Innovation imperative

Make innovation your everyday mission

We're hosting a global innovation event in eight major cities. Meet with industry leaders and experts to gain new insights into what it takes to be an innovative business today.

Learn how Miro can help ignite innovation in your workplace.

Miro's first-ever Innovation Imperative summit

We're bringing together industry leaders and Miro customers to explore the latest research-based trends and sharing strategies for improving the innovation process. With inspiring insights from customer stories, you will gain the knowledge needed to effectively fuel innovation in your own organization.

Meet our speakers

Unique perspectives on how to drive and support innovation from some of the world’s leading brands.

Sangeeta Chakraborty

Paul D'Arcy

Varun Parmar

Grisha Pavlotskyi

Peter Parkes

Arnaud Becart

Tracy Olsen

Shipra Kayan

David Oakley

Adam Carr

Bram Jonker

Christine Vonhof

Estelle Villard

Kanika Laroia

Kanika has spent the last 10 years at high growth SaaS companies, specializing in the collaboration software space. She spent 7 years at Box in various individual contributor and leadership positions, supporting Corporate and Enterprise segments. FollowBox, Kanika joined Miro to develop and grow the Strategic Inside Sales organization, which has expanded rapidly during her 2 year tenure at the company.

Martin Richard Geier

Matt Young

Matt Young serves as Head of GTM Innovation for Miro where his primary focus is shaping the way Miro’s go-to-market team delivers new products, services and messaging to the market. Prior to his current role, for the last 2.5 years, he served as Miro’s Head of Strategic Sales for the Americas. Matt brings more than 25 years of experience in direct sales and sales leadership from leading companies like Salesforce.com, Okta and Google.

Sid van Wijk

Eoin Cosgrave

Christopher Shifflett

Christopher is an experienced product leader with over 10 years of experience in the cloud, technology, commerce, and startup space. He’s dedicated to delivering exceptional customer-centric products that drive growth and deliver business value. As a product leader, he’s passionate about driving innovation and enabling businesses to leverage the latest technologies and trends.

Morgan is an accomplished leader in research, strategy, and innovation in tech. He’s currently the Head of the Palo Alto Networks Innovation & Research Center at Palo Alto Networks. With a background spanning over 18-years in research and strategy, Morgan's career has taken him through a myriad of experiences, including launching successful startup ventures.

Cybele is a design leader, educator, and speaker specializing in user experience, accessibility, branding, visual design, typography, and art direction. Cybele oversees the product design team at Hearst where her mission is to reinvent media through user understanding, innovation, and emerging technologies. Cybele teaches at Parsons School of Design and has spoken at local and international design events.

Christian Saclier is a multifaceted Innovation and Creative Design expert, who currently serves as the Vice President of Design Innovation at PepsiCo. His focus is on operationalizing innovation through design, leading to added strategic business value across PepsiCo’s global brands and businesses. With over 20 years of experience, Christian has taken the stage to share his unique cross-functional knowledge at design and innovation conferences all over the globe.

Peter is a seasoned design leader who brings a Transformation focus spanning multiple industries. Possessing a wealth of experience and an unwavering passion, he specialises in driving end-to-end omnichannel design and successfully guides products and, ultimately, services from their initial concept to market launch and sustainable growth.

Christine Lanoy

Dan Bass

Nick Tate

Nick, an experienced digital growth, and innovation executive, currently serves as the VP, Digital Innovation for Haleon, the world’s largest everyday health company. In this role, he oversees Haleon’s disruptive and future growth agenda, launching new growth health platforms to market set against the company’s future/back strategy. His work involves partnering with an extensive ecosystem of start-ups, venture builders, retailers, and technology platforms.

Roy Armale

Roy brings his unique blend of technical expertise, strategic vision, and business acumen to WPP CTO as Senior Vice President for Product and Platforms. Roy’s visionary approach with a deep understanding of product architecture and a commitment to human centric technology are perfectly positioned to drive innovation and growth at WPP ensuring that the company continues to retain its competitive advantage.

Anish Joshi

Sterre van der Laken

Andrey Khusid

Thomas Caliman

Daniela Chorida-Doll

Jake Knapp

David Roques

Lars Behrendt

Yannis Perrakis

Ewa Priestley

Olivia Rose-Grey

Ramiya Sivakumaran

Ben Jones

Chris Moody

Chris has worked directly with the leaders of some of the world’s most well-known and well-loved organisations to redefine how their brands should think, look, feel and behave in the world. Previously he was Chief Design Officer at Wolff Olins, constantly looking to bring smart business thinking to great design. Most recently, Chris was a consulting partner at McKinsey & Company heading up the brand practice focused on helping CEO’s think more creatively about their business challenges.

Confronting the Innovation Crisis

Hear eye-opening insights from Miro's latest global survey, which reveals the reasons why companies are struggling to innovate, along with inspiring stories of how some organizations have overcome these obstacles to achieve their innovation potential.

NavigatingTomorrow with Miro

Get an exclusive look at our suite of product capabilities designed to help companies drive faster innovation to stay competitive, and hear our vision for the future of innovation enablement in the enterprise tech stack.

Everyday Innovation Unlocked

Engage in a lively panel discussion with some Miro valued customers as they share how their teams have used Miro to help innovative ideas and practices flourish in their day-to-day work

Connect with like-minded leaders from the world's most interesting brands over cocktails and culinary bites.

The Innovation Imperative is an event designed for leaders aiming to bring together industry thought leaders and experts to discuss the current state of innovation and the strategies to improve innovation performance within a large organization.

Understand why companies are struggling to innovate and strategies to improve the innovation process based on the latest research backed trends.
Discover how leaders are evolving as their teams face increasing pressure to bring innovative products and services to market, fast.
Learn how to build an environment that enables your team to perform - and enjoy - the collaborative work that drives innovation.
Listen to how some of the world’s most innovative organizations are implementing the tools, processes and mindsets required to innovate in a competitive market.
Connect with like-minded leaders from some of the world’s leading brands.