Fueling your Front-End-of-Innovation Engine
Fundamentally, one key “job to be done” for us as innovation teams is to create new value for our organizations, which is measured by top or bottom line impact.
In this Learning Lab, we focus on the “front end of innovation" – the journey from that initial insight to a validated idea, ready to be commercialized and scaled, and integrated back into the business (a phase we’ll cover in our next Learning Lab in February 2023).
- How do you spot signals, translate those into insights that feed and inform your innovation activities and pipeline?
- And then, how do you test new ideas effectively, through different stages, turning options and opportunities into new products and services, and business models? How do you make decisions re which projects to pivot, persevere or kill?
- From an organizational perspective, how to set up your ideation, incubation and acceleration efforts in the best possible way? And how to build the organizational’s capability for crucial skills like customer empathy, so that innovation doesn’t just happen within the innovation team?
If you are working on and interested in themes and questions like this, join other cross-industry innovation leaders and professionals for 20+ in-depth conversations and interactive sessions as part of this Learning Lab.
Work with the best.
A first overview of innovation leaders and experts guiding you in this program. You will get a detailed schedule and further instructions after signup.
More coming soon... stay tuned!
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Innovate In 10 Minutes: How To Go From “What If” To “Here’s How”
Disruptive Innovation: Form Growth Territories to Problem, Solution and Business Validation
Innovating Inside the World's Largest - A Chat with Walmart
Ideas Die For The Wrong Reason - Using Sketches To Keep Your Ideas Alive
Designing For Taboos
Wednesday 16 November 2022
How to Create Data Projects That Succeed
Corporate Mavericks In The Largest Bank in Africa (How We Launched A Renewable Energy Startup In A Year)
More Than Ideas Needed: Learnings From The Management Of Intrapreneurship Programs
Why Corporates Fail to Experiment (And How You Can Start Building a Culture of Innovation)
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
Business Design is reDesign – Start Mapping and Stop Controlling
Making the Handover to the Business More Effective
Keep Your Customers Close, But Your IT Department Closer: How to Innovate In a Mission Critical, Bimodal IT Set-up
Teaching Employees to Test and Validate Their Own Ideas at Scale
Thursday 17 November 2022
5 Proven Ways to Design Innovation Culture & Be Known As a Transformational Innovation Leader
Against All Odds. How To Nail Your Next Product Innovation & Win Big
The Road To Next Generation Mobility
From Foresight to Action - How to Leverage Future Insights To Create Value in Strategy and Innovation
Bringing The Business Along
Not your typical event: you'll learn and do stuff.
Forget pointless powerpoints. You’ll roll up your sleeves, and work with peers and experts in interactive small group sessions.
You’re busy, of course. You let us know what your questions and challenges are, and based on that you'll get a personalized schedule highlighting sessions and content most relevant for you (so you can invest your time wisely).
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.
Live Sessions
In the main week of the program, you can choose to join a diverse range of 20+ interactive small group sessions and peer to peer roundtables as they happen. You can also host your own sessions to ask for feedback or share your approach.
Content
For four weeks per program, starting one week prior to the main week and ending two weeks after, you'll have access to a selection of topical past session recordings and other resources plus of course session recordings from the program itself.
Community
You can easily tap into the expertise and experiences of peers and experts, available to share their knowledge and provide guidance. Ask a question, share your experience and discuss topics- all available 24/7, so you can engage whenever you want.
Bring your team. Boost your impact.
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.
You'll be in great company.
Other participants are in roles like
• Chief Innovation Officer / VP of Innovation
• Head of Innovation, Innovation Program Director, Innovation Lab/ Centre Director
• Venture Lead/Innovation Team Lead
• Individual Intrapreneur, Innovation Team Member/Contributor
• Leader/professional in general business role other functions like Strategy, IT/Transformation, R&D/Product, Marketing, HR/Change
Connect and collaborate with more than
800+
other corporate innovators
Working at organizations like
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, how to fuel intrapreneurship 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."
"I understand how difficult these events are to run in the best of times.
This is hands down the best virtual event I have attended."
"For me, the Innov8rs Unconference is one of the few intrapreneurship conferences that is worth paying for.
The ability to connect with such a high quality speakers, ask questions, and get great insights is just invaluable!"
"I have already used some of the ideas presented. It is also influencing my thoughts on many other areas related to innovation.
The value of the Unconference has far exceeded the cost."
"The conference was great – it was a perfect mixture of networking and practical learning with a group of high-caliber, highly involved and dedicated participants.
It's a rarity to attend an event like this!"
Ready to dive in?
Join Innov8rs Learning Labs to upgrade your skill-, tool- and mindset, and increase your impact as innovation professional.
Our series of six Learning Labs between October 2022 and May 2023 offers you a deep dive into the key pillars of corporate innovation, exploring main themes and trends in just a few days.
You'll leave knowing what works (and what doesn't) in other companies and industries, and with fresh insights to address whatever tops your to-do list.
What's included?
Every "Seat" allows for one individual to participate in one Learning Lab program, and includes:
- 20+ interactive small-group sessions you can join (talks, workshops, Ask Me Anything's, topical discussions, networking and more)
- A personalized agenda based on YOUR goals and needs, and concierge support to help you make most out of the program
- Option to join a Peer Circle with 3 others working on similar issues, for accountability and support with implementation
- Option to host a Challenge Call to get feedback on your key challenge
- Access to selected content from our library plus all session recordings and additional resources for four weeks in total
- Ask questions, share experiences and discuss any topic with other participants via our community platform
Full schedule
Here's an overview of all six Learning Labs throughout the year.
- Strategy, Leadership, Governance and Portfolio Management, 11-13 October 2022
- Foresight & Business Design, 15-17 November 2022
- Venture Building & Scaling, 14-16 February 2023
- Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, 14-16 March 2023
- Culture, Talent & Teams, 4-6 April 2023
- Climate & SDG's, 3-4 May 2023
As a first step, select your pass and complete a short application via the buttons below.
The options above are available for corporate innovation leaders and professionals only.
If you are a consultant/coach, software firm or otherwise service provider to corporate innovators, you need an "Innov8rs Learning Labs Expert Pass" to join. Prices for these are higher than the prices listed above. Alt, members of Innov8rs Community with an Expert Pass are also eligible to participante and contribute.
Are you a member of Innov8rs Community already?
As a member, you are automatically enrolled onto every Learning Lab, so no need for you to purchase a pass separately. Want to become a member? As a first step, apply here.
Need some help?
If you'd like to understand better how participating in Innov8rs Learning Labs would support you and your team in achieving your objectives, or if you have questions about registration, start a chat via the blue button bottom right or email hans@innov8rs.co
