Culture of Innovation

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Dave O’Callaghan, Partner & Co-Founder of Vation Ventures, for a fascinating conversation around Orchestration of Innovation. Nancy is honored to introduce Dave O’Callaghan, a serial innovator and pioneer of ecosystems. Dave has spent thirty-nine years as a senior executive in large tech corporations and seven years consulting to large corporations,...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Rise Huffman, President of Stratocumulus Technologies & Integrated Remote Testing Device, for a fascinating conversation around Innovation with Heart. As a Communications Professional for over 30 years, Rise continues to assist companies in developing and implementing technology plans, helping client companies to use technology to improve their oper...

Today, I’m especially excited to introduce you to two young women whom I could call future leaders, however they are already leading and innovating. Please allow me to introduce Jainita Chauhan. She is a senior at Texas A&M University where she uses her engineering instincts and skills, including an intense passion for efficiency and improvement, to create solutions to the world’s most pressing is...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Marc Halbfinger, CEO of PCCW-HKT Group, for a fascinating conversation on fiber and 5G deployments driving loT and Edge Compute to facilitate Industrial, Enterprise, and Consumer Demand driven by vast demand for data and increasing demand for geographic ubiquity. Marc has been with the PCCW-HKT Group for the past 20 years, the past 13 years of which...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Reece Akhtar, PhD, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer of Deeper Signals, for a fascinating conversation on how you can help your employees work well together, deeply understand each other, and reach their full potential. Learn how innovative tech delivers meaningful talent insights at every level of your business, and more! Dr. Reece Akhtar is a co-...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Tiffani Bova Chief Growth Evangelist of Salesforce, for a fascinating conversation on charting the path in 2021. As the pandemic accelerated innovation, they discuss top things to adopt in our transformed market, the shift to science in sales, committed action from leaders, how ecosystems are seen in the Growth Path context, and more! Tiffani Bova i...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative, Cate Heaman CEO of Prelude Solutions, Y’vonne Ormond CEO of 5P Consulting, and Deb Ward CEO of Televergence, for a fascinating conversation of Innovation in Alliances. They discuss Power Women Alliance and why they saw value in the alliance, how they are expanding beyond traditional partners, the importance of cost optimization, the values the alliance...

Join Nancy Ridge and Gray Chynoweth for a fascinating conversation about Trust as a Platform for Innovation. They discuss infusing culture with trust to build resiliency, creating environments that support risk taking that lead to innovation, and more. Gray Chynoweth is the CEO of Minim (www.minim.co). Prior to joining Minim in 2019, Gray served in a variety of executive positions, including COO a...

Nancy Ridge and Adam Michalski discuss why attribution may be the most important outcome of blending art with science in channels today, why automation is the #1 trend in channel sales, and more. Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Partnered.io, the leading Account-based Partnership Platform, and host of The Partnered Podcast. With Partnered.io, you can easily automate and measure your partnerships...

Nancy and Patrick discuss cultivating innovation as a way of life. Hear as they discuss the motivation to start bold and successful moves, the innovative Unitas Connectivity product and its success factor, changing the culture within organizations, and more. Patrick has over 20 years of leadership experience in the technology industry. Previously, Patrick co-founded and served as CEO for Universal...

Nancy and Jay discuss how channels are evolving into huge ecosystems made up of Influencers, Alliances, Affiliates, Agents, Sub-Agents, MSP’s, Integrators, Implementors and ISV’s. They explore how they all affect the customer’s journey, how ecosystems will replace linear distribution models and handle all these new partners and what effect these changes will have on channel sales models. Index: 00...

Meet the remarkable Will Yafi, CEO of TIDWIT and learn how their cloud ecosystem is delivering highly scale able collaboration, distribution and information through breakthrough platform, transforming how organizations serve their customers and partners.