READY. AIM. FIRE. HOW TO DEFINE YOUR TARGET CUSTOMER FOR PRODUCT SUCCESS.
Date Held: Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Speaker: Nadine Williams, &Beyond Innovation and Marketing
MENTORSHIP AS A CULTURE & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Date Held: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Speaker: Stacy Cassio, Founder & CEO of the Pink Mentor Network
the innovator’s burden
Date Held: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Speaker: Chris Elmore, AvidXchange
PRODUCT AND SERVICE INNOVATION: PATTERNS OF OPPORTUNITY
Date Held: Tuesday January 19, 2020
Speaker: Dave Hunkele, KreativeLabs Consulting
PATHWAYS TO ROI: A DIY GUIDE TO GUARANTEEING ADOPTION
Date Held: Tuesday November 17, 2020
Speaker: Doug Powell, Director at Perficient Inc
envisioning the intelligent era - scenarios for the digital future 2028
Date Held: Tuesday October 20, 2020
Speaker: Jim Redden, RTI Innovation Advisors
Delivering the Fairy Tale: near-real time cross-border wires
Date Held: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Speaker: Cheryl Jacobs, Global Payments Product Manager at Wells Fargo
How to win with services
Date Held: Tuesday August 18, 2020
Speaker: Patrick McGowan - The Service Design Group
Hedgehog Innovation Teams: Focused, nimble, dangerous.
Date Held: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Speaker: Ty Hagler - Trig and Patrick Boehnen - RTI International
Program Highlight: How might we disrupt the experience of buying a shower door? Pat Boehnen with Predicta and Ty Hagler with Trig share practical lessons from their track record of repeatedly breaking into new consumer product categories, unseating incumbents. Innovation teams can accelerate growth, allowing traditional product teams to focus on operations. We will provide relevant examples of categories that have been reinvented, organizational models that work, and how external partnerships can accelerate speed to market.
Convergence: How artificial Intelligence, the internet of things, and other advances will change the world
Date Held: Wednesday June 17, 2020
Speaker: Joe Fuqua, Chief Data Scientist - Midtown Consulting
Program highlight: We live in the most rapidly changing time in human history. Recent developments in concepts like Big Data, neural networks, and distributed intelligent applications -- combined with exponential increases in computing power and information storage -- have brought once fantastic ideas like self-driving cars and fully autonomous personal assistance to the mainstream. These, however, are just early examples of what will be possible as these technologies continue to integrate and merge.
INNOVATE CAROLINA VIRTUAL EVent
Date Held: Thursday May 14, 2020
After our successful first-ever virtual event on April 23rd, we wanted to extend an opportunity for more students to showcase their projects who were not able to do so at the previous event.
Two outstanding speakers were featured and provided short TEDx-style talks on their intended subject from the original Diversity and Innovation topic for the Innovate Carolina 2020 conference. (7) additional student teams were also presented their product and service ideas. Our student teams always do amazing work and it’s refreshing to see the creativity and discipline inherent in their problems, analyses and designed products. These products and services are driving change and creating our future.
We appreciate your continued enthusiasm for innovation in the Carolinas and would be remiss if we didn’t thank the sponsors from our conference who have generously offered to leave their sponsorship’s in place for our events. Stay tuned for more upcoming virtual events!
Innovate Carolina 2020(ISH) - virtual
Date Held: Thursday April 23, 2020
During our time we had short presentations by Undergraduate and Graduate Student Team categories, followed by an announcement of the winners in each category.
In addition, we had four speakers who provided short TEDx-style talks on their intended subject for the original Diversity and Innovation topic for the Innovate Carolinas conference.
We appreciate your continued enthusiasm for innovation in the Carolinas and would be remiss if we didn’t thank the sponsors from our conference who have generously offered to leave their sponsorship’s in place for our events. Stay tuned for more upcoming virtual events!