remotely, aligning on purpose and delivering new types of value for a post-pandemic reality.

In this session, we explore corporate venture building as a systematic process for building new businesses with business models that are substantially different from those of the parent organization.

Corporate Venture Building is a hybrid approach that employs entrepreneurial methods to maximize the leverage available via the incumbent’s existing assets – industry expertise, plant, data, reputation and so on – and create a portfolio of aligned but independent businesses.

FoundersLane considers this approach to be uniquely suited to tackle complex, science-based, and regulated markets, like healthcare, where Start-Ups frequently struggle to jump entry barriers.

Join to explore best practices from FoundersLane’s Chief Medical Officer.

Dr Sven Jungmann joined the German army at the age of 18 and eventually became a paratrooper officer. While this was a genuine manifestation of his desire to bring peace to people living in crisis areas, he came to realize that opportunities to have a lasting impact would be limited, so he switched direction and began to study medicine in various parts of the world. He studied public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and public policy at Oxford, gaining firsthand insights into the unique mechanics of healthcare systems and, particularly, their shortcomings. After several years working in pulmonary care, oncology and emergency medicine at Helios and Charité, Sven became Chief Medical Officer at a digital corporate venture of Helios, Europe’s largest private hospital provider.

He is now a partner at FoundersLane, where he co-founded the health practice. He also sits on the advisory board of Spring, a major German online prescription platform, advises healthcare start-ups around the world and supports investors in their due diligence for digital health investments.

X, Alphabet's moonshot factory, creates radical technologies designed to solve some of the world's hardest problems. Now in its 10th year, with graduates including Waymo self-driving cars, Wing delivery drones, and Verily life sciences, X continues to work on some of the world's biggest problems and refine the innovation process.

Join Karen Roter Davis, who will share some lessons X has learned along the way.

Karen is a visionary technology executive, board member, and change agent driving innovation that energizes and transforms companies, from early-stage start-ups to global leaders. She has mastered the art of disruption, enabling growth and capturing new business while successfully guiding companies of all sizes through periods of change and uncertainty. As Director of Early Stage Projects at X (formerly Google X), she grounds moonshot projects in business objectives, ensuring that technologies of tomorrow make the transition to profitable, purposeful “10x” (versus 10%) ventures today.

NASA's workforce is highly innovative. But just like any other organization, projects get stuck and new ideas can be hard to come by. Innovation takes work and cultivating a community can bring people and ideas together. This session discusses how NASA uses internal crowdsourcing to help break down silos, build community and connect ideas to move faster towards the moon and beyond.

Carissa leads the integration of KBR’s Human Health and Performance Contract innovation strategy. She also trains KBR and NASA employees on innovation ideologies. In addition, she and her team are responsible for implementing initiatives in support of the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the NASA Johnson Space Center and the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI).

Carissa is the program champion for NASA@WORK – NASA’s internal crowdsourcing platform. On this platform NASA employees post problems that are turned into competitions to which the NASA community responds with ideas and possible solutions.

How might we help Mitsui & Co, one of Japan’s largest companies, move from a pure trading and investment firm to one that creates new and disruptive businesses from 0 to 1?

Mike Peng will talk about the journey of building Moon and how he and his colleagues are defining a new unique model to launch new ventures and transform a company of 45,000+ employees.

Mike is the Chief Creative Officer at Moon. He oversees all design aspects of the organization and its work. Specifically, he ensures that the new ventures created within Moon are elevated by human-centered design and creativity.

Prior to joining Moon, Mike was a Partner at IDEO where he co-founded and ran its Tokyo office since its inception in 2011. He also co-founded D4V (Design for Ventures), Japan’s first-of-its-kind venture capital firm that invests in early-stage Japanese ventures and co-creates human-centered products and services to deliver positive impact to the world. Mike graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Neuroscience. He has taught at The University of Tokyo, Keio University, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), and NYU, among others. In addition to being a competitive tennis player, Mike is also an avid hip hop dancer who finds solace in British baking shows!

In this session, Paulo will focus on Business Model Innovation and Value Proposition innovation using the Lego Serious Play (LSP) method both in physical and virtual environments.

The LSP method allows for multiple stockholders' engagement, enabling each to express their point of view and priorities. It also allows us to build shared models to foster collaboration and commitment.

Do you want to improve collaboration, having fun, and at the same time, deliver results? Come, and see how we play seriously.

Paulo Malta has 25 years of professional experience and is specialized in Innovation Management, Business Model Innovation, and Customer Experience Innovation.

Paulo is Managing Partner of Innovsky, a consulting company focused on Innovation Management and Business Model Innovation, and also an Invited Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, delivering classes in Innovation and Digital Transformation in the executive education programs.

During most of his career, Paulo worked for technological multinationals, like Cisco and Alcatel, building and leading sales, pre-sales, and consulting teams in several market sectors.

Paulo’s background in Electrical and Computers Engineering is enriched by post-graduate degrees in Management and in Investments & Financial Markets. He is an IMBB Innovation Management Black Belt™ and a certified facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and Design Sprint methodologies.

One of the greatest challenges that corporate innovators face is how to scale innovation across their organization. To do so requires both a robust innovation management software ecosystem and the development of critical soft skills and behaviors in creativity and collaboration across the organization.

In this interactive conversation, Aaron Hoekstra, Head of Client Success at the innovation management platform Forest and Lauren Raouf, Principal at innovation advisory firm Clareo, will share learnings from implementing software and soft skill changes to drive innovation at several companies, and take your questions around how you can do this in your business.

