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Impact 2024 Sponsors

At every Impact event, our sponsors share case studies, guidance, data, and insights with our participants. Learn more about who they are — and how to get in touch — below. For more information about Impact sponsorship, please see this.



Our Presenting Sponsors

About NTT Corp

NTT (LinkedIn) contributes to a sustainable society through the power of innovation. We are a leading global technology company providing services to consumers and business as a mobile operator, infrastructure, networks, applications, and consulting provider.

Our offerings include digital business consulting, managed application services, workplace and cloud solutions, data center and edge computing, all supported by our deep global industry expertise. We are over $95B in revenue and 330,000 employees, with $3.6B in annual R&D investments.

Our operations span across 80+ countries and regions, allowing us to serve clients in over 190 of them. We serve over 75% of Fortune Global 100 companies, thousands of other enterprise and government clients and millions of consumers.


About Wellspring Worldwide

Wellspring (LinkedIn) is a global software and solutions provider that helps companies drive business impact through Growth Innovation.

Accolade, our flagship software platform, is the worldwide standard for enterprise Innovation Portfolio Orchestration, New Product Development, IP Management, and the Front End of Innovation.

When implementing Accolade, our clients average a 321% ROI within three years, fundamentally improving their ability to fuel top-line growth through innovation. We work with many of the world’s leading companies, including Covestro, Doosan Bobcat, Hershey’s, Kronos, Parker Hannifin, Prysmian, Rich Products, Rust-Oleum, Trinseo, and many more.


Our Supporting Sponsors

About Aucctus

Aucctus (LinkedIn) is your unfair AI advantage to innovate and growth your business. Streamline new market exploration, idea generation, financial modelling and robust user testing. Empower every employee company-wide to participate in innovation and give executives a birds-eye view on your progress and ROI. Transform your company into an innovation powerhouse with Aucctus.

GET IN TOUCH:

Vincent Attalah, President (LinkedIn)


About Babson College Executive Education

Babson College Executive Education (LinkedIn) helps organizations around the world, big and small, drive growth and innovation. We develop entrepreneurial leaders who pair practical knowledge with creative, innovative thinking. Our experienced faculty use their practical experience as entrepreneurs, business leaders, and educators to bring you the tools and strategies to make a lasting impact. The result: leaders who are immediately prepared to address the challenges with an entrepreneurial mindset that drives future growth.

GET IN TOUCH:

Gina O’Connor, Professor of Innovation Management (LinkedIn)


About edison365

edison365 (LinkedIn) is an enterprise platform, built on Microsoft, that offers end-to-end strategy, innovation, project and portfolio management with its sophisticated suite of tools.

It’s now easier than ever for teams around the world to plan and orchestrate transformative change, their way. And with ultimate configuration, anything is possible! edison365 equips teams with robust project and portfolio management, triage, reporting, powerful workflows, Gantt Charts and more.

A central location for businesses to reach their goals, maximize their potential, and improve the ROI of every opportunity.

GET IN TOUCH:

Ivan Lloyd, CEO (LinkedIn)


About FifthRow

FifthRow (LinkedIn) is a fully AI-integrated InnovationOps platform that automates everything except the building of the ventures. With FifthRow, Fortune 500s have accelerated Market Research, Venture Discovery & Validation from 5 months to 2 weeks. It’s 100x faster and 10x cheaper than any consultancy.

GET IN TOUCH:

Jan Beránek, CEO (LinkedIn)


About Forest Software

Forest Software (LinkedIn) is a cloud-based innovation management platform designed to help midsize and large companies drive strategic change across their organization. It offers powerful features to facilitate Idea Management, Decision-Making and Strategic Communications.

Admins can rally employees around important topics and themes, communicate key strategies, and streamline decision-making. Users develop new ideas and participate in crowdsourced campaigns.

Whether your team is working out of one office or virtually across multiple time zones, Forest removes the friction from these processes, getting you to better outcomes faster and easier.

GET IN TOUCH:

Aaron Hoekstra, Head of Sales & Client Success (LinkedIn)


About FutureFoundry

FutureFoundry (LinkedIn) is a Corporate Venture Builder. We partner with corporates to accelerate, de-risk and systematize the development of breakthrough ventures using the discovery, incubation and acceleration methods of Silicon Valley.

Over the last three years, we’ve launched over 100 ventures, unlocked $15bn in growth and generated a 300x ROI for clients like Hilton, Walgreens, Experian, Reckitt and Microsoft.

