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Inside London’s Ecosystem: General Assembly, Barclays’ Rise & More

July 2019 · 30 photos

Our 2019 London Field Study brought executives together to discuss creating an innovative culture in established organizations. See pictures from the event here…

Helen Hardy of the Museum of Natural History talks about digitizing the collection with Scott Kirsner of InnoLead.

Danielle Winandy, Head of the RISK Innovation Office at BNP Paribas, leads a whiteboard session on supporting people to be bold inside a risk-averse culture.

Marie Cesbron of Do Well Do Good, Formerly Global Innovation Director at Walgreen Boots Alliance

Professor Ed Gonsalves of Toulouse Business School in France.

InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner kicks off the London Field Study at Rise London.

Participants use an InnoLead poster to discuss where there organizations are on the “maturity curve”.

Rahima Valji of London & Partners.

Tony Margiotta of Rise London, a fintech startup hub, talks with Kelsey Alpaio of InnoLead.

Andrew Fletcher of Thomson Reuters Labs leads a whiteboard session on managing an innovation portfolio.

Allen Gauthier of the US Air Force shows off his paper airplane.

John Kelly of BAE Systems talks about how the defense contractor has built engagement using idea campaigns and “shark tanks.”

John Stewart of Royal Bank of Scotland leads a breakout session on building a system for scouting startups and emerging tech.

Ian Small, Innovation Champion at AECOM, talks about “the 7 C’s of innovation”

The group descends a staircase at IDEALondon, a shared startup space operated by Cisco.

Participants in a breakout session design paper airplanes for maximum flying distance.

Scott Kirsner of InnoLead talks with Stephane Malrait of ING and Mukund Umalkar of Commonwealth Bank of Australia about innovating in a regulated industry.

Maria Hernandez, Head of Innovation at Cisco, talks about the company’s innovation initiatives with Scott Kirsner of InnoLead.

Arthur Liberian, Senior Innovation Advisor at Planbox, explains the rules of a board game to participants in a breakout session.

Andy Katz, Global Head of Strategy at PA Consulting, oversees an interactive activity during a session on “The Future Made Faster”

Senior Innovation Advisor Chris Docherty of Planbox hands out cards during a breakout session.

Renee Dye, Associate Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

To kick off Day Two, we played the game of “Urgency Bingo.” The focus: How much innovation urgency exists in and around your company?

From InnoLead: Donna Rice, Kelsey Alpaio, Elana Wilner, and Scott Kirsner.

Vandana Bisht of BNP Paribas.

Siobhan Walker, an innovation lead at ING London’s Innovation Steering Committee

Robin Gissing and Catherine Philips of Heathrow Airport lead a whiteboard session.

General Assembly VP Anand Chopra-McGowan talks about the future of learning and development with Kelsey Alpaio of InnoLead.

From left to right Catherine
Phillips of ING, Jessica Ferguson of British Red Cross, and Ian Small AECOM. — From left to right Catherine Phillips of ING, Jessica Ferguson of British Red Cross, and Ian Small AECOM.

Yami Trequesser’s of Value Retail Session leads a session on how to manage innovation projects.

Marie Mahoney of the US Air Force and Andy Katz of PA Consulting shake hands.

Thanks to our strategic partners