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The Rise Of Collaborative Corporate Innovation And Corporate Venture
Date(s) – Thursday, May 31, 2018
9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location
Microsoft San Francisco
Who’s This For: Executives and Senior Leaders focused on exploring new business opportunities and implementing competitive strategies
With the extreme pace of change confronting large companies and the rise of disruption to traditional business models, leaders across many industries are being forced to consider new methods for maintaining competitive advantage and retaining market position. Collaborative Innovation provides a unique approach bringing internal innovation, external innovation and corporate venture investment together allowing corporations to focus on their primary business model while exploring low-risk paths to new technologies, new businesses, new markets and new opportunities.
What Will I Get Out of This Workshop?
In this day long workshop, leaders will gain insight into proven models for engaging entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, outside investors together with their own corporate venture arms in rapid development of new ideas at low risk and low cost to the company. Tracking and achieving exceptional outcomes requires a balance of process implementation, tool implementation, excellent networks and exceptional people. In multiple rapid-fire sessions, this workshop provides proven best approaches to creating the fine balance required.
9:30am – 3:30pm; 30-minute sessions:
■ Innova360: The Innovathon Model of Corporate Venture & Innovation Validation
Multi-Party Innovation Thru Collaboration – The Innovathon Model concentrates on defining the corporate innovation challenges, scouting solutions, conducting ideathons, hackathons, and formal presentation of results leading into the combination of Capital and Operational project execution necessary to deliver value-creating challenge outcomes.
■ Sandalwood Ventures: Corporate Venture & Angel Investment Syndication to Deliver Corporate Strategic Innovation
The State of Corporate Venture, The Role of Angels and The Startup Ecosystem – Corporations now more than ever must consider partnering at all levels of the business ecosystem. In a world of talent wars, constant technological change, business disruption – collaborative innovation and venture is stepping into the gap created by a pace of change exceeding the resource capacity of even the largest corporations today. Sandalwood is at the forefront integrating the disparate parts of the ecosystem.
■ CoPlex: The Coplex Lean Startup Platform
Building from Idea to revenue in 8-12 Weeks and to venture-ready in 9 months – Leveraging the Lean Startup model, Coplex works with idea projects to build out MVP’s quickly and at the right scale to deliver value in software development immediately.
■ Microsoft: VP Remarks
■ Myovant + PM Practice: Delivery New Product Development in Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
In an illuminating case study, Phil Zach, VP of Miovant along with his partner in crime, Robert Happy will discuss how they are utilizing Project Online for effectively managing and delivering new products as they disrupt the way that the pharmaceutical industry operates.
■ Cisco: Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Lab
Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Labs (CHILL) is a co-innovation catalyst in Cisco’s $12 billion Services business. CHILL brings together ecosystems of companies to create bold new solutions at unprecedented speed. Since 2015, CHILL has:-Worked with dozens of customers to solve big industry challenges.
-Created breakthrough services, businesses, and products, including two start-ups, five patent applications, and numerous internal growth initiatives.
■ Pcubed: Agile Project Management – Executing and Delivering Innovation Projects for New Products & New Services
Agile Project execution and delivery to drive Corporate Innovation and Corporate Venture Projects from Start to Outcome – Using Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online, Pcubed enables the most innovative companies in the world to deliver projects at low risk, high reward, low cost and exception outcomes.
■ Future Think Labs: Establishing the Real Time Business Data Backbone
Rapid Innovation Thru Hybrid Custom + Off The Shelf Business Application Solutions using Dynamics 365 – using Microsoft Dynamics 365 + Azure, Future Think Labs builds real time business data backbones enabling machine learning, AI, bots and custom user experiences to enable your users to focus on the work rather than focusing on feeding the software.
■ Microsoft: Bringing Corporate Innovation and Venture to Life in the Cloud using Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure and Rapid Innovation – Azure continues to grow by leaps and bounds, building AI for the Enterprise, enabling real time streaming of critical data across corporate boundaries leveraging blockchain, data science, IoT and making that available to solve enterprise business problems.
■ PriceSmart: Tapping Into Your Whole Innovation Potential
From the Front Lines of Intrapreneurship – Carolina Herrera is pushing the boundaries of dynamic pricing in retail sales. At the same time, she and her peers have had to work tirelessly night and day to bring their unique intrapreneurial spirit to the foreground. Learn from her unique story.
3:30pm – 4:30pm; Meet The Startups + Networking + Panel:
■ Global Innovation Panel: Exploring Corporate Innovation and Venture Across The Planet
With speakers from Cisco, Innova360, Act5 Ventures, Eventerprise, Embraer, and PriceSmart – Karim Nurani of Sandalwood Ventures will take the audience and the participants on a tour of key topics in innovation and corporate venture.
■ Networking: Meet The Startups
Scouting and partnering with the right emerging companies can help lead to business efficiencies and new opportunities. Stay for our panel to get to know some local startups and how they work with large companies today.