is the Chief Innovation Officer of Maga Design Group, a pioneer in the use of visual information mapping to drive innovation and strategy. She is also the co-founder and Executive Editor of Innovation Excellence, the world’s most popular innovation blog for practitioners. A versatile innovator with over 20 years of global experience, Julie has helped business leaders determine, activate and realize their innovation strategies.  magadesign.com

Julie helped launch Maga Design Group’s proprietary approach to creating physical and virtual representations of collective strategic thinking. Her prior roles included CMO for Brand-image at Desgrippes Laga; Managing Director of R&D for Tom Peters; and Chief Learning Officer for Anixter International. Julie is a frequent speaker, blogger and a contributing author to books including The Big Moo with Seth Godin, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching with Phil Harkin, and Beyond Branding with Nicholas Ind. She is currently writing a book on Courage and Innovation.

is the Founder of the FORTH innovation method. Previously with Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group, at the end of 2002, he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation method to ideate new products and services. In 2006, Gijs wrote the practical innovation best seller Creating New Products in which he presents the FORTH innovation method. He has written several books since on this effective innovation method including his most recent, The Innovation Expedition - A visual toolkit to start innovation which is packed with exploration stories, quotes, charts, cases, checklists, formats and innovation maps.

Gijs helps organizations kick start innovation and his clients are both companies in industry and services, non-profit organizations, government and health organizations. Loving to inspire others, he was chosen by Linkedin as one of the top 150 thought leaders they profile and as the #2 International top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012.

Gijs is a key-note speaker on innovation at international conferences and workshops, like Let's Play Innovation (2013), Design Thinking Festival Potsdam (2012), ISPIM Barcelona (2012), SERVDES Helsinki (2012) en ECCI XII Faro (2011). He is member of the think tank CREA-NET 2.0, advising Southern Europe on innovation best practices and a trusted industry “Influencer” on LinkedIn with over 43,000 followers of his innovation insights.  Gijs is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands.CREA-NET 2.0, advising Southern Europe on innovation best practices. Gijs is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

forth-innovation.com  and Twitter: @gijsvanwulfen 

is one of the foremost authorities on innovation culture, collaboration, and open innovation.

During the past twenty years, his message to hundreds of thousands of people in over 40 countries around the world has focused on how to enable innovation by bringing together divergent points of view in an efficient manner.

Over the years, Stephen Shapiro has shared his innovative philosophy in books such as 24/7 Innovation, The Little Book of BIG Innovation Ideas and Goal-Free Living. He led a 20,000 person process and innovation practice during his 15 year tenure with Accenture. And his Personality Poker® system has been used by more than 50,000 people around the world to create high-performing innovation teams.

His latest book, Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out Innovate the Competition (Portfolio Penguin), was selected as the best innovation and creativity book of 2011 and is an international #1 best selling business book.

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is senior lecturer in business at Columbia Business School, where he teaches creative strategy in graduate and executive courses. He is the author of four books on strategic intuition as the key to innovation: Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy (2002); The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens (2003); Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (2007); and Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation (2012). In 2007 the journal Strategy+Business named Strategic Intuition "Best Strategy Book of the Year."  Professor Duggan has BA, MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University.

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helps companies create new sources of growth in rapidly changing environments.  It helps clients to:

• Develop innovative strategies
• Spot new opportunities
• Assess potential markets
• Develop detailed ideas
• Commercialize new concepts
• Build innovation capabilities
• Establish corporate incubators or strategic marketing functions

New Markets' staff includes top strategy consultants, highly experienced market researchers, and entrepreneurs.  It integrates their perspectives in ways that traditional consulting firms, operating in distinct silos, are not equipped to do.  It grounds its approaches in rigorous methods based on leading academic and field research, and publishes findings in outlets such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and the Financial Times.  Through its disciplined approach to a traditionally undisciplined field, New Markets creates predictability in project outcomes and sustained business success for our clients.  Leadership of the company worked closely with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen - rated the world's top management thinker - to build consulting practices based on his research, branching out to form New Markets in 2009.  Capturing New Markets, a book by the firm's Managing Director, Steve Wunker, was named one of the five Best Business Books of 2011.  The firm works with a wide range of firms - venture-backed start-ups, aggressive mid-market firms, and global leaders including Nike, Commerce Bank, Barclays, Siemens, and many others.

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IXL Center helps corporations and individuals develop breakthrough strategic solutions and world-class innovation management capabilities in order to drive significant, sustainable business impact.

The Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center) is focused on delivering breakthrough and high performance results, building lasting innovation capabilities, and researching and codifying best practices in innovation management.

We develop innovative business solutions and capabilities of leaders, teams and organizations. We help organizations get started with powerful audits and learning histories, and we work across the entire spectrum from sourcing and idea generation, through concept development and pressure testing, to accelerated pilots, launch and scale-up. We drive accelerated execution through our Innovation Accelerator, and our experienced consulting support and action coaching of Eureka, Pursuit and Realization Teams.

http://www.ixl-center.com/

Innosight is a global strategy and innovation consulting firm. We collaborate with senior leaders at the world's top companies to identify and pursue new growth opportunities, build innovation capabilities, and create disruptive new products, services, and businesses.

