Innov8rs London

In this workshop, you will experience a real case of a legacy corporation heavily threatened by a challenger scale-up expanding cross-industry. Despite efforts to leverage innovation to maintain market dominance, it remains unsuccessful. Your challenge will be to identify the bottlenecks and knowledge gaps happening at each level of the organization. In the end, you will understand: - How each knowledge gap is related to an Innovation Management skill that can be learned. - How the right skills empower teams to solve problems internally and achieve desired outcomes. - And, by “learning while doing”, you enable your organization to emerge with both a solution to a problem and new capabilities at different levels – hence, a more innovative company.

Rafael is the co-founder & CEO of The Corporate Innovation Academy. He has spent over ten years building venture-backed startups, across different countries such as Brazil, France, the US, and the UK, and running his tech solutions in corporations such as Itaú (the largest bank in LatAm), Gerdau (the largest steel company in Brazil), Sulamérica (Insurance), and KPMG, leading him to a successful exit in 2019. As an innovation consultant, he has helped clients such as AXA, Edenred, ING, and EDP, develop high-performance innovation processes. He also works with Innovate UK – the country’s government agency for innovation. Throughout his journey, he understood that Innovation Management is becoming the most enduring source of competitive advantage. And those who master this capability will reap lots of rewards and pave the way for an entirely new generation of professionals.