How should companies structure their Innovation and innovation management activities? Should innovation be centralized or decentralized? If decentralized, should everyone in the company be tasked with innovation, or should we identify innovation teams in different parts of the organization? Is innovation a fluid aspect of the culture or driven by clear vision from the top? What are the impacts of these choices on decision making, innovation processes, people, budgets and market impact? In this session we’ll talk about organizing for innovation and why these are not either/or questions. We’ll offer some frameworks for helping think through organizational designs that work. Bring your questions and challenges so that it’s a lively discussion.

Struggling to gain support for your innovation or transformation initiatives? Join this session to learn proven strategies for winning over your stakeholders and driving your initiatives to success.

You’ll discover how to tackle common challenges like lack of alignment across teams, resistance from skeptical stakeholders, inconsistent leadership backing, and employee change fatigue.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

1. Build Trust and Credibility: Position your initiative as a valuable opportunity that benefits the entire organization.
2. Activate Stakeholder Engagement: Turn stakeholders into advocates who champion your initiative and contribute to its success.

Gain actionable techniques to create alignment, inspire confidence, and build a network of champions who will help bring your vision to life.

Innovation teams often spend too much time in the front-end—exploring trends, generating ideas, and designing concepts—without validating what really works. In this session, we’ll share a practical approach to shortcut the ideation and design phase using GenAI tools, freeing up more time and resources for real-world prototyping and market testing. You’ll discover a proven methodology, actionable tools, and real examples from corporate teams that are using AI to go from opportunity to in-market experimentation in record time—making innovation faster, leaner, and more effective.

Innovation is a gamble, but governance doesn’t have to be. Many companies struggle to predict which initiatives will succeed, often relying on rigid processes that stifle creativity or gut feelings that waste resources. Traditional governance models built for stability can’t handle the uncertainty of innovation.

Join this hands-on session to run a live, AI powered analysis on a startup project through each stage of the governance process:

– Idea – What’s the market size? Is it big enough?
– Testing – Go get data! Is the market still big enough? What’s the ROI?
– Scaling – Optimize the project, connect live data sources and improve the projection.

We’ll address key questions to make AI-driven forecasting practical, such as:
– How can AI help boards make smarter funding decisions?
– How do we prevent AI from reinforcing biases in governance?
– How can leaders use AI to gain executive buy-in while staying flexible?

Let’s cut through the hype and talk about practical ways to use AI to strengthen governance, navigate uncertainty, and ensure the right projects get the green light.

Everyone says they want smart risk-taking, but few define what that actually means, leaving teams stuck between playing it safe and making costly mistakes. Join Bud Caddell for a candid discussion on how leaders can set clearer boundaries, take the right risks, and turn failure into progress.

This high-impact workshop transforms how organizations navigate perpetual disruption. Rather than just building resilience, you’ll learn to create truly adaptive cultures that use change as fuel for innovation.

Through hands-on application of four proven tools—Diverge-Converge-Synthesize for breakthrough thinking, Assumption Mapping to expose hidden risks, Double-Loop Learning to challenge fundamental strategies, and regenerative practices that shift from “doing less harm” to “creating more value”—your leadership team will gain immediately actionable frameworks.

Working on real organizational challenges, you’ll practice the critical distinction between improving execution (“doing things right”) versus questioning direction (“doing the right things”). You’ll leave with a shared vocabulary for adaptive innovation and concrete next steps to cascade these tools throughout their organizations, transforming uncertainty from a threat into your competitive advantage.

AI, AI, AI. It’s all everyone is talking about. But what we’re not talking about is even though we’re talking about, and even investing in it, we’re already behind and we’re also falling further behind.

In this insightful and inspiring keynote, noted futurist, best-selling author, and head of global innovation at ServiceNow will help you spark the mindshift necessary to drive AI transformation and innovation in your business.

In this energizing keynote, Barry O’Reilly reveals how today’s top leaders are using AI not just to delegate tasks—but to redesign how they think, learn, and lead. Based on his own work and real-world experimentation, Barry shares a practical guide to integrating AI into your daily routines to unlock time, focus, and strategic impact.

You’ll discover how to build your own personal productivity stack—and why doing so is quickly becoming a non-negotiable for high-performing executives. If you’re not using AI to lead yourself better, you’re falling behind.

