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)
Purpose
- 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
Topics covered
Trends
Paul van Son
Carolina Strobel
Sesha Pratap
Steve Wyatt
Sean Sheppard
President at Dii Desert Energy
Operating Partner / COO Redpoint eventures
Partner at Brahma and at Maxos Studio
Professor at University of Bath School of Management
Managing Partner at U+
- Dubai
- Brazil
- EEUU
- United Kingdom
- EEUU
Innovations have made renewable energy the market winner
Fast-growing venture-capital industry in Brazil
Reinvent business models, create new marketplaces, and engage customers
Skills, capabilities, and mindsets required to thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution ‘4IR’
Silicon Valley exits, invested in 140+ startups across 3 VC funds. What we learned from building 90+ ventures
Rachid Yazami
António Alvarenga
Valentina De Matteo
Dr. CJ Meadows
Tapfuma Musewe
Founding Director & CTO at KVI Holdings
Founder of ALVA R&C and International Foresight Expert
Professor/Researcher at University of Bologna
Thought leader on tomorrow’s innovation
Executive Director at Afrifursa
- Singapur
- Portugal
- Italy
- USA
- Canada
Addressing major lithium-ion battery issues for electric mobility and beyond
Make better decisions, improve strategy definition or policymaking, and spur innovation breakthroughs
How to design resilient corporate environments through innovation knowledge
Why Design-Thinking Startups Succeeds Better and Attracts More Funding
Fintech Innovation in Africa: impact and growth
Dan Dodson
Manish Shah
Willem-Jan Jacobs
Bradley Andrews
Joshua Ngoma
System Director, Digital Health and Innovation at UNC
Food Industry Executive
Sales Director at Living Tomorrow
President Worley – UK, Nordics, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Founder & Chief Enabler at EARN
- USA
- USA
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
- Africa
Innovation in Healthcare
Food Ingredients Innovation
Creating a vision of how we will live and work in the future
Global trends and frontline insights from the European Energy Transition
Developing young African agripreneurs through modern and smart agriculture
Agostinho Almeida
Joanna Prieto
Rafael Obando
Damarys Zampani
Dr. Ai Addyson- Zhang
Chief Innovation Officer at Ecopetrol
Co-CEO of Geek Girls Latam
Head of East Coast and LATAM Partnerships at HubSpot
Strategic Growth Executive, President & Founder of Sustrategy.com
Education Disruptor – CEO and Founder at Classroom Without Walls
- Colombia
- Colombia
- USA
- Portugal
- United States
Science, technology, and innovation as a catalyst for sustainability
Systemic approach to Sustainable Development Goal: 5 Gender Equality
The funnel is dead: Meet the flywheel
Resilient infrastructure with energy & water security
To Disrupt or be Disrupted: What’s Next in Education
Jonathan Reichental, PhD
Hassan Al-Brahim
Rizzo Hahn
Jessica Day
Joel Litman
Founder of Human Future
Executive Director at Civil Service and Government Development Bureau in Qatar
Managing Director at Accenture
Co-founder at IDEASCALE
President and CEO at Valen’s Research
- USA
- Qatar
- Brazil
- EEUU
- EEUU
Making Data Work For Your Organization
Unified Customer Experience
Industry 4.0 – The trends, opportunities, and risks for the future
Leverage the collective intelligence of networks to create new business value
The at-home revolution is in full swing and explains 80% of what’s happening in the stock market
Andre Do Valle
Tunde Akindele
Ahmad Moradi
Founder do Wallet & Rig Squared
Director of Strategy and Innovation at Verizon
CEO & Founder of Netstairs
- EEUU
- USA
- EEUU
Soon, all assets, like your house, your cash, will be tokenized, and earning interest
Will your industry be disrupted by 5G?
Web Real-Time Communications with AI Streaming Video is the genesis of an insightful transformation
Innovation
Florin PAUN
TVG Krishnamurty
Louise Kelly
Johannes Jarl
Rogério Bohn
Chief Science & Partnership Officer at RAFAUT Group
Mentor an advisor
Professor of Management and Leadership at University of La Verne
Executive Director at Innovation 360 Group
Global Mentor
- France
- USA
- USA
- USA
- Brazil
New tool to hybridize the market pull approach with technology push while innovating
Why continuing education for the educated is urgent in this 21st century?
A flexible leadership style for innovation – from ambidexterity to women’s leadership
How working systematically with innovation management by assessing your teams from a 360-degree
Innovation in Family Business to generate innovative actions for traditional conservative family businesses
Manuel Mendes
Nicholas Haber
Alxander Haneng
Mohab Anis
Omar Saucedo
Global Director at Boston Innovation Gateway
Director STEM and CTE at Certiport
SVP Innovation Partnerships at Posten and Bring
CEO at Innovety
Microsoft Techspark Community Manager
- USA
- USA
- Norway
- Egypt
- Mexico
Understand why innovation is key for a successful international business market expansion
Digital Skills and Entrepreneurship: Driving Prosperity Through Certification
How did a 375-year-old postal service become Norway’s most innovative company?
