In The Loop: Defining Innovation
Part of In The Loop: Circular Food Economy, a full day at Brighton Block on Wednesday, October 7 during Edmonton Startup Week. See the full day and register for the main event: https://luma.com/ixdy9g2v
Death by buzzword!
The word innovation does a lot of heavy lifting. We put it into our resumes, make it a core value and spread it all over our strat plans but few have taken the time to define it.
Fresh off the heels of an innovation conference in Muscat, Oman, Tristan Ham of Unbounded Thinking is bringing that conversation to In The Loop for Startup Week.
Take an hour with Tristan and wrestle this buzzword into submission! Innovation is far more nuanced than we think and touches each segment of the Circular Food Economy Loop.
With a background spanning theatre, adult education, entrepreneurship and human services, Tristan has a knack for making complicated things feel simple without making them simplistic. Facilitator. Storyteller. Professional room-stirrer.
This isn't about giving you one more definition to add to the pile. It's about taking a word we use constantly and actually asking what we mean by it — and what changes when we get more precise.
Because innovation doesn't belong to one part of the food system. It can change how we grow food, how we move it, how we cook it, how we get it onto your plate, and what happens to everything left behind.
Capped at 24, with room to argue. Bring the definition you've been using and see if it survives.
You'll leave with a clearer way to think about innovation — and a better question to take back to your own work.
Come wrestle the buzzword.
This breakout runs inside In The Loop: Circular Food Economy.
Registering for this session costs nothing — the breakouts are free. Registering here will forward you to the main In The Loop Luma, where you'll also need to register to get in the door for the day.
That's where our social enterprise pricing lives. There's a $30 ticket, and a pay-what-you-can option with a recommended minimum of $10 — but it goes all the way down to zero. If you want to be in the room, we want you in the room, and we'd rather have you there than price you out.
That's also where pay-it-forward comes in. Those contributions cover the people who belong in this room but aren't in a position to be as generous. One hundred percent of what we collect goes straight back into the event — better food, better rooms, and more of these.
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