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April 27th from 2 PM till 3:30 PM CET

Innovating from within

Understand how people learn

Organizations have the urge to build better innovation capabilities, and hence they face a critical and indispensable question: How do people learn and adhere to new behavior? The challenge to upskill innovation champions and teams, and how to leverage different learning styles to drive the adoption of new practices.  This webinar will delve into the design of impactful learning and development programs that overcome the barriers preventing individuals to change and devising strategies to overcome them by prioritizing entrepreneurial capabilities. We will hear from three subject matter experts who will share their insights and best practices on this critical topic.

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2:00 PM: Powering innovation: effective learning formats

2:20 PM: Innovation delivery: the role of education integration

2:45 PM: Transforming teams: building a coalition of the willing for change

3:10 PM: Building culture: start at the top

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Your host

Stijn Smet

Managing Director Verhaert Innovation Academy

Your speakers

Nathalie Bruynooghe

Operations Manager at ZEISS ventures.

Elke Wambacq

Corporate rebel, Academic Change Expert and Managing Director of Dinobusters.

Johanna Meijer-Wolfbauer

Global Human Resources Director at Friesland Campina Professional.
2:00 PM

Powering innovation: effective learning formats

Stijn Smet • Managing Director Verhaert Innovation Academy

Stijn will offer insights into various learning formats that are suitable for different occasions and learner profiles. Drawing on his experience in supporting innovation (learning) programs, he will share best practices to help you design effective learning programs that drive innovation and enhance organizational capabilities.

2:20 PM

Innovation delivery: the role of education integration

Nathalie Bruynooghe • Operations Manager at Zeiss Ventures

At ZEISS Ventures, Nathalie coordinates innovation programs. She will dive into the integration of educational aspects in innovation programs, with a particular focus on project delivery. She’ll also share insights on the strategies and best practices that can be employed to ensure that educational elements are seamlessly integrated into innovation initiatives, and how they can support the delivery of successful projects. Whether you are an innovation manager, project lead, or a team member, this session will provide valuable insights that can help you and your team succeed in today’s dynamic business environment.

2:45 PM

Transforming teams: building a coalition of the willing for change

Elke Wambacq  • Corporate Rebel, Academic Change Expert and Managing Director of Dinobusters

Effective strategies for managing different learning styles and maturities, and leveraging the support of a collaborative team to drive meaningful change is what Elke will discuss. She’ll also offer some practical tips for implementing and sustaining organizational change through effective communication and engagement.  Elke is a corporate rebel, Academic change agent and Managing Director of Dinobusters.

3:10 PM

Building culture: start at the top

Johanna Wolfbauer • Global Human Resources Director at Friesland Campina Professional

During this session, Johanna will share insights on initiating culture-building programs from the top. She currently oversees hiring and resourcing at Friesland Campina Professional and previously held the same position at Danone. She’s also deeply committed to fostering people and engagement, as well as shaping culture and organization. 

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Commercializing innovation

Why? 

Idea owners are typically passionate about their solution but might lack the competence to launch the solution into a profitable and robust revenue stream. This training aims to bridge the gap and build business champions out of innovators. The best results are obtained when participants have an active case to work on.

What can you expect? 

▪️ Go-to-market planning
▪️ Business model design
▪️ Sales strategies
▪️ Financing strategies
▪️ Growth & expansion strategies
▪️ Talent attraction strategies
▪️ Business planning
▪️ Team building

What output will you have? 

☑️Effective go-to market plans for real cases
☑️A firm understanding of all aspects related to a successful launch
☑️Broadly upskilled innovators, ready to take on a new challenge or career move

Innovating the core

Why?

Innovation efforts should not only focus on transformational moonshot ventures, but also deliver bottom-line profit for companies on the short term, especially in times of recession and crisis. In this course we aim to increase awareness of finding opportunities within the core through customer-centricity and operational excellence thinking.

What can you expect?

▪️Innovating in times of crisis
▪️Design thinking
▪️Jobs to be done
▪️End-user profiling
▪️Con & divergent thinking
▪️Building trust with customers
▪️Passion drivers for growth
▪️Running customer interviews

What output will you have? 

☑️Detect and prioritize important stakeholder & customer needs
☑️Discover and apply methods & tools for contextual research
☑️Think business, drive business

Managing Innovation

Why? 

Making innovation successful requires a diligent approach to de-risking opportunities and building a vision for a portfolio and pipeline approach. This training is perfect for any team leader or manager who wants to sharpen their innovation management capabilities. The e-course is delivered by Verhaert’s senior heroes and delivers a free-to-use toolkit.

What can you expect? 

▪️Innovation strategies
▪️Innovation stages
▪️Different PMMs compared
▪️Dealing with risk and uncertainty
▪️Setting up innovation teams
▪️Designing a project approach
▪️Communicating progress
▪️Innovation accounting

What output will you have?

☑️ Resilient project managers, anticipating on common pitfalls with methods & tools
☑️ A sound basis on the theoretical overview of project management methodologies
☑️ Fresh mindset through peer interaction on the ins and outs of innovation project management

Accelerating R&D

Why?

