From Foresight to First Customer: Turning Signals Into Scalable Ventures
How can corporates turn signals into real ventures? Two perspectives on bridging foresight and execution in corporate innovation.
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Online
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Agenda
Opening
Part 1 – Mapping Signals to Opportunities
Part 2 – Turning Opportunities into Ventures
Closing
About this event
- Event lasts 45 minutes
From Foresight to First Customer: Turning Signals Into Scalable Ventures
Many corporate innovation teams struggle to scope out opportunities for new business and collaboration, and to translate them into validated, investable business concepts.
In this panel-style webinar, two innovation professionals — one focused on domain exploration, the other on venture execution — will interview each other to explore how innovation teams can identify meaningful domain signals and test venture ideas.
- Xiao Zhong (US-based strategist; Founder and CEO of Disrupnovation LLC) will share how he helps corporate teams identify meaningful signals and emerging opportunity spaces, particularly in tech and open innovation contexts.
- Satomi Hoshi (Japan-based venture builder; Founder of UX Startup) will share how those signals can be turned into internal ventures using structured, repeatable methods drawn from pre-seed programs inside large companies.
Whether you're just starting out with open innovation or stuck turning ideas into traction, this session offers practical thinking and real-world examples you can apply.
Frequently asked questions
This webinar is best suited for corporate teams engaged in innovation, new business development, R&D, and corporate strategy.
The speakers will communicate in English. For Japanese audience, we will provide real-time translated transcription and supplementary comments in Japanese by Satomi.
We'll talk about both closed and open innovation contexts. Part 1 will cover how to explore new domains and set innovation strategy, particularly in tech and open innovation contexts. Part 2 will cover the consequent phases of testing business concepts and building in-house ventures.