Your 2-day corporate innovation intensive.
Learn how to be more effective and have a bigger impact, even when resources are scarce.
There's no escaping the prospect of an economic downturn, as most companies brace for strong headwinds. For us as corporate innovators that inevitably means we need to do more with less, faster. Yet as the saying goes... A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
So, how do we make the most out of the current business climate? How do we prune our portfolios, re-allocate our resources, become even more customer centric, and deliver short-term results from our projects and programs?
This is one of the main themes for our next in-person conference in Lisbon, 2-3 May.
✅ You'll get practical guidance from Strategyzer's Tendayi Viki on how to achieve innovation goals with limited budget and resources. You'll dive into best and next practices for innovation governance & accounting with Dan Toma (The Corporate Startup), building and scaling new ventures with Frank Mattes (Lean Scaleup), leadership and culture with Louise Kyhl Triolo (Heidrick & Struggles) and Elvin Turner (Be Less Zombie) and much more.
✅ Also, you'll hear from 20+ cross-industry innovation leaders the ins and outs of their approach (and lessons learned along the way). Plus, you'll meet and mingle with local innovators during field trips exploring the local ecosystem.
✅ Most importantly, the program is designed for you to work on any topic or get feedback on any challenge that's on top of your list, guided by experts and supported by peers. You'll have in-depth conversations with a select group of other innovation leaders and do-ers who speak the same language, and establish relevant connections that you actually want to follow up with after the conference.
This is not just another conference, where you'll be forced to listen to talking heads on stage all day long. At Innov8rs conferences, you'll actively engage and actually learn, so you'll leave with actionable insights to implement.
Work with the best.
A first overview of innovation leaders and experts confirmed. More coming soon... stay tuned!
Carlos Mendes & Leonardo Varella-Cid
Chief Product Officer at InnovationCast | Co-Founder at InnovationCast
Roman Šiser
Innovation Manager at Škoda Auto
Tiffany Vasilchik & Vincent Pirenne
Chief Growth Officer | Head of Global Partnerships at Board of Innovation
Susie Braam
Co-Founder at Yellow Cat Innovation
Bruno Pesec
President at Pesec Global
Catarina Jorge
Strategic Thinking Coordinator at Diverge, Grupo Nabeiro's Innovation Center
Kai Wicker
Dennis Boecker
Global IoT innovation Lead at Robert Bosch
Greg Ombach
Senior Vice President - Head of Disruptive Research & Technology at Airbus
Elvin Turner
Executive Innovation Coach and author of Be Less Zombie
Dafne Sartorio, Idus de Boer & Jasper Sturtewagen
Director of Venture Building at oneUp | Managing Director at oneUp | Principal Business Designer at oneUp
Tobias Heger & Sebastian Knab
Ana Ferreira
Director Global Business DevelopmentDirector Global Business Development at Beta-i
Marta Rufino
Innovation Director at Sigma
Tendayi Viki
Associate Partner at Strategyzer / Author of Pirates In The Navy
Claus von Riegen
Head of Strategy, New Ventures & Technologies at SAP
Marion Mesnage
Head of Nexwave, Amadeus Business Incubator at Amadeus
Line Lyst
Chief Entrepreneur at GN Group
Dan Toma
Co-Author Innovation Accounting & The Corproate Startup, Partner at OUTCOME
Ozum de Rooij
Global Consumer Insight Manager at Nestlé Nespresso
Joao Mil-Homens
Innovation and Sustainability Director at José de Mello
Rui Coutinho
Executive Director of the Innovation Ecosystem at Nova School of Business & Economics
Jacob Dutton
Co-Founder & CEO at Future Foundry
Fredrik Östbye
Head of Aliaxis Next at Aliaxis
Susana Jurado
Head of Telefónica Venture Builder
Carla Tavares
Head of Commercial Innovation Center at Galp
Kristian Norheim Lindøe
Group Innovation Manager at DNV
Dennis List & Karen Nassif
Senior Venture Builder at Mach49 | Senior Venture Builder at Mach49
Tomas Smetana & Lysander Weiss
Senior Vice President Advanced Innovation at Schaeffler AG | Partner at venture.idea
Stijn Smet
Managing Director at Verhaert Innovation Academy
Karina Rempel
Head of Innovation Excellence at Siemens
Frank Mattes
CEO at Lean Scaleup
The agenda.
Get a glimpse of what your two days will look like... No worries, you'll get a detailed agenda and instructions for RSVPing of the sessions of your choice in due time.
Tuesday 2 May 2023
9:00-10:15
Peer Pods
Connect with other participants and talk about relevant trends and topics... A great way to meet others with similar interests.
10:30-12:30
Trending Topic Talks
Hear from subject matter experts what's working now and what's coming next across industries.
How To Keep Innovating During An Economic Crisis
The Next Legacy
Your Time to Act: How Green Venturing Could Solve the Climate Emergency
12:30 - 13:30
Networking Lunch
Good food, great conversations... or maybe a short stroll over the nearby beach?
13:30 - 15:30
Innovators Insights
Hear from and discuss with cross-industry innovation leaders about their approach and lessons learned, so you can check how you are doing and what you could consider doing differently.
Venture Building In A Corporation: An Unexpected Journey
4 Years and 1 Pandemic: Amadeus Journey Into Corporate Venturing
Building a Disruptive Innovation Capability – Fostering Culture Change, and Collaborating with Startups
Simply Clever Innovation Management
Product Development Support as a Service: Reducing Friction and Releasing Value in Interface With the Mothership
From Ideation To Market With MIND: How Delta Cafés Fostered An Innovation Culture
Innovating the Grocery Store
Regenerative Farming by Oceano Fresco. How to Scale Up Bivalves in a Sustainable Way
Aliaxis Next - a Business Builder of Solutions to the World’s Water Challenges
V1 Succesful And Data-based Business Building
Breaking Barriers: How to Overcome Challenges Scaling Innovation
How Do You Eat A Shape-Shifting Elephant?
How To Fail By Design
Cruising Through Corporate-Startup Partnerships
Innovation In A Bottle
Unlocking Corporate Innovation for the Energy Transition
Setting Up The Basis For Corporate Innovation, In A Global Environment
Nespresso Transforming the Industry: From Empathy to Solution Design
Deep Tech Exploration: How ZEISS Drives Technology to Shape Future Markets
16:00 - 17:30
Enlightening Exchanges
Pick from several un-conference style sessions. Prefer an in-depth discussion, more active co-creation session or an inspiring talk? You choose the topic and format for a energizing end of day 1.
The Trojan Innovator: The Subtle Questions That Can Turn Innovation Professionals Into Powerful Cultural Catalysts
Getting Started With Innovation Accounting: First Steps Towards Measurig Innovation.
Innovation Vanguard: From "Us Versus Them" To "Together"
Stories Of Disruption
Lean Scaleup: The 12 Modules For Corporate Business Building Excellence
18:00 - 21:00
Food & Drinks
After the sessions is when the real talk starts typically... Join for food, drinks and fun and mingle with other participants - outside!
Wednesday 3 May 2023
8:00 - 9:00
Enlightening Exchanges
Pick from several un-conference style sessions. Prefer an in-depth discussion, more active co-creation session or an inspiring talk? You choose the topic and format for a fresh start of day 2.
Space For Business - How Will Innovation From The New Space Economy Help Us To Be Competitive?
The Healthcare Innovation Journey: Embrace Disruption or Risk Irrelevance
Painful Or Delightful? How To Booster Innovation Impact With The ISO56002 Innovation Management System
“Innovation-to-business” at Schaeffler – The Goal Leads The Way
9:30 - 14:45
Workshops
Roll up your sleeves and get to work in these interactive sessions focused mostly on application and implementation. You pick the sessions covering the topic you're keen to dive into.
Designing Amazing Upskilling Programs
Transform Your Corporate Innovation Capability In 75 Minutes
Bridging Innovation Strategy And Execution: Why Most Companies Get It Wrong And What To Do About It
"What's Your Problem?!" Building A Unicorn Battle Plan
The Age of Creative AI: How to Innovate in the Post ChatGPT World
How Can You Successfully Engage Your Communities In Your Innovation Program?
Can Competitors Be Your Best Innovation Partner?
