Over the past decade, corporates have doubled down on CVC and Venture Building to drive growth beyond the core. But recent shifts are forcing a rethink: how far should innovation stretch from the core business—and what happens when it goes too far?

This panel explores how strategic alignment, clear governance and smarter portfolio design are redefining what successful non-core innovation looks like.

Join us for a grounded discussion on how to balance freedom with focus—and rethink the role of non-core innovation in today’s corporate landscape.

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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!”

Based on his experience building AI-powered end-to-end innovation platforms for some of the world’s largest companies, Nick will zoom in on 4 key topics:

1 – The opportunity and business case of autonomous innovation
2 – Building modular enterprise-grade software
3 – Data foundations and governance, and
4 – Making it land in the enterprise.

In challenging times, innovation teams face immense pressure to reduce budgets, tighten timelines, and shift priorities. How can your innovation unit adapt and thrive?

In this session, Sebastian will share key insights from ZF Group’s journey and the actionable strategies they’ve implemented to safeguard and accelerate innovation.

Learn how initiatives like the ZF Innofond, the external accelerator program Move+, and a groundbreaking personal development concept can help you drive impactful results, foster creativity, and future-proof your innovation efforts.

Walk away with practical tools and fresh ideas to strengthen your team’s role in shaping the future.

In today’s fast-changing healthcare landscape, staying relevant and impactful means going beyond the pill. Join this session to learn how to unlock internal talent, drive bottom-up innovation, and create strategic frameworks for sustainable transformation.

Discover how to:
– Set up lean affiliates for success and navigate corporate structures to secure innovation budgets
– Engage external ecosystems through initiatives like hackathons to fuel fresh ideas
– Build a culture that fosters innovation, empowers employees, and drives creativity

By the end of the season, you’ll take away actionable strategies to amplify employee potential, co-create value with partners, and turn bold ideas into measurable business impact.

Ready to unlock the full potential of your corporation’s strengths to create impactful new businesses? Join Susana as she shares Telefónica’s inspiring Venture Builder journey—shifting from spin-offs to an innovative, asset-driven approach.

In this session, you’ll discover how “”Matchmaking Venture Building”” connects emerging market opportunities with internal technologies, capabilities, and expertise to launch truly differentiated ventures.

You’ll leave with actionable insights and a practical framework for using structured, repeatable venture design processes to drive innovation, maximize corporate value, and turn your competitive advantage into a market-leading business. Don’t miss this chance to level up your approach to venture creation.

Digitalization, sustainability, global competition, and geopolitical shifts are reshaping the industrial landscape. How can your organization stay ahead in such a rapidly changing market?

Join Tomas and Lucas for an engaging session where you’ll learn how to harness dynamic capabilities to drive strategic innovation in traditional industrial companies.

You’ll gain practical tools and a systematic approach to identify, build, and apply innovation strategies that work within established organizations.

This session is designed to inspire you with fresh perspectives while equipping you with actionable insights to navigate today’s challenges and seize emerging opportunities. Walk away with a clear roadmap to future-proof your business and thrive in the 21st-century marketplace.

How does a global industrial company like Volvo Group stay innovative in a fast-moving world?

At CampX by Volvo Group, we’ve developed a practical, results-oriented model for working with startups and emerging technologies—one that goes beyond experimentation to focus on real collaboration and business integration.

In this session, we’ll share how CampX has built a structured approach to drive innovation through startup partnerships, helping address real challenges within our global organization. You’ll learn how we scout and engage with startups, design partnerships that go beyond pilot projects, and bridge the gap between external innovation and internal readiness.

Join us for an inside look at what it takes to build innovation within one of the world’s largest industrial groups—what’s worked, what hasn’t, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way.

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Are you a corporate innovation leader or incubator head striving to deliver growth while staying aligned with your company’s core priorities? This session is designed to give you the tools to succeed.

You’ll explore how to secure buy-in for your initiatives, scale innovations effectively, attract top talent, and manage complex ecosystems. Most importantly, you’ll gain insider insights into the mindset of your C-suite—understanding the psychological drivers and systemic pressures behind their decisions.

