GIMI Think Tank
The GIMI Think Tank is a weekly virtual forum composed of GIMI ambassadors, Certified Training Partners, and other experts to share knowledge around innovation and promote collaboration
Participants are Innovation leaders from industry, government, and academia
Representatives come from 5 continents and more than 25 countries
Standard agenda is sufficiently flexible to cover a range of innovation topics
Online program meets weekly on Wednesdays at 9:00 am (EST)
We Created The GIMI Think Tank To Be An Innovative And Collaborative Space To:
- Create a fluid, agile and solid community of innovators around the world who assist in solving big and bold challenges
- Create awareness around innovation and GIMI framework
- Share valuable and cutting edge knowledge from distinguished speakers among the community and to the interested audience
- Promote GIMI partners and recruit potential partners who embrace the GIMI framework and advance innovation in their countries
We Talk About:
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On Innovation
Carolina Strobel
Operating Partner / COO Redpoint eventures
- Brazil
Fast-growing venture-capital industry in Brazil
Sesha Pratap
Partner at Brahma and at Maxos Studio
- EEUU
Reinvent business models, create new marketplaces, and engage customers
Steve Wyatt
Professor at University of Bath School of Management
- United Kingdom
Skills, capabilities, and mindsets required to thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution ‘4IR’
Sean Sheppard
Managing Partner at U+
- EEUU
Silicon Valley exits, invested in 140+ startups across 3 VC funds. What we learned from building 90+ ventures
Willem-Jan Jacobs
Sales Director at Living Tomorrow
- Belgium
Creating a vision of how we will live and work in the future
Dr. CJ Meadows
Thought leader on tomorrow’s innovation
- USA
Why Design-Thinking Startups Succeeds Better and Attracts More Funding
Agostinho Almeida
Chief Innovation Officer at Ecopetrol
- Colombia
Science, technology, and innovation as a catalyst for sustainability
Joanna Prieto
Co-CEO of Geek Girls Latam
- Colombia
Systemic approach to Sustainable Development Goal: 5 Gender Equality
Rafael Obando
Head of East Coast and LATAM Partnerships at HubSpot
- USA
The funnel is dead: Meet the flywheel
Dr. Ai Addyson- Zhang
Education Disruptor – CEO and Founder at Classroom Without Walls
- United States
To Disrupt or be Disrupted: What’s Next in Education
Valentina De Matteo
Professor/Researcher at University of Bologna
- Italy
How to design resilient corporate environments through innovation knowledge
Jonathan Reichental, PhD
Founder of Human Future
- USA
Making Data Work For Your Organization
Hassan Al-Brahim
Executive Director at Civil Service and Government Development Bureau in Qatar
- Qatar
Unified Customer Experience
Tammi Spring
Principal, Spring Consulting & Creative
- USA
Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing & Collaboration
Rolan Marco Garcia and Kristine Bañez
Founding CEO & Managing Partner of the Embiggen Group / Managing Director of Embiggen Ventures
- Philippines
Corporate Venture Building: Strategic Growth by Building New Businesses
Katarina Brud
Director of MobilityXlab
- Sweden
Pioneering the future of mobility – a story of startup corporate collaborations
Joel Litman
President and CEO at Valen’s Research
- U.S.A
The at-home revolution is in full swing and explains 80% of what’s happening in the stock market
Rizzo Hahn
Managing Director at Accenture
- Brazil
Industry 4.0 – The trends, opportunities, and risks for the future
Jessica Day
Co-founder at IDEASCALE
- U.S.A
Leverage the collective intelligence of networks to create new business value
Tunde Akindele
Director of Strategy and Innovation at Verizon
- USA
Will your industry be disrupted by 5G?
Florin PAUN
Chief Science & Partnership Officer at RAFAUT Group
- France
New tool to hybridize the market pull approach with technology push while innovating
TVG Krishnamurty
Mentor an advisor
- USA
Why continuing education for the educated is urgent in this 21st century?