Enabling Catalysts To Thrive
Master The Key Ingredients Of A Prolific Innovation System: Process, People and Platform
Future-Proof Your Innovation Portfolio with Strategic Foresight
Sustainable Innovation 101
How To (Not) Set Your Innovation Lab Up For Failure
12:30 - 13:30
Networking Lunch
Eat, talk, beach walk... repeat
15:00 - 16:00
Peer Pods
We'll meet again in small groups of peers to reflect on learnings from the conference, identify next steps and align on actions.
17:00 - 18:30
Field Trips
Finally, here's your chance to explore the booming Lisbon ecosystem. Hop on the bus to various innovation hubs and innovative places in and around the city, and meet with local innovators sharing their stories. Like a schooltrip ;)
Why join?
Gain insights on trending topics and cross-industry best practices from (inter)national thought leaders.
Benchmark your approach and performance with innovators from other companies, sharing their successes, failures and everything in between.
Work on your actual challenges, guided by experts and learning from peers.
Go out and explore the local innovation ecosystem, meeting with movers and shakers and seeing innovation in action.
Leave with an updated toolbox to implement for immediate impact once back in the office.
Feel refreshed and re-energized, having met so many other inspiring innovators, committed to making things happen at your organization.
"What a great event! I learned as much from the attendees as I did from the speakers and hardly ever do speakers stay around to network after their session. I'm amazed by the format, how open, honest and authentic it was. You rarely ever get that with these types of events - well done!"
"This conference was the best in terms of content- carefully curated and very complimentary."
"It was the most useful conference/event that I’ve ever been to. I walked out of every single session having learned something useful."
"What a conference! It's now the 3rd time that I am attending an Innov8rs conference and as usual I have been amazed by the insights, the learning, the energy in the room and the amazing people I have met!"
Everything corporate innovation from A to Z
Regardless of where you are on your innovation journey, and no matter what industry you're in, we've got you covered.
From strategy and governance, to culture and capabilites, and from intrapreneurship and incubation program to venture building and open innovation- you'll dive into the most important themes crucial for innovators across industries.
With more than 30 sessions in different tracks on the agenda, you'll pick the sessions that are most relevant and interesting to you.
Besides the live sessions, you will get access to content and community online before, during and after the conference, to support with implementation once you're back in the office.
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 work with experts in dedicated 1:1 sessions 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 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.
"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 try to attend as many as possible. This is my tribe of lifelong learners and do-ers."
"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 itrapreneurship 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."
"Connecting with so many other innovation professionals acted as a shot of adrenaline reigniting my drive to transform our organization. Sometimes working at the front-end of innovation can be a lonely place, especially in a large 100-year-old company. Last week was a refreshing reminder that we're not alone."
Loved by participants, trusted by brands.
We're bringing together innovators since 2011. We've hosted more than 25 conferences in global innovation hubs from San Francisco to Stockholm to Shanghai to Singapore to Sydney.
Beyond the high-quality sessions and diversity of speakers, past participants valued most meeting people in jobs like them, for countless and endless conversations. Many stay connected long after the conference, always just a phone call away.
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."
Secure Your Seat
If you have innovation in your title, this is your tribe. Join Innov8rs Lisbon for in-depth conversations, relevant connections and quality content.
What's included?
• Join 30+ sessions with experts and innovation leaders, in plenary and breakouts, covering everything corporate innovation A-Z, as well as field trips to explore the local ecosystem
• Access to session recordings and additional resources for three months
• Engage with other participants via our online platform before, during and after the conference
• Connect and network with other participants during the conference dinner and several social events prior, during and after the conference
The options above are available for corporate innovation leaders and professionals only.
We are not offering seats to consultants, coaches, software firms or otherwise service providers. Only Expert Partners and members of Innov8rs Community with an Expert Pass are eligible to join this Conference.
Are you a member of Innov8rs Community already?
As a member, you can register for this conference at a members-only discount of €995 per seat. Log in to the community platform or ask your Community Lead Gabby for further info and instructions.
Need some help?
If you'd like to understand better how participating in Innov8rs Austin 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
Venue Information
The conference is hosted at NOVA School of Business & Economics, an amazing place for learning, collaboration and innovation just outside of Lisbon (but literally at the beach).
Further information and instructions re the venue, available hotels and other logistics will be sent to you after registration.
If you have any questions, just open a chat via the blue button bottom right and we'll get back to you asap.