ENAiBLE Speaker Series
Translating Cutting-Edge Research Into Business Practice
ENAiBLing Innovation in Retail and Services
A startup run within a company is fundamentally the same as a startup in someone’s garage: a group of entrepreneurs trying to make the world a better place using new ideas and inventions. Sean and his team at CMU’s Corporate Startup Lab are focused on researching and promoting the mission of transformative innovation within large corporations. In their opened-ended conversation, Sean and Paul will explore:
- What is the key to bringing about ‘innovation’ — and how do we define it?
- Why do great companies have trouble adopting a startup culture, even in small pockets?
- What are specific recommendations for approaching complex technologies including AI?
- What should a corporation do first, second, and third if they wish to adopt AI? What should they avoid?
The conversation will continue with rich Q&A with the audience, including diving deeper into the challenges of the retail and service industries.
Learn more about CMU’s Corporate Startup Lab:
- Sean’s Medium post “What is a ‘Corporate Startup’?”
- Two episodes from Sean’s Podcast, Agile Giants:
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | 1:30–2:30 p.m. EDT
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Speakers
Sean Ammirati
Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Sean is a Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship in Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. In addition to teaching, he is also the co-founder and director of CMU's Corporate Startup Lab (CSL). The CSL is a Swartz Center initiative that has conducted research and developed tools to help companies better adapt and integrate entrepreneurial best practices into their own innovation processes. In addition to his work at CMU, Sean is also a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and author. His first book, "The Science of Growth," was released by St. Martin's Press in April 2016 and was subsequently translated and published in Korean and Mandarin. Finally, Sean hosts of one of the most popular podcasts on corporate innovation — Agile Giants, which you can find on your favorite podcasting platform.
Paul Pangaro
Professor of Practice, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul is Professor of Practice in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, part of CMU’s School of Computer Science. His influential career includes roles as an entrepreneur, researcher, consultant and teacher. He has founded and led start-ups; served as chief technology officer and managed product teams; and consulted as a future-caster for DuPont, Nokia, Samsung, Instituto Itaú Cultural (Brasil), and Ogilvy & Mather, among others. He has lectured and published on organizational design and conversation systems. Paul holds a bachelor of science in humanities/computer science (MIT), and a Ph.D. in cybernetics (Brunel University, UK). His work can be found at http://pangaro.com/.