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An Introvert’s Guide: 23 Ideas to Meet New People at a Conference

BrainZooming

A friend is heading to a business conference by herself today. Over the weekend, she mentioned she is nervous about going because of “everything: driving there, being there alone, not knowing anybody, whether or not to do the dinner cruise thing, just imagining walking into any of the socializing stuff, what to wear, what to do in my down time. Will probably just hide in my luxurious hut.”.

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Hyping your Hackathon

Your Ideas are Terrible

Welcome to Part 4 of our series on corporate hackathons. In Part 3 we supplied the ultimate hackathon budget template, Part 2 tackled planning and success criteria, and Part 1 defined corporate hackathons and described their benefits. In this post we focus on getting talented, and targeted, hackers to attend. Other than the Wi-Fi going out or running out of food, not having strong attendance is a hackathon’s worst nightmare.

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Innovation is Social

Innovation Excellence

If your organization is struggling to sustain its innovation efforts, then I hope you will do the following things. Find the purpose and passion that everyone can rally around. Create the flexibility necessary to deal with the constant change that a focus on innovation requires for both customers and the organization. Make innovation the social.

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Citizen Science and Market Research: How the Public Can Help Prioritize

InnovationManagement

Regardless of whether the workplace is a public or private entity, departments often struggle to prioritize assigned projects, and align individual projects with overall objectives. In this case study, we’ll explore how the National Cancer Institute implemented crowdsourcing to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer - and how as a result, they were able to prioritize existing research and initiatives into areas where additio

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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What Drives Your Organization?

Innovation Excellence

As strategy and innovation consultants, we get called in to organizations when they are exhausted from trying to grow significantly and not meeting their goals. In most cases, the organization is trying to do too many things without a way to tie them into a coherent meaning. Most of them need to either discover or.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Imagine you ask your management team or your employees to figure out, design and launch something that will replace your current business, and give them a deadline and a budget. Then you will immediately realize how inefficient and risky that is – paralysis may be the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario could involve your people feeling stressed and faking results.

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Agnes Sävenstedt

Innovation 360 Group

Director-Level Consultant. Background. Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Successful track record of 10+ years in innovation management, innovation processes, change management, trendwatching, ideation, digital transformation, collaboration platforms, cloud strategy and project management including start-up of new business areas with mission, vision, strategy definition and execution for the Schibsted group.

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Magnus Penker

Innovation 360

CEO & President, Director-Level Consultant. Background. Magnus Penker is an entrepreneur and Internationally-renowned expert on innovation, digitization, and business transformation. He has been engaged as a speaker by Ducker Forum , international business schools, a variety of associations and some of the world’s largest companies (listed in the largest speaker agency in Europe).

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Allan Ashok

Innovation 360 Group

Commercial Manager & Senior Consultant. Background. Allan is a dynamic professional from the field of Industrial Engineering and Management specializing in Project Management, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Quality Management, Leadership and Change Management. He has several years of experience working in international project groups leading university and work project teams in Indian, Chinese and European companies.

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Ezassi Appoints Denise Fletcher as New Chief Innovation Officer

eZassi

New Chief Innovation Officer Signals Bright Future for Ezassi. Ezassi, a leader in open innovation and idea management software, is excited to announce that Denise Fletcher will be joining the company in the newly created role of Chief Innovation Officer. Denise brings to this role an impressive record for driving innovation and acting as a company visionary for major brands over the past eight years.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Sten Jacobson

Innovation 360 Group

Director Level Consultant. Background. Sten is an executive consultant and workshop leader with 25+ years of successful C-level assignments including international management consulting. Focuses on strategy development, business model innovation, blue ocean creation and value proposition design as well as business process mapping, development and transformation.

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Feeling the Pain – Articulating the Problem your Business Solves

Taivara

Feeling the Pain. Articulating the Problem your Product or Business Solves. Download the White Paper. Every successful business solves a pain point. The problem is that people often misunderstand how much pain customers actually feel or how much they’re willing to give up in order to relieve that pain. Our goal is to help you answer these questions: Are you solving a meaningful problem?

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Peter Junermark

Innovation 360 Group

CTO. Background. Peter is a T-Shaped computer innovator using disruptive technology driving break-through projects as well as training, teaching and leading workshops for some of the most well known brands in the world. He has a +20 years career in the tech industry holding everything from C-level positions to free roles and consulting assignments. Among his clients’ are corporations such as Accenture, Volvo and Ericsson to name a few.

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Martin Hultqvist

Innovation 360 Group

COO, CFO & Director-Level Consultant. Background. Executive consultant, leader and auditor with 20+ years of successful C-level assignments inducing turnaround of public listed companies. Innovative and strategic thinker able to execute and transform at high speed with accurate results. Manages stakeholders and leads change in complex situations, always without losing focus while engaging the entire organisation for delivery above expectations.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Laura Durán

Innovation 360 Group

CEO Office Manager. Background. Laura is a highly resourceful professional with outstanding planning, administrative, and organizational skills, who effectively manages conflicting priorities on a daily basis. Meticulous and confident with four years of experience within administration, personal assistance, and project management. Laura has an exceptional academic background within Economics and International Relations.

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Erik Johansson

Innovation 360 Group

Analyst Level Consultant. Background. Erik has excellent analytical skills and a strong academic record. As a former elite swimmer at a national level, he has an enormous drive. When graduating from Upper Secondary School he received the Silver Shield, an award given to students displaying excellent work ethic, dutifulness, ambition and attitude while pursuing their sport.

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Peet van Biljon

Innovation 360 Group

Senior Advisor, North America. Background. Peet is a well-rounded international executive with deep consulting, high-tech and advanced industry experience. He is regarded as an innovative strategist, a creative problem-solver and a thought leader on ethical innovation.He has many years of experience as an innovation practitioner and executive-level advisor.