27/10 How to boost your innovation initiative when odds are against you

So you have high innovation ambition, but your company strategy, culture and maybe even the level of digitization maturity are not really in line with it.

You have some mandate, but you must borrow employees from other departments to complete your work. And you can do it only for 15-20% of their time when they are not too busy.

You are expected to be fun and creative, think outside the box, AND generate 1 million EUR next year. Does this sound familiar?

We invited a brilliant panel, Ivana von Proschwitz, Sandor Albrecht, Karin Gylin, and Elisabet Spross to discuss how we can give our innovation initiatives better traction when the organization's innovation maturity is not on our side.

Panel participants:

Ivana von Proschwitz, Founder and Podcast Host of TechHustler, Entrepreneur, Innovator, and Mentorship Lead at Women in AI
Ivana von Proschwitz is an entrepreneur passionate about inspiring more women to become tech entrepreneurs in Women in AI Sweden management team, where she works within innovation and AI.

Sandor Albrecht is a driver of the Wallenberg Launch Pad. Previously, he worked at Ericsson for 20 years and was the Founder and Head of Ericsson Garage. After the Ericsson years, he was Vice President, and the head of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) at @RISE. Currently, he is also Advisor at AI Sweden, Business Coach at Ignite Sweden and Board Member of Girls in Tech Nordics.

Karin Gylin, Head of Strategic Development and Innovation at Swedavia AB leading the work to strengthen innovation at Swedavias 10 airports and to drive strategic development initiatives like digital transformation and multimodal mobility hubs.

Elisabet Spross, Innovation Lead at Sweco Sweden, responsible for its internal innovation system. Besides that, she conducts the course “Innovation management for sustainable urban development” at Berghs School of Communication.

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