The global economic outlook for 2023 is not great. This has resulted in companies cutting their budgets across the board. We have been in conversation with several innovation teams whose budgets are getting cut. And the question from these teams is the same - how do we accomplish our innovation goals for 2023 when our budget has been reduced?

In this keynote, Tendayi Viki will address how to keep innovating during a crisis. Companies that continue to invest in innovation during a crisis experience superior growth and performance post-crisis. The important thing to do during a crisis is to prune your innovation portfolio and focus on the innovation projects that are most likely to have an impact. Session participants will learn how to choose the right projects to keep investing in, so they can deliver value for their organizations.

Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies build their capabilities to innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has written three books; Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. He previously served as Director of Product Lifecycle at Pearson, where he co-developed an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. Tendayi was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2021 and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes.