KEYNOTES, SPEECHES, PANELS, WORKSHOPS, OFFSITES
INNOVATION, INVESTMENT, BLOCKCHAIN
INNOVATION
EXPLOITING THE WORLD'S INNOVATION TO YOUR OWN ADVANTAGE
Format: 30-90 minute keynote to one day offsite
This program is targeted at corporate leadership teams including boards of directors. The co-authors of Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era reveal the 17 ways to exploit external innovation to your own advantage as well as the way to implement them in a large corporate setting. After decades of focusing on innovation as corporate executives, board directors, investors and advisors, and working with innovative companies like Alphabet/Google, Amgen, Genentech, Microsoft, PayPal, and many more, the speakers are able to succinctly and simply explain this new world and how to prosper in it.
The audience will leave with:
Overview of the way external innovation fits into the new corporate innovation approach
Understanding of the 17 tools in the external innovation toolkit with their pros and cons
Initial steps towards deciding how best to apply each in their own company
A signed copy of Alison and Matthew's best seller, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era
This talk is based on the best selling book Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, and usually includes a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
INNOVATION LESSONS FROM ALPHABET, AMAZON, APPLE, FACEBOOK AND MICROSOFT
Format: 30-90 minute keynote to one day offsite
This program is targeted at corporate leadership teams including boards of directors. The co-authors of Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era reveal the lessons to be learned from the most innovative companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft
The audience will leave with:
Introduction to the disruptive innovations that are changing the world around us
Understanding of how the most innovative companies are building enormous economic value by tapping into these innovations
Deep insights into the new corporate innovation approach that is needed to do so
Next steps for beginning to move their own companies towards this new approach
A signed copy of Alison and Matthew's best seller, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era
This talk is based on the best selling book Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, and usually includes a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
OTHER RECENT INNOVATION SPEECHES AND WORKSHOP EXAMPLES
Creating an Innovation Culture
Developing your Innovation Agenda
Designing an Innovation Transformation
Mastering the External Innovation Toolkit
Open Innovation
Etc.
Please contact us for more details regarding other speaker, workshop and offsite topics
EARLY STAGE INVESTING
BUILD YOUR FORTUNE IN THE FIFTH ERA - AN AGE OF UNPRECEDENTED INNOVATION
Format: 30-90 minute keynote
This program is targeted at any audience that knows we are in the midst of an exceptional period of change, but is not sure how to interpret or prosper in it.
Matthew C. Le Merle, managing partner at Fifth Era and at Keiretsu, the most active venture investor in the US will reveal the truths and secrets of the world of angel investing including examples of companies he and his angels have backed which have been acquired by companies like Google, PayPal, PerfectWorld, Spotify and Yahoo for hundreds of millions of dollars.
The audience will leave with:
Introduction to the disruptive innovations that are changing the world around us
The new mindset they need to master regarding the assumptions about how things work and why
Understanding of the greatest value creation opportunity the world has ever seen
Insights into how others are taking advantage to become the world's richest people
The nine options for participating in this enormous opportunity and how to decide between them
A signed copy of Alison and Matthew's best seller, Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era
This talk is based on the best selling book Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era, and usually includes a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
LEARN THE TRUTHS ABOUT VENTURE INVESTING
Format: 30-90 minute keynote
This program is targeted at the more than 12 million US households who are accredited investors but who are not currently investing in early stage technology companies - the highest returning asset class in America. Matthew C. Le Merle, managing partner at Fifth Era and at Keiretsu, the most active venture investor in the US will reveal the truths and secrets of the world of angel investing including examples of companies he and his angels have backed which have been acquired by companies like Google, PayPal, PerfectWorld, Spotify and Yahoo for hundreds of millions of dollars.
The audience will leave with:
A clear understanding of what opportunities exist to invest in early stage technology startups
Starting steps to take if they do decide that they want to be active angel investors
Overview of the tools and approaches they will need to master
Alternative options if they decide this is not a good fit
A signed copy of Alison and Matthew's best seller, Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era
This talk is based on the best selling book Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era, and usually includes a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
BLOCKCHAIn
WIN THE BATTLE FOR blockchain COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage.
Format: 30-90 minute keynote to one day offsite
Blockchain is moving into a new competitive phase that requires a clearer future view and more focused strategies for competing. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage.
The audience will leave with a clear understanding of how to:
Establish a vision of the future and the big issues that need to be solved
Describe the enabling innovations and technologies that may be leveraged
Show you how to develop your strategy - making sure you have a “way to play” that you understand the key success factors, and that you quickly secure a “right to win.”
The speakers are managing partners of Blockchain Coinvestors, investors in 750+ blockchain companies and projects, directors and advisors at Bitwise, Concept Labs, Kraken, Linqto, Securitize, SFOX, and Chair the advisory board at Blockchain Capital. This gives them a unique perspective on this space.
This talk can include a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
Smart INVESTMENT STRATEGIES FOR BLOCKCHAIn
Format: 30-90 minute keynote
This session in targeted at investors who are watching the emerging blockchain space but are not sure whether or how to participate. The speakers profile the sector and its sub asset classes, explain what the innovation is and the promise it holds with examples, and then dive into the various ways to invest and the pros and cons of each - direct investing in the equity of blockchain companies, being a LP in blockchain venture funds, using fund of funds, exploring ICO's, and cryptoasset hedge funds, fund of funds and so on.
The speakers are managing partners of Blockchain Coinvestors, investors in 750+ blockchain companies and projects, directors and advisors at Bitwise, Concept Labs, Kraken, Linqto, Securitize, SFOX, and Chair the advisory board at Blockchain Capital. This gives them a unique perspective on this space.
The audience will leave with:
An overview of why the world is talking about blockchain
Examples of specific applications that are live or in development
An overview of cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets.
Discussion of ICO's - what are they and why do they matter.
A profiling of the various investment approaches with the pros and cons of each
Direct introductions, should they want them, to leaders in the field
This talk can include a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience.
SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY
LEARN THE SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY
Format: 30-90 minute keynote to one day workshop
This program is targeted at corporate leadership teams including boards of directors, those responsible for innovation in large companies and governments wanting to develop clusters of innovation. The co-authors of Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era reveal the inside secrets of Silicon Valley and how it has become the world's leading innovation cluster.
The audience will leave with:
Overview of Silicon Valley and how it works, and does not work
The truth behind who backs start-ups and the reasons why this is so misunderstood
The best ways for companies and governments to tap into innovation
The ways for companies and governments to collaborate with Silicon Valley
A signed copy of Alison and Matthew's best seller, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era
This talk can include a book signing, photo session, and extensive question & answer session with the audience