Learn how to develop your ability to innovate in order to generate more ideas and put them into action.

In this panel discussion we bring together seasoned corporate innovators from ING, Vopak and Royal HaskoningDHV to discuss their efforts in driving successful innovation programs. They will share their challenges, success stories, and practical insights onhow to effectively innovate.

Listen in if you are looking to innovate, need to leverage innovation to respond to change, or even if you are a startup interested in working with a corporate.

Program

04:00pm – 04:03pm: Introduction and Welcome

04:03pm – 04:08pm: Setting the Scene

04:08pm – 04:15pm: Introduction Panel members

04:15am – 04:40pm: Panel Discussion on How to Successfully Manage (Disruptive) Innovation with

• Edwin Ebrahimi, Innovation Engagement Leader – Vopak
• Suzanne Vos, Innovation Consultant ING Labs APAC – ING
• Wouter Crul, New Business, Digital Transformation & Digital Innovation – Royal HaskoningDHV Digital
• Moderator: Eelke Kroes, Partner – Innoboost Asia

04.45pm – 04.55pm: Q&A from the audience

04.55pm – 05:00pm: Closing

About the speakers

Edwin Ebrahimi is Innovation Engagement Leader at Vopak. He joined Vopak in Singapore in 2008 and is since 2018 part of Vopak’s Digital Innovation Team. In this role as Innovation Engagement Leader, he leads the transformation program for the Asia and Middle East region, focusing on robotising asset management, digitising supply chain and operations processes as well as energy transition.

Suzanne Charlotte Vos is Innovation Coach and Consultant at ING LABS APAC. It is her goal to make innovation business as usual. To make that happen, she trains and coaches people on PACE: ING’s innovation methodology that combines elements from Agile, Design Thinking and Lean Start-up. Previously, she helped set up ING LABS, a new business unit that focusses on creating propositions beyond traditional banking products. This is done by incubating and accelerating homegrown B2B startups and executing pilots with potential external partners.

Wouter Crul is a Digital Innovator at Royal HaskoningDHV. He refers to Royal HaskoningDHV as his ‘fifth digital start-up”. In the past 6 years he has helped build the Data Science & AI business for Lloopp and ORTEC Data Science, by successfully solving business problems in Retail, Aviation, Utilities, Telco’s and Digital Engineering. At Royal HaskoningDHV he is accelerating the development of Societal, Environmental and Engineering Intelligence combining AI and the great problem definers and solvers of RoyalHaskoningDHV to fuel new services and business models.

Eelke Kroes (moderator) is a partner at Innoboost Asia, an innovation company focused on developing, validating, and growing new business ideas that are built on deep customer insights. He served founding leadership roles in corporate ventures in digital leadership-development, and in the plant-based meat alternatives market. Prior to that he was a C-level consultant, driving customer engagements in strategy & innovation, corporate venturing and digital business transformation in various industries, across three continents.

Date: 17 November 2020

Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm (Singapore Time / UTC+8)