Taking Data and AI to the World of Play – Organizing, Governing Data, and Creating Value

Orlando Machado will talk about how The LEGO Group leverages data and AI. He will discuss how the organization leverages a hub and spoke model to unlock value across the board, including in moving from ideas to products and creating a more effective innovation process. Orlando will share learnings on:

• Getting the foundations right – from governing and publishing data to quality data ownerships
• Leveraging the hub and spoke model with distributed teams close to business problems
• Creating value with data and AI – data-driven techniques to determining whether a product will be successful, testing new materials, and increasing efficiency
• What it takes to get from idea incubation to a real-life product – from stakeholder management and buy-in to people attesting to the value
• Leveraging predictive modelling, AI, and ML – and enhancing ethical frameworks for data
• Lessons learned

Revamping Innovation Culture – Changing the Innovation Approach and Making the Change Stick

Florian Schattenmann will talk about his five-year ongoing journey to transform Cargills’ innovation culture. He will detail his pillar-by-pillar approach to making the change stick. Florian will also discuss how the company’s approach to startup collaboration has changed, and will share learnings on:

• Starting the change with the leadership team followed by organizational design
• Creating strategy around four pillars – from people to building capabilities through being market and customer driven to changing the innovation process
• Leveraging an unconventional approach to making the change stick – including getting the audit department to assess the innovation process
• Fostering an innovation mindset and driving new behaviors across the organization
• Collaborating with startups – building strategic relationships and venture portfolio
• Lessons learned including keeping things simple and telling the same story till everyone gets it, building the team, and more

Key Factors to Succeeding with Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is difficult—most companies fail and history is littered with stories of former market leaders being disrupted. Ted Lai will talk about the critical elements needed to succeed – from a bold digital strategy to implementing digital tools and technologies, including AI, in a focused way to solve business problems and deliver value to customers and employees. Along with touching on Sanofi’s experience, Ted will also discuss the difficult work of driving process and culture change.

Innovation-to-Business – Integrating Trends into Innovation and Managing the Innovation Portfolio

Uwe Wagner, Chief Technology OfficerUwe Wagner will talk about how Schaeffler has transformed the innovation process by developing a holistic and fully integrated Innovation-to-Business approach that brings together trends and go-to-market approach. Uwe will share insights on:

• Innovation to business: rethinking innovation strategy by looking further into future trends but also go-to-market approach
• Selecting ideas with early market validation – and ensuring transparency within the innovation portfolio
  
• Taking ideas seamlessly from stage to stage and involving the right people at the right time to ensure new solution adoption – the need to involve business units and external startups with projects at the right time
  
• Leveraging virtual startups to develop ideas without a clear internal fit
• Lessons learned

Building and Scaling a New Venture Outside of the Core – Getting Buy-in, Iterating and Partnering

Georg Zembacher has built a new division from scratch at Toyota. He will share the journey of building the business outside of the core and growing it exponentially. Georg will share insights and challenges on:

• The Toyota approach to new business creation – and its relation to culture
• Starting the new business journey with no budget and no support – analyzing the rejection for insights, setting the roadmap and creating the vision that stakeholders can buy into
• Building the ecosystem and identifying startups to collaborate and grow with – testing 52 startups and selecting 7 to collaborate with
• Scaling approach – understanding the organizational capabilities, engaging the right people internally, getting buy-in, and managing the transition
• Lessons learned including the need for self-leadership, negotiation skills, supportive company culture, and more

Lessons Learned on Working Effectively with Startups: Internal Sponsor, Scaling, Proximity and More

Ann-Sofie Ekberg will talk about Volvo Cars’ approach to startup collaboration. She will discuss how the approach has evolved and illustrate lessons learned with examples of successes and failures, including on:

• Collaborating with startups at the right maturity level
• Having a strong internal sponsor to support startups and allocate resources to the collaboration
• The challenge in startups’ ability to scale fast enough for a large company – and the need for startups to work with other business areas
• Determining when and where to invest – key aspects and the need for location proximity to establish a good working relationship
• Differences in collaborating with deep tech vs sustainability startups

Delivering on Sustainability Goals and Enhancing the Ecosystem

L’Oréal has been engaged with sustainability since the 1990s. Ana Kljuic will talk about the organization’s approach to achieving sustainability goals for its latest program. She will also discuss how the organization leverages its long sustainability experience to drive collaboration with industry peers and spur change. Ana will share insights on:

