No rest for the wicked.


The craft of innovation management is changing rapidly. Are you keeping up?

Join the Innov8rs Summer School / AI Fest for a unique opportunity to up your skills and boost your impact, together with a curated group of 350+ other corporate innovators.

You’ll participate in 6 x topical workshops “Learning Labs” on essential innovation management practices, plus 3 x fast-paced “Spark Sessions” covering what’s working now in using AI for innovation across industries, to upgrade your skillset, toolset and mindset for success in H2-2025 and beyond.

Don’t be too busy to innovate how you innovate… In just a few hours, you’ll be ready for what’s next.

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Work with the best.


A glimpse of some of the subject matter experts and innovation leaders you’ll be working with during the program.

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Trusted by brands. Loved by peers.

"This is my tribe of lifelong learners and do-ers.

Innov8rs is unlike any conference. It’s the only place were corporate innovators and intrapreneurs get vulnerable and real about the challenges facing disruptors today and work together on creating breakthrough opportunities."

"I am blown away with learnings, reflections and new insights. Such an amazing crowd with a true sharing mentality.

I have gathered so many cases for best practice on how to run innovation, how to measure it, etc. Further, most people I have met are really down to earth, pragmatic and no-bulshit kind of people that are creating real impact in the companies they work for."

"I'm amazed by the format, how open, honest and authentic it was.

What a great event! You rarely ever get that with these types of events - well done!"

"This was a refreshing reminder that we're not alone.

Sometimes working at the front-end of innovation can be a lonely place, especially in a large 100-year-old company. Connecting with so many other innovation professionals acted as a shot of adrenaline reigniting my drive to transform our organization."

Ready to dive in?


Innovate how you innovate at Innov8rs Summer School / AI Fest

Summer School/AI Fest only


Your Individual Pass comes with access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program over 3 weeks, including
  • 6 x Learning Labs - topical online workshops, covering innovation management essentials
  • 3 x Spark Sessions with expert talks, innovators insights talks and discussions, covering what's working now in "AI for Innovation"
  • 10 x Showcase Sessions to get to know dedicated "AI for Innovation" platforms to add to your tool stack
  • 3 x Social Salon, to network with fellow innovation professionals
  • Recordings from sessions plus selected content items and other resources from the Netflix of corporate innovation

€95

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Summer School/AI Fest + Innov8rs Community membership


Join Innov8rs Community on the "Incremental Plan" and get access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program, as outlined on the left. But also:
  • Monthly "Learning Labs"- workshops teaching best and next practices on everything corporate innovation A-Z.
  • Weekly “Spark Sessions”, featuring book authors discussing their research, subject matter experts sharing their methods and frameworks and fellow innovators, sharing stories from the trenches.
  • Bi-monthly “Career Chats” with senior innovation leaders offering guidance about developing a career in innovation.
  • Access to the Netflix of Corporate Innovation with 800+ hours of video content, as well as to our AI-powered companion K8 to get guidance.
  • Meet and mingle with all members in monthly networking sessions, and find, connect and message with other members via the online platform.
  • Exclusive members-only discounts (up to ~75%) to in-person conferences, cohort-based programs and other offers.

€80

per month. Cancel anytime.

SIGN UP

Summer School/AI Fest only


Your Individual Pass comes with access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program over 3 weeks, including
  • 6 x Learning Labs - topical online workshops, covering innovation management essentials
  • 3 x Spark Sessions with expert talks, innovators insights talks and discussions, covering what's working now in "AI for Innovation"
  • 10 x Showcase Sessions to get to know dedicated "AI for Innovation" platforms to add to your toolsatck
  • 3 x Social Salon, to network with fellow innovation professionals
  • Recordings from sessions plus selected content items and other resources from the Netflix of corporate innovation
€275
€450
€800
SIGN UP

