Master Classes and Innovation Labs
at Future Lab (Hall B2)
Companies in the sports industries face historic challenges and opportunities
As business leaders, we need short term solutions for multiple crises. To outperform in the longer term, we also need to rethink our business models across our supply and value chains to adapt to new regulations and long-term market trends.
Regenerative Value Creation
The evolving demands of regulators, clients and talent, bankers and investors generate risks for old business models that don’t include sustainability as a core priority. These increasing demands also create opportunities for those who understand how to integrate business success with the regeneration of people and societies, nature and the climate. We call this new DNA for real innovation and business success: Regenerative Value Creation.
ISPO teams up with NOW Partners
Together with NOW Partners, a cutting-edge innovation and transformation accelerator working with companies globally, ISPO wants to support you to successfully innovate in alignment with Regenerative Value Creation. Find more information below and at www.now.partners. Together we are offering at ISPO Munich 2022. Starting in 2023, we will also offer year-long INNOVATION LABS on key business challenges and opportunities.
At ISPO Munich 2022, we offer Master Classes and Innovation Workshops
Convened by ISPO and NOW Partners, these Master Classes and Innovation Workshops include successful corporate leaders and top experts. They will update you on the latest market trends and support you to find your solutions to pressing challenges and opportunities across business functions.
Starting in 2023, ISPO & NOW Partners offer year-long INNOVATION LABS
These Innovation Labs help you discover and implement your solutions to key challenges and opportunities facing your business today and into the future. Global experts and successful business leaders will share their insights and experiences. Cutting edge innovation processes led by experienced facilitators will stimulate your creativity and innovation. For more information, please click here and email us at info@now.partners.
Starting in 2023, ISPO & NOW’s year-long INNOVATION LABS
are designed to help you discover and implement your solutions to these challenges and opportunities. Experts and successful business leaders will share their insights. Cutting edge innovation processes led by experienced facilitators will stimulate your creativity and innovation. For more information, please click here and email Renske van Grinsven renske@now.partners and Leonardo Andrade leonardo@now.partners
Master Classes on Future Lab Main Stage
Monday, 28th at 11.00 and 15.00
Tuesday, 29th at 11.00 and 15.00
Innovation Labs at Future Lab Sustainability Hub
Monday, 28th at 12.00 and 16.00
Tuesday, 29th at 12.00 and 16.00
in the Future Lab (Hall B2)
MASTER CLASS:
Resilient & Regenerative Supply Chains
Monday, Nov. 28, 11.00 – 12.00
Future Lab Main Stage (Hall B2)
Covid and the war in Ukraine disrupted supply chains and revealed that efficiency needs to be integrated with resilience. The climate and other natural and human crises point to the need and opportunity to make supply chains also regenerative, integrating business success and economic development with the regeneration of people and planet. In this Master Class and the following Innovation Workshop, you can explore with experts and business leaders how they master their challenges and turn their opportunities into success stories
PRESENTERS
- Alexandra Araújo, board member of Portugal’s Textile and Apparel Association that supports European brands to nearshore their production in alignment with social and environmental standards. Co-owner of her family’s company LMA.
- Dylan McNeill, a director of Philips’ 30.000 company Supply Chain that achieves greater resilience, financial and sustainability performance by systematically developing real partnerships that spread Regenerative Value Creation around the world.
- Andreas Knezovic, Group CEO Smartfiber & Fair Trade Cashmere (FTC) that serve the luxury fashion segment. Their integrated supply chain demonstrates the power of real relationship that integrate efficiency, resilience and regeneration.
- Miguel Mendes, Sales and Innovation Director of A. Sampaio, his family’s textile company that nearshores the supply chain of leading European brands in alignments with several social and environmental standards.
- Oliver Outboter, CEO of Micro Mobility Systems that revolutionized mobility with its Micro Kick Scooter. Their current launch of electric car Microlino positions them right in the center of supply challenges.
MODERATORS & PRESENTERS:
- Walter Link, founding CEO, NOW Partners, co-owned B.Grimm, a 142-year Euro-Asian industrial group that increases the performance of the supply and value chains of companies like Siemens, Merck and Carrier.
- Hunter Lovins, Regenerative Value Creation expert, shares data and examples of how companies around the world create business success by making their supply and value chains more sustainable.
INNOVATION WORKSHOP:
Resilient & Regenerative Supply Chains
Monday, Nov. 28, 12.00 – 13.00
Future Lab Retail Hub (Hall B2)
How to turn your supply ‘chain’ into a reliable, high performance supply eco-system
This Innovation Workshop builds of the Master Class. Its interactive setting allows participants to explore with supply chain experts and successful business leaders whether and how to turn your supply chain into a resilient, high performance eco-system that is more resilient and spreads sustainability around the world. It also helps to consider nearshoring as part of the solution.