Louise Kelly
Professor of Management and Leadership at University of La Verne
- USA
A flexible leadership style for innovation – from ambidexterity to women’s leadership
Johannes Jarl
Executive Director at Innovation 360 Group
- USA
How working systematically with innovation management by assessing your teams from a 360-degree
Rogério Bohn
Global Mentor
- Brazil
Innovation in Family Business to generate innovative actions for traditional conservative family businesses
Manuel Mendes
Global Director at Boston Innovation Gateway
- USA
Understand why innovation is key for a successful international business market expansion
Nicholas Haber
Director STEM and CTE at Certiport
- USA
Digital Skills and Entrepreneurship: Driving Prosperity Through Certification
Alexander Haneng
SVP Innovation Partnerships at Posten and Bring
- Norway
How did a 375-year-old postal service become Norway’s most innovative company?
Mohab Anis
CEO at Innovety
- Egypt
Driving Innovation by Assessing Your Intellectual Assets
Omar Saucedo
Microsoft Techspark Community Manager
- Mexico
The U.S. Mexico Border innovation opportunities Power hub
Sid Benraouane
Chair of the US ISO Working Group on Innovation Management
- Dubai
Innovation management and ISO perspective
Rodolfo Cremer
Co-founder of Barcelona Business Innovation and Technology School
- Spain
Innovation for education in the 21st Century
Beatriz Daza
CEO of MacondoLab
- Colombia
At MacondoLab, everything is possible: bringing ideas to life with the power of innovation
Mike Hatrick
Group Director IP Strategy and Portfolio at Volvo Trucks Technology
- Sweden
Chasing Innovation, why innovation programs fail, and what we should do about that
Tony Ulwick
Strategyn Founder and CEO, Inventor, Author, and Innovation Thought Leader
- USA
Taking the Guesswork Out of Innovation
Maria Cristina Córdova
Co-founder of Relaci & Founder at Innfiltrados
- Colombia
Collaborative Innovation: The standard way to innovate in the coming years
Guillermo de Haro
Interim Vice Dean, Graduate Programs at IE School of Science and Technology
- Spain
From Stoicism to Complex Problem Solving. How Data and People will save the world
Henry May
Cofounder & CEO at Coschool
- Colombia
Edumoción – an innovative bet to change education in LatAm
Johan Persson
Partner at Rhubarbs
- Swiss
How maps changed how we approach innovation and strategy
Nicola Winter
Member of the ESA astronaut reserve, pilot, speaker and Engineer
- Germany
Innovation, resilence and new leadership from Air and Space World
Josep Miquel Piqué
President – Triple Helix Association
- Spain
Orchestration of Innovation Ecosystems: The Pacts of Innovation
Kevin Pang
Vice President of Business Development at Qnergy
- USA
From Dinosaur DNA to Methane Abatement: Innovation as a 3-ball Collision
Julius Bautista
Principal, Strategic Partner Engagements at Amazon Web Services
- USA
Accelerating Growth and Innovation through the Cloud
António Alvarenga
Founder of ALVA R&C and International Foresight Expert
- Portugal
Make better decisions, improve strategy definition or policymaking, and spur innovation breakthroughs
Dr. Khoh Soo Beng
Co-founder & Director PMO Innovations Sdn Bhd
- Malaysia
Innovate & Win: Minimise Risk, Maximise Returns with Innovation Management Framework and Process
Kristen Anderson
Advisor at StretchDollar
- USA
Why startups win, and how any organization can capture some of the startup advantages
Ken Merkel
Chief Executive Officer at Unlimit
- USA
Kickstarting a transformational culture
Steffen Gackstatter
Partner at Roland Berger
- Germany
Best-practice Corporate Startup Engagement
Carlo Saveiro & Domenico Caprioli
Director of the CREST & Scientific Director of NEXT4
- Italy
Unified Customer Experience
Alice Chung
Sr. Analytics Manager, Genentech
- U.S.A
How to utilize limited resources to harness/preserve innovative efforts
Carolina Duran
Latin America Program Director at Building Markets
- Colombia
Small Business Powering the World
Greg Nuk
CopperTeams.ai Founder. Serial exit entrepreneur. Dedicated to human evolution.
- Canada
Why research shows that 75% of your innovation teams will underperform. And what to do about that.