Summer School/AI Fest + Innov8rs Community membership


Join Innov8rs Community on the "Incremental Plan" and get access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program, as outlined on the left. But also:
  • Monthly "Learning Labs"- workshops teaching best and next practices on everything corporate innovation A-Z.
  • Weekly “Spark Sessions”, featuring book authors discussing their research, subject matter experts sharing their methods and frameworks and fellow innovators, sharing stories from the trenches.
  • Bi-monthly “Career Chats” with senior innovation leaders offering guidance about developing a career in innovation.
  • Access to the Netflix of Corporate Innovation with 800+ hours of video content, as well as to our AI-powered companion K8 to get guidance.
  • Meet and mingle with all members in monthly networking sessions, and find, connect and message with other members via the online platform.
  • Exclusive members-only discounts (up to ~75%) to in-person conferences, cohort-based programs and other offers.
€500

per member per year.

INQUIRE ABOUT YOUR TEAM MEMBERSHIP

Your schedule.


These are not your typical boring webinars. You’ll get to work with peers and experts in interactive small group sessions, so you actually learn something.

Whatever your challenges are, and regardless of industry and innovation maturity, you’ll leave with new, practical insights and an upgraded toolbox, to implement right away.

Summer School - 6 x "Learning Labs" Topical Workshops


Tendayi Viki

Associate Partner at Strategyzer

Tue 19 August, 16:00-17:30 CEST/10-11:30am EDT/7-8:30am PDT

How To Get Buy In For Innovation

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.

Gina O'Connor

Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College

Thu 21 August, 17:00-18:30 CEST/11am-12:30pm EDT/8-9:30am PDT

Organizing for Innovation: Different Strokes for Different Folks

There are many options, considerations and “pros and cons” when it comes to how companies should 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. Gina will offer some frameworks for helping think through organizational designs that work.

Daniel Martin Callizo

Co-founder & Managing Partner at NOBA

Tue 26 August, 18:00-19:30 CEST/12-1:30pm EDT/9-10:30am PDT

AI to Fast-Forward Ideation to Prototyping & Real Market Testing

In this session, you’ll explore a practical methodology and AI-powered tools to fast-forward the ideation of new products, business models, and go-to-market strategies—leaving more time for prototyping and real-market testing, with examples from corporate innovation teams in action.

Bud Cadell

Founder & CEO of NOBL Collective

Thu 28 August, 16:00-17:30 CEST/10-11:30am EDT/7-8:30am PDT

Smart Risk-Taking: What's Missing In Your Organization

Coming soon…

Tristan Kromer

CEO and Founder at Kromatic

Tue 2 September, 18:00-19:30 CEST/12-1:30pm EDT/9-10:30am PDT

Innovation Financials: Smarter Forecasting, Better Decisions (with AI)

Coming soon…

JoAnn Garbin & Taryn Kutches

Founding Partners at Regenerous Labs

Thu 4 September, 17:00-18:30 CEST/11am-12:30pm EDT/8-9:30am PDT

Adaptive Culture: Thriving in Constant Change

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 Fest - 3 x "Spark Sessions" with Experts & Innovation Leaders plus 2 x "Showcase Sessions"


Wed 20 Aug, 16:00-19:00 CEST/10am-1pm EDT/7-10am PDT

Trending Topic Talks - What's Happening Across Industries

Coming soon…

Wed 27 Aug, 16:00-19:00 CEST/10am-1pm EDT/7-10am PDT

Innovators Insights - Stories From the Trenches Part 1

Coming soon…

Wed 3 Sept, 16:00-19:00 CEST/10am-1pm EDT/7-10am PDT

Innovators Insights - Stories From the Trenches Part 2

Coming soon…

Fri 22 Aug, 16:00-17:00 CEST/10-11am EDT/7-8am PDT&Fri 29 Aug, 16:00-17:00 CEST/10-11am EDT/7-8am PDT

Speed Networking - Meet & Mingle with Peers

Showcase Sessions - Demos of "AI for Innovation" solutions

Coming soon…

Bring your team. They'll thank you later.


