Unleashing Innovation 2017 Summit

  • De Rode Hoed | Amsterdam
Event Agenda

The Goal Of The Event

Unleashing Innovation 2017 Summit

The goal of this two-day event is to bring together cross-industry innovation leaders to share information on the latest trends and strategies relating to creating an ecosystem and culture of innovation within an organisation. We will discuss success stories in areas such as business development, strategy, marketing, product and R&D.

Points of Discussion

  • Roadmaps for innovation prospects: How can you design a more seamless innovation project that engages all stakeholders?
  • Artificial intelligence, business development and other technological advances and innovation drivers: What are the current challenges and opportunities for innovation within your organisation?
  • Solving corporate fear of change: How can you support your innovation team more effectively through better communication and motivation?
  • People management within a project: How can you collaborate more effectively across teams on your innovation journey?
  • Experience Thinking, Design Thinking, and other processes: Pinpoint ways to better integrate innovation across the whole organisation
  • Strategic partnerships and cross-sector knowledge sharing: Identify ways that different sectors learn from one another during the innovation process

Who Could You Meet

20+

Cross Industry Leading Speakers

100+

Senior Level Attendees

85:15

Corporate : Companies
Solution Providers

Why a Summit?

This is the 12th edition of our increasingly popular Unleashing Innovation summit. As technology is transforming the way we do business, innovation requires new ways of thinking about our products, our business, and our partners. The goal of this summit is to facilitate dialogue between innovation executives involved in strategy, product development, R&D, business development, and marketing. The objective is to pinpoint where corporate innovation belongs and how to excel it, especially in a digital environment where many new approaches are being driven not only by the companies themselves, but by technological development.

It’s all about the EXPERIENCE!

  • A chance to meet world innovation leaders – from start-ups to mature projects at the forefront of their success
  • Cross-sector learning – find out how solutions adopted by other sectors can add value to your business; What can you learn from other industries and vertical sectors? What can innovators learn from marketing and R&D and vice versa?
  • Save time and money – concentrated industry knowledge in two intensive days
  • Case studies – listen to case studies outlining the pros and cons of new and existing projects.
  • Networking and interactive sessions – Learn from your peers and build new relationships in our break out and networking sessions
  • Discussion groups – industry-specific roundtable discussions for you to focus on the key issues that affect your business
  • Reinvigorate your business with fresh ideas, meet industry pioneers and discover how to deliver breakthrough results
  • Interactive Mobile Event App
  • Networking Drinks Reception

How Will You Benefit

100+

Like Minded Strategy leaders for Networking

Ideas

Hear About Groundbreaking Approaches to Innovation

Case Studies

Get the Pro & Cons of New & Existing Projects

Opportunities For Networking

Meet over 80 like-minded cross-industry leaders and take advantage of the networking opportunities, both formal and informal. The conference is expected to become a platform for fruitful discussion and networking between key executives from around the world, working towards a culture of innovation. The interactive programme format is structured to maximize learning and networking through fun and informative sessions.

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Event Speakers

Stephanie Fastre

Stephanie Fastre

People Development, Innovation & Creativity Lead, Google,
United Kingdom
Mike Schavemaker

Mike Schavemaker

Innovation Transformation Lead, Royal Philips
Netherlands
Karen Stanton

Karen Stanton

Global Marketing & Branding Director, IFF
United States
Stéphane Quere

Stéphane Quere

SVP Innovation, ENGIE
France
Rogier van Beugen

Rogier van Beugen

Director Innovation and Venturing, KLM
Netherlands
Bill Nottingham

Bill Nottingham

Vice President, Nottingham Spirk
USA
Miha Bobic

Miha Bobic

Senior Director Research & Development, Danfoss
Slovenia
Le Quan Truong

Le Quan Truong

Director, Head of Customer Engagement, Staples
Netherlands
Bob de Wit

Bob de Wit

Professor of Strategic Leadership, Nyenrode Business University
Netherlands
Caroline Feys

Caroline Feys

R&D Operations Innovation Leader, Janssen – Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J
Belgium
Mark van den Brandt

Mark van den Brandt

Chapter lead Omnichannel Investments & Private Banking, ING,
Netherlands
Christian Mühlroth

Christian Mühlroth

Chief Operating Officer, ITONICS GmbH
Germany
Bastiaan de Groot

Bastiaan de Groot

Global Director Strategy & New Business Development, Feilo Sylvania,
United Kingdom
Maarten Korz

Maarten Korz

Innovation Manager, Rabobank
Netherlands
Noah M. Farhadi

Noah M. Farhadi

Director, Distribution Strategy & Development EMEA, Steelcase,
Germany
Christine Chastain

