1. Share the latest news from GIMI

• • Four new members in the CTP network: GIMI officially welcomed Grupo Edutec from Ecuador, SNBX from El Salvador, TDM Internacional from Mexico and Triangle Equity Partners from Australia. These CTPs were represented by Lucia Acurio, Tony Carbonero, David Fernandez and Kent Matla, respectively. 
  • 3 New Intellectual Property developed during the last year
    • GIMI Impact: GIMI’s social innovation program that aims to inspire young people to use innovation to solve social challenges in their communities.
    • Leadership program: After successfully training 1500 leaders in Brazil, IXL and GIMI have standardized a world-class program that uses new learning styles and a proven methodology to drive leaders to become the best version of themselves
    • Innovation Potential Assessment: GIMI created the Innovation Potential Framework to assess individuals and help companies leverage their potential to build high-performing teams and identify their training needs

• • GIMI Futuristic Network: GIMI has launched its Futuristic Network with Netstairs, Dii Desert Energy, and NICA as a powerful force to drive insights from different centers of excellence around the world into actions that build the future
  • Innova Latam 2022 will have its fourth edition in November and will bring +1.000 people to share best practices, tools, and knowledge around corporate innovation in Cartagena, Colombia. Some of our central themes will be, innovative leadership for the future, Innovation DNA, and Innovation ecosystems, among others.

2. Recognize the efforts of CTPs to increase certified people in their regions

At this point GIMI spotlights the three main CTPs with the largest number of certificates: IXL Boston with 8127, IXL Colombia with 2200 and Sia Partners Arab Emirates with 1900, and the three other partners such as SWRL with 600, Clarus Consulting with 328, and KACE with 230 and mentioned that they had the highest growth in 2022.

CTPs shared how to mitigate challenges in each region coming from lack of awareness around innovation, political instability, shortage of training budgets etc. 

3.       Exchange best practices and discuss challenges with each other

CTPs shared their best practices and strategies how to win the market of a) Governments, b) Corporates, c) Universities and d) SMEs

GIMI appreciates the presence of all partners and will continue to ensure that together we can democratize innovation in the world, and we will!