Within R&D, the daily business run in a ‘first-time-right’ mindset, leading to considerable de-risking processes and prolonging the time to insight and time to market. Developing innovations requires a different approach, focusing more on iterative learning, a customer-centric point-of-view and multidisciplinary decision making.

What can you expect?

▪️Lean start-up
▪️Quali/quantitative R&D
▪️End-user profiling
▪️Assumption mapping
▪️Running lean experiments
▪️Preto/prototyping
▪️Evidence-based decision
▪️Business case mindset

What output will you have?

☑️ Big picture thinking: A more effective allocation of R&D resources and attention
☑️A changed view on risk: From risk control to risk intelligence to opportunities
☑️An upgraded toolbox and methods at your disposal to manage risk holistically

Gen AI for innovation

Why?

The age of generative AI has begun, and it opens incredible new opportunities for innovators. Some investigative or concept creation tasks will be executed thoroughly in a different way in the future and innovators that use AI tools will outperform those who don’t. This course provides an intro in the technology and focuses on use cases for innovation professionals.

What can you expect?

▪️Future impact projections
▪️Main domains and applications
▪️Trend & tech scouting with AI
▪️Creating effective prompts
▪️Build concept & prototypes with creative AI
▪️Validate opportunities with creative AI
▪️Getting started with ChatGPT
▪️Getting started with Midjourney

What output will you have?

☑️ Awareness on (future) opportunities from generative AI in innovation
☑️ Trained staff to optimize generative AI output through prompt engineering
☑️ Practical insights on 10 leading platforms and applications

 

Jan Kennedy, Founder


Location: Munich
Speaks: English, German
Specialty: World of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Fact: Created 1 Billion Dollars of Value as Intrapreneur at Intel

Jan Kennedy is an expert for Intrapreneurship program design. As founder of Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE) he overseaw the design and implementations of various Intrapreneurship Programs covering different stages of the Innovation Process for many Fortune 500 organisations. He is also a Director at the Founder Institute, the world’s largest mentoring program for early stage entrepreneurs launching over 1,000 companies per year with a 72% survival rate.

Born in Germany, grown up in the UK and lived and worked in Silicon Valley, Vienna, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Munich, Jan loved working with AfCE’s team of diverse global mentors. He can be found on stage at Intrapreneurship or Innovation Conferences or down in the trenches with corporate startup teams testing and validating critical assumptions. Jan also runs an investment fund focused on startups and crypto currencies.



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Narjeet Soni, Product Development Director


Location: Berlin
Speaks: English
Specialty: Agile Product Development

Narjeet is a a serial entrepreneur with his latest start-up valued at € 1.5 mil within 2 years. He is the founder and CEO of Lean Apps GmbH and acts as Head of Product Development at AfCE where he supports all of our participating teams with the AfCE Prototype Fund and Incubation Development Fund. He was also a Scrum Master at Infosys and Adidas.

Currently, he is focused on helping companies go through their Digital Transformation journey. Narjeet has been working with startups to learn, the ways of working that keep them agile and fast paced and has been implementing those learnings in the enterprise. He has successfully implemented Lean Innovation in Retail, Automotive and Insurance companies and has worked as an Agile Coach, Product Owner, Project Manager and Business Consultant as well as a Software Engineer at various Retail and Telecom customers.



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Aernout van Heusden, Business Development Director


Location: Madrid
Speaks: English, Spanish, Dutch, German
Specialty: Business Development
Fact: Been living and working outside the Netherlands for more than 25 years

Dutch born and a Spanish resident since 1999, with a wealth of experience in International Business Development & Sales within various industries and (mainly EMEA) countries. Senior background as entrepreneur, director, and as independent consultant having done projects (70% of those relating to Business Development and Sales) with start-ups till established multinationals.

Networker, public speaker, tech (SaaS, PaaS, Mobile, AR, Smart City) savvy, structured and loves working on solving company pain points.



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Maria Isabel Becerra-Noll, Finance Manager


Location: Munich, Germany
Speaks: English, Spanish, German, French
Specialty: Finance manager
Fact: Worked for the company that produced the Netflix series “Narcos”

Maria Isabel has more than 10 years of experience as Financial Analyst and Business Development Manager in a wide variety of industries. She is originally from Colombia, where she was born and raised. She has lived in Paris, Boston and now Germany. Maria Isabel holds an MBA from Babson College, the number one school for Entrepreneurship in the world.

Before moving to Germany in July, 2018, Maria Isabel worked in Bogota as Business Development Manager for the world’s largest infrastructure company, VINCI. In this role she was responsible of searching new concession projects and leading Due Diligence processes to acquire new concessions. Before this she worked for another infrastructure company, as well as a film production company and a marketing agency.

Maria Isabel is passionate about finance and numbers, enjoys working in teams and seeing the results of hard work.



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Stijn Smet, Managing Director


Location: Antwerp (BE)
Speaks: English, Dutch
Specialty: Innovation strategy and program design
Fact: Performed live on stage in front of 30.000 people

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 AfCE, 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.

Stijn is a regular speaker at innovation conferences and co-authored the book Building Tomorrow, a pragmatic and systematic approach to tackling innovation challenges in the public sector.



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