This workshop will give you a taste of the YEAR-LONG INNOVATION LABS that ISPO & NOW Partners offer, starting in 2023. For more information, click here and please email us at info@now.partners.
WORKSHOP TEAM:
- Walter Link
- Hunter Lovins
- Tom Cummings, Advisor to corporate CEOs, owners and boards who want to implement Regenerative Value Creation.
- Merijn Dols, Managing Partner of NOW Partners, former global head open innovation and circularity, Danone
- Renske van Grinsven, director at NOW Partners and founder of The Netherlands’ first future lab
MASTER CLASS:
Benefit from Real ESG Finance & Market Changes
Monday, Nov. 28, 15.00 – 16.00
Future Lab Main Stage (Hall B2)
How to respond to financial markets that push companies towards regeneration
Regulators and markets are pushing companies towards Regenerative Value Creation that integrates business success with the regeneration of people and nature. New EU government and US stock exchange regulations combined with quickly accelerating mega trends in investment, banking and M&A make it increasingly harder for companies with low sustainability performance to obtain competitively priced financing. This rapidly accelerating situation creates risks but also opens opportunities for companies that align themselves with these unavoidable trends by learning how to build business success through positive impact.
PRESENTERS:
- Tom Cummings, business professor and ex-leader at ABM AMRO Bank, advised banks like Rabo and helped Triodos to create the Global Alliance of Banking on Values whose members in 44 countries outperform commercial banks.
- Patrik Frisk, 30 years of top leadership in sports, outdoor and fashion with Gore-Tex Fabrics, The North Face, Timberland, Vans, Jansport, Aldo and Under Armour. He has also established and managed several private enterprises.
- Georg Schürmann, CEO, Triodos Bank, Germany co-leads Europe’s premiere sustainability bank that helped to pioneer regeneration-oriented finance and impact investing, also in the Global South.
- Dr. Giovanni Salerno, senior executive in one of the world’s leading insurance companies that is also a world leader in ESG investments and ESG research
MODERATORS & PRESENTERS:
- Walter Link, CEO of NOW Partners, helped to found throughout Europe and the Americas the first sustainable business and finance alliances that offer new choices for corporate financing, retail and institutional investing.
- Hunter Lovins, Managing Partner at NOW advises the leaders of corporations and financial institutions and runs a sustainable investment fund that outperforms the S&P and other mainstream indexes.
INNOVATION WORKSHOP:
Benefit from Real ESG Finance & Market Changes
Monday, Nov. 28, 16.00 – 17.00
Future Lab Sustainability Hub (Hall B2)
How financial markets push companies towards regeneration
This Innovation Workshop builds off the Master Class. Its interactive setting allows participants to explore with successful business leaders and finance experts how to avoid risks and benefit from opportunities in the rapidly evolving global landscape of banking, investment and M&A.
This workshop will give you a taste of the YEAR-LONG INNOVATION LABS that ISPO & NOW Partner will offer on this topic, starting in 2023. For more information, click here and please email us at info@now.partners.
WORKSHOP TEAM:
- Tom Cummings
- Georg Schürmann
- Walter Link
- Hunter Lovins
- Merijn Dols, Managing Partner of NOW Partners, formerly Danone’s global head open innovation and circularity
- Renske van Grinsven, director at NOW Partners and founder of The Netherlands’ first future lab
MASTER CLASS:
Lobbing for Sports, Health & Climate
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 11.00 – 12.00
Future Lab Main Stage (Hall B2)
How the Sports industry can lobby for the good of people and nature
During the Covid crisis, Sports that strengthen the immune system and overall health received significantly less support than other industries. More generally sports activities and other health and climate friendly policies would benefit from a much stronger Sports industry voice. What should such Lobbying for Good efforts focus on? And what can we learn from successful lobbying efforts around the world that have effectively advanced health and climate replated policies?
PRESENTERS:
- Laura Santucci, Chief of Staff of Political Operations at the Obama White House and Chief of Staff of New York’s mayor was responsible for advancing many policy initiatives in the USA and internationally.
- Martin Frick, Director at the UN’s World Food Program, held also senior leadership positions at UN’s climate initiatives COP and IFCCC as well as the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, FAO.
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Geisler researches and teaches Fitness and Health at the IST and the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln. He is the President of NSCA-Germany and Co-founder of the German Fitness Science Board.