Our consulting approach is rooted in the groundbreaking concepts pioneered by the Innosight partners, board members, and our co-founder, Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen. We have a deep understanding of the patterns of successful innovation, developed through rigorous research and fieldwork across a variety of industries and business types. We believe developing innovation capabilities is essential for long-term and sustainable growth that serves multiple stakeholders—shareholders, employees, consumers, and society at large. Innosight is uniquely able to help organizations address this critical need.

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• We focus on growth through innovation. This single focus enables us to provide a comprehensive, end-to-end service offering based on proven principles and deep expertise.
• We've successfully solved a problem like yours before. Our singular focus means our people bring much more experience, judgment, and pattern recognition to your growth problems. In addition, our employees often have multi-dimensional experience in tier-one strategy consulting environments, corporate settings, and start-ups.
• Our insights are unique—and uniquely effective. We bring clarity to growth topics as diverse as establishing a corporate innovation function, overhauling a business model for developing markets, or finding growth alternatives for commodity markets. Our approach and methodologies go beyond traditional analytic consulting approaches to help you "discover the unknown"—and identify and leverage opportunities and markets that don't yet exist.
• We focus on results and long-term growth. Our goal is the same as yours—creating tangible business results. We partner with you, working as part of your team through every step of the innovation process to achieve your objectives.
• We take a long-term, general management view of innovation. We view innovation as a critical long-term corporate capability, something that should be a top agenda item for the CEO and senior leaders. Because of this, every relationship we form focuses heavily on transferring real, long-term organizational capability to the organization. We aspire to leave you with the organizational structure, process, and skills to continue to grow over the long haul.
• We are committed to advancing the theory and practice of innovation. Starting with co-founder Clay Christensen's classic book, The Innovator's Dilema, Innosight has been dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of innovation. Our partners and our network of collaborators extend Innosight's thought leadership through dozens of books, Harvard Business Review articles, and other content that break new ground in innovation strategy.

Peter Cook leads Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock, offering Business and Organizational Development, Training, Coaching plus Keynotes which blend thought leadership on business with the power of music; be it rock, jazz or classical. Peter works with some of the world’s top businesses and organizations, including Johnson and Johnson, BP, The United Nations, Roche, Imperial Business School, Allianz, Electronic Arts, The Metropolitan Police et al.

Peter has three passions: science; academia and business:

• Leading innovative new Pharmaceutical Product R&D teams to bring multi-million dollar life-saving drugs safely to the market including the first treatment for AIDS

• Trouble-shooting businesses and starting up factories around the world

• Internal business, oganizational development and change consultancy

• Writing and tutoring for Business Schools at MBA level including Hult International Business School and Duke Corporate Education (ranked #1in the world for 12 years by the Financial Times) to offer world class corporate development programs

• Writing and performing music

Peter started life as a chemist, has an MBA and a ‘university of life’ qualification in leading rock bands.  Peter's talks can be accompanied by a roster of class A rock stars and sessions musicians. He is also an author of seven books , including "Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll " and "The Music of Business" , on business leadership, innovation and creativity acclaimed by Tom Peters, Professors Charles Handy, Adrian Furnham and Harvey Goldsmith CBE.

Academy of Rock: http://www.academy-of-rock.co.uk/

Human Dynamics: http://www.humdyn.co.uk/aboutus/

Harvey Seifter is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts-based learning. Through Seifter Associates, the New York City-based consulting firm he founded in 1995, Harvey designs and teaches arts-based leadership and innovation programs for General Electric at GE’s Crotonville Global Leadership Development Center. Seifter Associates has also implemented innovation, collaboration and leadership development and culture change projects at IBM, AstraZeneca, Real Networks, Takeda, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Siemens, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs and BMW.

Harvey is also Director and Principal Investigator of The Art of Science Learning, a $3 million National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity in science education and technology innovation, and the author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductor-less Orchestra. 

He served on the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Senior Executive Faculty (2002-05); lectured at Université de Paris, Hitotsubashi University, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the National Academy of Science; and keynoted at the International Leadership Association Global Conference, Transatlantic Forum and the China Global Innovation Conference. 

A Fellow of the Royal Society for Art and a member of the Banff Leadership Center International Advisory Board, Harvey has participated in the White House Global Cultural Initiative and been honored as a Peter Drucker Foundation Thought Leader.

 www.seifterassociates.com 

The mission of the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) is to pioneer new ideas and strategies that contribute to regional collaboration, innovation and prosperity. Founded in 2005, the Center partners with public, private, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to identify and enhance the key drivers of innovation in regions across Indiana, the U.S. and beyond. These drivers include a vibrant and inclusive civic leadership, a commitment to collaboration, the application of advanced data support systems to promote sound decision-making and the pursuit of economic development investments that build on the competitive assets of regions. As such, the four goals of the PCRD align with major contributors to healthy and sustainable regions.