Driving Innovation by Assessing Your Intellectual Assets
The U.S. Mexico Border innovation opportunities Power hub
Sid Benraouane
Rodolfo Cremer
Beatriz Daza
Mike Hatrick
Tony Ulwick
Chair of the US ISO Working Group on Innovation Management
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at European Business and Digital School
CEO of MacondoLab
Group Director IP Strategy and Portfolio at Volvo Trucks Technology
Strategyn Founder and CEO, Inventor, Author, and Innovation Thought Leader
- Dubai
- Spain
- Colombia
- Sweden
- USA
Innovation management and ISO perspective
Innovation for education in the 21st Century
At MacondoLab, everything is possible: bringing ideas to life with the power of innovation
Chasing Innovation, why innovation programs fail, and what we should do about that
Taking the Guesswork Out of Innovation
Maria Cristina Córdova
Guillermo de Haro
Henry May
Johan Persson
Nicola Winter
Co-founder of Relaci & Founder at Innfiltrados
Interim Vice Dean, Graduate Programs at IE School of Science and Technology
Cofounder & CEO at Coschool
Partner at Rhubarbs
Member of the ESA astronaut reserve, pilot, speaker and Engineer
- Colombia
- Spain
- Colombia
- Swiss
- Germany
Collaborative Innovation: The standard way to innovate in the coming years
From Stoicism to Complex Problem Solving. How Data and People will save the world
Edumoción – an innovative bet to change education in LatAm
How maps changed how we approach innovation and strategy
Innovation, resilence and new leadership from Air and Space World
Nic Palmarini
Josep Miquel Piqué
Kevin Pang
Julius Bautista
Carlos Marquerie
Director at NICA
President – Triple Helix Association
Vice President of Business Development at Qnergy
Principal, Strategic Partner Engagements at Amazon Web Services
Vice Dean of Technologies at the Alfonso X University (UAX), Director of Liquid Innovation Lab
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- USA
- USA
- USA
Yesterday, today was tomorrow (Ageing, our best opportunity)
Orchestration of Innovation Ecosystems: The Pacts of Innovation
From Dinosaur DNA to Methane Abatement: Innovation as a 3-ball Collision
Accelerating Growth and Innovation through the Cloud
Innovation Ecosystem: AI-based Competitive Route Map
Kristen Anderson
Ken Merkel
Steffen Gackstatter
Carlo Saveiro & Domenico Caprioli
Alice Chung
Advisor at StretchDollar
Chief Executive Officer at Unlimit
Partner at Roland Berger
Director of the CREST & Scientific Director of NEXT4
Sr. Analytics Manager, Genentech
- USA
- USA
- Germany
- Italy
- USA
Why startups win, and how any organization can capture some of the startup advantages
Kickstarting a transformational culture
Best-practice Corporate Startup Engagement
Unified Customer Experience
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
State of Innovation in Countries
Salim Berbache
Carlos Arruda
Isuru Subasinghe
Truls Berg
Roberto Melo
Partner at Ucotra Consulting
Associate Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral and member of Salesforce Brasil
Co-Founder & CEO at Serendipity in Research and Innovations
Founder & Leader Open Innovation Lab of Norway
President at Escala Latam
- Morocco
- Brazil
- Japan
- Norway
- Panama
How is the maturity of Moroccan SMEs evolving in terms of innovation?
What is going on in Brazil to scale innovation in the corporate environment?
State of innovation in Japan and strategy to enter the market as GIMI
State of innovation in Norway and why is the Open Innovation Lab of Norway leading the way forward
State of innovation in Panama and how to generate scalable entrepreneurial growth in Lata
Alberto Arvizu
David Fernández
Massimo Andriolo
Rolan Garcia
Benny Shlick
Director of Academic Services at Tecnológico de Monterrey
CEO and Founder at TDM Internacional
Principal at IXL Center Italy
CEO and Founder at Embiggen
Founder and Managing Director at Innovation Without Borders
- Mexico
- Mexico
- Italy
- Philippines
- Israel
Tecnológico de Monterrey developing an Innovation Ecosystem with GIMI
The innovation map in Mexico and the BIG challenges to be faced within digital transformation
Italy was a cradle of innovation … and now?
The Future of Corporate Innovation in the Philippine
Israel’s innovation recipe cannot be copied, it is an integration of culture, flexibility, directness, openness and self-confidence
GIMI IP and progress
GIMI Impact
Leadership Program
Ron Jonash
Alice Garavito
Juie Yao Cooper
Erila Haska & Grayson Bass
Hitendra Patel, Manuel Mendes & Ron Jonash
Senior Consultant at IXL Center
Innovation Consultant at IXL Center
Senior Director at IXL Center
- Albania & Canada
- Global
- Global
- Colombia
- USA
A certified course designed to empower high school students to build a more compassionate and innovative society
Experience of IXL developing 1584 leaders in Brazil to create their leadership journey and get certified by GIMI
Applying Innovation 4.0 approaches to accelerate new solutions for Aging and for Sustainable Green Hydrogen with Innovation Olympics
Successful experience in scaling up to support thousands of SMEs, building innovation capabilities and developing an innovation ecosystem for driving growth in Colombia
Uplifting small and underserved businesses and how growth through the 2x program
Hitendra Patel
Carolina Chitiva
David Chung
Hitendra Patel
Innovation Guru & CEO at IXL Center
Director of Business Development at IXL Center
Chairman of Hong Kong Innovation Management Institute
Innovation Guru & CEO at IXL Center
- Global
- Colombia
- Hong Kong
- Global
Case studies and learning using AI in a strategic innovation process
INNOVA LATAM 2022, a successful strategy to drive innovation ecosystem collaboration
A unique partnership model with universities to co-organize different types of programs
Leadership program: how we can build the best version of ourselves