Lauren Raouf is a Principal at Clareo, where she focuses on how to align organizations, people, and processes to deliver innovation and growth strategy. She has over a decade of consulting and entrepreneurial experience. She started her career at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), working as an associate, consultant, and project leader across a variety of industries out of the firm’s Washington DC and London offices. In 2019, Lauren joined Clareo to work with companies on all aspects of innovation and growth strategy, with a particular emphasis on how to transform a company’s people, processes, organization, and culture to support innovation.

Aaron Hoekstra serves as Head of Client Success at Clareo, helping companies leverage Clareo’s innovation management software suite to deliver real innovation outcomes in their businesses. Aaron brings deep expertise and experience in helping users of products maximize their potential and impact in industries such as sporting goods, consumer packaged goods, digital applications, and non-profit enterprises. He is an entrepreneur that knows the challenges of building new things and can help individuals in large companies navigate the complexities of getting stuff done.

How do you prepare as an organisation for the future? Is your portfolio of initiatives relevant in different future states of the world? How to get a grip on the future if we do not obtain data about the future?

In this talk Misha will take you through his 6-step approach on how to be resilient as an organisation in 2030.

To keep up with the market, the single most important capability is how quickly we learn.

We’ll show you how to learn 10x faster by thinking with prototypes: creating dozens of experimental iterations in a short amount of time. This session is an introduction to the Prototype Thinking process, a revolutionary method originally developed at X (Google's moonshot factory).

Olivia Wong is an innovation expert who has taught thousands of organizations how to prototype, test, and iterate at lighting speed.
Her company, Prototype Thinking Labs, trains companies to create new offerings that will viscerally captivate customers with data-driven confidence, at the same time reducing months or years from development. Using a breakthrough method born at Google X, she inspires teams to break past dogma, shortcut debate and dive straight into the heart of innovation: experimentation and rapid learning.

Drawing from case studies from Google X and the top innovation labs in the world, she can show your organization how to solve moonshot problems 10x faster.

As the hype around venture building grows, we are seeing many corporations impulsively try to do everything in-house. But why do everything yourself when the entrepreneurial ecosystem can do much of the heavy lifting; reducing your risk and accelerating your time to market?

In this talk, Andrew and Tom will explain how you can successfully leverage the entrepreneurial ecosystem to build ventures at a faster pace and improve your chances of success.

You will learn:

• Why and when to engage the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the venture building process
• How to find and select the right talent and technology
• How this approach can reduce your risk and accelerates innovation

Andrew & Tom are the co-founders of The Bakery. Since 2013 they have been responsible for delivering on the vision of building a unique innovation business, bringing together the world’s biggest corporates with the most talented entrepreneurs and startups from around the world. The Bakery's past and current clients include AXA, BMW, Centrica, Deloitte, GSK, HSBC, Kier, Lloyds, LV, Sanofi, Mondelez, P&G, RBS, Rolls-Royce, RS Components, UCB Pharma, Vale and J&J.

Andrew has a long and successful history in both the corporate world, with Siemens, and as a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits - most notably with Adeptra, a Fintech Startup, raising $43million and exiting to FICO in 2013 for $135M.

Tom is FCA Approved, an angel investor, and has extensive experience in working with Startups and accelerators - most notably Entrepreneur First, Ignite and The Difference Engine (now part of Techstars in the UK), as well as the founder of Traffic Digital and co-founder of a coding school for women – 23 Code Street.

Mike and Greg will introduce how to overcome the barriers our brains and cultures put in the way of breakthrough solutions.

The goal of this session is to provide you with language, frameworks, tools, and skills that will help you conquer the status quo and take your clients and organizations from now to next.

Mike Burn is an author, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Solve Next. Recognizing that the way we are solving problems is broken, he built a first-of-a-kind cloud-based problem-solving system that enables individuals and organizations to think wrong about their, their clients, or their clients’ clients’ hardest, most wicked problems—and produce unexpected, seemingly magical results. The Think Wrong Platform is used around the world by mega-corporations to individuals running their non-profits.

Greg Galle has over 30 years of experience thinking wrong about leadership, motivation, coaching, planning, and decision making as well as a broad array of private, public, and civil sector innovation challenges including product, service, process, systems, policy, experience, engagement, talent, professional development, and culture innovation. Greg co-founded Solve Next with Mike in 2012. Together they reach thousands of people per year through client work and invitations to participate in conferences and events around the world.

Mike and Greg co-authored the book Think Wrong: How to Conquer the Status Quo and Do Work That Matters with John Bielenberg and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.

Ideation as we know it is a contemporary approach to problem-solving. So, what do you do when you're stuck or underwhelmed with your results? Let's face it; it's probably not your technology to manage the submissions or the people you have in place to run it.

Join our discussion around the process of innovation. Learn what's working and how innovation managers from government, academia, and corporate continue to sustain and engage their solvers. Jennifer will be joined by some of today's leading-edge innovation managers. Check back for details.

Jennifer Creech is the CEO of Ezassi, an innovation solutions company. She oversees the strategic direction of the company and has successfully developed a global marketing strategy. Her expertise includes SaaS and cloud technology solutions, data mining, and driving year-over-year revenue growth.

Despite superior ideas, assets, talent, brand, channels, competencies, and customers, the Global 1000 is missing out on the startup innovation and valuation boom. To combat this, an internal incubator allows corporations to institutionalize and scale growth efforts.

In this session Mach49's CEO Chief-of-Staff and VP of New Markets, Ed Ross, will share how Mach49 works with big corporations to operationalize a repeatable, scalable model to create sustainable new ventures.