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Sneak Peek & Pre-Summit Meetup
On Monday, September 28th, we'll be hosting a sneak peek event about what you can expect for IO2020 The New Innovators' Summit.
Hear more about the speakers.
Learn about the startup showcase & pitch competition.
Ask questions and meet fellow attendees.
You'll also get to try out the instant mixer networking feature and meet some people before the big event in October.
If you want to be part of this bonus event, RSVP at https://www.runtheworld.today/app/c/io2020sneakpeek
Bring your friends and we'll see you soon!
Vaughn Tan on the Inside Outside Innovation Podcast
Vaughn Tan, IO2020 speaker and author of The Uncertainty Mindset talks about his new book and what he’s learned about innovation from the top chefs and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world.
First Batch of Showcase Startups to be Announced Next Week
September 15, 2020 (35 Days to Go)
Applications are rolling in for the Get Started Showcase and Pitch Competiton. We’ll be announcing the first batch of startups selected to showcase next week and posting them to the site. Each startup chosen will have a :30 minute session during the startup showcase to meet attendees, pitch, and demo what they’re building. A select number from the showcase will be chosen to compete in the Pitch Competiton on October 22nd (with a $10k cash prize, in-kind services, and other incentives from partners like Husch Blackwell, Cox Business, Nelnet, InsideoOutside.io, and others). Showcase startups also have the opportinity to apply for the $25k Launch LNK grants. There’s still time to participate - Apply here.
We’ve Added Some More Speakers to the Mix…
OLIVIA O’SULLIVAN
Olivia O'Sullivan is the Head of Corporate Innovation & Partnerships at Acceleprise, a top rated B2B SaaS accelerator, fund and corporate innovation group with offices in San Francisco, New York and Toronto.
JASON WILMOT
Jason Wilmot is the founder at HACKTICS - helping marketers and marketing teams build unstoppable growth funnels. He spent 8 years in education and was recognized by Apple as a Distinguished Educator.
JERROD HILL
Jerrod is a member of the Amazon Web Services Venture Capital Business Development team based in NYC, where focuses on funds across the US. Prior to AWS, Jerrod worked in startup investing, management consulting, and education. He worked at two accelerators, including DreamIt Philadelphia and Techstars NYC as well as worked at two investment funds, including Bowery Capital and Wharton Impact Investing Partners.
GREG LARKIN
Greg Larkin is a global authority on entrepreneurial transformations in large organizations. He's worked with Google, Uber, PWC, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and others. He is the author of the international best-seller "This Might Get Me Fired.” In 2006 he was the first person to publicly predict the 2008 financial crisis. He is faculty at Columbia Business School and Singularity University.
CHRISTIAN BUSCH
Prof. Christian Busch teaches on purpose-driven leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship at New York University (NYU) and at the London School of Economics (LSE). At NYU, he directs the CGA Global Economy Program. Previously, he co-directed the LSE’s Innovation and Co-Creation Lab and co-founded the Sandbox Network as well as Leaders on Purpose. He is a part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Forum, and a "top management thinker" (Thinkers 50). Christian is the author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Good Luck.
Announcing the Speaker Lineup…
Face it, 2020 has been a big wake-up call (and punch in the gut). You need new skill sets, new business models, and a new network to navigate the new realities of today's pace of change. We've assembled an incredible lineup of speakers for IO2020 to help you do that.
We've always prided ourselves on curating a fantastic cast of keynotes and interactive sessions for our InsideOutside.io events. This year is no different. Our first batch of speakers includes founders, authors, investors, and folks who've worked on innovation at Intuit, Estee Lauder, Dolby Labs, Google, Bayer, Capital One, Slack, Toyota, and more. We're also curating a variety of Open Discussion sessions to bring attendees into the conversation.
Here's a sneak peek of our initial speaker lineup. We’ll be adding more as we go, so check back often…
Barry O'Reilly
Barry is the author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must-read for CEOs and business leaders. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Xiaoyin Qu
Xiaoyin is the founder of Run The World, an online events platform that empowers social gatherings. Xiaoyin was at Facebook and Instagram and was a Stanford MBA student before raising venture capital and launching Run The World. You can read more about her journey in her blog post "My journey of (possibly) predicting COVID, finding the "perfect" startup idea, and raising $15 million."
Dan Toma
Dan Toma is an innovation thought leader and the award-winning author of The Corporate Startup. Dan started his career in entrepreneurship, being involved with technology startups across the world. He focuses on enterprise innovation strategy - specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting. In this capacity, he has worked with companies like Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere, and Allianz.
