Brewer Megan Parisi leads a tour of the Sam Adams Tap Room as part of one of Impact 2025’s opening day site visits.
Impact participants tour the production facilities at Piaggio Fast Forward, which makes mobile robots.
Impact participants tour a robot-assisted apartment at MIT.
Matt Moraskey and Parker Lee of Territory lead an opening day workshop on “Storytelling in the Era of AI.”
Rebecca Pinn, Kevin Lind, and Jon Campbell of EPAM Continuum lead an opening day workshop on “AI as a Catalyst for Innovation.”
Impact “guest faculty” members helped host site visits and workshops, as well as helping participants make new connections.
Outdoor networking at an Impact cocktail reception.
A whiteboard at the opening reception capturing some of the attendees — and what they like to do when they’re not innovating.
Helen Riley, COO and CFO of Google X, participated in a mainstage conversation with InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner.
Chris Townsend of Wellspring gives a talk on “The Game-Changer’s Playbook.”
Author, investor, and podcaster Rana el-Kaliouby with InnoLead’s Scott Kirsner.
Gabriele Ricci of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Abbie Lundberg of MIT Sloan Management Review, and Jit-Kee Chin of Suffolk Construction get ready to take the stage.
Jack Moloney of SAP Signavio talks transformation on the mainstage.
Sara Kraft of AstraZeneca leads a session on “Data as the Innovation Driver and the Bottleneck.”
Paige Halam-Andres of SunLife leads a session on “An Innovation Product Journey: Lessons and Pitfalls.”
Impact participants laugh together in a breakout session.
Alexandru Darie of Schneider Electric leads a session on designing and building AI strategies that can scale.
Lisa Rothstein leads a workshop on doodling to communicate ideas.
Robyn Bolton signs copies of her book “Unlocking Innovation.”
Award presenter Michelle Cohen of CME Group with winners Rahul Deshpande and Paul Konasewich of PACCAR, Inc.
The 2025 cohort of Impact Award winners.
Scott Cohen of InnoLead and Michelle Kydd of Creative Artists Agency lead a session on “Building Your Personal Brand as a Changemaker.”
Scott Kirsner of InnoLead conducts a conversation with Tom Donaldson, SVP and Head of the Creative Play Lab at The LEGO Group.
A workshop called “Disrupt or Be Disrupted” included competitive team-based activities.
Kathleen Peters of Experian speaks about “15 Years of Discovery and Transformation at the Experian Innovation Lab.”
Jon Campbell of EPAM Continuum.
Impact participants gather on the outdoor deck at the end of the conference.
Scott Anthony signs copies of his new book, “Epic Disruptions.”
Impact participants get ready to head out on a harbor cruise on the conference’s final day.
Every fall, InnoLead convenes our annual Impact gathering to spread best practices in the world of corporate innovation, emerging technology, and R&D. We aim to make it useful, engaging, and fun.
The event began with site visits to the Sam Adams Tap Room, robot lab Piaggio Fast Forward, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and MIT’s Computer Science and AI Lab, among other spots, and concluded Wednesday afternoon with a cruise on Boston Harbor. Getting value from AI implementations was a major theme this year.
A special thank you to our Impact gold and silver sponsors — Wellspring, SAP Signavio, and EPAM Continuum — for their help bringing everyone together. And thanks to all our sponsors for sharing their insights and expertise with the group!
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