Too big to innovate? How alumni from Jardines Digital, IT & Innovation Academy prove entrepreneurship can thrive Passed
Tuesday June 21, 2022 11:45 - 12:45 HKT Panel discussion
Speakers: James Thompson, Melanie Cook, Michal Ostaszewski, Solomon Lau
John Witt closed his 2022 strategic direction address by calling upon the entrepreneur in each of us to future-proof Jardines. Entrepreneurship takes long-term commitment and requires empowered individuals to take leaps of faith. What does it take to innovate in an encumbered, risk-averse environment with a low error-tolerance threshold? How do we lead our teams and ourselves to fail safely and find future-proof success? Learn trade secrets from alumni of the Jardines Digital & Innovation Academy, and reframes, tips, and strategies from Hyper Island.
Leadership lessons that you’ll learn from this session:
Challenge assumptions about the necessary environment for corporate entrepreneurship.
Discover the necessary trade-offs in innovation.
Successfully navigate these to achieve startup-like nimbleness, resilience to see an idea through, and experimentation to build long-term value in Jardines.
Speakers
James Thompson Speaker
Head of Digital
Gammon
Melanie Cook Speaker
Managing Director APAC
Hyper Island
Melanie Cook is a futurist who considers herself an educator, systems thinker and a tech humanitas. “Humanitas?” you wonder. Humanitas is a Latin word that encapsulates loving what makes us human with education and hope. She has deep debates with others about the
operational impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, and true to her DNA, focuses on the workplace of tomorrow and what we should be doing about it today.
Starting in data management in London, the majority of her career has been shaped by the imagination and innovation of digital technologies. Swiftly navigating the rapidly-evolving terrains of data management and digital marketing, she has anchored herself in the technological bay that is digital business transbobulation (the reality of digital transformation) with creative business school, Hyper Island.
Connect with Melanie on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniecook2
Michal Ostaszewski Speaker
Head of Innovation and Transformation
DFI Retail Group
Solomon Lau Speaker
Head of Digital and Technology Services
Jardine Restaurant Group