Vancouver’s AI & Quantum Innovation Leadership DNA

BC Pavilion - 30 May @WebSummit

Louise Turner

CEO, Quantum Algorithms Institute

Quantum startup building a new generation of quantum computing technology. Able to attract the very best of international talent.
We make the adoption of quantum technologies accessible, tangible and collaborative for everyone.

Josh Blair

CEO, Impro.ai

Impro enhances business performance with daily human guidance and AI Insights. Our breakthrough hack, combining coaching, consulting support and habit training, has proven far more effective and measurable than traditional training.

Edoardo De Martin

CEO, Industrio.ai

At Industrio AI, we design and build scalable, transparent AI and data solutions that drive innovation and accelerate growth. We believe in Collaborative Intelligence, building solutions that bring together the best of humans with the best of machines.

Innovation Leadership as a Practice

  • Innovation in organizations, large and small, is a unique leadership situation

  • It is highly complex, dynamic and emotional

  • 94% of executives report dissatisfaction with their innovation outcomes

These nine practices* are strongly associated with successful innovation leadership processes:

  • High Intrinsic Motivation: Does serious work over a quick fix

  • Thrives in Ambiguity: Forges a path independently

  • Interpersonal Connectedness: Establishes relationships without years of groundwork, open & responsive, history of engaging and ability to give and take

  • Emotional Management Skills: Tolerates anxiety with being in vulnerable positions

  • Responsive to Needs of Others: Actively listens

  • Integrity: Doesn’t shade, colour, sway with the wind or withhold info. Gives credit. Can stand firm.

  • Capacity for Introspection: Sees and is able to understand the deeper human condition

  • Impulse Control: Self-managed reactions and withholds judgment of others

  • Flexibility: Takes feedback and is able to accept hard truths

*Synthesized by Brett Macfarlane from evidence-based source materials by Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey and INSEAD

 

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