Inside the Bay Area’s Ecosystem: Target, W.L. Gore, and More
March 2019 · 27 photos
Inside Gore Innovation Center, Target Open House, the Bolt makerspace and venture firm, AppDynamics, the 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium, RocketSpace, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Chris Townsend and Matthew Heim of Wellspring lead a session on tech scouting best practices.Scott Kirsner of InnoLead with Amy Benzinger of Cisco’s CHILL program and Linda Tong, VP of Innovation Labs and Product Experience at AppDynamics.AppDynamics employees show off some projects from a recent hackathon.Alper Tekin of Udacity talks about the future of online learning at Andreessen Horowitz, our final visit of the Field Study.Intel exec Howard Wright, a former NBA player, shows a demo on how sports video can be captured in three dimensions.Algernon Callier of Universal Parks & Resorts, Scott Harrison of Coca-Cola, and Jason Powers of RAND Corp.InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner opens the event with a fireside chat with Duncan Logan, CEO of Rocketspace.Ken Norton of GV (Google Ventures) talks about the culture at Google, and how startups work differently from larger companies.Jeff Moore, Head of Staffing for Google’s Consumer Hardware business, leads a session on “rethinking recruiting.”Algernon Callier, VP of Strategic Innovation and Emerging Technology at Universal Parks and Resorts.Diego Ortiz Vega of ExxonMobil chats with Beth Devin of Citi Ventures.Photo opps in the end zone.Scott Kirsner of InnoLead with Amy Benzinger of Cisco’s CHILL program and Linda Tong, VP of Innovation Labs and Product Experience at AppDynamics.InnoLead’s Kaitlin Milliken with Vicki Dobbs Beck of Lucasfilm.Participants suggest best practices related to the innovation “supply chain” as part of a lunch discussion led by Startgrid.Participants interact with demos at the Target Open House store.Kaitlin Milliken of InnoLead moderates a discussion with Moon Javaid of the San Francisco 49ers and Chris Curtin of Visa.Day One concluded with a visit to Target Open House, a showcase of new (and not-yet-released) high-tech products.Peter Berger, Director of Innovation at EmbraerX, leads a session on metrics and KPIs for tech scouting work.Field Study participants hit the field — at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, home of the San Francisco 49ers.Navin Kunde, Open Innovation Department Leader at Clorox, shares advice on building networks of innovators.Sean Nazarian of Planbox leads a breakout session on identifying and solving the right problems.Participants check out demos related to the various materials that Gore develops and sells.Arthur Liberian and Sean Nazarian of Planbox pose with a spacesuit. W.L. Gore fibers and cables have long been used by NASA on various space missions.Day Two began at the W.L. Gore Innovation Center in Santa Clara, where Linda Elkins of WL Gore and Scott Kirsner of InnoLead talked about the creation and evolution of the facility.Participants at a whiteboard session at WL Gore.Execs from SAP and the San Francisco 49ers talk about some of the technology integrated throughout the stadium.
