Monday, September 16, 2024 | Annual Growth Innovation Leadership Council Meeting

Growth Innovation Leadership Council Registration

*Please note participation in the Council’s Annual Meeting is restricted to Council Members and Associate Members only. Please visit the Council Tab above for more information.

Annual Council Meeting and Networking Luncheon

An essential meeting for members and associates to collaborate on setting the Council’s Critical Issues Agenda for the year ahead.

Welcome Networking Reception & Event Kickoff

Meet your fellow peers and colleagues as we engage in an icebreaker over cocktails to get the conversations started and set you up for an event whose foundation is built on collaboration. Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres to be served.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Introduction

Participant Meet ‘n’ Greet

This networking activity is your opportunity to identify – right out of the gate – those peers who share challenges like your own. It’s a great way to find participants who have thought leadership you can benefit from and to facilitate later dialogues throughout the event.

HEADLINER – Big Ideas, Small Experiments: The Fundamental Building Blocks of Bold Innovation

CASE HISTORIES

EXECUTIVE BULLETIN – Space 2050

Networking Luncheon

CONCURRENT COLLABORATION ZONES – ROUNDTABLE AND THINKTANK

A roundtable captures the power of all participants’ voices, insights, and experiences via group discussion and exploration of the issue at hand.

A ThinkTank employs interactive team exercises in a “roll up your sleeves” learning environment.

Choose one of the following zones:

Roundtable Zone 1.

Creating New Sustainable Revenue Streams

ThinkTank Zone 2.

Portfolio Strategy: Balance Investments in Safe Bets and Strategic Risks

SUCCESS STORY – It Starts with Your Customer’s Problems… How Do You Decide Which to Solve?

Networking and Refreshment Break

THE FIX – Crowdsourcing Tactical Solutions to Our Most Vexing Challenges

Share your smarts! Choose between four themed brainstorming sessions and crowdsource solutions to the most vexing challenges facing product innovation today. These are 15-minute rapid fire sessions with three rotations. First come, first serve, so choose wisely! Each brainstorm group will build upon the other to build a list of readily operationalized ideas for these common challenges.

The Fix on Storytelling to Stakeholders

The Fix on Metrics that Matter: Innovating Measures for Product Success

The Fix on Accelerating Go-to-Market

The Fix on Structuring and Organizing Product and Innovation Teams to Support Transformation

ASK THE EXPERTS! Panel Discussion – Building a Sound Strategy for Finding the Right Partner

CAPSTONE – Bringing Strategic Intent to Life

Starship Gallery Networking Reception

Join us in an out-of-this-world networking experience! Starship Gallery at Space Center Houston is home to multiple flown spacecraft and national treasures. Get an up-close look at some of the most amazing artifacts that trace the progression of human space exploration – the Apollo 17 Command Module, a full-size Skylab Training module, a Moon rock you can touch and more! Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres to be served.

Continental Breakfast and Networking

Shuttle Departs for Oracle Industry Lab

Arrival at Oracle Industry Lab – Check-In/Registration

Welcome, Introductions | Industry Lab History & Innovation Strategy

Oracle Industry Lab Immersive Tour

The Oracle Industry Lab is a simulated worksite demonstrating the transformative power of the internet of things (IoT), drones, autonomous equipment, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other developing technologies. Technology is driving rapid change across the project and asset lifecycle. Oracle Industry Lab helps organizations experiment, learn, and stay on the leading edge.

Networking Lunch

INSIGHTS AND IDEAS ROUNDUP – The Great Take-Away: Implementing the Best, Brightest and Boldest Ideas from the Program

Shuttle Departs to Hotel