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December 1st from 9h30 till 11h15

Towards Innovation Maturity

How can you create and sustain a culture of innovation? How do you get everyone on board, from executive leaders to your operational staff? In today’s innovation landscape, we see a clear need for innovation excellence. What does this mean? Once you’ve established an innovation culture, you shouldn’t stop there. By planning a gradual increase, your innovation maturity can evolve into excellence.

How do you do that? 
Building maturity is the same as building an ambidextrous organization that is successful in the long term, and allows you to explore new ideas. You need to formalize your organization to develop an engine that captures, develops and selects ideas, and scales them around strategic topics. With the Innovation Maturity Model you can valorize the process step-by-step.

This webinar is applicable for companies with an established and organized innovation mindset, but also for those just starting to set up an innovation culture. Our goal? Help you upgrade your innovation maturity and give you step-by-step guidance towards innovation excellence. 

Sign up to upgrade your innovation maturity!

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Your host

Stijn Smet

Managing Director Verhaert Innovation Academy

Your speakers

Frank Mattes

Author 'Lean Scale-up' & 'Scaling-up Corporate Start-ups'

Cris Beswick

Author 'Building a culture for innovation'

Kathy Yu

Vice President, Innovation Manager, Group Digital and Tech at Swiss Re

9h30: How do you implement the Innovation Maturity Model?

Stijn Smet (Managing Director Verhaert Innovation Academy)

What does the innovation maturity model look like and how do we implement this? Stijn will give you an overview of the 5 different levels of innovation maturity including guidance how to achieve each level, how to upgrade your organization step-by-step. Stijn is the director of the Verhaert Innovation Academy and passionate about helping companies build and establish an innovation culture and mindset. 

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10h00: How to start imagining and shaping a culture for innovation?

Cris Beswick (Author ‘Building a culture for innovation’)

How do you build a culture of innovation? Cris will share the relevance and importance of creating a shared responsibility with HR, middle management and leadership and will talk about where he thinks companies struggle the most when setting up an innovation culture. Cris is the author of the book ‘Building a culture of innovation’ and a true innovation strategist. 

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10h25: How to work actively on building innovation capabilities

Kathy Yu (Swiss RE)

What does innovation management in Swiss RE look like? Kathy will explain the inner workings of Swiss Re’s innovation culture, how it was established and how it actively works on building and improving innovation capabilities. She’ll talk about how Swiss RE has been using the Verhaert Innovation Academy’s services to help in realizing the Swiss Re commitment towards innovation excellence.

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10h50: From idea to sizable business

Frank Mattes  (Author ‘Lean Scale-up’ & ‘Scaling-up Corporate Start-ups’)

What are the most common challenges when it comes to concept valorization? How much of the success of an innovation is contributable to the leading intrapreneur? Frank will explain when and how to involve operational management when it comes to re-integrating the innovation back into the core business.  Frank is the author of Lean Scale-up and Scaling-up Corporate Start-ups, among others. During his session, he’ll discuss how you can keep the end in mind and why you should consider how to monetize and scale your ideas and bring them back into your business.

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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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