We anticipate dramatic changes to the academic and market landscapes for our nation’s research universities in the coming years. Our proactive response is to continue to explore new ways to co-create value with those willing to invest in their future prosperity. In defining the tools, frameworks and strategy disciplines to guide these sophisticated collaborations, Purdue Center for Economic Development stands at the forefront of this important work.

For more information: https://www.pcrd.purdue.edu/index.php

Co-founded by Professor Clayton Christensen and Craig Hatkoff in 2009, the Disruptor Foundation is a private 501(C)3 non-profit whose mission is to raise awareness of and encourage the advancement of disruptive innovation theory and its application in societally-critical domains. This is done through through organizing conferences, events, prizes, competitions, and awards. 

The Foundation’s marquee event, the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, is presented in collaboration with theTribeca Film Festival and the Harvard Business School’s Professor Clayton Christensen, originator of disruptive innovation theory.

http://disruptorfoundation.org/

Recognized as one of the leading global consulting and professional development firms serving the financial services industry, Cannon does more than simply train and consult: we partner with our clients to give them the skills and knowledge to create positive impact. Whether you’re an individual looking to make a difference or an organization in need of innovative problem solving, our unique instructional and consulting experiences meet you where you are, with the answers and know-how you need. 

Cannon provides 24/7 online professional development courses, valuable learn-by-doing training experiences, a monthly estate planning teleconference and The Certified Wealth Strategist® designation which provides a unique industry perspective on how to collaborate with your client and your client’s financial influencers.

www.cannonfinancial.com

Startupbootcamp is a global network of industry focused startup accelerators. We take startups global by giving them direct access to an international network of the most relevant partners, investors and mentors in their sector.

Startupbootcamp started in 2010 and now operates globally with 13 accelerator programs and 10 locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Istanbul, London, Singapore, Miami and New York. 

Each year Startupbootcamp runs industry-focused programs in more countries than any other accelerator in the world. All programs are located in global innovation hubs where startups spend 3 months meeting the top mentors, investors and partners in their industry from over 30 countries.

http://www.startupbootcamp.org/welcome.html

Brite Idea Lab is a technology development company providing an enterprise-scale, white-label, SAAS platform to collect and manage Ideas/innovation, internally under the trade name of i-Lab, and from an external public grass-roots portal under the Brite Idea Lab brand. The technology provides a secure internal or external community of Idea submitters, idea collectors and companies providing services with SEARCH, Match, Follow-Me features to connect based on relevant interests. Back office features focus on managing idea portfolios and dispatching ideas to internal innovation authorities responsible for "decisioning" new ideas within the business process.

Brite Idea Lab has also launched a public-facing innovation community where entrepreneurs, business leaders, inventors and students can post their ideas to "connect" with resources from corporations, small businesses and universities.

For more information please visit our website:

https://briteidealab.com/#/home 

Intersource Consulting Group LLC is a financial services consulting firm, specializing in compliance with securities regulation for FINRA/SEC-registered broker-dealers, SEC-registered investment advisers, and for the financial services compliance review needs of financial technology (“FinTech”) companies.

Intersource acts as your right-hand, outsourced compliance and/or financial specialist, providing the SEC & FINRA with the answers they need to keep your firm in business, and your operations thriving. 

Whether it’s guidance through a regulatory examination, conducting mock examinations, facilitating a New or Continuing Membership Application, computing your net capital, projecting your Pro Forma financials, or consulting on operational restructuring – make no mistake that  Intersource Consulting Group is the regulatory answer for your financial services firm! 

A founding member of the Institute for Innovation Development’s FinTech Radar program, Intersource Consulting Group also pledges its marketing & networking support to Accelerators, Incubators and FinTech clients.  Through its wide network of financial services and investment advisory companies, Intersource will strive to identify business synergies where Accelerators, Incubators and FinTech members can all seek potential business opportunities within the larger financial services landscape. 

Intersource Consulting Group is spearheaded by the following two financial industry stalwarts and seasoned compliance professionals:

Donald R. Pollard - serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Intersource Consulting Group, basing his operations in New York.  Mr. Pollard, an experienced executive with over 25 years in the investments industry (including Wall Street), oversees Compliance, Operations and Business Development for Intersource. 

​Don’s client-facing services for Intersource feature his critical role as the remote Chief Compliance Officer ("CCO") for Intersource’s broker-dealer & registered investment adviser ("RIA"s) clients.

Ernie D. Kappotis - is the Chief Financial Officer of Intersource Consulting Group, basing his operations in Greater Boston.  Mr. Kappotis serves as Remote FINOP (“Financial and Operations Principal”) (SEC-required) for broker-dealer clients. 

With twelve years of rock solid experience in broker-dealer and investment advisory compliance & accounting combined with his experience as a lead FINRA sales practice examiner, Mr. Kappotis provides the analytical difference on the financial/capital/profitability/compliance side that your broker-dealer or investment adviser needs to navigate this tight, cost-centric regulatory environment.

Ernie provides clients with the inside-track for understanding the various FINRA/SEC regulatory perspectives & expectations.

Please feel free to contact us, either on-line through www.intersourcecg.com or through e-mail info@intersourcecg.com to initiate creative conversations!  None of us get anywhere without a helping hand!