🤩 Welcome to Innov8rs Connect!
Here you’ll find everything you need to engage in Innov8rs Connect on Foresight & Business Design, 26-28 October 2021.
At our events, we want you to actually learn and do stuff. We have curated an agenda with 20+ interactive sessions for you to understand what’s working in other companies, benchmark your approach and performance and explore new approaches and develop new skills.
Where to go to find what you need:
- Event Updates (the page you’re currently): like the name suggests this is where we’ll keep you updated on what’s happening throughout the event.
- Agenda: View the complete event agenda and RSVP for all sessions or for individual sessions.
- Content: Access a selection of topical past session recordings and other resources – plus once the event is over, session recordings from the event itself. You’ll have access to all content through 18 November
- Social + Discussions: Ask your questions, post your takeaways and share your viewpoints, so that others can support you and learn alongside you.
🚀 How to get most out of this event
We know- you are extremely busy. It does however pay off to take a step back to reflect and refocus, to be better positioned to get results.
So we suggest you choose at least 5-7 sessions to join live and block your calendar so you don’t miss the relevant sessions for you.
Here’s how to get the most out of the Innov8rs Connect Event.
Any questions? Reach out to Kate via community@innov8rs.co
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Check this event space regularly for the latest event information and to connect with your fellow participants.
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RSVP for the live sessions of your choice to get them in your calendar. You’ll find the complete agenda incl RSVP links here.
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Connect with other innovators in the three Community Club sessions to discuss your favorite innovation topics and build connections that will last long after the event.
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Host a Challenge Call to get advice or feedback from experts and peers on your most pressing question or challenge.
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Discuss all things innovation. Ask your questions, share your goals and what you’re learning, or start a thought-provoking dialogue.
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Check the featured content on Foresight & Business Design from past events, plus session recordings from this event (access until 18 November).
👍 Thanks to our Expert Partners
Thanks to the following Expert Partners and Expert Participants for sharing their approaches, experience and tools with us. For any follow questions, feel free to reach out to them directly.

Board of Innovation is a business design and innovation strategy firm. Our consultants help the world’s largest organizations navigate fundamental shifts. We do this by developing growth strategies, innovation capabilities, and new businesses using our clients’ assets and core strengths.

Cosmos Collective is a validation studio that uses digital experimentation to gather strong evidence to de-risk corporate innovation efforts.

Ideawake’s industry leading idea management platform enables organizations to tap into the wisdom of their workforce to collect, evaluate, and implement the 5% of ideas that will drive 95% of new business results.

Ignite Exponential is an expert partner to corporate innovation leaders helping their organisations to:
• improve HOW they innovate;
• explore WHERE to focus; and
• design WHAT to deliver.

Lean Apps solves 1 BIG problem for corporate innovation teams. “How to run lean experiments at SPEED and at SCALE?”

Reacteev is a consulting agency specializing in Innovation and Agile transformation that supports clients in the implementation of new products or services.

rready is a Swiss startup that engages your employees to create the next big thing. We stand for a playful approach without buzzword-bingo or innovation theatre. Intrapreneurship and the empowerment of employees are close to our hearts which is why passion is what makes us rready.

Shavrick & Partners helps startups and corporate change-makers to seize exciting new pathways for growth by injecting urgency, the latest capabilities and a relentless outside-in perspective into their digital transformation efforts.

Vendbridge supports companies to spin innovation ideas to growth. As the leading customer insight experts, we translate business objectives into the user perspective, uncover actionable customer insights and focus growth initiatives on unmet customer needs.