The key to our success is our Velocity™ method, which distills decades’ worth of venture building into a systematic, scalable and repeatable process.

GET IN TOUCH:

Jacob Dutton, Co-Founder & CEO (LinkedIn)


About High Alpha Innovation

At High Alpha Innovation (LinkedIn), we believe that scaled organizations face challenges that startups are uniquely positioned to solve, and that those scaled organizations have resources, technology, networks, and insights that startups are uniquely positioned to leverage. As a result, we employ a proven venture studio playbook to co-create advantaged startups and solve compelling problems with the world’s leading corporations, universities, and entrepreneurs.

GET IN TOUCH:

Elliott Parker, CEO (LinkedIn)


About HYPE Innovation

HYPE Innovation (LinkedIn) is a global leader in innovation management software and services. HYPE’s platform offers dedicated tools to address a range of innovation scenarios. With HYPE, organizations can engage employees, customers, and partners in idea generation and collaborative problem-solving. Our client community includes global companies such as Airbus, AkzoNobel, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Fujitsu, Mattel, Merck, Nokia, Saudi Aramco, and Siemens.

HYPE offers an integrated solution: HYPE Enterprise is your value creation hub, allowing all innovation activities to be tracked on a unified platform.

GET IN TOUCH:

Ludwig Melik, Chief Revenue Officer (LinkedIn)


About ID8 Innovation

ID8 Innovation (LinkedIn) is a boutique innovation advisory firm that works with a select group of enterprise partners to help foster and accelerate innovation through strategic advisory, startup partnerships, workshops, and project-based services. As your entrepreneurs-in-residence we work to understand your strategic business priorities in order to source early-stage technology partners, facilitate culture change, and validate commercialization opportunities.

GET IN TOUCH:

Mara Lewis, Co-Founder (LinkedIn)


About innosabi

innosabi (LinkedIn) develops software for agile innovation. This increases the speed and success in the innovation processes of large companies. With our solutions, the entire ecosystem can be integrated into the development of new products, services or business models. From customers and employees to suppliers and partners. Our software is used by industry leaders such as Telekom, Bayer, Postbank, Allianz, and Kärcher.

Since 2021, we are part of the Questel Group. Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider serving 20,000 organizations in more than 30 countries for the optimal management of their IP assets portfolio. Whether for patent, trademark, domain name, or design, Questel provides its customers with the software, tech-enabled services, and consulting services necessary to give them a strategic advantage.

GET IN TOUCH:

Jan Fischer, Co-CEO (LinkedIn)


About Innosight

Innosight (LinkedIn) helps organizations navigate disruptive change through strategic transformation. As the strategy and innovation consulting business of Huron, we work with leaders to create new growth strategies, accelerate innovation, and build future-ready organizations. Discover how we can help your company own the future, instead of being disrupted by it.

GET IN TOUCH:

Cathy Olofson, Chief Marketing Officer (LinkedIn)


About ITONICS

ITONICS (LinkedIn) is a leading SaaS provider of systematic innovation management. Our AI-powered platform, combined with a systematic framework to steer innovation efforts, helps companies to identify emerging technologies, trends, and market potential and to translate them into winning growth strategies.

Features include: Environmental Scanning, Strategic/ Continuous Foresight, Ideation/ Idea Management, Open Innovation, Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management, and Integrated Roadmapping.

With more than 150 innovation rockstars worldwide, we support innovation leaders such as adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens, or KPMG.

GET IN TOUCH:

Jonathan Livescault, Managing Director, ITONICS US (LinkedIn)


About Newlab

Newlab (LinkedIn) is a Venture Platform focused on climate & deep tech with place-based communities for founders and startups in Brooklyn, Detroit, and Montevideo. Through its community of startups, applied innovation programming, physical infrastructure, and direct investment, Newlab helps commercialize and scale the critical technologies needed to decarbonize the economy.

Today, Newlab includes more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, partnerships with forward-thinking corporate and civic entities, and a network of active investors—all working together to scale deep tech. To date, Newlab has supported its 300+ member companies in raising over $5.8B from venture capital firms, with over $2.3B of successful exits and a collective valuation of over $20B. Visit www.newlab.com to learn more.

GET IN TOUCH:

Kristine Colosimo, VP of Marketing (LinkedIn)


About NotedSource

NotedSource (LinkedIn) connects industry with research experts to supercharge innovation. The AI-Powered NotedSource platform facilitates matches and provides collaboration tools to streamline your work.