Steph Smith
Steph is Head of Trends, Product Manager at The Hustle. She has been working remotely for over four years, as a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She spent three years at Toptal (most recently leading their Publications team), and is now the Head of Trends at the Hustle, working on their new product, Trends. She’s a big advocate for remote work and actively writes about it over at her blog, which has been read by over 450k people since launch last January. She is also a self-taught developer and has built multiple projects, some of which have gone to #1 on Product Hunt, won awards for inclusion, and led her to being nominated for Maker of the Year in 2018.
Doc Williams
Doc Williams is a brand developer, founder of Brand Factory, and maker of Build With Me. Doc is a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, who has worked with everyone from ESPN to AppSumo. As an alumnus of Gary Vaynerchuk’s 4Ds group, Doc has seen firsthand the potential of small business owners and entrepreneurs… and how sometimes they need a push to get started. He created Build With Me to share new tools, inspire folks to create, and show how easy it can be to do what you love. Check out his intro video on YouTube.
Neil Soni
Neil Soni has built and created new ventures throughout his career, both as an entrepreneur and within Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your Business. His consulting practice builds innovation ecosystems for large companies and coaches startups on growth, sales, and traction. To learn more, visit his website or follow him on Twitter.
Eric Budin
Eric Budin is Managing Director at Touchdown Ventures in the Philadelphia office. Eric is responsible for managing multiple funds and runs Touchdown’s analyst program. He spent the previous 13 years as an executive at Comcast and Liberty Global. At both companies, his focus was on innovation and new business opportunities. At Comcast, he was VP of Business Development and helped launch Xfinity Home. He also led the company’s efforts in the SVOD, advertising, and video conferencing spaces and worked closely with Comcast Ventures to identify and invest in VC backed partners. While living in Amsterdam, he was Liberty Global’s VP of Product Strategy and Incubation and helped launch their advanced advertising business. Prior to Comcast, Eric worked in Silicon Valley for venture-backed companies, including more.com which he co-founded.
Carol Tran
Carol Tran is Head of Growth at Dolby Laboratories, three-time entrepreneur, philanthropist, and change agent for suboptimal business conditions. She partners with company leadership, acting as a guide to reveal inefficiencies and grow the business using limited resources. Her growth hacking combines tactics and theory, examining the business holistically. She uses historical data to build a growth engine, using repeatable, scalable processes to understand user behavior, translate findings with product visionaries, and implement marketing automation to find and nurture leads, close more deals, and maximize ROI. She has worked and consulted with a wide range of companies across several industries—providing her the leverage to be industry agnostic and doing what is necessary to grow customers and revenue. To learn more about hacks and tips on growth hacking, you can connect with her at www.caroltran.com.
Vaughn Tan
Vaughn is a London-based strategy consultant, author, and professor. He specializes in designing organizations that are resilient to and benefit from uncertainty. He has spent over a decade working with the food and beverage industry and is also active in legal technology, structured data, and regenerative agriculture. Vaughn's book, The Uncertainty Mindset, is about how uncertainty can be used to drive innovation and adaptability. It’s based on years of research with some of the world’s most innovative culinary R&D teams. Since 2013, Vaughn has been an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University College London’s School of Management.
Regine Gilbert
Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. In 2019, Regine’s first book, Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind (Design Thinking) was released through Apress publishing.
Temirlan Nugmanov
Tem is the founder of Optemization, a no-code productivity consultancy where he helps busy executives build organization systems and habits to free up more time and focus on getting important sh*t done. He has spent time working with TechStars and NYU Entrepreneurial Institute.
Hugh Molotsi
Hugh Molotsi is the founder and CEO of Ujama, a messaging platform for communities to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Hugh also advises and invests in startups and is the co-author of The Intrapreneur’s Journey, a book on how to develop a culture of innovation at large companies. In 2015, Hugh concluded a 22-year career at Intuit where his last position was Engineering Fellow and Vice President of Innovation. During his Intuit tenure, Hugh worked on QuickBooks and several other small business offerings. Hugh has been a serial innovator and helped launch several new businesses at Intuit including Intuit Payments. Hugh is passionate about grassroots innovation and “giving voice to good ideas” wherever those ideas may come from.
Karen Holst
Karen Holst, Co-Author of Start Within, is an entrepreneur turned intrapreneur. She co-founded educational technology startup MyEdu, formerly Pick-A-Prof (acquired by Blackboard), and transitioned to intrapreneurial roles within the California Department of Education, IDEO, Autodesk, and LinkedIn Learning. From government agencies and non-profits to startups and Fortune 500 companies, Karen has worked with organizations of varying sizes and across industries to help their leadership unlock creative potential and empower their employees to innovate. Her expertise on innovation has been featured in TechCrunch, The New York Times, NPR, The Chicago Tribute, CNN, and more. Karen currently teaches courses through LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com), serves on the board of Thrive Education, and mentors entrepreneurs through TechStars and Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Leaders Program.
