During Innov8rs LA, you’ll get access to a diverse range of stories, perspectives and experiences from people doing amazing work driving innovation in large and legacy organizations, across all sectors.

There's no better opportunity to benchmark where you stand. To ask how they did it, and discuss strategies and tactics. To get new ideas for improving your outcomes. To be surrounded by people like you, facing similar challenges and chasing similar objectives.

We're pleased to announce 13 corporate speakers today, on top of the expert speakers and field trips as announced earlier. For the full agenda, click here.

Driving Company-wide Innovation: Too Little, Too Much?

WL Gore’s long history of innovations has led to a fantastic culture that empowers ‘Associates’ to invent ideas, from Elixir guitar strings, Glide floss and spacesuits for NASA, to acoustic vents in the smart phone in your pocket and Gore-Tex insulation shields in the PC on your lap. So what’s the problem? You’ll hear from Paul Campbell how they are tackling key challenges around improving actual business results.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, one of the biggest banks in the world, embarked on a journey to make Customer Experience Innovation (CXI) everyone’s job, activating 50,000+ employees to spot and executive improvements and innovations every day. Heath Brown will be sharing how that is working out.

At American Pacific Mortgage they launched Scrappy Labs, to seek out problems in the mortgage industry and solve them with original tools and resources for the benefit of our branch managers, loan officers and consumers. Director Kyle Nicholas McCray will share the outcomes of that approach so far.

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Building New Ventures to Disrupt the Mothership

At Airbus, they  believe that urban air travel will be a major part of the future transportation equation. They launched Voom Flights to test the market’s viability, and we’ll hear from CEO Uma Subramanian how that’s working so far.

So what if you’re a household name? Disruptors are coming to get you, unless you’re first. P&G is taking their Tide brand equity and spinning it into unexpected new directions for a new generation. Learn straight from the founder and CEO David VanHimbergen how the big name in laundry detergent is becoming the breakout player in laundry service.

At Ericsson, Emerging Business Units work with their customers to imagine how a hyper-connected world will transform their business, and help realize that vision, leveraging existing Ericsson portfolios but also by co-creating and co-investing new solutions. They span the three horizons of innovation and are creating new ventures from scratch. Discuss the ins and outs of this approach with VP Shannon Lucas.

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It’s the Ecosystem, st*pid

Open innovation helps companies to extend their core business to new markets. PARC (a Xerox Company) has been practicing open innovation for over a decade, and VP Markus Larsson will walk you through the open innovation best practices that PARC has built and perfected.

Leveraging science, tech, new packaging solutions and a lot of work on the field, Gatorade is introducting sports fuel personalization first to pro teams and then to everyday athletes. Xavi Cortadellas, Head of Design and Innovation will show you how open innovation unlocks new business models.

With its extensive experience in understanding the digital economy, L’Atelier is strategically placed to help the BNP Paribas Group and its clients with their digital transformations. Deputy CEO Matthieu Soulé will share this bank’s strategy to engage with startups to stay relevant.

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The Murky Middle: Leading Change through Influence

On the surface, it looks like it took Chris Chapman and Sura Al-Naimi quite some time to launch several new products at Disney. They knew the only way to be successful, was to engage all relevant stakeholders in the process- sacrificing speed for results. You’ll hear how they did it.

At The Home Depot, Katherine Faulder is responsible for leading a team of product managers that build selling and order management software for more than 2,000 stores across the U.S. and Canada. Yet her most important work is to change her company’s culture to embrace experimentation- and she’ll share the ups and downs of the journey so far.

Anthony Okoro was hired from Ebay to boost EY’s innovation culture. Rather than starting with tools and technology, they decided to focus on the people. In a multinational firm that actually consists of dozens of smaller firms, without real hierarchy, he found there’s only one key weapon in the innovator’s arsenal: influence. He’ll discuss why.

While Thaniya Keereepart was leading TED’s effort to rebuild its digital presence, she found out that most colleagues were not open to embrace the changes she was aiming to introduce. The only way for her to reach consensus was through radical empathy. Hear how Thaniya succeeded.

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