- Hendrikje Lučić, Federal Association of the German Sporting Goods Industry, is responsible for BSI's political advocacy with the German government and other institutions to represent diverse industry interests.
- Peter Renner, Board Chairman, Foundation for Development and Climate Alliance, an international business alliance with 400 corporate members that work with companies and governments to implement nature-based climate solutions.
MODERATORS & PRESENTERS:
- Hunter Lovins, co-author of 17 business books and Club of Rome member, advises governments, the UN and other multilateral institutions on how to integrate economic development with the regeneration of societies and nature.
- Walter Link, CEO NOW Partners worked with public sector institutions, including the UN and the EU to advance regeneration-oriented policy frameworks. He co-founded the first sustainable business alliances across Europe and The Americas
INNOVATION WORKSHOP:
Lobbing for Sports, Health & Climate
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 12.00 – 13.00
Future Lab Sustainability Hub (Hall B2)
This Innovation Workshop builds of the Master Class. Its interactive setting allows participants to explore with policy and other experts how by working together in a coordinated manner the Sport industry can increase its positive impact on policy making and implementation.
This workshop will give you a taste of the YEAR-LONG INNOVATION LABS that ISPO & NOW Partners will offer on this topic, starting in 2023. For more information, click here and please email us at info@now.partners.
WORKSHOP TEAM:
- Martin Frick
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Geisler
- Walter Link
- Hunter Lovins
- Hendrikje Lučić
- Laura Santucci
- Peter Renner
- Tom Cummings senior advisor to the Club of Rome and other institutions that develop and advance sustainability-oriented policies.
- Merijn Dols, NOW Managing Partner and ex-Open Innovation and Circularity Lead at Danone, co-led the development of climate and health friendly policies.
- Renske van Grinsven, director at NOW Partners who helped innovate and implement sustainable policy initiatives in The Netherlands.
MASTER CLASS:
Benefit Corporations and B Corp Certification
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 15.00 – 16.00
Future Lab Main Stage (Hall B2)
How to integrate business success with positive impact for people and nature
Around the world 12.000 companies are Benefit Corporations. They legally commit to serve all stakeholders. 5000 of them are independently certified B Corps. They include Patagonia, Danone, Natura and The Body Shop. In this Master Class and the following Innovation Workshop you will meet their leaders to understand how their Regenerative Value Creation turns positive impact into superior business success. We can also support you to consider whether you want to become a B Corp.
PRESENTERS:
- Tom Cummings, Chair of B Lab Europe, the global organization that created the B Corp movement and its certification. It promotes Benefit Corporation legislation around the world. He advises corporate owners, C-Suite and board leaders.
- Merijn Dols, Managing Partner of NOW Partners and until recently Global Head of Open Innovation and Circularity at Danone that uses its B Corp certification process to motivate and train its teams and value chain.
- Joao Paulo Ferreira, CEO of Natura and Natura & Co Latin America that includes The Body Shop, Avon and Aesop. An early B Corp, it grew from a purpose driven Brazilian start up into the world’s 4th largest beauty group based on Regenerative Value Creation.
- Robert Metzke, Global Head of ESG and Sustainability at Philips. Carbon neutral since 2020 and leader in Circularity, it is one of the world’s most sustainability award winning companies that however decided against becoming a certified B Corp.
MODERATORS & PRESENTERS:
- Walter Link, founding CEO of innovation accelerator NOW Partners, a Benefit Corporation and B Corp. NOW’s over 100 senior partners include key founders of the B Corp movement in Europe, The Americas and other continents.
- Hunter Lovins, co-author of 17 business books, incl. on Climate Solutions and Natural Capitalism. Advisor to senior leaders. Co-founded the Rocky Mountains Institute and with Walter Link the USA’s first fully accredited MBA in Sustainable Business.
INNOVATION WORKSHOP:
How to benefit from becoming a B Corp
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 16.00 – 17.00
Future Lab Sustainability Hub (Hall B2)
Explore with experts whether and how it would benefit your company to become a B Corp
This Innovation Workshop immediately follows the Master Class. Its interactive setting allows participants to explore with experts whether and how becoming a Benefit Corporation and/or a Certified B Corp may serve your business success and your positive impact on all stakeholders, including shareholders and nature.
This workshop will give you a taste of the YEAR-LONG INNOVATION LABS that ISPO & NOW Partner will offer on this topic, starting in 2023. For more information, click here and please email us at info@now.partners.
WORKSHOP TEAM:
- Tom Cummings
- Merijn Dols
- Walter Link
- Hunter Lovins
- Renske van Grinsven, director at NOW Partners is an accredited B Corp Way transformation expert, accredited with B Lab Europe.
