Corporate innovation is hard— but leadership behaviors can make it harder than it needs to be. Driving impact doesn’t always start with new frameworks or reorganizations; it starts with small, deliberate shifts in how leaders think and act.

In this talk, VP of Innovation Transformation at Mars Rainer Struck will explore 10 specific behavior changes you can implement immediately to accelerate innovation— without added complexity or investment.

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As organizations scale, complexity often emerges in the experiences they deliver to clients and colleagues alike. This session explores how applying a human‑centred lens helps large organizations identify friction, simplify what matters most, and deliver with discipline at scale.

Drawing on external innovation trends, leadership perspectives, and real examples from TD, we’ll show how intentional design, strong governance, and disciplined execution come together to create experiences that actually work in the real world—not just on paper.

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Behind every innovation success story is a messy reality, false starts, internal resistance, and tough calls that don’t make it into the case studies.

In this panel, leaders open up about those moments: when things didn’t go as planned, what they changed, and how they kept momentum. If you’re trying to move innovation forward inside a large organization, this is a chance to hear what it really looked like for Sara, Jordan and Brandon, and what you might do differently next.

Drawing on experience building an outcome driven innovation engine inside a highly regulated enterprise, Justin will share the behaviors that matter most, the mechanisms that reliably change them, and the operating model that sustains progress beyond pilots. He’ll cover how to define “gold line” outcomes (a single, measurable definition of success that anchors decisions), prune portfolios, set evidence thresholds beyond vanity metrics, and design decision forums that keep leaders aligned and teams unblocked.

You will leave with a lightweight scorecard, a behavior to mechanism map, and a repeatable path from idea to experiment to scaled implementation – designed to avoid innovation theater and deliver real impact.

As the AI infrastructure layer becomes more capable and accessible, innovators across the industry are in search of killer apps that will create a revolution in everything we do. In this session, participants will hear LG NOVA’s unique approach to business innovation in this era of AI-everything.

Its original outside-in framework for building businesses in collaboration with the broader ecosystem, LG NOVA’s AI-First strategy focuses on solving real problems for people – identifying problems where AI delivers improvement over the status quo. By teaming up with experts outside, LG NOVA has a unique vantage point. And it’s building its ventures with an ROI-focused innovation methodology that moves from AI experimentation to scalable, high-impact business creation.

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iD8 is TD’s enterprise, colleague‑driven innovation program, crowdsources ideas from colleagues across the bank. By tapping into the ideas of colleagues closest to their clients and their work, iD8 helps TD design solutions that are remarkably human and refreshingly simple—reducing friction, simplifying experiences, and improving how people feel when they interact with TD.

As you’ll hear from iD8’s lead Vlora Muslimi in this talk, its success comes from translating everyday insights into meaningful change, proving that purposeful, human‑centered innovation doesn’t have to be disruptive to be impactful. If you are running employee-driven innovation at your company, you’ll want to take notes in this session.

In this talk, Ted will highlight practical lessons from both frontline staff and boardroom perspectives. He will examine key challenges such as fiscal sustainability, health human resources, and the management of complex stakeholder engagement.

Additionally, he will address the pivotal roles of research, industry-led innovation, and networks in launching new initiatives and offers examples of successful collaborations—such as Voyce’s real-time translation service and Sterilecare’s infection-reduction product, “Kitelock”.

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Clarity begets action. Innovation teams and departments tend to scale up and down as market cycles move. To avoid that, its incumbent upon those teams to be crystal clear with their key constituent, their organization, on what they are doing and why.

During this talk you’ll hear one way that Chris applied storytelling inside a large corporate for that purpose, and how its going.

Growing innovation impact at pace is a challenge. The barriers aren’t just structural or procedural; they’re rooted in how organizations approach strategy, culture, and governance. Real transformation requires more than new tools or processes—it demands a holistic shift in mindset and operational practice.

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Most innovation teams sell themselves on what they bring in: new ideas, new tech, new pilots. But some teams have found their internal product-market fit with the opposite posture, and discovered that some of their most valuable contributions are about what they intentionally keep out.

Drawing from his team’s experience navigating what’s next in a large financial institution,

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Many organizations invest in innovation, yet struggle to translate intention into sustained impact because the foundational elements of culture are fragmented or misaligned. Perhaps a practical framework of four interdependent “DNA strands”—purpose, mindsets, capabilities, and systems—is a better approach to help comprehensively align the foundation of innovation to take root and scale.

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Many of the most significant growth opportunities today sit at the system level, rooted in persistent challenges no single organization can solve alone. This session introduces an emerging framework for discovering and building ecosystem ventures by starting with system-level problems, envisioning system solutions, and validating shared value pools across multiple actors.

Using AccessWear, a multi-brand apparel ecosystem, as an illustrative example, we will explore how coordinated networks of co-investing actors can distribute risk, align incentives, and unlock new sources of growth and impact. You will leave with a practical approach to identifying and developing ecosystem opportunities within your own industries.

Most corporations make one of two mistakes: they place a single giant bet on the “best” idea and pray, or they spread resources thin across a dozen half-funded ventures and wonder why nothing breaks through. Neither works.

