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A community where innovators, designers, and builders collaborate to turn bold ideas into real-world impact — through deep dives, frameworks, and better ways of working. Join to shape the future of innovation, together.

Where innovation is refined through structured collaboration — sharpening thinking, challenging assumptions, and turning concepts into action. Together, we create white papers, frameworks, methodologies, and research to drive real-world impact.

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JUNE 2026 AI & INNOVATION

Delve into the necessity of responsible and frugal AI, examining how generative models like ChatGPT consume energy, water, and hardware, and why they can hallucinate or amplify bias. James Martin shares concrete governance tools and frameworks that enable participants to manage AI risks while respecting planetary and social limits.

Detectives of the Future: From Signals To Trends with Lourdes Rodriguez

Generative AI may work faster, but can it truly create? In this inspiration session, we unpack the Creative Gap, learn to use GenAI as a sparring partner in a creative sandbox, and examine why human taste, ethics, and gut feeling matter more as automation rises.

Working With Futures With Mathias Bern Bjornhof

Fintech startups face the challenge of scaling efficiently while innovating continuously. This webinar explores practical strategies, using a real-world case, to show how startups balance short-term performance and long-term growth.

Stop thinking in isolation and start refining ideas with others in real-world innovation contexts!

MAY 2026 FUTURE FORESIGHT

Phil Balagtas
The May Future Foresight Month is curated by Phil Balagtas. Phil is a designer, strategist and futurist based in Barcelona. He has over 25 years of experience designing digital products, services and strategies for a variety of devices and platforms. Within the last decade he has served as a Design Director for General Electric’s Digital Aviation group and for McKinsey & Company. Today he is a professor at Elisava University and leads his own consultancy called HABITAT training organizations on Futures Thinking. He has just published a book on O’Reilly called, Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation and Strategy.

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Working With Futures With Mathias Bern Bjornhof

"Futures Thinking in Practice" introduces strategic foresight as a tool for decision-making under uncertainty. Learn actionable frameworks, real-world cases, and how futures-driven innovation—linked with design thinking—turns insights into prototypes, experiments, and new products or services.

Detectives of the Future: From Signals To Trends with Lourdes Rodriguez

"Detectives of the Future" introduces a methodology to distinguish signals, trends, and hype. This talk explores horizon scanning, offering practical insights for futures thinking, innovation, and structured change analysis, addressing challenges like bias and relevance. Ideal for practitioners and learners.

Decoding Next with Tino Klaehne

"Decoding the Next" by Tino Klaehne reveals how Lufthansa Innovation Hub uses the InsightsOS framework to turn data into foresight: tracking knowns, detecting signals, and exploring futures. Learn to transform noise into actionable narratives and build structured strategic intelligence for your organization.

Mapping Future-Facing Contribution in Innovation work with Sabrina Sullivan

"Foresight in Hybrid Roles" introduces the Foresight Spectrum and Signature—a framework to help innovation leaders in hybrid roles (strategy, design, transformation) make their future-facing work visible, intentional, and valuable. Participants map their unique contribution, clarify its impact, and learn to articulate it effectively within their organization.

NEXT MONTHLY THEMES

In monthly themes, we have Expert Lectures that are brought to life
in a following Workshop and a Deep-Dive Case.
JUNE '26
AI & INNOVATION

We discuss, across different sessions, how AI can be used to foster creativity and innovation, and what the ethical implications of using AI are.

JULY '26
SUSTAINABLE
INNOVATIONS

Innovation is often seen as creating ever more value—new products and services. But what about sustainable innovation, not just for your business but for society as well?

AUGUST '26
DESIGN &
INNOVATION

This theme is at the core of what we do. How can design help us better understand needs and create new value? We discuss this from a practical, methodological point of view.

PAST WEBINARS

Whenever you have mist one of our transformative webinars in the past, you can replay the recordings available at our community

Steering Innovation Ecosystem - Nadine Roijakkers

Nadine Roijakkers

Nadine Roijakkers translates research into frameworks for steering innovation ecosystems.

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Orchestrating Ecosystems in Practice - Margot Felix

Margot Felix

Margot Felix shares practical ecosystem orchestration insights, lessons, and governance challenges.

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Design Your Ecosystem Growth Path - Rolf van Haren

Rolf van Haren

A data-driven approach to assess innovation ecosystems, providing maturity scores and tailored paths.

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Government as Ecosystem moderator - Yves Vanderbeken

Yves Vanderbeken

Explore how governments can enable self-directed citizen services through trusted partner ecosystems.

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Enabling Digital Transformation - Jan Van Caneghem

Jan Van Caneghem

Digital transformation through tech, human, and economic lenses. How cross-sector insights drive innovation.

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Common Lexicon: Connect People, systems, and context in digital transformation - Pien Walraven

Pien Walraven

A hands-on knowledge-modelling approach to align teams, processes, and IT in complex, evolving ecosystems.

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Nobody cares about innovation, Then came GenAI - Tobias Studer Andersson

Tobias Studer Andersson

Cut through "innovation theater," reveal what truly drives impactful innovation in today’s urgent landscape.

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Corporate Innovation Typology & the Ambidextrous organisation

Deborah Hayek

Explore how strategy and innovation interact in ambidexterity, introducing a Corporate Innovation typology.

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Corporate Innovation Typology & the Ambidextrous organisation

Jaco Fok

Why innovation gets optimised away in large corporations — and how to redesign the system.

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Roel de Vries

Roel de Vries

What pirates teach us about staying entrepreneurial inside large, established organisations. Arrr.

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Mathias Behn Bjørnhof on the essence of futures

Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

How futures thinking and strategic foresight help you make better decisions under uncertainty.

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Lourdes Rodriguez on trends and signals in foresight

Lourdes Rodriguez

How to spot signals, read trends, and stop mistaking hype for meaningful change.

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Corporate Innovation Typology & the Ambidextrous organisation

Roel de Vries

Explore how strategy and innovation interact in ambidexterity, introducing a Corporate Innovation typology.

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Corporate Innovation Typology & the Ambidextrous organisation

Roel de Vries

Explore how strategy and innovation interact in ambidexterity, introducing a Corporate Innovation typology.

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We don’t just discuss ideas, we actively refine
how they are shaped and applied
in practice.

We collaborate to refine how innovation actually happens, in workshops, webinars and deep-dives.

We question assumptions and dig deep to sharpen our thinking and acting.

We create white papers, frameworks, and structured methodologies, together.

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Nadine Roijakkers

Nadine Roijakkers

Nadine is a distinguished Open Innovation specialist. She brings a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and consulting.
Jan Van Caneghem

Jan Van Caneghem

Jan is a design strategist with a focus on design research, digital strategy and business model innovation.
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Peer learning on a variety of innovation themes. Each month is filled with expert lectures, cases, workshops, and other activities within a theme such as open innovation, digital transformation, innovation leadership, and more.

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SHAPING INNOVATION ONE THEME AT A TIME.

Each theme tackles real challenges faced by innovation leaders like you.
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