Investing in innovation is tricky, the tools, approaches and mindset required to take decision in the core business can actually do more harm than good if they are applied for innovation. Join this session and learn how can you act and think like a Venture Capital investor when taking decision about your company's innovation initiatives. Learn how to spot your biases and keep them in check, learn about the most common mistakes early stage innovation teams make and develop your investor mindset by evaluating a real corporate innovation team.

Dan Toma is the co-author of two award winning books: The Corporate Startup (2017) and the newly released title Innovation Accounting (2021). Passionate about innovation and transformation, together with his colleagues at the consultancy company Outcome, Dan focuses on the changes 'blue chip' companies need to implement in order to make innovation a repeatable, predictable and reliable growth option.