You’ll leave the session with actionable strategies, practical hacks, and a sharper edge to boost your influence, align your goals, and maximize your impact within your organization. Don’t just navigate challenges, master them.

Struggling to gain support for your innovation or transformation initiatives? Join this session to learn proven strategies for winning over your stakeholders and driving your initiatives to success.

You’ll discover how to tackle common challenges like lack of alignment across teams, resistance from skeptical stakeholders, inconsistent leadership backing, and employee change fatigue.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

1. Build Trust and Credibility: Position your initiative as a valuable opportunity that benefits the entire organization.
2. Activate Stakeholder Engagement: Turn stakeholders into advocates who champion your initiative and contribute to its success.

Gain actionable techniques to create alignment, inspire confidence, and build a network of champions who will help bring your vision to life.

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Leaders are facing unprecedented pressure to navigate rapid change and complexity, yet many struggle to develop the innovative thinking needed to adapt and thrive. As an innovator, you already have the skills to fill this gap—navigating uncertainty, interpreting trends, and driving strategic imagination.

In this session, executive innovation advisor Elvin Turner will equip you with actionable strategies to elevate your role and influence.

Here’s what you’ll learn:
– How to position yourself as a trusted advisor to senior leaders
– Strategies to inspire leaders to embrace fresh ideas
– Ways to ignite systemic innovation across divisions
– Practical tools to build credibility for your team
– Techniques to drive meaningful change and accelerate your career growth

Join this interactive session to master the essentials of innovation accounting—a powerful framework to track progress, manage risk, and measure value in uncertain ventures.

You’ll learn how to identify the right metrics, set actionable learning milestones, and align your innovation efforts with strategic goals.

By the end of the session you’ll be equipped to cut through vanity metrics, make smarter investment decisions, and drive real impact. Perfect for product managers, innovators, and leaders ready to take their decision-making to the next level.

Join this dynamic session to take a deep dive into the real challenges of modern innovation management and gain actionable tools to turn potential into measurable performance.

Using Bosch’s state-of-the-art assessment tool, you’ll uncover your organization’s unique innovation maturity level, giving you a clear picture of where you stand in today’s competitive market.

Guided by the internationally recognized ISO 56001 framework, you’ll identify key action areas that will supercharge your innovation capabilities.

By the end, you’ll gain invaluable insights and hands-on experience with practical tools designed to significantly boost your organizational innovation performance.

Discover the secrets to turning ideas into future innovations in this engaging discussion.

Together, we’ll explore how innovators have historically transformed concepts into breakthroughs and analyze the latest foresight trends shaping tomorrow’s innovations.

You’ll gain actionable insights into the processes and strategies that drive innovation, leaving you equipped to spark and shape the next big idea. Join us and take the first step on your journey to becoming a future-focused innovator.

Struggling to turn big ideas into real results? Join this fast-paced breakout session to learn how to transform high-level strategies into clear, actionable innovation challenges that drive real progress.

Discover how to align your stakeholders, focus your team, and spark meaningful innovation. You’ll leave the session with a tailored innovation assignment designed specifically for your organization—ready to inspire your team and jump-start your next innovation sprint.

Less than 25% of innovation projects get to market in time and on budget. 30% of senior executives cannot quantify the impact of innovation investments on their corporate bottom line.

Join an engaging conversation on why innovation ROI remains elusive, and how we can break through orthodoxy to deliver actual results.

In this session, you will be empowered to re-think your innovation tactics and strategies through:
– Debate on which innovation strategies & tactics are still fit for purpose.
– Divergent thinking and practical examples of ROI improvement strategies.
– Balanced view of the risks and opportunities behind various pathways.

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

Using Bluemorrow’s proven “Future Business Building” approach combining strategic foresight, open innovation, and venture building, you’ll learn to:

– Analyze future scenarios and key trends shaping your industry
– Pinpoint emerging customer needs and identify where the greatest opportunities lie
– Co-create innovative ideas to address these shifts and assess their potential impact
– Build a clear portfolio of robust opportunities and bold bets to guide your next steps

Walk away with practical tools, fresh insights, and a clear strategy to navigate and capitalize on the future.

