We took the winners of a 'most innovative company' contest, organised by an internationally renowned bank, to San Francisco to give them some of their own medicine. During an intensive 4-day tour we brought them in touch with some of the top-of-the-league innovators in Silicon Valley at the moment. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs once said. We hope we were able to inspire these inspiring companies to keep pushing the innovation boundaries and to become and stay leaders in their respective industries.
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Steven is an expert in customer focus in a digital world and in how our customers will behave in the Day After Tomorrow. He is a popular speaker at home and abroad. In his keynote presentations, Steven takes his audience on a journey to the world of modern customer relationships in a clever, enthusiastic and inspiring way. So far, he gave more than 750 keynote presentations, reaching more than 200.000 people in over 30 countries around the world and received several best speaker awards.
More about StevenPeter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
More about PeterDaniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. Dr. Kraft has over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation.
More about DanielDaniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. Dr. Kraft has over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Daniel is the Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience for Singularity University and is Founding Executive Director for Exponential Medicine, a program which explores convergent, exponentially developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. His various TEDTalks have over 1 Million Views. Daniel was recently named a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s Healthcare Innovator Fellows.
Following undergraduate degrees at Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Dr. Kraft was board certified in the Harvard combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He went on to complete Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation, and extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. He has multiple scientific publications (Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California San Francisco.Dr. Kraft is the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies. He serves as an advisor to the X-Prize, Nokia, Qualcomm Life, and a variety of healthcare startups.Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with an F-16 fighter Squadron. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine published with NASA, and was a finalist for astronaut selection.
Runway is a co-working space and innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors, Fortune 500 companies, and industry experts. They create a perfect and inspiring setting for innovation. They also host accelerator programs for high-growth startups, provide corporate innovation services to global companies, and host amazing events.
Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
More about PeterAlessandro Voto is a West Coast Regional Director for Consensys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain technology venture studio.
Alessandro connects organizations and social entrepreneurs with the San Francisco Bay Area blockchain community to build decentralized applications and services.
His focus lies at the intersection of economic design, peer-to-peer technology, and social change.
ConsenSys aims to improve current services and concepts as well as building new ways in which we engage with technology and others. Blockchain technology and dApps have the ability to decentralize power from existing authorities through the use of smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and asset ownership.
This shift will change current businesses and economic and social paradigms. Transaction costs and barriers to entry will be reduced in various industries. The result will likely lead to an increase in economic exchange and prosperity. Alessandro Voto will tell us their story.
Founder of Crowd Companies, an innovation council which connects big brands to leaders, startups, and communities in the Collaborative Economy.
More about JeremiahJoin Crowd Company founder, Jeremiah Owyang, as he leads you on a tour of the new business models needed to compete in today’s digital world. From the Collaborative Economy like Airbnb, Uber, and LendingClub, to the Autonomous World where self driving cars replace human workers. These two megatrends have impacts to every industry, and require business model shifts. Get ready to change.
Benny Du is Partnership Coordinator at Gigster, which is the easiest way to build custom software, combining the world’s best developers, product visionaries, and industry-leading tools into a single, powerful platform.
Gigster is an AI-enabled, on-demand software development platform powered by a fast growing network of 1000+ top quality freelance developers, engineers, designers and product managers.
Anyone can hire a full development team in minutes, and work with the top 1% of talent from Silicon Valley, with a fixed price and guaranteed quality.
Gigster is a smart software development service, combining top developers and designers with artificial intelligence.
Their mission is to become the world’s engineering department, building custom project teams with top talent from the biggest tech companies.
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the biggest VC's founded by Marc Andreessen, they are on a road to conquer the world.
With its forward-looking vision and extensive experience in understanding the digital economy, the role and mission of L'Atelier is to assist its clients in formulating the right strategy to address and take advantage of current and future change. Today L’Atelier’s three main areas of expertise are Prospective Research, Business Transformation Consulting Services and Business Acceleration Programmes.
Reason Future Tech Escape Room gamifies technology exploration and enhances teamwork through a carefully crafted Sci-Fi experience. Players are locked in a room, and they have to solve a series of puzzles to escape within a set time limit.
Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.
He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various awards, including best paper awards at ICML and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR-YIP) award, the Okawa Foundation award, and the 2011's TR35.
More about PieterWe start off the day with a visit to BAIR (Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research) Lab where we'll get introduced into the workings of Artificial Intelligence by Pieter Abbeel.
Pieter is a friend of the house by now but his story evolves each time and remains extremely relevant. Expect to see some of the most recent breakthroughs in AI. This is a session you’ll someday tell your grandkids about!