In a world racing to adopt AI, the true differentiator isn’t just using the technology: It’s knowing where and why to apply it. This session with Charlene Li, co-author of Winning with AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success, reveals how to move beyond scattered pilots and build an AI strategy rooted in your business priorities.

You’ll learn how to connect AI applications directly to the core of your business strategy—and how to design an 18-month roadmap that creates real value, not just innovation theater. Charlene will introduce the “Six-Quarter Walk,” a dynamic planning tool used by leading organizations to balance speed and focus while adapting to fast-changing technology.

This session is for business leaders who want to turn AI from an experiment into a competitive advantage.

Most innovation managers struggle with the same time-consuming tasks: endless status meetings, document preparation, stakeholder alignment, and resource coordination. While everyone talks about AI’s potential, few know how to actually implement it in their daily workflow. In this session, Nick will share battle-tested AI techniques from his new #1 bestselling book “The AI Project Advantage,” showing you exactly which tools can transform your most frustrating manual work into automated advantages. You’ll leave with specific prompts, tools, and frameworks you can implement immediately, no coding required. Perfect for innovation leaders who want practical AI implementation, not theoretical possibilities.

Join innovation and AI thought leader Mohan Nair for a groundbreaking session that explores the balance between leveraging artificial intelligence and maintaining your unique human cognitive capabilities. Drawing from decades of research and experience, Mohan Nair reveals how AI-obsession can lead to cognitive decay while offering practical strategies to reclaim your inner innovator.

This thought-provoking session challenges the audience to move beyond merely adapting to AI and achieve sustainable new recipe of skills to develop within you.

Bring your own challenges and questions to get feedback from peers. And share what’s worked and what has not with others. As part of this session, you’ll have small-group discussions in breakouts to focus on what’s topping your to-do list.

What does it really take to go from AI curiosity to real-world value? In this panel, we’ll hear directly from innovation leaders who took part in the recent AI Deep Dive within Innov8rs Community, where they explored, prioritised, tested, and pressure-tested AI use cases and planned a pilot within their organizations. They’ll share what worked, what didn’t, and what helped them move from ideas to action.

Moderated by Rachel Gordon, Founder of Triple Agent, this session will combine short use case and pilot spotlights with an open debate around what it truly takes to turn AI into something useful, usable, and meaningful inside complex organizations.

In her role as Innovation Ecosystem Lead, Cosima Gulde is responsible for strategic open innovation projects across Siemens. Through the Siemens Innovation Ecosystem, the company’s open innovation platform, she brings together over 135,000 innovators to jointly create sustainable progress. The “next big thing” is usually not developed alone, but in collaboration with many other visionaries and doers. In her session, Cosima shares insights into how AI and humans are working together to create solutions for today and tomorrow.

This session showcases how AI is democratizing innovation at Schreiber Foods, enabling teams to move beyond manual research and intuition to data-driven confidence. Discover real-world strategies and lessons from the trenches on leveraging AI to reduce discovery time, streamline design sprints, and ultimately create space for the essential human “heart” in your innovation process.

Innovation doesn’t suffer from bad ideas. It suffers from bad systems.
Join a seasoned innovator who’s navigated costly failures and delivered transformative breakthroughs from the inside of Fortune 500s.

In this session, you’ll explore the systems and structures that make the difference.

What you’ll gain:

Approaches for working with your core business, not against it
Frameworks to bridge traditional planning and rapid innovation
AI workflows that span the innovation lifecycle
No theory. No buzzwords. Just practical approaches proven in the trenches of corporate innovation.

Leave knowing how to get from idea to impact.

Bring your own challenges and questions to get feedback from peers. And share what’s worked and what has not with others. As part of this session, you’ll have small-group discussions in breakouts to focus on what’s topping your to-do list.

ABOS is a multi-LLM workflow builder that lets you turn your innovation processes into interactive user experiences. Design your process exactly as you like, with total control over inputs and outputs, and deploy it for yourself, your team or anyone at your business.

Methodology and market knowledge from nine years of venture building flow into our proprietary business model AI Tautiom. This tool is a cornerstone of our AI-First Strategy: a commitment to intelligently augment every relevant process with AI — wherever it adds clarity, speed, and impact.

This demo shows how ITONICS embeds AI into the workflows of innovation, so that innovation becomes systematic, not accidental. From scanning signals to shaping portfolios, you’ll see how applied AI helps teams cut through noise, prioritize what matters, and make decisions that lead to real innovation outcomes.