In this engaging hands-on session, discover how AI can become a true ally to boost your innovation capacities.

Explore practical frameworks, real-world examples, and proven tools to integrate AI into every stage of your innovation process, from identifying opportunities to developing and delivering impactful solutions.

You’ll gain actionable insights to enhance performance, accelerate execution, and create tangible value for your organization and its internal clients.

Innovation is a gamble, but governance doesn’t have to be. Many companies struggle to predict which initiatives will succeed, often relying on rigid processes that stifle creativity or gut feelings that waste resources. Traditional governance models built for stability can’t handle the uncertainty of innovation.

Join this session to see how AI-powered Innovation Accounting can transform governance. Learn how AI enhances decision-making with probabilistic forecasts, better portfolio management, and credible predictive ranges—without overpromising or losing agility.

We’ll address key questions to make AI-driven forecasting practical, such as:
– How can AI help boards make smarter funding decisions?
– How do we prevent AI from reinforcing biases in governance?
– How can leaders use AI to gain executive buy-in while staying flexible?

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.

Discover how to overcome barriers to innovation, or resistance to change, by using the Innovation Storytelling method to create organizational alignment in this three-part innovation workshop series.

You will learn how to tell better stories that engage and align key stakeholders, get audiences on board with their vision, and deliver maximum impact.

This session is perfect for innovation leaders who:
– Are under pressure to create new market opportunities
– Need to communicate their breakthrough ideas in a way that is easily understood by the C-Suite, shareholders and stakeholders at home and around the world
– Need others to support and champion their work

You will leave with:
– A clear understanding of how to get other people on board with their breakthrough ideas
– A blueprint for creating stories that inspire any audience into action
– A process that empowers them to communicate with confidence

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Struggling with innovation bottlenecks? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same challenges—too few impactful ideas, reliance on opinions over data, limited resources, and disconnected initiatives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Join this live demo of rready.AI, the first AI-native innovation platform built with real innovation teams in mind. Discover how combining AI with human expertise solves age-old innovation roadblocks and transforms your innovation process into a strategic advantage.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
– Rapidly generate relevant, high-impact ideas at scale, 10x faster
– Use AI agents to streamline your innovation process, saving time and effort
– Build a centralized, AI-powered innovation portfolio for better oversight and results
– Prioritize resources with data-driven insights to focus on your best opportunities

The world is changing fast. Long-standing markets are disrupted by startups, rapid innovations and emerging technologies. Corporations today need to act quickly, decisively and execute powerfully to remain in the game.

In this interactive demo session, Thies and Florian from Bridgemaker will show you how business model innovation can move from idea to execution in just days (not months) using modern AI tooling. Together, we’ll walk through a three-act innovation sprint, designed to help corporate innovation leaders move beyond ideation and into real-world testing.

What to expect:
Act 1: Ideation – Using Bridgemaker’s award-winning AI platform Tautiom, you’ll generate business model ideas based on your company’s strategic themes.
Act 2: Validation – You’ll validate these ideas live using synthetic personas and customer data models within Tautiom.
Act 3: Execution – You’ll see your validated ideas brought to life through instant landing page creation (via UX Pilot) and interactive click dummies (via Lovable) that are ready for immediate market testing.

This interactive, AI-driven session is designed for corporate innovators eager to take action, not just generate ideas. You’ll walk away with a clear roadmap for integrating rapid, focused venture-building into your organization’s innovation process.

Innovation knows no boundaries—but managing it across partners, countries, departments, and technologies can be a challenge!

This demo shows the power of innosabis tools to foster collaboration, showing, showing how to align diverse teams, overcome language and cultural hurdles, and leverage multiple innovation methods for breakthrough results.

Get ready for inspiring insights, real-world strategies, and a fresh perspective on driving innovation beyond borders!