Corporates who understand their participation in a holistic venture ecosystem can leverage every part of the ecosystem in the ways those parts work best. We'll explore how corporate innovation, internal corporate venture studios, corporate venture capital, external venture studios and venture capital can collaborate as a thriving ecosystem that accelerates innovation forward.

Taylor is a cross-functional team leader with 15 years of experience guiding people in diverse and complicated technical industries to form and scale their new ventures. Currently, he is scaling an internal startup studio and innovation ecosystem within Microsoft’s Office of the CTO into a new growth engine for Microsoft. He is a full-stack developer, former educator and entrepreneur. Taylor most enjoys guiding highly technical product companies from infancy to scalable success by offering strategic, operational, and marketing expertise.