Dr. Ali Rashed Bin Ghaith Alsuwaidi / Ferdous Abdullah Hussein
Air Environment Sustainability and Environmental Assessment – Dubai Municipality / Chief Innovation Officer – Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
- Dubai
Dubai Government Innovations towards a Sustainable Environment
Jeewan Chanicka
Director of Education at the Waterloo Region District School Board
- Canada
Building the World’s Most Innovative School District: a case study on Innovation as a Driver for Transformation
Praveen Gupta
Director of Quality – Stephen Gould Corporation
- Global
Breakthrough Innovation Framework
Rodrigo Cortopassi G Lobo
Co-editor-in-chief & Professor
- Global
Technology Forecasting and Corporate Strategy: An Innovation Dependent Trajectory
Saker Ghani
Innovation Transformation, and Product Leader Unlocked Ventures
- USA
From Concept to Domination: The Story of Apple iPod
John Herniman
Corporate Social Innovation and Quality Management of HES-Geneve
- Switzerland
Exploring intrapreneurship and social intrapreneurship from within large corporations
Langdon Morris
Senior Partner InnovationLabs LLC
- U.S.A
Design Thinking a Powerful Tool for Innovators
Adi Alon
Managing Director at IXL Center
- U.S.A
Fast Innovation – a process view for accelerationFast Innovation – a process view for acceleration
Timiebi Aganaba
Founder of Timiebi Aganaba LLC
- U.S.A
How space governance can help us to think about more down-to-earth
Geert van Kuijk
Co-Founder of the Centre for Organisational Creativity
- Sweden
Organizational Creativity: The fuel and spark for the innovation engine
MS Ginbee Go
EVP & Head of Consumer Banking at the Bank of the Philippine Islands
- Philippines
How does a 172-year-old institution stay relevant?
Hitendra Patel
Managing Director at IXL Center
- U.S.A
Would you Climb Mount Everest with Average People?
Minette Navarrete
President at Kickstart Ventures Inc.
- Philippines
Innovation to Execution: The Struggle is Real
Dr. Rafael Popper
Director of Futures Diamond Ltd
- Finland
Technology Foresight for Public Funding of Innovation: Methods and Best Practices
Travis Kahle
Director of the Innovation Center
at the University of Charleston
- U.S.A
Innovation through Play: Using Lego Serious Play Methodology to Foster Performance and Creativity
Tim Jaques
Founder and CEO of Teaming Worldwide
- U.S.A
Top 3 Reasons Why Large Organization Innovation Programs Underperform … And What To Do About it
Paul Hobcraft
Business & Innovation Ecosystems Expert
- Switzerland
A new business design that has innovation as its foundation connecting up the Enterprises in a Business Ecosystem design that is resilient, sustaining and adapting constantly
Harlan Bennett
Chief Innovation Strategist at Ever Evolving Inc.
- U.S.A
The Measure of Innovation: Strategies for Cultivating and Capturing Value – Introducing ISO 56008
Dr. Radha Rajkotia
Chief Executive Officer of Building Markets
- U.S.A
Scaling Impact: How Building Markets’ Approach to Innovation Uplifts the Poor and Vulnerable
Ian Small
Technical Innovation Lead at Expedition Engineering
- U.K.
Soar Innovation Method: how innovation ideas can be systematically de-risked using an infrastructure decarbonization program
Lenka Pincot
Chief of Staff to the CEO at PMI
- U.S.A
Project Management and its linkages with Innovation
Sara Husk
Principal Consultant at HYPE Innovation
- U.S.A
Cut Through the Chaos: A Practical Guide to Innovation Metrics with ISO 56008
Dr. Jerome S Engel
Founding Executive Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- U.S.A
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Age of Disruption
Kalpana Majumdar
Founder & CEO of Data Glue Consulting and Member of ISO Innovation US Technical Advisory Group
- U.S.A
A generic Data Innovation Framework with a Use Case
Carrie Freeman
Chair of
SecondMuse Group
- U.S.A
Innovation as a Catalyst for Collaboration
Ao Kong
Lead on Private Sector Partnerships at United Nations
- U.S.A
The success and failure of innovation labs and incubators – How do we aim for better operations and results?
Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu
Convenor ISO TC279 WG3 for Innovation Management Tools and Methods
- Canada
Innovation Management Myths and Realities – a Measurement Perspective
Tor Wallin Andreassen
Professor of Innovation at the Norwegian School of Economics
- Norway
How to Capture Customers’ Voice in Innovation
Angela Hanson
Innovation Lead at OECD
- U.S.A
Creating an authorizing environment for innovation in the public sector
Meredith Hanrahan
CEO, Culture Catalyst Partners
- U.S.A
Make Culture your Innovation Superpower
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On Gen AI
Dawn Gregory
Chief Digital Officer at Strategic Innovation Plus
- U.S.A
Beyond AI: Strategic Insights from Cross-Industry Technology Adoptions
Albert Chen
CEO & Co-founder,
Anago
- U.S.A
Generative AI Prompt Engineering Still Matters (For Now)
Jordi Albo-Canals
Chief Scientific Officer at Lighthouse DIG
- U.S.A
Navigating Innovation Frontiers: AI Powered Bionics
Carlos Marquerie
Vice Dean of Technologies at the Alfonso X University (UAX), Director of Liquid Innovation Lab
- USA
Innovation Ecosystem: AI-based Competitive Route Map
Ahmad Moradi
CEO & Founder of Netstairs
- U.S.A
Web Real-Time Communications with AI Streaming Video is the genesis of an insightful transformation
Andres Joya
CEO & Co-Founder at Coally
- Colombia
How artificial intelligence is helping companies choosing and up-skilling their teams
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On Energy
Peter Cooper
President at Elite Solutions Group
- Canada
Innovation in the Energy Industry
Maciej Bukowski
Non-resident Fellow,
CEPA
- Poland
The Geopolitics of the Green Energy Transition: How Renewables are Reshaping the Global Energy Order
Dr. Josefa Ibaceta
ECIT CIENCA E INGENIERÍA
- Colombia
Hydrogen projects development: From Chile to Latin America
Rafael Serpa
Leading the S&A team in Latin America of Energy Solutions at NEUMAN & ESSER
- Colombia
Technology along the Green Hydrogen Value Chain
Alan Kneisz
Global Leader in Energy Transition at Green Fuel Systems
- Germany
Opportunities to Decarbonize with eFuels
Peter Marrin & Jacques Moss
Associate Director and Senior Research Analyst Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure at Guidehouse Insights
- U.S.A
Hydrogen Electrolysis and Direct Air Capture: Scaling Up Capacity and Bringing Down Costs
Felipe Bernal Guarin
Global Energy Fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP)
- U.S.A
Shifting Gears: Facing the Complexities of the Energy Transition
Claudia Massei
Former CEO of Siemens Oman
- Germany
Digital Transformation and Energy Efficiency
Marco Sanjuan
Managing Director of Innovation at Promigas
- Colombia
Biomethane and Hydrogen: Enablers of Renewable Natural Gas
Horacio Pinzón
Buisness Development at Ecopetrol
- Colombia
Green Horizon: Unveiling The Hydrogen Potential in Colombia’s Energy Transition
Rachid Yazami
Founding Director & CTO at KVI Holdings
- Singapur
Addressing major lithium-ion battery issues for electric mobility and beyond
Bradley Andrews
President Worley – UK, Nordics, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
- United Kingdom
Global trends and frontline insights from the European Energy Transition
Damarys Zampani
Strategic Growth Executive, President & Founder of Sustrategy.com
- Portugal
Resilient infrastructure with energy & water security
Paul van Son
President at Dii Desert Energy
- Dubai
Innovations have made renewable energy the market winner
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On Longevity
Sabyne Moras
Country Manager at PerformanSe Italy
- Italy
Psychological Contract: The Unwritten Agreements and Expectations That Shape Work Relationships
Nic Palmarini
Director at NICA
- United Kingdom
Yesterday, today was tomorrow (Ageing, our best opportunity)
Dan Dodson
System Director, Digital Health and Innovation at UNC
- USA
Innovation in Healthcare
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On Banking
Kirsten Trusko
Co-Founder of PaaL & EMC
- U.S.A
FinTech for Good: Innovation in delivery of disaster Funds
Andre Do Valle
Managing Partner at Clarity Ventures
- U.S.A
Soon, all assets, like your house, your cash, will be tokenized, and earning interest
Tapfuma Musewe
Executive Director at Afrifursa
- Canada
Fintech Innovation in Africa: impact and growth
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On FoodTech
Paulo Silveira
Founder & CEO FoodTech Hub Latam
- Brazil
Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Pillars for the Food of the Future
Joshua Ngoma
Founder & Chief Enabler at EARN
- Africa
Developing young African agripreneurs through modern and smart agriculture
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On The State of Innovation in Countries
Salim Berbache
Partner at Ucotra Consulting
- Morocco
How is the maturity of Moroccan SMEs evolving in terms of innovation?
