Futureproofing Forums: Meet Like Minded EXECUTIVE-LEVEL CHANGE AGENTS & INNOVATORS!

Let’s discuss bringing your organziation out of its previous ways and legacy thinking – share  the way work is done so that the organizations can thrive and grow.

Come examine the pleasure spots, paint points, moments of truth, opportunities for co-creation and mapping the journey of customer-led innovation.

Share & foster out-of-the-box thinking, techniques and processes for building next generation products, optimized prototypes and step change designs.

In the 2020s, the key to generating and capturing value is now configuration, not necessarily invention — let’s kibbitz about BM pivots, expansions and additions.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast most days, it likely consumes innovation for lunch then too – let’s convene how we build change- & future-ready institutions.

Fads impact months. Fashions alter your quarter. Microtrends affect your year. Reach for the decade-defining, macro socio-economic & cultural megatrends

More then 30 popular ways exist to skin an innovation cat – agile, waterfall, design thinking, open innovation, human-based design — turn out to discuss real life application.

More than 80% of a company’s value is intangible – essentially trapped in a brand and the real & percived value that is presumed to exist – drop in to share your wisdom.

It’s cheaper, faster, better-designed and more comprehensive to bring about innovation than ever before, the pace is unrelenting – discover how the best keep up and stay up.

Human, relational and structural capital are shared across perimeters of companies – if you are alone in this decade, you have a target on your back – come network about networks of value.

Focus, purpose, sticking to your values, adapting to your environments – leadership is very different in this decade, let’s cross fertilize what the best leaders now do.

Being great at innovation and change is always staying on step ahead of the future – turn up and find out what the avant-garde are thinking about now.

Building everything yourself.is foolhardy in the 2020s – find out how to grow faster, build smarter, mitigate risk and craft avenues of new approaches for tackling ventures.

The job is not done just launching a new innovation – customers need to be cared for, incubated and have their feedback addressed. Keep your feet on the ground but eyes on sky..

What systems and discoveries are being mad in labs around the world – how do we take the best of outside-inn innovation and blend it with inside-out new forms of development.

Huge Problems. Breakthorugh Technologies. Radical Solutions.  Transitional Pathways.  Long-term Thinking. Exponential Change. They are all on the table for discussion.

Leading teams and companies is tough.  Leading teams and companies with change is insanely difficult. Let’s share what works. 

AI. Quantum. Blockchain. IoT. There are a palette of 30-50 technologies on the rise that are changing the face of innovation. Come discover the new frontiers of change.

It’s one thing to experiment, but if all you do is change all the time, you never get to establish and scale what works. Find out what the best practitioners are doing to set in best practices.

A channel is not longer where out innovation gets sold, it’s part of the innovation offering itself. Find out how the worlds of commerce and sales act as drivers and allies to innovation & change impact.

Arguably the last decade’s biggeest driver of value has been the platformed economy. Let’s build on how it continues to evolve. 

Innovation might be easier if it wasn’t for the very real behaviours and actions of humans and their leaders. Learn how to overcomer resistance and get all functions ready for the future.

Like many issues in life, humans push off the need to change until the last possible moments, often when it is already too late, learn how to spot the signals and respond early.

Innovation and ideas are worthless unless you can get them over the finish line anc create ripples in the actual marketplace. It is an often overlooked talent, let’s put it on every change agent’s radar.

A special group of innovators look at stagnant markets and say “pshawwww” – let’s create our own markets.  Learn and share how we create new and bigger sandboxes of value.

One of the key differences between corporate and start up innovation is that change agents need to support a wide palette of change ventures not just one idea.What gets invested, what gets starved… and how? Converse.

Historically, not the sexiest part of the innovation discussion threads, as we have seen in COVID, it is absolutely essential. Find out how to run well-integrated and smooth running change.

Some of these stages are not like the other. It may have been easy to test and prototype change for a few hundred alpha or beta testers, but how do you make change thrive for millions.

One of the ongoing challenges for innovators is that metrics are often very fuzzy, loose and unproven. “Measure what matters” is particualrly important when it comes to change – let’s do it better.

Part celebration. Part end of year networking. Part highlight reel. We bring together all the alumni of our thirty events and offer up first opportunities for 2023. Don’t miss our collection of all-stars.