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Conferences are broken. Are Design Sprints the fix?

InnovationTraining.org

It’s easy for annual conferences to feel cliché. Even when you look at ways to mix it up, you find yourself deciding between a similar set of themes, looking at the same venues, using the same bank of trends to find a hook. The real problem with your conferences? Reimaging your annual conference as an Innovation Lab.

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Creating a Fair and Equitable Cannabis Industry

Business and Tech

The best example of this is the Safe and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act , which would provide safe harbor for banks and other financial institutions to provide cannabis businesses with financial services and traditional lending, often cited as the biggest needs for social equity applicants and small businesses.

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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

Leapfrogging

Establish a virtual “idea bank” where team members can contribute suggestions at any time. This document should be easily accessible and regularly updated to reflect any changes in tools or procedures. Virtual whiteboard sessions, for example, can be an excellent way to gather thoughts and inspire innovation.

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Idealize the Answer

Destination Innovation

Among the design criteria they specified were touch-tone phones, consumer ownership of phones, call waiting, call forwarding, voice mail, caller ID, conference calls, speaker phones, speed dialling and mobile phones. Staff at a major bank looked for an ideal solution for clients’ needs.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The topic of the conference is centered on internet technology and I went looking for multiple innovation angles and left actually disappointed. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

There is at the moment a lack of sufficient financial resources that is directed toward green investments in order to meet the climate goals that were set in 2015 during the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-UNFCCC).

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Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt

Rmukesh Gupta

She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s financial regulator and central bank. Dutt co-founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is a frequent speaker at business events and conferences around the world.