Carlos Arruda
Associate Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral and member of Salesforce Brasil
- Brazil
What is going on in Brazil to scale innovation in the corporate environment?
Isuru Subasinghe
Co-Founder & CEO at Serendipity in Research and Innovations
- Japan
State of innovation in Japan and strategy to enter the market as GIMI
Truls Berg
Founder & Leader Open Innovation Lab of Norway
- Norway
State of innovation in Norway and why is the Open Innovation Lab of Norway leading the way forward
Roberto Melo
President at Escala Latam
- Panama
State of innovation in Panama and how to generate scalable entrepreneurial growth in Lata
Alberto Arvizu
Director of Academic Services at Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Mexico
Tecnológico de Monterrey developing an Innovation Ecosystem with GIMI
David Fernández
CEO and Founder at TDM Internacional
- Mexico
The innovation map in Mexico and the BIG challenges to be faced within digital transformation
Rolan Garcia
CEO and Founder at Embiggen
- Philippines
The Future of Corporate Innovation in the Philippine
Benny Shlick
Founder and Managing Director at Innovation Without Borders
- Israel
Israel’s innovation recipe cannot be copied, it is an integration of culture, flexibility, directness, openness and self-confidence
Massimo Andriolo
Principal at IXL Center Italy
- Italy
Italy was a cradle of innovation … and now?
Chris Albinson
CEO & President at Communitech
- Canada
How Canada became the global innovation leader – by combining Immigration, AI, and Trust
Watch Past Think Tank Sessions On GIMI's IP And Progress
GIMI Impact
Erila Haska & Grayson Bass
- Albania & Canada
A certified course designed to empower high school students to build a more compassionate and innovative society
Leadership Program
Hitendra Patel, Manuel Mendes & Ron Jonash
- Global
Experience of IXL developing 1584 leaders in Brazil to create their leadership journey and get certified by GIMI
Ron Jonash
Senior Consultant at IXL Center
- Global
Applying Innovation 4.0 approaches to accelerate new solutions for Aging and for Sustainable Green Hydrogen with Innovation Olympics
Alice Garavito
Innovation Consultant at IXL Center
- Colombia
Successful experience in scaling up to support thousands of SMEs, building innovation capabilities and developing an innovation ecosystem for driving growth in Colombia
Juie Yao Cooper
Senior Director at IXL Center
- USA
Uplifting small and underserved businesses and how growth through the 2x program
Hitendra Patel
Innovation Guru & CEO at IXL Center
- Global
Case studies and learning using AI in a strategic innovation process
Carolina Chitiva
Innovation & Capability Specialist
- Colombia
INNOVA LATAM 2022, a successful strategy to drive innovation ecosystem collaboration
Hitendra Patel
Executive Director of GIMI
- Global
The Merger of GIMI and IAOIP What does it mean for the two communities? What are the initiatives planned for 2024?
Brett Trusko
President of the International Association of Innovation Professionals
- EEUU
IAOIP: Pioneering US ISO Standards and Fostering a Thriving Community. The Merger with GIMI and what lies ahead
David Chung
Chairman of Hong Kong Innovation Management Institute
- Hong Kong
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