Rika Nakazawa
Rika Nakazawa is a senior leader, entrepreneur, investor, and frequent public speaker on technology-powered business transformation. She is the CEO and Founder of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. a Silicon Valley, social impact venture, focusing on diversifying the board room by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology, ultimately to deliver “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow”. She is also Vice President and Client Partner at Conduent, a $4B revenue global BPO provider to Fortune 100 companies. Trilingual in Japanese, German, and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US initially to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies - NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express - and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and has served on multiple venture boards in next-generation computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems. Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing women's leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions. She has also been actively engaged in U.S-Japan business collaboration and progress and is an ambassador to fabbit and Council Leader with the U.S Japan Council.
Brant Cooper
Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets and CEO of Moves The Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations. Brant has a unique take on disrupting our current way of thinking in order to be closer to customers, move faster, and act bolder. He has experienced monumental milestones such as IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. He serves as a global keynote speaker, mentor to entrepreneurs, and trusted advisor to corporate executives. His mission is to teach leaders how to find personal and economic growth through creating new value for fellow humans.
Sean Ammirati
Sean Ammirati is a Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. In addition to teaching, he is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab (CSL). The CSL is a Swartz Center initiative that has conducted research and developed tools to help companies better adapt and integrate entrepreneurial best practices into their own innovation processes. In addition to his work at CMU, Sean is also a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and author. He recently completed his first book The Science of Growth. Finally, Sean is also the host of one of the most popular podcasts on corporate innovation - Agile Giants which you can find on your favorite podcasting platform.
We’ll be adding additional speakers to the mix soon. More to come…
Introducing IO2020 - The New Innovators’ Summit
July 23, 2020 (90 Days to Go)
It takes a lot to launch and grow new ideas, especially in times of accelerating change and unprecedented uncertainty. As regulars of our InsideOutside.io podcast, newsletter, and community know, we love bringing together the best and the brightest in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship to help individuals and organizations navigate what's next.
To that end, we're excited to announce our fourth annual summit - IO2020 The New Innovators’ Summit
The disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has upended many plans for 2020 (and beyond). Still, it has also opened up many opportunities to change, adapt, and experiment - something our community knows something about. To that end, we too, have adapted. We're excited to share with you and hope you'll be a part of it.
This virtual event will run October 20–22, 2020, and will be unlike any other online event/webinar/zoom summit you may have attended.
Here are a few of the things we're excited about:
Tickets Are Free (Or Upgrade for More Options)
We've made attending and participating FREE (of course, you can also upgrade your ticket to get access to post-event recordings and other VIP perks). Couple that with the lack of travel time and expenses, and now there's no reason not to sign-up your boss and bring your entire team. Head on over and grab a spot now!
An Amazing Lineup of Speakers and Sessions
We've always prided ourselves on curating a fantastic cast of keynotes and interactive sessions. This year is no different. In fact, we'll be announcing our first batch of speakers soon that include authors, investors, founders, and folks who've worked on innovation at Estee Lauder, Dolby Labs, Bosch, Bayer, Toyota, and more (with more to come). We're also curating a variety of Open Discussion sessions to bring all attendees into the conversation.
An Expanded Showcase
We're expanding our virtual Startup Showcase to highlight over 200 companies. The showcase will include high-growth startups, bootstrapped side projects, "inside" enterprise innovation initiatives, and maybe even a few prototypes to share. Some of the best ones will compete for ~$50,000 in grants, prizes, in-kind services, and more in our annual pitch competition. Have something to showcase? Apply today!
A New Virtual Event Platform with Enhanced Engagement & Networking
Finally, we're doubling down on engagement and networking. We're hosting IO2020 on Run The World. Unlike one-way webinars or traditional video conferencing, the Run The World platform will enable attendee conversations and provide engaging community-building experiences. Attendees will have ample opportunities to meet, mix, and mingle. IO2020 is excited to be hosting multiple speed-networking, group breakouts, and other interactive opportunities for attendees to connect. Finally, Run The World's flexible platform supports both a mobile-first or desktop experience, so you won't be chained to your desk to make those connections and serendipitous collisions expect from a conference.
So that's a quick preview with more to come. We encourage you to grab a ticket today and join fellow leaders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs for what will be an amazing few days in October.
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