We therefore team up with cutting-edge innovation accelerator NOW Partners
to offer you a wide range of innovation, transition and transformation services.
NOW Partners team has decades of experience
in creating Innovation Labs and helping companies to implement their discoveries across business functions. (www.now.partners)
Our LABS will be offered to:
• individual companies that want support with innovation and implementation challenges and opportunities.
• pre-competitive groups of companies within and across industries that together address topics of common concern to benefit from mutually reinforcing creativity and joint impact.
The LABS can be complemented by:
• advisory services for individual companies to individualize, deepen or otherwise complement the collective work done in shared LABS.
• leadership development programs that evolve individual leaders, their teams and overall corporate capacity and culture to implement the LABS’ innovation results.
Innovation Lab PARTICIPANTS
• The number of participants depends on the specific needs of the LAB. They always include senior leaders who have the authority to make significant decisions or have direct access to those who do.
• Typically, in house LABS would include representatives from several departments, for example for a Supply Chain LAB not only from that department but also from other key business functions finance, marketing and sustainability so that innovation can benefit from these diverse stakeholder perspectives.
• Typically, pre-competitive LABS within or across industries would also include representatives of diverse business functions but in smaller numbers so that the LAB group doesn’t grow much beyond 30 participants.
Innovation Lab TEAM
The team for each of our Innovation Labs will be composed of:
• Partners of NOW Partners, see details here: https://now.partners/team/
• World Leading Topic Experts from our extensive networks and suggested by you.
• Successful Business Leaders who mastered similar challenges and opportunities
• Yourselves because nobody knows your company and industry segment better
Innovation Lab FORMAT
Typically, our individually designed Labs will include:
• Several in-person session, often aligned with Munich fair schedules
• Zoom working sessions with the whole and sub-groups
• A virtual interaction platform to work on topics and projects
• Webinars with leading experts
• Optional in-person Learning Journeys that support your specific needs
• Virtual Learning Journeys that facilitate travel-free global learning
• A web platform for relevant written and multimedia contents
Innovation Lab PROCESS
NOW Partners teams are experts in facilitating processes that integrate the discovery of cutting edge knowledge with individual and collective creative processes that lead to innovation and its implementation adapted to diverse context.
Innovation Lab TOPICS
In 2023 and beyond we will offer Labs on the following topics. Some of them are already being discussed in our MASTER CLASSES, see above. We are also open to design together with you Labs on additional topics. These Labs will help you discover what others do and find your solution.
SUPPLY CHAIN:
Covid and the war in Ukraine revealed that efficiency needs to be integrated with resilience. The climate and other natural and human crises point to the need and opportunity to make supply chains also sustainable, integrating business success with the regeneration of people and planet. In the LAB you will learn from best-in-class approaches and examples to find your own solution
CONSUMERS:
Research reveals that more and more consumers want to buy sustainable products. Yet much fewer turn these good intentions into concrete purchases. Rather than complaining about these inconsistencies, this LAB will help you to discover how to close this gap between intention and action by initiatives of individual and collective industry and policy activities.
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS:
The US federal government just published a directive which excludes companies that don’t have a climate neutral policy from lucrative public purchasing. This points to a mega trend among clients, talent and finance partners. In this LAB we will explore how to reduce your carbon foot print and balance the remainder through other activities.
CIRCULARITY:
Regulators, clients, talent and finance partners expect companies to become not only neutral in regard to the climate but also all other material inputs. In the LAB you will learn how other companies created business success through circularity and explore how you can integrate financial benefit with positive impact.
ESG FINANCE:
New EU government and US stock exchange regulations combined with quickly accelerating mega trends in investment, banking and M&A create risks for business as usual but also opportunities for companies that align themselves with these unavoidable trends by learning how to build business success through positive impact.
BENEFIT CORPORATION:
Around the world 12.000 companies are Benefit Corporations. They legally commit to serve all stakeholders. 5000 of them are independently certified B Corps. They include Patagonia, Danone, Natura and The Body Shop. We will support you to consider WHETHER you want and HOW you can become a B Corp.
LOBBY FOR GOOD:
Sports activities and other health and climate friendly policies would benefit from a much stronger Sports industry voice. What should such Lobbying for Good efforts focus on? And what can we learn from successful lobbying efforts around the world that have effectively advanced health and climate replated policies?
FOR QUESTIONS please contact NOW Partners:
Renske van Grinsven renske@now.partners and
Leonardo Andrade leonardo@now.partners
