The countdown is on!
On October 29, 2024, join us in Toronto to celebrate the success of Innovation North’s Lab in co-creating a process to tackle systems innovation and launch our next chapter! At this Idea Exchange, you will hear from inspiring speakers who will speak about systems disruptions, the role of organizations in building resilient systems, and connect with other innovators to exchange ideas.
Innovating Systems
Businesses are experiencing more frequent, more disruptive, and more interconnected crises than ever before. Most innovators are told to move fast, even if they break things. But when everything is changing so quickly, this can be costly to the business, for society, and for the planet.
Over the past five years, Innovation North has embarked on a journey to innovate the innovation process. Our Lab brought together the most experienced corporate innovators in Canada with several motivated management researchers to co-create a tool, which we call the Compass. It helps businesses generate novel, actionable ideas to complex problems.
Themes of Discussion
The event will include a combination of learning and sharing around the following themes:
- The next wave of critical issues and disruptions facing business, such as climate change, artificial intelligence, and the future of work;
- How organizations can apply a systems-led way of thinking; and
- How teams and organizations can work together to create better businesses and a better world.
The event will welcome leaders from business, academia, and government, creating a space for new connections to be formed, and for new insights and ideas to be generated in tackling complex challenges.
Agenda
Registration will open at 10:30 a.m., and the event will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a networking reception to follow.
- Introductory remarks and opening plenary
- Lightning talks about disruptions facing business
- Lunch
- Exchange ideas around systems solutions to disruptions
- Keynote and closing remarks
- Networking reception
Keynotes
Christopher Marquis
Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Management at the University of Cambridge and author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs. His research examines business sustainability and social entrepreneurship, and he has previously held positions at Harvard, Cornell, and Cambridge. Marquis is passionate about how academic research can help people around the world address some of the biggest crises of our day — including climate change, inequality, and discrimination.
Rob Wesseling
Rob Wesseling is President and Chief Executive Officer of Co-operators, a leading all-Canadian financial services co-operative committed to building a sustainable, resilient and financially secure society for Canadians and their communities. Delivering on the organization’s strategy, he directs its ongoing evolution from an insurance-focused company to a holistic financial-services provider – one that offers multi-line insurance and investment products, and personalized advice.
Peter Senge
Peter Senge is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning, a Senior Lecturer at Sloan School of Management MIT, and cofounder of the Academy for Systemic Change. He has been at the forefront of organizational learning since publishing his classic text, The Fifth Discipline, in 1990. His work centers on promoting shared understanding of complex issues and shared leadership for healthier human systems, including cross-sector projects focused on global food systems, climate change, regenerative economies, and the future of education.
Tima Bansal
Tima Bansal is a Professor of Sustainability and Strategy at the Ivey Business School and the founder of Innovation North, the Network for Business Sustainability, and Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value. She has received significant accolades for her research, which investigates the interplay between business strategy and sustainability. Tima engages closely with practitioners to apply a systems approach to complex challenges and disruptions facing business.
Disruption Duos
Artificial Intelligence
Socio-Political Whiplashes
Romel Mostafa
Assistant Professor & Director, Lawrence National Centre for Policy & Management, Ivey Business School
Rachel Guthrie
Vice President, Corporate Sustainability Group, Export Development Canada
Stay tuned for more to come on disruptions such as the future of work and climate change!
Artists
Emma Richard
Graphic Recorder
About Innovation North
Innovation North is a community of researchers at Ivey Business School that works with practitioners to tackle complex systems challenges. We are fuelled by the belief that we can create a future where businesses and society thrive together. Learn more about our systems approach at: innovationnorth.ca.
Location
Art Gallery of Ontario
Baillie Court – 327 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
Contact
For questions or inquiries about the event, please reach out to innovatingsystems@ivey.ca