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.

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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

15 November, 16:30 CET/10:30am EST/7:30am PST

Innovate In 10 Minutes: How To Go From “What If” To “Here’s How”

David Lederhendler | VP Innovation at Disruptive Edge
15 November, 17:00 CET/11am EST/8am PST

Disruptive Innovation: Form Growth Territories to Problem, Solution and Business Validation

Jesus Checa Caballero | Strategy and Disruptive Innovation Director at Bacardi
15 November, 17:30 CET/11:30am EST/8:30am PST

Innovating Inside the World's Largest - A Chat with Walmart

Lee Jeyes & Martina Facchin | Head of Innovation at Blue Labs Walmart Canada’s Innovation Incubator | Innovation Consultant at Disruptive Edge
15 November, 18:30 CET/12:30pm EST/9:30 am PST

Ideas Die For The Wrong Reason - Using Sketches To Keep Your Ideas Alive

Kelly Custer | Founder and Design Director at Knack
15 November, 19:30 CET/1:30pm EST/10:30 am PST

Designing For Taboos

Kerry O'Connor | Women's Health Entrepreneur and Design Lecturer at d.school

Wednesday 16 November 2022

16 November, 20:00 SGT/13:00 CET/7am EST

How to Create Data Projects That Succeed

Erlon Rachi | Senior Manager of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at CI&T
16 November, 20:30 SGT/13:30 CET/7:30am EST

Corporate Mavericks In The Largest Bank in Africa (How We Launched A Renewable Energy Startup In A Year)

Lizelle Van Der Merwe, Kevin Ssemwogerere & Jaco Burger | New Business Venture Lead, CIB Digital Corporate Venturing Lead, CIB Digital I Head of Corporate Venturing, CIB Digital at Standard Bank Group
16 November, 21:00 SGT/14:00 CET/8am EST

More Than Ideas Needed: Learnings From The Management Of Intrapreneurship Programs

Christian Stumpf | Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet
16 November, 15:30 CET/9:30am EST

Why Corporates Fail to Experiment (And How You Can Start Building a Culture of Innovation)

Hanne de Kesel | Management Partner at Cosmos Collective
16 November, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

Jeremy Utley | Director of Executive Education at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford and Co-Author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
16 November, 16:45 CET/10:45am EST/7:45am PST

Business Design is reDesign – Start Mapping and Stop Controlling

Angèle Beausoleil | Assistant Professor, Business Design and Innovation at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
16 November, 17:30 CET/11:30am EST/8:30am PST

Making the Handover to the Business More Effective

Claus von Riegen, Ellie Amirnasr & Rose Tighe | Vice President, Head of Business Model Innovation at SAP SE | Director of Digital Ventures at MANN+HUMMEL | Innovation Coach and Leader, Sky Labs at Sky
16 November, 18:30 CET/12:30pm EST/9:30 am PST

Keep Your Customers Close, But Your IT Department Closer: How to Innovate In a Mission Critical, Bimodal IT Set-up

Oz Ural | Incubation Factory Lead at 50Hertz/Elia Group
16 November, 19:00 CET/1pm EST/10am PST

Teaching Employees to Test and Validate Their Own Ideas at Scale

Coby Skonord | CEO at Ideawake

Thursday 17 November 2022

17 November, 21:30 SGT/14:30 CET/8:30am EST

5 Proven Ways to Design Innovation Culture & Be Known As a Transformational Innovation Leader

Gaurav Soni & Rakesh Kasturi | Managing Director - Innovation and Products at at Lean Apps | Chief Experience Officer at sprintdoctor
17 November, 15:30 CET/9:30am EST

Against All Odds. How To Nail Your Next Product Innovation & Win Big

Dani Kamras | Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer at Cambri
17 November, 16:00 CET/10am EST/7am PST

The Road To Next Generation Mobility

Sebastian Grimm | Head of Innovation Lab at ZF Friedrichshafen AG
17 November, 17:00 CET/11am EST/8am PST

From Foresight to Action - How to Leverage Future Insights To Create Value in Strategy and Innovation

Nicolas Reinke & Esteban Martinez in conversation with Sebastian Knab & Tobias Heger | Global Strategic Insights Senior Director at Mondelēz International | Global Director Research & Technology Transformation at Anheuser-Busch InBev | Director of Foresight and Strategy at Creative Dock Group | Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Creative Dock Group
17 November, 18:00 CET/12pm EST/9am PST

Bringing The Business Along

Jorie Sax & Danielle Ferry | Head of Digital Technology Innovation Lab at United Airlines | Senior Director - Global Head of New Product Innovation (KYC/KYS) at Moody's Analytics

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.

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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.

Individual Pass | 1 Learning Lab


1 seat for 1 out of the 6 programs

€195

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Individual Pass | 3 Learning Labs


1 seat for 3 out of the 6 programs

€495

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Team Pass | 5 seats


5 seats, to be used for your program(s) of choice

€795

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Team Pass | 10 seats


10 seats, to be used for your program(s) of choice

€1295

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Team Pass | 20 seats


20 seats, to be used for your program(s) of choice

€2195

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Team Pass | 30 seats


30 seats, to be used for your program(s) of choice

€2995

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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