Leading Innovation and Change

What leadership is or isn't depends on who you pay attention to and there are many conflicting and competing ideas, especially when it comes to leading innovation and change. Leadership is often confused with management, but good management often finds itself at odds with enacting real change and innovation. Leading change and innovation typically requires taking on the status quo and finding a way to attract ourselves, our organizations, and our communities to new ways of seeing the world.

These leaders of change and innovation will propose a leadership perspective that we can adopt to improve our chances of enacting innovative change and developing superior products and services for our customers. This new viewpoint isn’t a formula or a recipe for success, but if you adopt it you just may find yourself amazed with the change in your organizations, and more importantly, in yourself!

Slides from the presentation are available.

Events Schedule

Morning 8:30 - 12:15
Welcome 8:30 - 8:45
First Speaker 8:45 - 9:45 Mark Striebeck: Google - Innovation as a business strategy
Break 9:45 - 10:15
Second Speaker 10:15 - 11:00 Jamie Thingelstad: Ending legacy code in our lifetime (slides)
Third Speaker 11:00 - 11:45 Jon W. Spence and Dr. Nelson H. Soken: Leading Innovation and Change (slides)
Panel 11:45 - 12:15
Lunch 12:15 - 1:30
Afternoon 1:30 - 5:30
First Speaker 1:30-2:30 Stuart Halloway: Ending legacy code in our lifetime (slides)
Break 3:15-3:45
Second Speaker 3:45 - 4:00 Nate Schutta: Client Side Innovations (slides)
Third Speaker 4:00 - 4:45 David Hussman: Regression Deficit: The Danger of Waiting to Test (slides)
Panel 4:45 - 5:15
Closing 5:15 - 5:30