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🎙️ Here’s a first look at our Founder & CEO, Fred Schonenberg Schonenberg’s, FEI interview! 🔗 Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q03cPH800 Join him live with Seth Adler at FEI 2025 on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 2:15–2:45 PM ET, as he presents: Co-Development: Turbocharge Enterprise R&D, Accelerate Innovation & Outpace Competition — Traditional R&D processes are no longer sufficient in today’s rapidly evolving innovation landscape - in fact, they’re holding enterprises back. Co-development is the answer, a strategic approach for building with external partners in a way that drives transformative results. #Innovation #FEI2025

Headed to Shoptalk next week? Interested in Retail #Innovation? #GenAI for #Commerce? Wondering how to navigate the rapidly transforming #Omnichannel landscape? Meet up with our team! Meet with Alice Ponti, SVP of Innovation to learn more about how we help our clients pilot emerging tech to unlock new sources of growth! Check out her message below to learn more!

Tune in to the latest VentureFuel Visionaries episode featuring Hans Balmaekers, Chief of Innov8rs.co, a global community dedicated to empowering corporate innovators! 📣 Listen here: https://hubs.ly/Q03czpfP0 Hosted by Fred Schonenberg, this episode talks about how Hans has spent over a decade collaborating and learning about how to innovate within the world’s top organizations and shares some of his top tips with us, such as how the best corporate innovators have a day job (innovation, the work), a night job (gathering support and buy-in) and a weekend job (transforming ways of working). VentureFuel is a proud sponsor of Innov8rs and their upcoming conference, that isn’t really a conference in Phoenix this April where we will be hosting a workshop on how to tune your corporate innovation practice to deliver results today, while preparing your business for tomorrow. #Innovation

Join our Founder & CEO, Fred Schonenberg, alongside Laura Plunkett, Vice President, Startup Engagement, Head of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, and Marc Silberman, Partner at Comcast Ventures, for a fireside chat: From Pilots to Portfolios: Comcast’s Integrated Corporate Growth Startup Strategy at Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit 2025! 📆 Thursday, March 20, at 11:45 a.m. PDT Check this out for more details 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q03cxB5c0 The discussion will delve into how LIFT Labs' strategic pilots with business units seamlessly complement Comcast Ventures' investment strategy in adjacent and emerging markets, with a particular focus on AI technologies. #Innovation #Corporate #Growth #GCVISummit

Congratulations to Marc Silberman, Partner at Comcast Ventures, for being recognized as one of GCV’s Top 50 Emerging Leaders in Corporate Venturing for 2025! 👏 Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q03cj2mh0 🎙️ Catch Marc at GCV Summit 2025 in Thursday’s Fireside Chat, From Pilots to Portfolios, alongside our Founder & CEO, Fred Schonenberg, and Laura Plunkett, Vice President, Startup Engagement, Head of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs. Don’t miss this insightful discussion: https://hubs.ly/Q03cjdTw0 #Innovation

Don’t miss this week’s VentureFuel Visionaries podcast featuring Hans Balmaekers, Chief of Innov8rs.co, a global community dedicated to empowering corporate innovators! In this episode, we will talk about how Hans has spent over a decade collaborating and learning about how to innovate within the world’s top organizations. He will also share some of his tips, such as how the best corporate innovators have a day job, a night job, and a weekend job. Unlock innovation with the Visionaries podcast! Follow us for expert insights and stories that drive change. #Innovation

Voting ends tomorrow, March 18th! Remember to cast your vote today: https://hubs.ly/Q03c6NBH0 Meet the finalists for VentureFuel's Visionary of the Year awards: 💡Kyle Basler-Reeder, Global Open Innovation Lead at ExxonMobil 💡Dan Kihanya, Director of REI’s Path Ahead Ventures. 💡Marita McGinn, Accelerator Director of MassRobotics 💡Charlotte N., Global Head of Underrepresented Founder Startup BD at Amazon Web Services (AWS) 💡Sokwoo Rhee, Executive Vice President at LG Electronics, Head of North America Innovation Center (LG NOVA) Nominated and voted on by their peers, the VentureFuel Visionaries is the Hall of Fame for Innovators. #Visionary #Innovation

Congratulations to Sokwoo Rhee, EVP at LG Electronics, Head of North America Innovation Center ("LG NOVA"), on being named a finalist for the VentureFuel Visionary of the Year award! Cast your vote today: https://hubs.ly/Q03b_8_X0 Nominated and voted on by their peers, the VentureFuel Visionaries is the Hall of Fame for Innovators. 🏆 Voting closes on March 18th! #Innovation #Visionary

The VentureFuel Visionaries #podcast is going LIVE on March 21! 🎙️ Join us for a special Visionaries Live episode as Fred Schonenberg sits down with Valentina A. Assenova, Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Endowed Term Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. This episode will explore Valentina's research into startup accelerators and the optimal design for accelerators that drive success for startups and corporates, based on her paper "Poised for Growth: Exploring the Relationship Between Accelerator Program Design and Startup Performance." Mark your calendars for Friday, March 21, from 3:30 – 4:00 PM ET! Don’t miss out — tune in live and be part of the conversation! #Innovation