Christine Chastain

Senior Consultant, Customer-Centered Solution Design & Innovation, Cigna
USA
Priszcilla Várnagy

Priszcilla Várnagy

CEO & Founder, Be-novative
Hungary
Costas Papaikonomou

Costas Papaikonomou

Co-Founder, Global Innovation Strategy & Consumer Research,, Happen Group
United Kingdom
Callum Wood

Callum Wood

Business Development Director, Yet2 Europe
United Kingdom
Stuart Rigby

Stuart Rigby

Managing Consultant, PA Consulting
Switzerland
Werner Neupert

Werner Neupert

Program Director of Innovation Improvement, DSM Nutritional Products Ltd
Switzerland
Paddy O'Boyle

Paddy O'Boyle

Director of Business Development ICT, Invent at Dublin City University
Ireland
Jan Van Den Ende

Jan Van Den Ende

 , Erasmus University
 
Lucia Waldner

Lucia Waldner

 , Credit Suisse
 
Alfredo Molin

Alfredo Molin

 , DHL Benelux
 
James Tyer

James Tyer

 , Kellogg Co
 
Helen Tixier

Helen Tixier

 , Sanofi Pasteur
 
Francois Ragnet

Francois Ragnet

 , Xerox
 
Jan Stuebbe

Jan Stuebbe

 , Philip Morris International
 
Colin Nelson

Colin Nelson

 , Hype Innovation
 
Bastian De Groot

Bastian De Groot

 , havells sylvania
 
Bert Hartog

Bert Hartog

 , Johnson & Johnson
 

Event Sponsors

Nottingham Spirk
  • Nottingham Spirk
For over 45 years, Nottingham Spirk has developed hundreds of patented products that have generated $50 billion in sales for industry leading businesses and fast-growth entrepreneurial firms. The business innovation and product design firm offers a full-service vertical innovation process, from research to product design to prototyping to consumer testing. All development is conducted at our historic 60,000 square foot Innovation Center, ensuring efficiency, confidentiality and intellectual property protection.
Itonics
We provide holistic, engaging and immersive Enterprise Software and Services that drive disruptive and sustainable innovation Our values are collaboration and sustainability. We understand ourselves as partner for your environmental scanning activities and in all situations where decisions have to be taken in highly complex environments. The integration of Web 2.0 methods and technologies enable collaboration between decision makers around the globe on a scale and level which did not exist before. The collaborative assessment and discussion of trends, risks and strategic options offer a new level of transparency and traceability within the corporate strategy.
Be-novative
  • Be-novative
Be-novative is the Collective Creativity cloud platform built for innovation breakthroughs. Its unique methodology fuses creativity stimulation with gamification, crowdsourcing and design thinking principles. The multiple award-winning software is designed for the creative process to start from ideation until project creation, allowing geographically divided individuals and teams to come together and produce breakthrough results quickly, engagingly and efficiently. Be-novative is a rapidly growing Singularity Labs company in Silicon Valley, supporting the innovation transformation of 60+ Fortune clients, NGOs and universities globally.
Happen
Happen is a global innovation agency that enables ambitious brands in the highly crowded and competitive FMCG, Retail and OTC markets to grow your business through innovation. At Happen, we help you define what success means to you and what innovative practices and techniques you can adopt to be market leaders in your segment. Why we’re the best at growing your business through innovation.We will work together with you to clearly map out the customer journey, highlight unmet consumer needs, gaps and opportunities in your markets. We do this by using a series of proven innovation techniques and proprietary IP that can be tuned and contextualised for your business and are focused on creating innovation solutions ready to launch on time and on budget.
yet2
Our experienced and expert open innovation consultants work with clients to identify where they are in their Open Innovation journey and the right services needed to address their business growth objectives, whether the end goal is partnerships, licensing, IP monetization, entry into adjacent markets or keeping a finger on the pulse of the industry. Our considerable experience has made us proficient in articulating technology needs and technology value propositions for clarity and broad industry interpretation; we are experienced deal-makers who know how to ask the right questions and set the right expectations. We understand that discretion is necessary in many cases, and can give you total anonymity when required. Working with yet2 will broaden your network, open up new ways of thinking, and vastly increase your options. We work cross-industry to uncover the hidden gems in new technology. yet2 strives to lead the global open innovation market and continues to redefine itself as our clients’ requirements change.
PA consulting,
PA is a consulting, technology and innovation firm. We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities and individuals worldwide. This principle has remained the cornerstone of our ethos since 1943 – and it continues to underpin everything we do. Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find new and imaginative answers to their questions. We turn those into the solutions that really work – in practice, not just on paper. Then we roll up our sleeves and get the job done.