Innovation is the weapon that separates some organizations from their competition. In an age of digital innovation, some companies burst out of the gate and shake down their traditional business counterparts.

Q: What makes those businesses leap to the top, while so many others grew slowly or not at all? 

We're going to learn how to cultivate innovation in your business;How businesses can learn to innovate.How to make creativity a building block of your business.How you encourage your employees to generate new ideas and embrace the newest technologies.How to capitalize on the latest innovation in ways other businesses can’t.

Every company wants a leg-up on their competitors, but most don’t realize its all starts with a simple plan. We're going to show you how to put that plan into place.



Our Speakers

Oscar Malpica - Innovation Strategist - Envisioning Labs CEO
Oscar is an innovation and change management guru with experience across many industries. He brings his very own brand of business strategy, innovation, and storytelling to every project. Oscar was most recently a panelist at Innovation in Retail event at Vancouver Startup Week.

Don't just take our word for it

"Our team relied on Oscar's expertise to kickstart and develop the foundations of our innovation program. He's definitely an action-biased individual always eager to help and provide strategic suggestions to improve or innovate." Wilson Ng - Microsoft

Cliff Edwards - Inventor
Cliff is the Global Top Solver for Innocentive, a worldwide innovation challenge platform and serial inventor. He worked as a Senior Researcher and led a number of research activities for McKesson Medical Imaging Group. Cliff is currently engaged in a variety of startups ranging from advanced wearable devices to CO2 mitigation projects. 


Who Should Come
Everyone! This meet up is open to all from the community, but if you're an IT director of a medium-sized company this is absolutely 100% for you. If you play a key role and champion the initiatives for improvement and innovation in your business you do not want to miss this event.



What to Expect

Great speakers

Lots of learning and take aways you can implement right out of the box

Key networking opportunities

Some tasty beverages



Agenda

6:00 pm - Casual networking

6:15 pm - Grab a seat and a drink

6:30 pm - Talk begins

7:30 pm - Casual networking