Innov8rs Zurich (14-15 September 2022)

Let’s make innovation tangible and scalable. KICKBOX leverages the power of bottom-up innovation and shifts the focus from idea management to idea execution. The physical and gamified KICKBOX toolboxes make innovation tangible and take away the fear of failure. Born rready?

Join us, to get first-hand experience with our proven methodology and learn more about applied idea execution.

Selected as one of 100 #DigitalShapers of Switzerland, Dave is Co-Founder & CEO at rready, that offers SaaS-products to enable large enterprises to launch and scale employee driven innovation programs with KICKBOX. Previously he worked 7 years in corporate innovation, founded twice and worked for startups in Zurich and Berlin. He holds a Master degree in Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen with focus on Entrepreneurship and Marketing and a Design Thinking degree from the University of Technology in Sydney. Beside his job, David is teaching entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. As Account Executive at rready André is responsible for the Swiss market. He has many years of experience in marketing, customer experience management and market research and has worked for large corporates as well as market research institutes, digital agencies and consultancies. During that time, he supported strategic initiatives and innovation projects as a consultant and key account manager in various industries. Before joining rready, André served Swiss clients as Key Account Manager at the Swiss SaaS platform, TestingTime.

Efficient innovation programs aim to create new business and ensure the company’s longevity. But how do you develop and master your innovation capacity? How can organizations move beyond dedicated innovation solutions and systematic, time-bound methods of innovation? Corporate entrepreneurship can create an ongoing and scalable engine for innovation delivery while elevating the workforce.

To take the leap from innovation strategy to innovation execution, you need the right mindset (innovation champions) and the right supportive program (intrapreneurship programs) to build organizational ambidexterity, as you’ll learn in this workshop.

Stijn is an expert in innovation strategy & management. He consults various R&D and C-suite leaders in designing their innovation program and underlying governance structures. As the Managing Director at the Verhaert Academy, Stijn can build on his pragmatic experience of heading corporate accelerator programs at Fortune500 clients. With over 12 years of experience in innovation consulting, he has been leading Verhaert’s business innovation team where organizations and intrapreneurs were supported in developing their breakthrough products and services, from ideation all the way to market launch.

Why do serial innovators achieve success over and over? The team at Swarm Vision wondered that, too. They conducted the world’s largest study of serial, successful innovators to find out.

In this workshop, you’ll engage in an active, playful way to learn about the 8 innovation talents in yourself and others. You’ll collaborate with peers to experience these skills in action, the impact of having, or of lacking, these talents on your teams. And you’ll get a quick peek into how innovation leaders leverage these 8 talents in their people. Hint: your workforce is loaded with them!

Learn how to build stronger teams and accelerate transformation in your organization by leveraging the innovation talents already in your workforce. 

Suzan grew up in Silicon Valley since before it was called that. During her early career, Suzan played a key role in many industry firsts: from the first internet-enabled consumer electronics, to the first female sexual desire drug; and ten successful new consumer packaged goods products. Suzan has founded three successful start-ups: an eponymous fashion accessories brand; an innovation consultancy called Totem; and now Swarm Vision, the innovation system that drives rapid innovation results in large enterprises, with the workforce you already have. Swarm is used by Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies to transform themselves for the innovation age. Suzan earned the DIVA Designer of the Year Award for her fashion start-up, several patents, and won HR Tech Product of the Year for the Swarm Innovation Profiler. Suzan represents the United States on TC 56,000, Innovation Management standards.

Rainer Petek, born 1965 in Klagenfurt/Austria, started climbing at the age of 16. At the early age of 19 he climbed the famous north face of the Grandes Jorasses, over the notorious Walker-Spur. Rainer Petek was a temporary officer for four years in a high mountain unit of the Austrian Armed Forces and was appointed the youngest “Heeresbergführer” (military mountain guide) of the Second Austrian Republic in 1987. He then founded his first company, high life Alpinsport. As a professional mountain guide Rainer Petek led clients into the mountains for more than 12 years. In the 1990s he was one of the few mountain guides who were able to master extremely difficult climbing tours with clients, such as the “Don Quijote” in VI+ degree on the 900 meter high south face of the Marmolada. He led groups up to 6000m in the Himalayas and climbed even sport climbing routes in 9th degree of difficulty on the UIAA scale.

