Please join 5-10 minutes early.

9:30 AM, Welcome + Keynote: Cross-Industry Innovation: Lessons from Other Sectors with Ramon Vullings

In the digital era, successful innovation comes from bringing the outside world into your organization and remixing ideas across sectors to transform your business in a smarter way.

10:30 AM, Panel: Go Cross-Industry by Blending Business Models with Paul Breslow (Électricité de France), Mark Fancourt (Travhotech), and Sean Flaherty (ITX)

Someone has already solved your problem, yet seeing their solution is challenging. 

11:30 AM, Fireside Chat: From Best Practices to Next-Generation Practices with Josh Thompson (Onward Labs) and Gregarious Narain (serial entrepreneur)

Today’s best practices are limiting your organization’s ability to find true competitive advantage. Break the pattern by finding a new way to work.

Please join 5-10 minutes early.

12:15 PM, Welcome + Keynote: Overcoming Objections to Innovation: The Proven Three-Step Process with Stephanie Koch (Flourish Advisory)

Change is necessary for companies to succeed. However, many companies fear change and are likely to reject ideas for innovation because of that fear. In this talk, optimization expert Stephanie Koch reveals her proven three-step process for getting stakeholder support for innovation.

1:00 PM, Fireside Chat: Why is Your Innovation Process Failing? with Jerome Gentes (Intuit) and Drew Mouton (LSU Health Shreveport)

Innovation is tough, especially in a corporate structure. Learn what’s holding your organization back.

1:45 PM, Fireside Chat: Avoid Extinction with Tyler King (IBM) and Jennifer He (Visa)

Accelerate transformation, reinvent your business, product, or user experience using practical applications of design thinking.

In the afternoon, we are presenting two hands-on workshops concurrently. Attendees will be able to select the programming that best suits their needs. To join a session, click the session title.

Please join 5-10 minutes early.

2:30 PM, Workshop: Creating a Culture of Continuous Innovation through The Momentum Framework with Sean Flaherty (ITX)

A paradigm-shifting model that connects seemingly intangible business fundamentals like customer trust and loyalty to foster an environment of “Continuous Innovation.” Sean uses the recent, proven science of empathy and human intrinsic motivation to give the audience practical tools that will help them change the world.

2:30 PM, Workshop: Re-Mapping Stakeholders with Ruth Yomtoubian (Before Alpha) and Gregarious Narain (Before Alpha)

Business NOT as usual requires strategies for purposeful engagement. In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll be empowered to build the future but first you need to consider how you’ll bring key stakeholders into the new world with you. The session will introduce you to building blocks that include stakeholder mapping concepts and consideration, audience drivers and prioritization exercise, and a preview of stakeholder engagement and partnership models.

4:00 PM, INNO’s Virtual Happy Hour

You’re invited to grab a drink and network with other INNO attendees and speakers in break out rooms and/or one-on-one chats.

Please join 5-10 minutes early.

9:30 AM, Welcome + Fireside Chat: Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal. with Gerard Ramos (Revelry) and George Aye (Greater Good Studio)

Borrowing is good. It’s time to go further by standing on someone else’s shoulders.

10:15 AM, Panel: Pushing the Boundaries to Solve Complex Problems with Jonathan Bennun (NextGen Ventures), Diego Ortiz Vega (ExxonMobil), and Mark Cousin (Acubed)

Time isn’t always your friend. Neither are regulations. Respond to opportunities by reframing fundamental strategies.

11:15 AM, Keynote: The State of Digital Economy & New Orleans Innovation Ecosystem with Michael Hecht (GNO, Inc.)

Often times those of us who spend our days working in and developing the Gulf South Ecosystem are told how we are trailing the East and West Coast. We believe the Third Coast is the one to watch.

Please join 5-10 minutes early.

12:00 PM, Welcome + Fireside Chat: Leverage Your Knowledge Network with Lisa Sutton (serial entrepreneur) and Kevin Lin (Twitch/Gold House)

Creating cross-industry innovation has never been easier. Quality insights, advice, and collaborators are merely a few clicks away.

12:45 PM, Fireside Chat: What would you do if…? with Braden Kelley (Oracle) and Logan Jones (Boeing)

How would leading companies in other industries tackle your business challenges? What can you learn from applying their models and systems?

1:30 PM, Panel: Don’t Forget About Your People with Gautham Pallapa (VMware), Shaaron Alvares (T-Mobile), and Mark Cruth (Atlassian)

You’ve innovated and have a new direction. Great. But you need your people to get on board to make it work.

2:30 PM, Fireside Chat: What are the Right Questions? with Gina Radke (Gallery Support Innovations) and Ruth Yomtoubian (Before Alpha)

Instead of focusing on an endless search for the right answer, make a shift to discovering the right questions to ask.

In the afternoon, we are presenting an additional panel and two hands-on workshops concurrently. Attendees will be able to select the programming that best suits their needs. To join a session, click the session title.

Please join 5-10 minutes early.

3:15 PM, Expanded Panel: Building Your Startup in an Opportunity Zone with Scott Shalett (Medora Ventures), Anne Driscoll (Launchpad), and Ann Rogan (City of Stockton, CA Mayor’s Office)

Much has been made of this value to investors and property developers operating in Opportunity Zones, now let’s focus on how entrepreneurs and startups can use these locations to catapult their fundraising and businesses.

3:15 PM, Workshop: Avoid the Solution Trap: Design Thinking in Action with Josh Frank (Revelry)

In this 90-minute workshop, explore several practical exercises based on Design Thinking principles. Help your teams break through the traps inherent in the first idea, group think, analysis paralysis, and decision-making. Walk away empowered with concrete tools to drive innovation within your organization upon your return.

3:15 PM, Workshop: Let Me Tell You A Story: Driving Change With Storytelling with Mark Cruth (Atlassian)

In this 90-minute workshop, picture the last time you were told a great story about change…how did it make you feel? Were you inspired, motivated, or moved to action? As change agents, we must influence teams to look at the world through a new lens, and storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have available to help us to do this. So gather round everyone and let me tell you a story…

4:30 PM: INNO’s Virtual Happy Hour

You’re invited to grab a drink and network with other INNO attendees and speakers in break out rooms and/or one-on-one chats.