• Launching a new sustainability program based on planetary boundaries – operationalizing the model and defining 26 commitments
• The approach to moving to 95% bio-based or circular ingredients – from creating an action plan and segmenting objectives through developing a methodology and governance to engaging partners
• Leveraging the long engagement with sustainability, including tools and lifecycle assessment to help the ecosystem move ahead
• Enhancing and building the ecosystem with industry peers and competitors to bring the consumer on the sustainability journey – creating the EcoBeautyScore consortium to develop industry wide environmental footprint and labeling methodology to speak to the consumer in the same way across industry brands
• Transforming the supplier network for new materials – onboarding suppliers on the strategy and collaborating with startups to achieve big impact

The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

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The Transformation Journey for Digital First – Evolving the Approach, Bringing People Along, and Minding the Traps

Armel Djeukou will talk about Airbus’ approach to enhancing ways of working with a digital first approach. He will discuss how the organization deploys new approaches progressively and engages people on the four-year running journey. Armel will share learnings and challenges on:

• The proof-of-concept watchouts – leveraging PoCs to gain traction, but ensuring a clear path forward to enable scale
• Minding that not all value is created equal – starting with a top business pain point to demonstrate value and create a minimally viable solution
• Falling into the tech trap – rethinking the approach and embracing a tool-agnostic strategy to focus on the problem
• Driving the transformation in a running business: pivoting from taking people out of the daily business to having them work a day or two on the new solution while being operational the rest of the time – improving the flow and increasing adoption and relevance
• The need for leadership to have the capability to deal with an environment in flux, ambiguity, and changing expectations
• Lessons learned including no one size fits all, the need to adapt the approach to the context and environment, learn as you go, and more

Lessons Learned on Taking a Decentralized Approach to Innovation and Startup Collaboration

ABB has adopted a decentralized approach to innovation. Anton Kotov will talk about the pros and cons of driving innovation and collaborating with startups within a decentralized context. He will share learnings on:

• Driving innovation with a decentralized approach: What to keep in mind
  
• Running open innovation and startup collaboration in a decentralized way – getting the buy-in from the business and incentivizing business managers to make open innovation part of their agenda
• Overcoming the short-term focus and creating the business rationale – convincing the business, bringing the right culture and spirit, and minding the pitfalls
• The differences in engaging with startups in a centralized vs decentralized approach – from different risk profile to different perspectives
• Learnings in working with startups and running startup challenges – and measuring success
  

Exploring and Supporting Emerging Circular Value Chains – Collaborating with Different Partners Including Competitors, Building Synergies and Changing Mindsets

Fabien Gaboriaud will talk about Michelin’s approach to circularity. He will discuss how the organization works with the different typologies of partners to support sustainable ecosystems. Fabien will share insights on:

• The collaboration vision – how to help emerging value chains for a sustainable ecosystem in multi-partnership alliances (eg competitors, actors from from non tire applications)
• Supporting startups in building new technologies – working with a startup to mature their technology and being inventive with financial intelligence to find the right momentum for deployment
• Onboarding employees, stakeholders, suppliers, and others to authenticity of environmental impact claims – and leveraging the mass balance approach with specific criteria to ensure positive environmental impact beyond material renewability and recyclability
• Changing the linear mindsets internally – breaking silos and enabling circular initiatives
• Lessons learned including the need to play on technological, industry, and financial fronts, and more
  

Driving a Culture of Innovation – Lessons Learned on Empowering Innovators and Overcoming Innovation Roadblocks

Jayshree Seth will talk about how to foster and preserve a culture of innovation in the face of adversity. She will draw on her experience to discuss how innovators can get unstuck on their innovation journey and the role of leadership in uplifting people. Jayshree will share insights on:

• The ERRORS framework – from overt Expectations and trifecta of Resources through Risk taking and Opportunities to Rewards and Socialization
• How to address the challenges in preserving the culture and course correctly – approach and strategies
• Overcoming the barriers on the innovation journey – leveraging the power of little factors to make headway
• 5 things leaders need to do uplift the people and empower innovators
  
• The Human in the human capital – reengaging people through Working your Way
  

Building AI Applications and the Right Engineering and Experimentation Culture

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Driving New Business: Building and Scaling New Ventures

Daniel Soujon will talk about Henkel’s approach to building new business and expanding business models. He will start from the vision and strategy and then highlight key aspects of the journey and lessons learned – this includes:

• Building a dedicated unit for new business – setting up the team and processes from scratch and continually incorporating learnings from ~20 internal ventures at different maturity stages
  
• Collaborating with the core and building a bridge from the current core to the new digital future
  
• Moving ventures into the scale-up phase
  
• Collaborating with startups on new ventures
  
• Lessons learned from the last ~2 years
  

Six Tips: How to Think and Act Like an Entrepreneur

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Make Your Entrepreneurial Mindset Come Alive

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Leveraging Gen AI for Innovation and for Building Capabilities at Scale