The answer is a third way: systematically generate volume, measure ruthlessly, and concentrate resources on the ventures that earn it.

This session with Ben Yoskovitz walks you through a practical framework for building and pruning an innovation portfolio — from why you need more bets than you think, to how to identify your winners early, to what it actually takes to double down and win.

Innovation leadership demands more than strategy—it’s a science-led practice blending psychodynamics, emotional resilience, and behavioural tools.

In this 60-minute Enlightening Exchange, explore the Complete Innovator: their archetypes, daily realities, and proven methods to drive new ideas past resistance. Walk away with frontline case studies, personal insights, and frameworks like the Innovation Leadership Map and Emotional Gearing.

As a performance director, Brett advises, trains and coaches innovation leaders and teams at central banks, global brands (AirBnB, Apple, Barclays, Bayer, Diageo, Google, Jaguar Land Rover, Unilever), and elite consultancies. His work and research is known for demystifying innovation’s human blockers to optimize performance, cut change resistance, and boost adaptability. 

As AI accelerates our ability to analyze current behavior, a critical question emerges: how do organizations identify and act on future demand?

This fireside chat with Rachel Gordon and Brian Scott, Sr. Principal Research Scientist, Open Innovation and Experience Design at Amway explores the tension between data-driven insight, human-led signals, and foresight in shaping innovation decisions. Using Amway’s uniquely distributed global model, we’ll examine how insights are generated, interpreted, and translated into action. You will gain practical perspectives on spotting emerging opportunities, navigating ambiguity, and making better innovation bets in an increasingly AI-enabled world.

After a decade of investing in foresight, innovation, and whitespace exploration, many leaders feel burned: “”Why invest more when so little has shifted?””

Foresight promises a window into what’s next —and a way to act on it before everyone else does. But despite practitioners’ best intentions, closing the distance between the emerging future and the present moment has never quite been solved. These two spaces still feel fundamentally at odds, and the bridge between them has always been treated as an afterthought (if it’s even considered).

Disruptive Edge and Aucctus will lead an engaging workshop on how organizations can navigate a rapidly changing world shaped by artificial intelligence. As AI transforms how work gets done, innovation leaders must rethink the workflows behind how ideas are explored, decisions are made, and new ventures are built.

This session will explore how AI-powered workflows are reshaping innovation and offer fresh perspectives on how teams can move faster and create greater impact in an AI-driven future.

Discover how to overcome barriers to innovation, or resistance to change, by using the Innovation Storytelling method to create organizational alignment in this three-part innovation workshop series. You will learn how to tell better stories that engage and align key stakeholders, get audiences on board with their vision, and deliver maximum impact.

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Incubation—that “messy middle” part of the innovation process—is fraught with challenges. The goals of driving upside, de-risking, and aligning to strategy are challenged by small thinking, misplaced priorities, and insufficient stakeholder engagement. Join this interactive, chocolate-fueled workshop to try out an effective approach for navigating this difficult journey.

You’ll learn how to:
• Create a collaborative understanding of what must be true for a project to succeed
• Adopt methods to drive upside and resolve downside risk
• Use quantitative data to objectively prioritize what most needs to be learned even when uncertainty is high.

Over the past two years, companies have launched hundreds of AI pilots across functions, from R&D to marketing to operations. Yet most of these initiatives stall before delivering meaningful business value. Sound familiar?

The problem isn’t a lack of ideas or technology. It’s a lack of a system to commercialize innovation at scale.

In this session, VentureFuel shares its proven playbook for turning AI experimentation into a repeatable engine for growth, moving beyond one-off pilots to enterprise-wide impact.

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Your teams have spent a decade running learning agile and design thinking. They’ve been running retrospectives to compound human learning. Your AI agents have not— which is why most AI gains are one offs and don’t compound.

In this 90-minute hands-on session (no code required, but bring your laptop), you’ll design a multi-agent workflow with a retrospective loop for continuous improvement. You’ll leave with the downloadable skill files we use and a repeatable workflow you can use in real life.

Most organizations are surprisingly good at generating ideas, and surprisingly bad at everything that happens next. The gap between idea and impact is where momentum dies, value goes unrealized, and the people who had the right ideas never get to see them come to life.

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Every organization wants to innovate. But in order to make that happen, it takes strategy, discipline and intentionality.

If you want an innovative culture, YOU have to make it happen.

Built from real, insider experience working in innovation at State Farm and Chick-fil-A, the 8 Building Blocks of a Thriving Innovation Culture is a proven, practical framework — not theory. 

When you get these right, innovation stops being a buzzword and starts being how your organization actually works.

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Everyone wants a breakthrough success, yet most initiatives stall, drift, or quietly fail in the “messy middle” of the innovation process, the Incubation phase. This is where uncertainty is highest, data is incomplete, and traditional governance systems often struggle to distinguish real progress from activity.

In this highly interactive and intimate peer-to-peer session, we’ll use a common framework to reflect on how your organization manages Incubation today. We will examine how leading organizations structure learning, reduce risk, and make confident punt/pivot/persevere decisions.

You will leave the workshop with a personalized reflection map highlighting strengths, gaps, and concrete next steps to make your incubation process more effective, efficient, and evidence-driven.

Check more info and apply for your spot here.