JUST is an innovative food company with the credo that everybody deserves to eat well. They perform research in the plant kingdom to try and make our food tastier and healthier. Besides the eating well aspect, JUST is very concerned with the sustainability of the food industry at the moment, and is figuring out a way to solve it. They have amazed the world with their revolutionary products such as the plant-based omelet and the healthy cookie dough and won't stop until they've established a global fair, honest and just food system.
Dave Jackson is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Avametric where he oversees the engineering and science teams. Dave was inspired to create Avametric when he was unable to find correctly sized clothes. Discussing this problem with friends, it became clear that many types of garments had no consistent sizing between brands or styles - it was impossible to know how anything would fit. Tthis problem affects everyone when shopping online.
At that time, he was a PhD Student in Stanford’s Computer Science department, working on self driving cars and computer vision. He recognized how the same algorithms that allow a robotic car to understand it’s 3D environment can be used understand the shape of a human being, which serves as a starting point to accurately simulating how a garment will fit. After being interested in this problem for several years, he took leave from Stanford and founded Avametric in 2012. Dave has a physics degree from Brown and is an experienced sailor.
Dave Jackson is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Avametric where he oversees the engineering and science teams. Dave was inspired to create Avametric when he was unable to find correctly sized clothes. Discussing this problem with friends, it became clear that many types of garments had no consistent sizing between brands or styles - it was impossible to know how anything would fit.
This problem affects everyone when shopping online. Avametric technology enables brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their apparel & accessories. The texture, shape and form of the clothes map to customizable digital body models and can be experienced in content for web, mobile and AR/VR.
We invite speakers you met on the tour to join us for dinner so you can continue the conversation. We use Feastly for this private event and always select a top chef, this time we chose Geoffrey Reed. A chef who catches what he cooks.
As coach, educator, & entrepreneur Yeshua empowers leaders evolve their life & business.
He uses his eclectic experience developing thriving organizations to enable others do the same. Projects he has built positively touch Millions globally within business, non-profit, and government in the arts, media, education, health, environment, food, water, mobility, energy, governance, and peace. He has an interdisciplinary background; as a U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant, U.S. Department of State diplomat, touring musician, urban monk, movement builder, community organizer, conference host, technologist, and founder of social ventures and non-profits. Yeshua is pioneering a new field at the leading edge of social innovation integrating biomimicry, regenerative development, and mindfulness.
The definition of biomimicry goes as follows: "the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modelled on biological entities and processes." In short it means you get the inspiration for innovation from nature. Since nature has been perfecting itself over millions of years. Yeshua and Tamsin gave our participants a taste of the power of biomimicry and the influence it can have on businesses.
B8ta designs retail stores for discovering, trying and buying the latest tech products. it has developed a business model based on in-store physical experiences to revive the retail industry and show that physical shops are not dead yet. It showcases high tech or sometimes high end products from big and small companies to whom physical store space is often out of reach and offers an experience to the customers. It lately launched its new concept called 'Built by B8ta' in which it helps brands to open their own stores.
Quid is software that reads millions of documents and offers immediate insight by organising that content visually. It powers human intuition with machine intelligence, enabling organisations to make decisions that matter.
Shelby is a social entrepreneur who is intrigued by the power of connecting people online to positively impact the offline world. Shelby has been called a pioneer in “Collaborative Consumption” or the “Sharing Economy.” This movement is rapidly changing consumer behaviors in many ways, compelling people to share everything from cars to apartments to lawnmowers, united by the core concepts that access trumps ownership and value unused is waste. As an independent consultant and speaker, Shelby aims to spread these ideas to organizations around the world.
More about ShelbyTuro is a car rental marketplace where car owners in the US and Canada provide travelers with the perfect vehicle for their next adventure. Across the country or across town, travelers choose from a unique selection of nearby cars, while car owners earn extra money and help fuel the adventures of travelers from around the world. A pioneer of the sharing economy and travel industry, Turo is a safe, supportive community where the car you rent is part of a story, not a fleet. Whether it’s an F-150 truck to help out on moving day, a Tesla for a luxurious weekend away, or a classic VW bus for a picture-perfect road trip, travelers rent the car and own the adventure. Discover Turo at https://turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play.
Shelby is a social entrepreneur who is intrigued by the power of connecting people online to positively impact the offline world. Shelby has been called a pioneer in “Collaborative Consumption” or the “Sharing Economy.” This movement is rapidly changing consumer behaviors in many ways, compelling people to share everything from cars to apartments to lawnmowers, united by the core concepts that access trumps ownership and value unused is waste. As an independent consultant and speaker, Shelby aims to spread these ideas to organizations around the world.
More about ShelbyOur tour network spans the most pioneering innovators from all over the world!