Learn and benchmark how peers are turning innovation ambitions into measurable business outcomes.
Join a curated group of 250+ corporate innovators from across industries for two full days of in-depth conversations, relevant connections and quality content.
In 2026, success in corporate innovation isn’t measured by how many cool ideas are generated or shiny pilots were launched— it’s about how innovation ambitions translate into tangible business outcomes. Budget cuts, executive pressure, and the rise of AI have forced us to get brutally clear about what actually drives results.
Join this peer-led, outcome-focused gathering to dive into best and next practices for:
- Gaining and keeping leadership support and strategic alignment
- Pruning portfolios and allocating resources more effectively
- Measuring innovation ROI beyond vanity metrics
- Running high-impact and low-budget instruments, programs and approaches that scale rapidly
- Decreasing time to market whilst minimizing risk
- Leveraging AI throughout the end-to-end innovation process for better results
- Changing the culture in the organization to act faster
- And more
You’ll leave with
- practical frameworks you can implement immediately,
- proven approaches you can adapt to your context,
- and peer insights you won’t get from ChatGPT or LinkedIn.
If you have innovation in your title, this is your tribe.
Loved by participants, trusted by brands.
Bringing innovators together since 2011... 35+ conferences in global innovation hubs from San Francisco to Stockholm to Shanghai to Singapore to Sydney.
Looking back at Innov8rs SoCal 2024...
Beyond the high-quality sessions and diversity of speakers, past participants valued most meeting people in jobs like them, who operate in similar environments and speak the same language.
You’ll have in-depth conversations with a select group of other innovation leaders and do-ers, and establish relevant connections that you actually want to follow up with after the conference.
To create the best possible experience for you, we curate the group of participants. You’ll meet cross-industry corporate innovators of all trades, all chasing similar objectives and facing similar challenges, across companies and industries:
- Chief Innovation Officers, VP’s of Innovation, Innovation Leaders
- Intrapreneurs or Corporate Entrepreneurs
- Innovation (program) Directors
- Heads of Labs, Incubators and Accelerators
- Corporate Venturing, Strategy and Corporate Development Managers
- R&D and Product Development Professionals
- HR and Organizational Transformation Leaders
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You'll connect, collaborate and co-create with peers. That's how we design the event. That's why we limit the number of participants. And past participants loved it.
Here's what your peers said about their experience.
"That was a terrific event! Thank you for all of your hard work organizing + curating a terrific group of people to attend. I just kept having great conversations over both days."
"All the sessions I participated in were amazing. Honestly, it’s very rare to attend a conference with so much enthusiasm and also the fact that it’s truly peer 2 peer."
"Hands down the best conference I’ve had the luxury of attending. I have so many more great people in my world now and have a brain bursting with new ideas and concepts to explore."
Taking time to think, learn, and collaborate with peers who live the same reality isn’t a luxury— it’s essential.
In an age where AI dominates the headlines, the real edge comes from people… from thoughtful conversations, collaborative creativity, and shared experiences.
Our conferences are designed for you to tackle whatever tops your to-do list. You’ll spend most of your time in deep dive breakout sessions, engaging workshops, focused conversations and targeted networking opportunities.
- Before the conference, you’ll share your goals. What are the challenges you would like to address, what topics do you want to dive into, and whom are you looking to connect with?
- During the conference, you’ll follow a personalized agenda, suggesting which (breakout) sessions to join, and whom to meet during the dedicated networking slots and social breaks.
- After the conference, beyond the session recordings and presentation slides, you will get access to additional resources as well- all for you to get the best possible return on your investment in time.
Boost your impact? Bring your team.
Find it hard to choose from all those value-packed sessions on the schedule?
Bring your team to gather insights from all speakers and sessions, and receive additional guidance or exclusive 1:1s with speakers to maximize outcomes. As a team, you can focus on one key topic and get to the bottom of it. Or, you can divide and conquer to catch the best and latest on all key themes and trends.
Our team packages get you a good deal on tickets- but even greater outcomes.
“After gathering feedback from peers and hearing from the main speaker, we rewrote our venture building approach fully already during lunch on the first day. As a team, we knew something was missing and attending the conference gave us the missing piece of the puzzle.”