At NotedSource, we understand the importance of staying ahead of the competition in today’s fast-paced business environment. That’s why we’ve created a platform that allows you to tap into the latest research and expertise of the brightest minds in academia.

With NotedSource, you’ll have exclusive access to a diverse pool of experts who can bring fresh perspectives and cutting-edge knowledge to your projects, including R&D, L&D, and strategy. Whether you need help with a specific problem or are looking to explore new areas of research, our platform makes it easy to find the right person for the job. Collaborate on any project with experts from around the world, all from one convenient platform.

GET IN TOUCH:

John Scarr, Enterprise Account Executive (LinkedIn)

Kofi Gyasi, Founder and CEO (LinkedIn)


About Peer Insight / PX Venture Studio

Peer Insight / PX Venture Studio (LinkedIn) is an innovation firm that enables leaders to drive new growth and turn ideas into reality. We help organizations understand their customers through ethnographic research, so that they can design a service that uniquely fits their needs. We approach challenges entrepreneurially – we quickly validate concepts to de-risk ventures before they ever enter the marketplace. We don’t just design and test new services – we design and test the business model too. It is our greatest joy to help our clients shape the near future to create innovative services and experiences that improve the world.

GET IN TOUCH:

Clay Maxwell, Founder & Managing Partner (LinkedIn)


About Pilot44

Pilot44 (LinkedIn) is a brand innovation and venture building studio. We utilize modern innovation methodologies to help consumer-brands create new products, brands & businesses and grow existing ones. Our global team of proven entrepreneurs, technologists, and makers from early-stage startups to global brands trusted by iconic brands to deliver innovation that touches billions of consumers globally.

We’re not consultants; we’re cofounders. Over nearly a decade we have developed a unique set of tools, methodologies, and expertise that bring together the agility of a startup with the horsepower of the enterprise to deliver tangible business outcomes in record time. Collectively we have created over $500M in value for some of the most sophisticated organizations in the world including Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Diageo, Sanofi, Pepsi, Kellogg, Albertsons, and more.

GET IN TOUCH:

Jon Corshen, Co-founder, Chief Solution Strategist (LinkedIn)


About Qmarkets

Qmarkets (LinkedIn) is a leading enterprise innovation management platform. Managing innovation at a large company is never easy. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. But it doesn’t have to be so difficult.

With the right tools, you can bring all of these elements together to find clear insights that help you make the decisions that matter. That’s where we come in.

With the AI-enhanced Qmarkets platform you can easily define and manage intelligent crowdsourcing processes to identify, review, and implement the most relevant ideas, trends, or insights, and deliver immediate ROI for your organization.

With renowned clients like Ford, Intel, Coca-Cola, and UBS, we have a wealth of best-practices to help you achieve your goals. Whichever path you choose, we are obsessed with your success, and will be with you at every step of your innovation journey.

GET IN TOUCH:

Steve Reed, Vice President, North America (LinkedIn)


About SmartOrg

SmartOrg (LinkedIn) aligns innovation and finance to drive profitable growth, with software and services for innovation and portfolio management. Make uncertainty your friend! SmartOrg’s methods for evaluating opportunities allows you to align on where and how much to invest and how to drive the upside. Whether your growth challenge is to innovate in an exciting new area, or to balance your portfolio across competing interests, we can help you get better results and build your capability.

GET IN TOUCH:

Doug Williams, Associate Director, Innovation (LinkedIn)


About Speeda Edge Market Intelligence

Speeda Edge Market Intelligence (LinkedIn) enables organizations to make quick, confident decisions about emerging industries and technology. Our cutting-edge platform leverages the power of AI/ML and our domain experts to deliver trustworthy, actionable intelligence on 200 emerging industries. The world’s most innovative organizations use SPEEDA Edge to stay ahead of disruptive technology, identify market potential, understand competitor strategy, and discover high-potential startups.

GET IN TOUCH:

Gregory Hachenburg, Head of Marketing (LinkedIn)


About Territory

Territory (LinkedIn) is a business design consultancy of seasoned strategists, designers, facilitators, and planners. We’ve helped hundreds of organizations across six continents make sense of the critical challenges they face and then craft creative, unique, and clarifying strategies to overcome them. Our teams are experts in collaborative co-creation. That means we work shoulder-to-shoulder with your visionaries and experts to bring big ideas to life. Every engagement, delivery, and outcome stems from Territory’s expertise in four key areas: strategy, product and service innovation, organizational transformation, and storytelling

GET IN TOUCH:

Parker Lee, Global Managing Partner (LinkedIn)