Innov8rs Zurich

Companies struggle to close the gap between strategy and execution, resulting in lost opportunities and failure. In today's business climate, bridging this gap can be a powerful tool for success.

This workshop will teach you how to make innovation strategy a reality. By examining a case study and doing hands-on activities, you will learn how to craft strategic opportunities and leverage them for a competitive edge. The four fundamental principles of successful innovation – vision, mindset, process, and skills – will be discussed in-depth.

Our expert facilitators will guide you through the process, sharing their experiences and insights. At the end of the workshop, you'll have a set of powerful tools and techniques to help you take your company's innovation strategy to the next level.

Turning ideas into reality is all about curiosity, experimentation and a touch of discipline. Dafne has over 7 years of experience in the innovation field supporting businesses worldwide in building products with impact and profit. Today as the Director for Venture Building at oneUp, she helps people and organizations to explore their purpose and bring their transformation dreams into reality with the use of different proven methodologies such as Human Centered Design and Experimentation. This means validating ideas through a process that involves the (real) customer voice and (a lot of) evidence. Throughout this time Dafne has also facilitated conferences, workshops and coaching sessions for over 3000 people from 100+ countries.

Gabriel is passionate about Entrepreneurship, Education & Innovation. He believes a combination of the three is needed to build a sustainable future. Over the last 10 years Gabriel has navigated between leading his own ventures, consulting for corporates, scaleups & government, team coaching and education management. He likes to work in an interactive, customer-centric way, focused on co-creating. Throughout the years he has developed a broad facilitation and execution toolkit to achieve that. At oneUp Gabriel applies this toolkit to help big organizations stay relevant, by testing and validating purpose & profit-driven business models.

Jasper has 10+ years of international experience in strategy and innovation roles within the food industry, both on the retailer side (Ahold Delhaize, PLUS) and the supplier side (AB InBev, pure baby foods, Unilever, Spinn,Cargill). He has had the opportunity to drive non-incremental innovation within large food and retail organizations, by launching and scaling new products, services and business models. Jasper has built expertise in leading strategy workshops with leadership teams to shape strategic visions and identify opportunity spaces. Today he guides companies worldwide in defining future strategies and opportunities to achieve meaningful innovations.