Honored and excited to have been invited back for the third year in a row to help Business France Düsseldorf with their “Impact Germany” program for French startups expanding into the German market!
Recently I was honored and excited to attend my fifth “Lean Innovation Educators Summit” and exchange best-practices and catch up with fellow educators from around the world.
The Lean Innovation Educators Summit is designed to model the methodologies we teach, as we conduct beneficiary discovery with our fellow Lean LaunchPad educators to improve our courses. A key aspect of teaching the Lean LaunchPad methodology is encouraging students to “get out of the classroom” and talk to others. That’s exactly what we as Lean educators strive to do ourselves at the Summit.
The LEan INNOVATION EDUCATORS SUMMIT
“At our fifth Lean Innovation Educators Summit, we discussed the role of the university and other important organizations in supporting the critical mission of preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. Attendees gleaned insights from keynote speaker Rich Lyons, the Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer of the University of California at Berkeley, about the opportunities and challenges faced by the Lean Innovation Educators community.”
Excited to be doing keynotes again at real on-premise events despite the ongoing global pandemic!
Today I’m in Unter den Linden 1 at Bertelsmann Berlin, speaking about Blockchain, Crypto and Web3 at the Bertelsmann Tech & Data Week 2021. Humbled and honored to be on the same roster of keynote speakers as the excellent Hannah Fry (read her books)!
It’s a company internal event, so I won’t be able to share the whole nine yards.
On a personal note, I suspect having travelled straight from the clinic where I’d just witnessed our second child being born and not having slept for over 24 hours to deliver the keynote live on stage I might have come off a little disheveled. ;) Zero regrets, though.
Here’s a teaser:
Web2 is the internet today, dominated by tech giants. It’s built on client-server architecture where users are the client and companies control the servers. These companies extract value from creators and users by sitting in the middle.
Web3 is the internet that’s being pioneered by crypto;peer-to-peer networks of computers that talk to each other without middlemen using blockchain tech. It’s the new Wild Wild West, the new frontier of the Internet.
As we now know, this Web 1 (and Web 2) thing worked out insanely well for some.
For those who made themselves dependant on these centralised platforms – and then the platforms changed – it turned out not so great:
Also check out Peter Yang’s great beginners guide on crypto. It’s my go-to resource when trying to explain to the uninitiated. It’s the best first step guide I have read so far.
Recently I was on Fabian Böck‘s BOECKBX podcast and talked a bit about corporate innovation and the effects of the pandemic on businesses – including my own.
Have a look and listen.
Based on my own experience working in outsourced innovation with governments, organisations and some of the largest companies in the world on and off between 1996 and 2010, I do not think it is a good idea to outsource (business model) innovation.
That’s the whole premise of my company, +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES.
From the +ANDERSEN mission statement:
“… we enable companies to manage and run innovation for tomorrow inside their own company, using their own people today.
Because innovation in your company will never happen by outside consultants.
It has to come from your most valuable assets – the people you already have on the inside.”
Join Rob Aalders and me this Tuesday, September 8th at 1500 hrs Berlin to connect with your peers in the West of Germany and share innovation insights and experiences as a part of the innov8rs unconference.
We will also share from our own experience with corporate innovation and startups.
For a discount code, ping me.
Here’s how to join us: innov8rs.co