Ulli Waltinger will talk about Siemens’ approach to leveraging Generative AI. He will detail how the organization went from pausing any use of Gen AI to actively encouraging it. Ulli will also discuss how Generative AI is being propagated within the firm and how it can be used in R&D. He will share insights on:

• Conducting a systematic review to mitigate risks of leveraging Gen AI – maturing and rolling out the capability internally at scale
  
• Having a top-down priority and bottom-up enablement to driving exploration of use cases
  
• Identifying opportunities around four pillars: customer, coding, content, and creativity – fueling and clustering 300 emerging use cases for people to collaborate on
  
• Leveraging Gen AI in R&D for software development and virtual representation
• Creating novel hypotheses and unexpected innovation ideas with Gen AI – and using them for inspiration and exploration

Digitalizing Consumer Facing Value Propositions – Towards Human-Assisted AI-Driven Innovation

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Driving Design Thinking at Scale – Changing Mindsets, Driving Sustainable Design and Laying the Ground for AI and Human Workforce

Roger Rohatgi is the first design leader at BP for UX and human experience design. He will discuss how the organization drives design thinking across the organization and combines the method with sustainability. Roger will also discuss how the organization leverages design thinking for an automated and human workforce.

• Combining design and sustainability into sustainable design with a net zero UX mission
• Creating a design thinking curriculum – onboarding over 1400 designers to the system and driving impact at scale
• Changing mindsets and culture, and placing humans and the planet at the center – bringing stakeholders on board and demonstrating the value of design
• Working with different groups, from finance to legal, to embed methods – and overcoming hurdles after winning the hearts
• Humanizing the future of robotics and autonomous workers – creating personas of autonomous workers and building empathy for autonomous workforce and digital empathy for human workers
• Understanding the future of automated commerce – and preparing the ground to make it work

Building Digital Ventures and Leveraging Generative AI – Lessons Learned on Creating and Scaling Digital Businesses at Speed

Stoyan Ivanov will talk about how The Coca-Cola Company creates new digital ventures. He will detail the organization’s approach and set-up for creating new digital solutions and businesses. Stoyan will also detail key insights on leveraging generative AI. He will share challenges and lessons learned on:

• Enabling experimentation at speed – overcoming internal mindsets and agreeing with stakeholders on acceptable risks to experiment and fail fast
  
• Keeping new ventures rooted in the core and not straying too far
  
• Differentiating experimentation and its results from what is needed to scale: different mindsets, team, processes, governance, and KPIs
  
• Leveraging generative AI – engaging people who are ready to experiment and fail, being solution-agnostic, and determining how to scale beyond English-speaking markets
• Learnings on building new businesses – being clear with stakeholders on the objective for new ventures, finding the right home for a new venture to ward off internal anti-bodies, and having entrepreneurial mindsets to execute and scale fast with limited resources

Innovation Enablers, Generative AI, and other Emerging Technologies

John Abel will talk about emerging technology and Generative AI with an eye to the critical enablers that have allowed it to scale, but which also open opportunities for innovation. He will kick-start his presentation with a brief look at the historical development of AI and VR to underline the importance of enablers in the take-off of these technologies. John will also touch on how organizations can leverage Generative AI, as well as delve into the headwinds of innovation including culture and politics. He will share insights on:

• The time gap in the history of AI and VR invention and scale: the here and now – the changes in the circumstances that have allowed emerging technologies to take off
• The reasons and enablers for the emergence of AI, and how hyperscale can give the solutions
  • Data as a critical enabler – and the types of available data from the publicly available through corporate to generated data
• The headwinds to innovation including culture, politics, training – and a look into Google’s culture
• Leveraging Gen AI – educating people on the advantages and pitfalls of Generative AI, and defining a clear strategy and determining acceptable probabilities for errors

From Zero to One: Building New Ventures and Leading Innovation Teams in a Large Company

Susana Bernal will talk about how to build new ventures in a multinational. She will discuss how to move past the challenges and barriers of building new ventures in a large corporation. Susana will also discuss how leaders can show up for their innovation teams and protect them from mature business processes. She will share learnings on:

• How to set up – starting small, setting up a small team, protecting them and letting them achieve traction before exposing them to the organization
• Getting the corporate to treat the new ventures as an investment – the critical role of vision for new ventures instead of a tactical approach that fits a mature business
• Casting the team and getting them obsessed with a customer problem – why more money and headcount aren’t the keys to speed and success, and what works instead
• Leading an innovation team and managing the burden of double-sidedness – shielding the way in which innovation needs to happen and creating different incentives, ways of working, and behaviors for the team
• Attracting smart rebels – convincing them to join the team and creating a way forward for entrepreneurial people

