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Article Hollywood Veteran Katzenberg on AI: ‘If Change is Uncomfortable, Irrelevance is Going to be Harder’
June 4, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Former DreamWorks and Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the similarities between the arrival of AI technologies in the business world today and the arrival of computer-generated animation technologies in Hollywood in the 1990s.
Article The 10 Best Anti-Innovation Quotes: Hollywood Edition
November 24, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
With the holiday movie-going season upon us, we assembled a list of anti-innovation quotes from notable Hollywood executives, inventors, and directors — just to show that no industry is without its nay-sayers who can rationally explain why change will never come.
Article How Suffolk Construction and Takeda Pharmaceutical Drive Innovation with Data and Startup Investments
November 17, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
One of the mainstage sessions at our recent Impact conference in Boston featured Jit Kee Chin, Chief Technology Officer at Suffolk Construction, and Gabriele Ricci, Chief Data and Technology Officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Here are seven key themes they discussed...
Video Advice from The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab
October 3, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
What can other company's learn from The LEGO Group's Creative Play Lab? Check out these short videos...
Video Spotify and Grammy Execs on AI and the Future of Music
July 29, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Can "awesomeness" be part of a business case? Ziad Sultan of Spotify makes the case in this session from Impact 2024.
Video Target’s Chief Information and Product Officer on ‘the Most Transformative Period in Applied AI’
July 25, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Target’s Chief Digital and Product Officer, Prat Vemana, joined InnoLead on stage at our Impact 2024 conference last October. Among the topics he discussed with InnoLead co-founder Scott Cohen: How generative AI is transforming every aspect of enterprise software, and making intelligence more accessible. “I believe we are probably in...
Video United Airlines’ Chief Customer Officer on Cutting Red Tape to Innovate in a Regulated Industry
December 23, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
"If innovation is about batting 100 percent, people aren't going to innovate enough," says Linda Jojo. Watch highlights from her conversation with Abbie Lundberg from the 2024 Impact conference.
Video NTT Corp.’s Vito Mabrucco on the Difference Between Invention and Innovation
January 7, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Trevor Anulewicz of Launch by NTT DATA and Vito Mabrucco of NTT Corporation were featured mainstage speakers at this past fall's Impact conference in Cambridge. They discussed the importance of differentiating invention from innovation.
Video Video: Former Disney Exec Bob Weis on Innovating Over Decades
January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
One of the things Weis discusses in this video from Impact 2024 is the relationship between the creative and design teams at Imagineering, and the operators who run Disney's theme parks, hotels, and cruise ships.
Video Marc Raibert on the Converging Fields of AI and Robotics
January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
"We want to really figure out what are the big problems that are that are holding robots back. And believe me, robots are held back," Marc Raibert said at Impact 2024. "They're not the success that other technologies are yet." Watch the video...