Vianeo bring a unique combination of digital platform and a business design method to support project leaders, structure the innovation process and manage your portfolio of initiatives.
🎁 Your virtual goodie bag
An important generational shift is under way in how companies innovate, and a new playbook for success is emerging. Unlike previous playbooks, this one requires less of nearly everything (time, cost and people) to produce more of what counts most (insight, confidence and growth).
How would that work? Find out in The New Digital Innovation Playbook by Modern Accelerator.
Ideawake helps you to tap into the wisdom of your workforce to collect, evaluate, and implement the 5% of ideas that will drive 95% of new business results.
Get unlimited access to a fully-functional, trial version of Ideawake to help you save time and build buy-in internally. Click here to create your account and get started.
Would you want to identify all assumptions in your idea and pick up the right experiments to test your idea?
Follow this Experimentation Miro board, offered by LeanApps. Just duplicate it and use it for your idea.
Interested in the KICKBOX Methodology and how the intrapreneur is guided through the validation Journey, from a raw to a validated idea?
Click here to download the Kickbook for free. A book co-created by +100 experts in corporate innovation!
Reacteev Toolkit helps your team follow the best processes to solve business challenges. At every step, tips are given to put innovation on the right track. Innovation initiatives are often dispersed across multiple tools, which is difficult to manage and pull together.
Reacteev Toolkit was designed to replace all these tools, your teams can capture the progress of their innovation initiatives in a tool designed for this purpose and retrieve the information through our user interface and its search functionality.
For 1 month free access, you can sign up via this form.
Want to speed up your innovation efforts?
It’s time to say goodbye to long “build, measure, learn” cycles and start building in public from day one.
Download this ebook on How to Validate Your Business Ideas by Cosmos Collective.
Scenario planning is a powerful tool you can use to create and test strategic sustainability questions in situations with high uncertainty and low predictability.
Board of Innovation’s Behavioral Health Design Playbook summarizes why you should effectively apply Behavioral Design Methodologies and Tools in health care – and how to do it.
It’s a guide to achieve the necessary mindset shifts and transform your processes to optimize your patient and customer impact.
Whether you are accompanying startups, or doing innovative or transformational projects in a company, you need to put yourself in a specific position to progress in a complex and uncertain
context.
Vianeo offers a best practice guide for insiders and Certified Experts in the Vianeo method, which is based on more than 10 years of experience in supporting innovation.
This Entrepreneurial Coach’s Best Practice Guide describes the right posture and reflexes to have at each step of the reflection.
🗓 All Live Sessions on the agenda
Great Leaders Mix And Match – Cross-Industry Innovation
The Human Element – Overcoming People’s Resistance To Innovation And Change
Your Market is Bigger Than Your Product
De-risking Innovation
How KICKBOX Supports Employee-Driven Ideation and Business Design
The What & Why of Continuous Discovery
How To Shape The Future And Transform Business By Leveraging Scenario Planning
Ideation (At Scale) – Roundtable
The Key to Designing a Great Customer Experience
How to Effectively Integrate Consumer Insights and Industrial Design Into Your Digital Transformation Journey
Innovation Within A Big Enterprise – A Challenge For Leadership
Using Rapid Experimentation To Seek Validation
7 Steps to Plan and Run a Successful Online Employee Innovation Challenge
Balancing Anarchy and Vision in Intrapreneurship
Applying Behavioral Design in Healthcare
Starting a Trend Radar – Roundtable Discussion
Four Steps to Scale: Validating Your Way From a Great Idea to a Business Model That Works
Measure Unmet Needs Along The Customer Journey With Jobs-To-Be-Done
How to Test and Validate B2B Ideas or Ideas With Niche Audience
Testing the Limits: Next-Level Discovery for Innovators
How to Get Faster and More Consistent Validation of Projects in Their Early Stages
👋 Say hi to your moderators

Diana Joseph
CEO at Corporate Accelerator Forum
Diana is a Leader at Corporate Accelerator Forum, and an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategist who helps individuals and organizations become more innovative and entrepreneurial by balancing compliance-based and initiative-based work.

Frank Mattes
Founder & CEO at Innovation-3 and Author of Lean Scaleup
Frank Mattes is an expert in corporate business-building, advisor to Corporate Innovation and Corporate Venturing, and author of two books on taking corporate innovation ideas to scale.

Rocky Ozaki
Founder & CEO at NoW of Work Inc.
Rocky is the Founder of the NoW of Work; a business transformation firm that helps build naturally innovative and agile teams that are capable of thriving in our exponential times. The Future is NoW…are you ready?

Thomas Knoll
Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO at The Innovators CoLab
Thomas helps corporate innovation teams and enterprises create the structures, organizations, and processes that allow large organizations to make innovation a reliable, repeatable, and dependable practice.

Gayathri Gopal
Innovation Consultant at Board of Innovation
Gayathri Gopal is an innovation consultant with the Board of Innovation, who is focused on helping companies and teams develop new businesses, growth strategies and buld innovation capabilities.

Alex Pesjak
Transformation and Innovation Guide
Alex has 20+ years of international brand leadership and innovation management experience in strategic and operational roles in global FMCG companies (Coca-Cola, Kraft) and 10+ experience as an independent consultant.

Séverine Herlin
Founder & CEO at Vianeo
Severine Herlin has been bitten by the business design fly – she helps companies reveal the value of their innovations and diffuse innovation management practices like any other management practice

Edwina Mullens
Exponential Marketing at Ignite Exponential
As a strategic marketer, Edwina helps companies reach new markets with their innovative product offerings.

Olga Bykova
Senior Innovation consultant & Business Lead at Board of Innovation
Olga Bykova is helping the largest healthcare & life sciences organizations uncover opportunities for growth and get products to market faster. She started her innovation journey at the Walt Disney Company, leading Strategic Foresight teams and specialized in Digital Transformation while getting her MBA at HEC Paris.

Joan Cortes
Owner at Bee&Butterfly
Joan has led strategy and innovation projects for corporate clients in many sectors and worked for a number of SME’s, always committed to achieving a better strategic understanding and innovation approach.

Sigrid Hellberg
Partner & Venture Lead at desifer
With a core in business design, Sigrid has dedicated her career to creating new digital products and ventures, across industries and markets

Adela Villanueva
Founder & CEO/CVO – ALKELIO
Trilingual professional with 15+ years of experience transforming, accelerating, growing and scaling F500 organizations, startups, people and businesses around the globe.