Corporates still struggle today with setting up innovation units, labs, accelerators etc. Often times because the chosen method does not always fit to the culture. This keynote is about the journey of finding out which innovation setup fits best.
Juan Jose Dardon Mota
Head of Innovation Management - Otto Group
How to Find a Suitable Innovation Approach for Corporates
About Juan Jose Dardon Mota
Juan Jose Dardon Mota (43, JJ for short) is Head of Innovation Management in the Otto Group. The Group Innovation Management focuses three main tasks: Creating transparency of innovation efforts and market trends across the group, identifying initiatives and technologies that have a group-wide synergy and business potential, and finally, supporting those teams in executing and delivering such initiatives.
Born in Guatemala, he has 20 years of experience in product management and digital business. After beginnings at guenstiger.de, JJ landed in the Berlin start-up world. He spent ten years building and managing product teams for various Startups from Axel Springer, Rocket Internet and Finleap.JJ now lives in Hamburg-Volksdorf with his wife and two young sons, loves FC Barcelona and Metallica, and enjoys spending his vacations in Andalusia, his mother''s homeland.