AR: T7 talk see Henkel; T4 talk see Heineken

Tim Vorage will discuss how Mitsubishi Chemical Group leverages AI to determine where to play. He will detail the approach to building AI use cases for scenario planning and leveraging company digital twin to match market opportunities to competences. Tim will share insights on:

• Creating AI use cases – supporting commercial market-facing teams with selecting applications
• Building a digital twin of the company along competences, materials, and software – doing strategic assessment and evaluation to determine a match before approaching customers and entering markets
• Supporting teams in understanding innovation roadmaps, customer profiles, and how to bring value to segment/customer
• Leveraging AI for scenario planning – translating insights into business impact including on resource allocation, strategic direction, and more

Collaborating with Startups and Universities: Open Innovation – innovating and Co-Creating with Open Doors

Annika Hauptvogel will talk about how Siemens leverages its external network, as well as an internal crowd of innovators to foster innovation. She will share real challenges and lessons learned – from finding the right use cases to ensuring internal adoption prior to engaging with external partners and customers. She will also share her experience on the importance of the right mindset in innovation and in finding the right partners.
Annika will cover these highlighted drivers of Open Innovation at Siemens in more detail:

• Innovation Ecosystem: a digital platform where Siemens innovators from different departments and regions engage in internal and external innovation together, from ideation to execution, moving innovation beyond R&D departments
  
• Crowdsourced ideation: challenges where bright minds from startups, universities and customers solve real world problems, as exemplified by our “Tech for Sustainability” campaign
  
• Venture Clienting: a collaboration model that aims to bring strategic and competitive advantages by solving specific internal problems with solutions coming from selected startups
  
• Innovation Spaces: at the Munich Urban Colab, we collaboratively develop and test innovative concepts with start-ups, established companies, voices from science and fresh talent
  

The Innovator’s Mindset: Emotional Intelligence to Supercharge Success

Andreas will talk about how leaders can drive an innovator’s mindset. He will detail how to lead with greater empathy, purpose, inspiration, and connection to empower people and build high performing teams. Innovation requires more than just IQ and technical skills. It’s a cognitive process, but it’s also an emotional one. Research has found that innovation has just as much to do with determination, grit, and psychological safety as it does with pure intellect–qualities that are squarely in the realm of emotional intelligence. This session is intended to help you maximize your cognitive efficiency to supercharge your focus, creativity, and innovation and that of your team. Andreas will share insights on: Explore the connection between emotional intelligence, innovation, and inspiring leadership Develop mechanisms to improve personal emotional intelligence and team emotional intelligence Learn how to increase grit and resilience, and foster a creative team culture

Future FITness – Leveraging Foresight for Superior Firm Performance

Prof. René Rohrbeck will introduce his strategic foresight maturity model. Reporting on his recent Global Future FITness study, he will explain how leading firms leverage foresight for preparing and profiting from transformational change in their environment. He will explain which core elements are needed to build an organizational nervous system directed at the future. Prof. Rohrbeck will explain:

• Which roles a powerful strategic foresight functions should play
  
• Which key capabilities matter
  
• How to ensure impact
  

Embracing Generative AI and Leveraging Foresight – Exploring the Intersection of Technologies and Engaging People with Foresighting

Brian Chol Soo Standen will talk about BASF’s approach to exploring and leveraging AI. He will discuss how the organization explores generative AI within an intersection of technologies. He will also discuss what it takes to successfully leverage foresighting. Brian will share learnings on:

• Why imagining the future is a key capability – the strategic impact of having the capability to robustly predict generative AI prior to launch
  
• Generative AI as the motivator behind five key elements of a strong foresighting approach
  
• Getting people to move past the hesitation and embrace generative AI the smart way – and the impact of generative AI on job design
  
• Agents as the next steps in leveraging generative AI – and the need to educate people
  
• Exploring the intersection of generative AI and other tech including digital twins, VR, and metaverse – the potential of technologies coming together in the Age of AI
  
• Grounding foresight to make it usable for the organization – involving people across the organization and sharing success stories

Profitable Growth: Customer Centric Innovation, Value Based Pricing, and Innovation Portfolio Management

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Building Profitability into Value Propositions from the Concept Phase

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Building Inclusive Innovation Based on Real Customer Problems and Long-Term Thinking

What happens when we write “Innovation Department” on a door. Do we encourage the rest of the organization to innovate or stand back? How to create an inclusive innovative culture in an organization that is based on inclusive design. Example of intrapreneurship at IKEA Home smart. Bilgi will talk about failures and not only success in this session. Some lessons learned:

• Finding fantastic problems rather than fantastic solutions for lasting success
  
• Inclusive innovation both for innovators and the customers by eliminating idea ownership
  
• Prioritizing user outcomes over business outcomes with the power of UX
  
• Celebrating failures – before during and after a project

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