Please join us in Seattle, along with Amazon’s Mark Oehlert, to talk about the nexus of innovation, culture and learning inside large organizations. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

Please join us in Chicago, along with University of Chicago Professor Lars Peter Hansen. Professor Hansen will be joining ILO in Chicago on September 27, to talk about innovation and risk. Professor Hansen won the Nobel Prize for his work on risk, pricing and uncertainty. His work on how to price-in the risk of climate change for a range of products and services opened new doors in the consideration of sustainability and practical challenges for steering large organizations toward the future. This event is limited to 20 participants. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

Please join us in New York, along with William Eimicke, professor of public policy at Columbia University. Bill served as the deputy commissioner of the New York Fire Department responsible for driving innovation and positive change across that vital organization, and also served at the housing czar in New York State, where he spearheaded the creation of 200,000 units of affordable housing. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

Please join us in New York, along with Rob Seamans, professor of economics at NYU, formerly Senior Economics Advisor to President Barak Obama, and the world’s leading voice on the economic impact of AI. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

This week our discussion will focus on the intersection of data and customer experience, an area we've seen members beginning to focus on, and in many cases struggle with. How is your organization deploying data about customers, and about the wider world, to share your interactions and the value you deliver to each person you touch? We'll share experiences, and a bit of research-in-progress from the institute.

This week we'll discuss the role and evolution of open-innovation platforms and marketplaces. The leaders of Leading Edge Only (LEO), one of the larger platforms and members of the institute, will present to walk through how their platform works, and discuss some of the larger trends and coming advances in the field.

Please join us in San Francisco, along with our speaker over lunch Guy Horowitz, Partner for Growth Equity at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

This week, we'll be asking participants to share their answers to one key question: How has your organization changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? This question is simple but revealing - and the answers we'll hear will surely contain some surprises, and some lessons for all.

Join us in Los Angeles along with Jim Rinaldi, head of Future IT for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

This week we'll be joined by data-analytics guru Stephan Chase, who will share a close look at the data emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it. If you've been participating in these virtual session regularly, you know Stephan has shared perspectives on data throughout the pandemic that we don't hear elsewhere, and generally prove to be true - and important. I think we can expect to hear some unexpected, and vital, insights about what's coming next.

Please join us in Seattle, along with our guest speaker Ben Slivka. Ben is a legendary technology leader, having formed and run the Internet Explorer development team at Microsoft, and launched several ed-tech start-ups with major exits. A distinguished philanthropist, Ben has served for many years as a trustee of Northwestern University. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.