🤩 Welcome to Innov8rs Connect!

Here you'll find everything you need to engage in Innov8rs Connect on Careers & Personal Development, 11-13 January 2022.

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 3 February
  • 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 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 Careers & Personal Development. 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 Careers & Personal Development from past events, plus session recordings from this event (access until 3 February).

👍 Thanks to our Education Partner

Thanks to the following Education Partner for sharing their approaches, experience and tools with us. For any follow questions, feel free to reach out to them directly.

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Boost your impact and develop your skills with these learning programs

If you are wondering what should be part of your training and development plans for this year, start by checking out the programs below and on this page.

Introduction to Discovery Driven Planning with Rita McGrath

This mini-course gets right to the fundamentals of how to deal with the levels of uncertainty and complexity that we are all facing today, through discovery driven planning.

Innovation Accounting with Tristan Kromer

Become a faster, more confident decision-maker with Kromatic's five-week Innovation Accounting program starting January 25th, 2022. Get your project moving by building a hypothesis-driven financial model to help you make better "go or no-go" decisions for your real-world project.

Lean Scaleup: Culture Peer Group with Frank Mattes

Along the innovation journey, there are 5 transitions in which "Culture" is a key success factor. On the hand, they relate to the interfaces between the core organization and innovation; on the other hand, they relate to building a "culture of growth" at the rapidly growing scaleup. This program supports you in getting the "Culture" component of corporate business building right.

Innovation Storytelling with Meredith Singleton

Stories hold the power to make or break innovation efforts. This immersive virtual training prepares innovators to create impactful stories that generate buy-in, increase motivation, and speed-up the innovation process.

The Facilitation Master Class with Daniel Stillman

This program helps you to bring diverse stakeholders together more effortlessly with an expanded toolkit and skillset for state-of-the-art creative collaboration. You'll learn to leverage the best-in-class tools and create virtual spaces for collaboration using narrative, wayfinding and presence.

🗓 All Live Sessions on the agenda

11 January, 15:00 CET/9am EST

Community Club

Kate McIver & Hans Balmaekers | Innov8rs Team
11 January, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

Connect The Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

Christian Busch | Director of the Global Economy program at New York University's Center for Global Affairs, Author of The Serendipity Mindset, Co-founder of Leaders on Purpose
11 January, 17:00 CET/11am EST/8am PST

The Journey Beyond Fear

John Hagel III | Founder at Beyond Our Edge
11 January, 19:00 CET/1pm EST/10am PST

How to Disrupt Others Before They Disrupt You

Jay Steinfeld | Founder of Blinds.com, sold to Home Depot. Author of WSJ Best Seller "Lead From the Core: The 4 Principles for Profit and Prosperity"
12 January, 19:00 SGT/12:00 CET

Making Purpose Practical - How to Start Living Your Calling Every Day

Philip Horvath | International Keynote Speaker, Trainer & Advisor
12 January, 20:00 SGT/13:00 CET/7am EST

Developing Political Savvy

Jane Horan | Founder at The Horan Group and Author of Now It’s Clear: The Career You Own
12 January, 22:00 SGT/15:00 CET/9am EST

Decision Making in Complexity

Anne Caspari | Complexity Partner at EZC
12 January, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

The Innovation Leadership Map

Brett Macfarlane | Founder at Innovation Leadership Map
12 January, 17:00 CET/11am EST/8am PST

Creating Space for Innovation

Susie Braam & Sonja Kresojevic | Founder at Mulberry Retreats / Founder at Seedtime Collective
12 January, 18:00 CET/12pm EST/9am PST

The 9 Elements of Conversational Leadership

Daniel Stillman | Executive Coach, Conversation Designer, Lead Facilitator at The Conversation Factory
13 January, 21:00 SGT/14:00 CET/8am EST

The Evolution of the Corporate Innovation Function (And What That Means For Your Career)

Gina O'Connor, John Metselaar, Andrea Kates & Anthony Ferrier | Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College / Professor of Management Practice at Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management / Partner at SUMA Ventures - Get To Next / Head of Innovation and Commercialisation at Swinburne University of Technology
13 January, 22:00 SGT/15:00 CET/9am EST

The Rise of Innovation Management as a Core Capability

Rafael Chaves Lopes | Managing Partner at Trimaran
13 January, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

Unlocking Storylines for Innovation Success

Stephen Taylor & Meredith Singleton | Training Director at Untold Content / COO at Untold Content
13 January, 17:00 CET/11am EST/8am PST

Being Innovative... About Innovation!

Jayshree Seth | Corporate Scientist & Chief Science Advocate at 3M and author of The Heart of Science: Engineering Footprints, Fingerprints & Imprints
13 January, 18:00 CET/12pm EST/9am PST

Community Club

Kate McIver & Hans Balmaekers | Innov8rs Team
13 January, 19:00 CET/1pm EST/10am PST

Finding Your Next Challenge in 2022

Alex Pavlou | Co-Founder at Bamboo Crowd
13 January, 20:00 CET/2pm EST/11am PST

The Secret of the Sponsor

Chloe Williams | Partner at 8th Day & Women in Innovation London Chapter Lead

👋 Say hi to your moderators

Adi Mazor Kario

Innovation and Value Creation Expert, Invincible Innovation Founder

Author of "Innovating Through Chaos: The proven formula for launching unbeatable products during uncertain times"

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.

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.

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.

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?

Kirsten Grønborg

Owner at oktopus

I’m the catalyst who converts strategies into actionable initiatives. I have 20+ years of experience with business development and service design within small and large B-2-B organizations.

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.

Lorraine Margherita

Catalyst for Change at Co-Dynamics

Lorraine Margherita is a consultant in collective dynamics: her role is to remove the barrier between decisions and actions, using collaborative methods.

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Yann has more than 10 years of experience in Growth, Innovation and Value Proposition at Vendbridge.

Manolo Castro

Founder & Managing Director at Mindhack

We help large corporations on closing the gap on innovation and digital transformation between their current and desired state from an innovative disruptive and sustainable perspective.

Rob Aalders

Founder at Startup Spirit

As an ecosystem designer I connect the dots across various seemingly unrelated domains, to create exponential opportunities. Over 15 years I have worked for and with large corporates and governments and helped dozens of startups grow.