Innovation is a team sport, don’t you agree?

Bring your team to focus on one key topic and get to the bottom of it. Or, you can divide and conquer to capture all of what’s being discussed..

With our team packages you get a great deal on tickets- but even greater outcomes.

With so many issues to tackle and so much change happening so fast, you will benefit from your team  joining too.

INQUIRE ABOUT TEAM PASS

Ready to dive in?


Innovate how you innovate at Innov8rs Summer School / AI Fest

Summer School/AI Fest only


Your Individual Pass comes with access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program over 3 weeks, including
  • 6 x Learning Labs - topical online workshops, covering innovation management essentials
  • 3 x Spark Sessions with expert talks, innovators insights talks and discussions, covering what's working now in "AI for Innovation"
  • 10 x Showcase Sessions to get to know dedicated "AI for Innovation" platforms to add to your tool stack
  • 3 x Social Salon, to network with fellow innovation professionals
  • Recordings from sessions plus selected content items and other resources from the Netflix of corporate innovation

€95

SIGN UP

Summer School/AI Fest + Innov8rs Community membership


Join Innov8rs Community on the "Incremental Plan" and get access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program, as outlined on the left. But also:
  • Monthly "Learning Labs"- workshops teaching best and next practices on everything corporate innovation A-Z.
  • Weekly “Spark Sessions”, featuring book authors discussing their research, subject matter experts sharing their methods and frameworks and fellow innovators, sharing stories from the trenches.
  • Bi-monthly “Career Chats” with senior innovation leaders offering guidance about developing a career in innovation.
  • Access to the Netflix of Corporate Innovation with 800+ hours of video content, as well as to our AI-powered companion K8 to get guidance.
  • Meet and mingle with all members in monthly networking sessions, and find, connect and message with other members via the online platform.
  • Exclusive members-only discounts (up to ~75%) to in-person conferences, cohort-based programs and other offers.

€80

per month. Cancel anytime.

SIGN UP

Summer School/AI Fest only


Your Individual Pass comes with access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program over 3 weeks, including
  • 6 x Learning Labs - topical online workshops, covering innovation management essentials
  • 3 x Spark Sessions with expert talks, innovators insights talks and discussions, covering what's working now in "AI for Innovation"
  • 10 x Showcase Sessions to get to know dedicated "AI for Innovation" platforms to add to your toolsatck
  • 3 x Social Salon, to network with fellow innovation professionals
  • Recordings from sessions plus selected content items and other resources from the Netflix of corporate innovation
€275
€450
€800
SIGN UP

Summer School/AI Fest + Innov8rs Community membership


Join Innov8rs Community on the "Incremental Plan" and get access to the full Summer School/AI Fest program, as outlined on the left. But also:
  • Monthly "Learning Labs"- workshops teaching best and next practices on everything corporate innovation A-Z.
  • Weekly “Spark Sessions”, featuring book authors discussing their research, subject matter experts sharing their methods and frameworks and fellow innovators, sharing stories from the trenches.
  • Bi-monthly “Career Chats” with senior innovation leaders offering guidance about developing a career in innovation.
  • Access to the Netflix of Corporate Innovation with 800+ hours of video content, as well as to our AI-powered companion K8 to get guidance.
  • Meet and mingle with all members in monthly networking sessions, and find, connect and message with other members via the online platform.
  • Exclusive members-only discounts (up to ~75%) to in-person conferences, cohort-based programs and other offers.
€500

per member per year.

INQUIRE ABOUT YOUR TEAM MEMBERSHIP

Member of Innov8rs Community already?

As a member, you are automatically enrolled onto this program, so no need for you to purchase a pass separately.

Need some help?

If you’d like to understand better how participating in Innov8rs Summer School / AI Fest would support you and your team in achieving your objectives, or if you have questions about registration, email Theo via theo@innov8rs.co