🤩 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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🎁 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.

Download IEX’s whitepaper on How To Use Scenario Planning

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.

Download the playbook here

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

26 October, 21:00 SGT/15:00 CEST/9am EDT

Community Club

Community Club
26 October, 22:00 SGT/16:00 CEST/10am EDT/7am PDT

Great Leaders Mix And Match – Cross-Industry Innovation

Ramon Vullings | Keynote Speaker, Author, Cross-industry Expert & IdeaDJ
26 October, 17:00 CEST/11am EDT/8am PDT

The Human Element – Overcoming People’s Resistance To Innovation And Change

David Schonthal | Clinical Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the Kellogg School of Management
26 October, 18:00 CEST/12pm EDT/9am PDT

Your Market is Bigger Than Your Product

Tony Ulwick | Founder and CEO at Strategyn
26 October, 19:00 CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT

De-risking Innovation

Ana Andonovska | Innovation Lead at Maersk Drilling
26 October, 20:00 CEST/2pm EDT/11am PDT

How KICKBOX Supports Employee-Driven Ideation and Business Design

Dave Hengartner & Ralph Hartmeier | Co-Founders at rready
26 October, 21:00 CEST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT

The What & Why of Continuous Discovery

Teresa Torres | Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach
27 October, 18:00 SGT/12:00 CEST

How To Shape The Future And Transform Business By Leveraging Scenario Planning

Oleksiy Tatarenko | Former Strategic Projects Manager at Shell
27 October, 19:00 SGT/13:00 CEST/7am EDT

Ideation (At Scale) – Roundtable

Maja Schmitt, Mark Famy & Jasmin Saric | Ideation Director (Purpose-led Innovation) at DSM | Customer Centricity at Saint Gobain Sekurit | Head of Digital Ideation, Scouting and Product Design at BI X
27 October, 20:00 SGT/14:00 CEST/8am EDT

The Key to Designing a Great Customer Experience


Nadia Naciri | Innovation Consultant at reacteev
27 October, 21:00 SGT/15:00 CEST/9am EDT

How to Effectively Integrate Consumer Insights and Industrial Design Into Your Digital Transformation Journey

Andrew Wynne | Consumer Product Innovation Leader at Ignite Exponential
27 October, 22:00 SGT/16:00 CEST/10am EDT/7am PDT

Innovation Within A Big Enterprise – A Challenge For Leadership

Tony Sandberg | Director E-Scale up Solutions, Sales & Marketing at Scania CV AB
27 October, 17:00 CEST/11am EDT/8am PDT

Using Rapid Experimentation To Seek Validation

Yannick Khayati | Founder & Validation Lead at Cosmos Collective
27 October, 18:00 CEST/12pm EDT/9am PDT

7 Steps to Plan and Run a Successful Online Employee Innovation Challenge

Coby Skonord | Co-founder & CEO at Ideawake
27 October, 19:00 CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT

Community Club

Community Club
28 October, 17:00 SGT/11:00 CEST

Balancing Anarchy and Vision in Intrapreneurship

Michael Hunkeler | Head of Intrapreneurship at Swisscom Kickbox
28 October, 18:00 SGT/12:00 CEST

Applying Behavioral Design in Healthcare

Bryan Berger | Health Innovation Lead at Board of Innovation
28 October, 19:00 SGT/13:00 CEST/7am EDT

Starting a Trend Radar – Roundtable Discussion

Valentina Contini & Tassilo Henike | Innovation Engineer at Porsche Engineering | Senior Innovation Consultant at Itonics
28 October, 20:00 SGT/14:00 CEST/8am EDT

Four Steps to Scale: Validating Your Way From a Great Idea to a Business Model That Works

Timan Rebel | Senior Start-up Coach and Co-Founder of GroundControl
28 October, 21:00 SGT/15:00 CEST/9am EDT

Measure Unmet Needs Along The Customer Journey With Jobs-To-Be-Done

Beat Walther and Yann Wermuth | Owner & Managing Director at Vendbride AG | Partner at Vendbridge AG
28 October, 22:00 SGT/16:00 CEST/10am EDT/7am PDT

How to Test and Validate B2B Ideas or Ideas With Niche Audience

Narjeet Soni | CEO and Innovation Strategys at Lean Apps
28 October, 17:00 CEST/11am EDT/8am PDT

Testing the Limits: Next-Level Discovery for Innovators

Scott McDonald & Anuraag Verma | Principal at Shavrick & Partners | VP Customer Development at Feedback Loop
28 October, 18:00 CEST/12pm EDT/9am PDT

How to Get Faster and More Consistent Validation of Projects in Their Early Stages

Séverine Herlin | Founder & CEO at Vianeo
28 October, 19:00 CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT

Community Club

Community Club

👋 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.