Rainer Petek is Master of Science in Organizational Development and founding partner of 3U Leaders, a consultancy based in Salzburg, Austria. Since 1998 he has been supporting global companies in challenging situations and phases of change, in innovation projects and the development of new forms of leadership and collaboration. He continuously observes and analyzes particularly innovative companies and, through his network in Silicon Valley, always has his finger on the pulse. Rainer Petek lives with his wife and two daughters near Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, Germany. Rainer Petek is the author of several books and publications. He has taught Leadership and Change Management as a lecturer at universities and colleges, such as the Executive MBA program at Danube University Krems or Griffith University in Brisbane/Australia.

Some 80 percent of large companies base their pre-Scaling discovery and validation approach on the Lean Startup. However, the stats tell you that only 1 out of 8 corporate startups make it to scale and only 25% of the winners create annual revenues of more than USD 50M. So apparently, corporates need a more sophisticated validation framework. But what exactly is needed and how does such framework look like?

Steve Kopp from Amadeus’ business builder Nexwave and Frank Mattes, co-creator of the Lean Scaleup framework, will host this session and provide you with what you need to upgrade your company’s approach to validation in the corporate context and transitioning corporate startups to Scaling-Up. For the first time, the Lean Scaleup toolbox (SaaS solution of the pre-Scaling methodology) will be shown in public.

Frank Mattes is an expert in corporate business-building, advisor to Corporate Innovation and Corporate Venturing, and author of two books on corporate business building. In the last four years, Frank focused on the corporate business-building problem: why do large companies struggle dramatically in building new businesses from innovation – and how can they improve? Together with 20+ industry leaders from many sectors, Frank co-created the Lean Scaleup™ framework. This framework comprises Best Practices in how to create new sizable, profitable businesses The Lean Scaleup is the latest addition to the corporate entrepreneurship toolbox. It takes the Lean Startup into the corporate context, extends it to an end-to end journey from idea to scale and comprises the Best Practices from some of the world’s finest companies.

To help corporate innovation practitioners improve in business-building, Frank founded the consulting agency Lean Scaleup and published the book with the same name in May 2021. The book was co-written with two dozens of corporate practitioners and two leading business schools, UC Berkeley and the London Business School. Please find more on the book and the Lean Scaleup framework at www.leanscaleup.com/book Before Lean Scaleup, Frank founded innovation-3, a consulting agency specialized in non-incremental innovation), was with the Boston Consulting Group and Member of the Board of a B2B scaleup. Frank holds two M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Ulm University (Germany).

Steve is a visionary, result-oriented senior leader with 25 years of experience in designing and building new digital solutions and businesses. At Amadeus, Steve heads the Nexwave Business Incubation Office, responsible for strategy, portfolio management, business-building methodology, marketing communications and operations. In addition, Steve is the Chairman of the Amadeus Executive Incubation Board, the governance committee overseeing the incubation portfolio, and of the Travel Innovation Club, a travel industry-wide association of corporate players collaborating to improve the overall traveler end-to-end experience. Prior to joining Amadeus, Steve held various design and innovation related roles at SAP and Business Objects.

We present an operating model that measures how companies are positioned and organized in terms of innovative strength, adaptability and resilience. The nearly 100 results from over 33 Swiss co–operates allow specific indications in which areas Swiss companies are already well positioned and where there is potential for optimization in order to implement innovation in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Join us to learn more about our study and to hear first-hand practice examples of a Swiss company that is working with it. You will get the chance to fill out the survey yourself; the result will help you lead a targeted internal discussion on the added value and optimal configuration of your innovation system.

René Cattin works as Innovation Coach for the consulting firm INNOArchitects. In his daily work, he supports corporates from idea generation to customer validation and building first prototypes (MVPs). Before joining INNOArchitects he spent 20 years working for a Swiss company in the field of weather and climate, where he lived his passion as a data-scientist. In his final years at the firm, he added a new perspective being its CEO. He holds a master’s degree in geography.