As corporate innovator you often hear “no” when pitching bold ideas. In this energising keynote, innovation expert Gijs van Wulfen shares 15 proven strategies to win management buy-in for change.

Learn how to turn resistance into support and bring your vision to life. If you’re ready to stop hitting walls and start making real innovation impact, this session is for you.

Join us and turn every “no” into a powerful “YES!”

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Especially in challenging times the pressure on innovation department are manifold.

From budget reduction to new processes until shorter time to markets each innovation unit needs to reinvent themselves all the time.

Sebastian will talk about the findings at the ZF and some new concepts that they developed to save the position of the innovation area, like the ZF innofond, the external accelerator programme move+ and a new personal development concept for corporates.

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, pharma must go beyond the pill to stay relevant and impactful.

This session explores how organizations can activate internal talent, foster bottom-up innovation, and build strategic frameworks that support sustainable transformation.

We’ll discuss how to set up lean affiliates for success, navigate corporate structures to secure innovation budgets, and engage external ecosystems through initiatives like hackathons.

You will leave with actionable strategies to build an innovation-friendly culture, amplify employee creativity, and co-create value with partners—turning internal ambition and external collaboration into tangible business impact.

How can corporations move beyond traditional venture building to create new businesses that truly capitalize on their unique strengths?

In this session, Susana Jurado shares Telefónica’s Venture Builder journey evolving from creating spin-offs to a proactive, asset-driven approach to venture creation.

You will learn all about how “Matchmaking Venture Building” strategically aligns emerging market opportunities with internal technologies, capabilities, and knowledge, enabling the launch of differentiated businesses.

This session offers an actionable perspective on how innovation teams can maximize corporate value through structured, repeatable venture design processes grounded in real competitive advantage.

Digitalization, sustainability, global competition, and geopolitical shifts pose significant challenges for traditional industrial companies. To remain competitive, strategic innovation is essential.

Tomas and Lucas will share their insights concerning the dynamic capabilities required to drive such innovation and present a systematic approach to establishing and applying them within established organizations.

Combining inspiration with actionable insights, the session serves as both a wake-up call and a roadmap for navigating the highly dynamic market environment of the 21st century.

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Corporate innovation leaders and incubator heads are under pressure to deliver growth while staying aligned with Core.

But securing buy-in, scaling innovations, attracting talent, and managing ecosystems is no easy task.

This session takes you inside the minds of your key internal customers — your company’s C-suite.

You will sharpen your understanding of the psychological factors and systemic forces shaping their decisions.

And you will learn hacks and practical strategies to boost your influence and impact within your organization.

Struggling to get support for your innovation and transformation initiatives? Join this session to learn how to engage with your stakeholders so you can get the buy-in necessary for success.

You may be facing challenges with lack of alignment with key functions, resistance from skeptical stakeholders, inconsistent support from senior leaders and employees struggling with change fatigue.

This session will show you how to create champions by focusing on:
1. Building Trust and Legitimacy: So that your initiative will be viewed as a good thing for the organization.
2. Getting Activate Participation: So that your initiative has people who advocate for it to others and actively contribute to its success.

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Leaders are under pressure. The pace and complexity of change demand new ways of thinking, yet many executive teams lack the innovation capabilities needed to adapt and thrive. Meanwhile, those exact skills – navigating uncertainty, interpreting trends, and strategic imagination – already exist in abundance within corporate innovation teams.

In this session, executive innovation advisor Elvin Turner will reveal how innovators can step beyond their function and become trusted strategic advisors to the boardroom. You’ll learn how to influence leaders to embrace new thinking, create an appetite for systemic innovation in their divisions, and build credibility for the innovation team and your future career.

This hands-on session introduces the fundamentals of innovation accounting—a framework for measuring progress, risk, and value in uncertain ventures.

Learn how to define relevant metrics, set learning milestones, and align innovation efforts with strategic goals.

Ideal for product managers, innovators, and leaders seeking to go beyond vanity metrics and make informed investment decisions.

In this dynamic session, attendees will dive deep into the challenges of modern innovation management and gain actionable tools to turn potential into measurable performance.

Using our state-of-the-art assessment tool, you’ll discover your organization’s unique innovation maturity level, providing a clear picture of where you stand in today’s competitive landscape.

Guided by the internationally recognized ISO 56001 guidelines, we’ll work together to identify key action areas that will supercharge your innovation capabilities.

You’ll gain invaluable insights and hands-on experience with practical tools designed to significantly boost your organizational innovation performance.

Innovation is often mentioned as a key factor to being competitive.

In this discussion, you will reflect on how ideas will be developed into innovations in the future – based on current foresight activities in this area and a brief look into the current status and the history of how innovators have worked.

Become a traveller in this journey into the future of innovation – which begins right now!

Innovation often fails not because of weak ideas, but because the assignment wasn’t clear to begin with.

In this fast-paced breakout session, you’ll learn how to translate high-level strategy into a sharp, actionable innovation challenge that aligns stakeholders and sparks real progress.

You’ll leave the session with a concrete innovation assignment tailored to your organisation—ready to brief your team or kick off your next innovation sprint.

In this interactive and hands-on session, participants will learn how to identify concrete future business opportunities from foresight insights.

Using Bluemorrow’s “Future Business Building” approach combining strategic foresight, open innovation and venture building, we will explore a set of future scenarios and key trends, identify the most relevant changes and emerging customer needs, and co-create potential future opportunities to explore. Finally, we will assess the opportunities in light of the scenarios to generate a portfolio view highlighting the most robust opportunities and biggest bets.

Join us for a co-creative session to explore future business opportunities!

In this 90-minute hands-on session, you will discover how AI can become a true ally in boosting your innovation capabilities.

Through practical frameworks, real-world use cases, and tested tools, you’ll explore how to embed AI into every stage of your innovation process, from opportunity detection to concept development and delivery.

Leave equipped with actionable insights to enhance performance, accelerate execution, and create tangible value for your organization and its internal clients.

Innovation is a gamble, but governance shouldn’t be. Companies struggle to predict which initiatives will thrive, often relying on rigid processes that stifle creativity or gut feelings that lead to wasted investment. The challenge? Governance models designed for stability often fail when applied to the uncertainty of innovation.

AI-powered approaches to Innovation Accounting offer a way to bridge this gap. Instead of forcing false certainty, AI enhances governance by generating probabilistic forecasts, improving portfolio management, and providing decision-makers with credible predictive ranges—without overpromising.

In this session, we’ll explore the dos and don’ts of AI-driven forecasting for innovation governance. How can AI help innovation boards make smarter funding decisions? How do we prevent AI from reinforcing biases? And how can innovation leaders use AI to gain buy-in from executives while maintaining agility?

Let’s cut through the hype and talk about practical ways to use AI to strengthen governance, navigate uncertainty, and ensure the right projects get the green light.

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