🤩 Welcome to Innov8rs Connect!
Here you'll find everything you need to engage in Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, 21-23 September.
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 14 October.
- 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 Strategy, Leadership & Organization from past events, plus session recordings from this event (access until 14 October).
👍 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.
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🗓 All Live Sessions on the agenda
The Lean Scaleup - The End-to-End View on Corporate Entrepreneurship
Get To Next: The Breakthrough from Innovation to Activation
Innovation & Strategy: Defining, Designing and Aligning
Taking Strategy to Action to Unleash Your Innovation Potential
An Open Conversation: Partnering With Your Leaders on Innovation
Connecting to Strategy
Strategy Execution
Forget Innovation Labs. You Need a Strategy Lab
The Politics of Innovation
Reinventing Innovation? Yes, It's Time
Agility Needs Stability- What Companies Can Learn From James Bond, Taoism and Ambidexterity
How To Build An Innovation Capability That Lasts
Community Club
Connecting the Dots From Strategy to Execution
Building Confidence in Your Strategy
The Digital Transformer's Dilemma
Why Successful Innovation Strategies Always Start With People
How To Build and Run an Internal Community of Practice
Mitigating Not-invented-here and Not-sold-here Problems: The Role of Corporate Innovation Hubs
Leadership for the Digital Revolution
The Innovation Leadership Map
Community Club
👋 Say hi to your moderators
Hannah Keartland
Consultant at Keartland & Co
Hannah helps successful CEOs know what steps to take to build a business that is environmentally and socially responsible, drawing on director-level experience in both innovation and finance & operations, as well as over 15 years of working in charities and for-purpose businesses.
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.
Maarten Korz
Corporate Innovation and Ecosystem Builder at Korz Innovation
Maarten Korz is a senior corporate innovator and ecosystem developer with 22 years of experience in designing and implementing digital and innovative solutions and processes.
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.
Maurice Fierloos
Growth & Innovation Lead at RevelX
Enthusiastic Growth & Innovation Lead that likes to innovate & digital transform corporates with a startup mindset. Specialized in managing innovation programs and deliver tangible business results with a good dose of energy & creativity
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.
Wim Vandenhouweele
Independent Coach for Corporate Innovation Leaders, Especially in Pharma/healthcare
Wim worked for 35 years in Big Pharma, with Merck (called MSD outside the US), of which 5 years as global innovation leader. He leads a network of over 50 local and regional innovation leaders.
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.
Oana-Maria Pop
Head of Open Innovation at HYPE
As Head of Open Innovation at HYPE Oana-Maria specializes in the science and practice of building durable intra- and inter-firm relationships and collaboration
Lysander Weiss
Partner at Venture Idea
As partner at the award-winning management consultancy Venture Idea, doctoral candidate at the leading German business school HHL, bestselling author, lecturer and keynote speaker, Lysander Weiss offers forward-thinking research and advisory for strategic renewal in established companies.