The Experience

The newest way Immersion delivers on learning through action. Gain multiple, cross-industry, cross-functional perspectives through rapid fire presentations.

Unleash the Entrepreneurial Spirit PODS	Capturing Business Value PODS

What is a “Pod”? It’s the newest way Innovation Immersion delivers on promoting learning through action.

What is the Format? In each Pod, 3 corporate innovators deliver 20 minute case studies. At the conclusion, each speaker joins together for a 20 minute Q&A panel with the group.

What is the Added Value? Rather than hearing one speaker deliver a single presentation on a singular aspect of the topic, you benefit from multiple, cross-industry, cross-functional perspectives.

What is the Result? A much more comprehensive and diverse view of the topic with insights that have greater actionability.

“Off-the-Record″ interactions, where authors discuss how to apply their innovation theories to your direct challenges. This year, meet...

Peter Gloor Author, Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks

David Kord Murray Author, Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation on the Ideas of Others

Jaymes Canton Author, The Extreme Future

David Tanner Author, Igniting Innovation through the Power of Creative Thinking

CROWDSOURCING & COOLHUNTING:

Crowd-Sourcing, Cool Hunting & Cool Farming: Leveraging Swarm Creativity to Bring New Trends
Over the Tipping Point

The Immersion: First hand opportunity to experience the power of COINs. Participate in a live online coolhunt based on topics nominated by YOU before the event. Form small groups to detect trends, finding COINs and innovators (coolhunt), and come up with ideas to develop them (coolfarm).
The Tools: Coolhunting is about spotting new trends through discovering the trendsetters. Coolfarming takes coolhunting to the next level by growing and nurturing the coolhunted trends. Coolfarming means supporting the COINs, the Collaborative Innovation Networks which are behind these new trends. COINs are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision…download the brochure for more.

• Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management, lecturer, Helsinki University of Technology, Author, Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks & Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing.

REAL-TIME TWEETING WITH CEOs!

What Recession? CEOS from Fortunes Fast 50 Most Innovative Companies Interview Each Other…LIVE! (Wednesday, 11:00-12:20)

From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, these companies dazzle with new ideas, and prove beyond a doubt how innovation in business is the force for change.* And the driving force behind their investment in and dedication to innovation? The Chief Officers. Get a front row seat as all these leaders share the stage for the first time in one room to interview each other, one-on-one. But stick around, because they’ll all be convening during a master panel to answer YOUR questions that you Tweet during the session.…download the brochure for more.

• Michael Lewis, CEO, Real D interviews Bob Fishman, CEO, Ausra interviews Mark Norman, COO, Zipcar interviews Chris Larsen, CEO, Prosper interviews Brian Pope, COO, Virgin Charter

WORLD CAFÉ DIALOGUE

World Café: Harnessing Collective Intelligence and Creating Change through Productive Encounters

Topic: A Framework for Eco-Innovations that Matter
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to harness collective intelligence to create actionable innovation around our most intractable challenges? World Café is a highly engaging method for channeling the brilliance of a roomful of independent thinkers into a coherent pattern of action. It is a user-friendly approach to create cooperative dialogue around…download the brochure for more.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

Thinking like an Innovation Intuit

Innovative thinkers have the amazing capacity to instinctively piece together information in new and novel ways. In this experiential workshop we will spend time discussing how an “Innovation Intuit” think and make intriguing connections based on patterns that mere mortals usually don’t see. And then we will practice this skill and apply it to an entrepreneurial type enterprise to show where some unique opportunities lay hidden. This learning lab is based on Franz Johansen’s work around the Medici Effect…download the brochure for more.

• Mary Ellyn Vicksta, Creative Innovation Pioneer, Kimberly Clark

VIRTUAL IDEATION

Reverse Entropy, Add Value through Systematic Innovation: A Virtual Ideation Session

The Immersion: Break into multi-functional groups, where teams will share experiences, participate in a virtual ideation session, and ensure you walk away from the table with executable ideas and a new appreciation for those around them.
The Tools: Part one of this workshop introduces you to a new set of creative tools (Systemic Inventive Thinking) that uses the power of these functional differences and perspectives as an actual added value input used to help innovate. Unlock the power of “innovation patterns” or the identified “DNA“ of good ideas, to generate original ideas for new products, services, processes in any industry…download the brochure for more.

THINKING EXPEDITION

Exploring Innovation: Take Yourself on a Thinking Expedition

The Experience: Breakthrough ideas come from the edge- that point in which you are pushed beyond your comfort zone. Push into the unknown with high-speed movement through the metaphor of a Thinking Expedition. Join a team of world-class innovators on an exciting expedition into creativity that leverages your natural passion for exploration, discovery- and the unknown. Shift and refocus your thinking as an expedition unfolds. …download the brochure for more.

• Colonel Rolf Smith, US Air Force, retired, Managing Director, The Virtual Thinking Expedition Company, former US Military and NATO, Created first military Office of Innovation and a worldwide network of Innovation Centers, Author, The 7 Levels of Change