Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Feedzai

Pedro Bizarro is the co-founder and CSO of Feedzai, a $2B+ unicorn and industry-leading artificial intelligence platform responsible for fraud detection in 50% of all US payment transactions.

He will share a 360º view of corporate applied research and how to go from active resistance to disruptive success. With a complete overview of the process, including ideation, patents, dissemination, and more, Pedro will share how to develop products from scratch using research.

Date: February 28th
Venue: Lisbon

Dean and professor of IE Business School

Ikhlaq is a founding faculty director at the University of California Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and the author of the book Innovation Engineering.

Ikhlaq is also an internationally renowned scientist, entrepreneur, and academic in the areas of Technology and Engineering and holds 75 patents in internet communication technologies. He developed the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship for creating new ventures and Berkeley’s Engineering Leadership Programs for technology leaders.

Date: March 21st
Venue: Lisbon

Book author and CEO of
Moves the Needle

Brant Cooper is the author of several books on entrepreneurship and innovation, including ‘Lean Entrepreneur’ and more recently ‘Disruption Proof’. An inventor and founder, his last endeavor is Moves The Needle, an organization helping companies to adopt entrepreneurial ways of working to find new growth, create customer value, and execute more efficiently.

Date: May 29th
Venue: Lisbon

VP of Product Innovation at Unbabel

Paulo is the Vice President of Product Innovation at Unbabel and a successful entrepreneur and product manager. He leads Unbabel Labs, a multidisciplinary team driven by first principles and fast experimentation, and contributes to Unbabel’s product strategy and execution. Unbabel has a strong focus on AI, offering multilingual translation services by combining machine translation and human post-editing and is now leading a consortium on responsible AI.

Date: April 19th
Venue: Lisbon

Former VP of Design at IBM and Expedia Group

Doug Powell is an award-winning designer with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines and a global thought-leader on the subject. In the past decade Doug has served as Vice President of Design at IBM and Expedia Group. He will join Innov.Club to share how to infuse organisations with a sustainable culture of human-centered innovation.

Date: June 19th
Venue: Lisbon

Advisor and Former Senior Director for Sustainability Education at Salesforce

Heather has been an executive in operating roles for companies large and small (start-ups), a journalist and producer following business leadership and impact, and a strategy consultant to investors, executive teams, and founders. She worked for leading organizations such as Acumen, Stanford, McKinsey, Singularity. Until recently Heather was Salesforce Senior Director for Sustainability Education and has since focused on mentor and consult C-Level globally on innovation leadership.

Date: September 18th
Venue: Lisbon

Author and Executive Director at New Standard Institute

Maxine Bédat is a prominent figure in the sustainable fashion industry. She is a co-founder and former CEO of Zady, an ethical fashion brand and the author of Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment,” sharing a deeper understanding of the fashion industry’s impact. She is now the Executive Director of the New Standard Institute, a research and action think tank to advance accountability in fashion.

Date: October 11th
Venue: Lisbon

Co-founder and CMO of TomTom

Corrine is a French business executive and entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of the Dutch electronics company TomTom and current CMO, Vice-Chair of the supervisory board of Just Eat – Takeaway and Chairwoman of TechLeap NL. Corrine also founded Codam Coding College, a nonprofit tuition-free computer programming school in Amsterdam, part of the Ecole 42 Network.

Date: November 23rd
Venue: Lisbon