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CROSS INNOVATION STRATEGY GROUP
The Cross Innovation strategy group has developed over several years with annual conferences held at the NASA/Johnson space center in Houston for the last 4 years.
When COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic the Group pivoted and focused on how innovative techniques and cross-pollination can both improve crisis response and help with the long-term recovery around the world. With a global reach and vision we are launching the “Never Normal” pledge and make it our mission to innovate mankind into a brighter and better tomorrow.
THE PLEDGE
Find Common Cause
I pledge to recognize the global nature of the pandemic threat we all face. Furthermore, I acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive human suffering and economic hardship in societies across the planet.
Connect with Others
I pledge to educate myself about organized initiatives to fight this pandemic and to volunteer to support them when and where I can. Furthermore, I pledge to advocate this Pledge of Conduct to members of my community with a view to having them join the effort.
Contribute to Transparency
I pledge to share knowledge with others. I will be open with information about myself and my behaviors to reduce the spread of this disease. I will let others learn from my data to invent new technologies to fight COVID-19.
Do No Harm
I pledge to follow scientific guidance of how my actions can reduce the spread of the virus. I will follow social distancing guidelines, wear face coverings as appropriate, wash/disinfect myself and my surroundings, and minimize exposure to others when I start feeling sick, especially to high-risk individuals, such as the elderly.
Volunteer
Acknowledging that the impact of the pandemic is disproportional, I pledge to reach out to help others who are in need of my support. To more effectively confront the virus, I will also contribute to the free flow of data, information and knowledge.
Collaborate
I pledge to pursue collaboration with other individuals and organizations so that we can more effectively address the threats posed by the virus.
Work to achieve a more benign post-virus environment.
I pledge to channel my energies into preventing pandemics like COVID-19 from recurring in the future. To that end, I will support efforts to strengthen research and analysis of ways in which humanity can prevent another pandemic like COVID-19, or others kinds of pandemics, from happening.
Sign THE PLEDGE
METHODOLOGY
Tools and comms
A detailed slack structure was published to all team members so that they would share real time in any device the information provided by other team members (as external sources). This helped enormously to quickly share up to date, rapidly changing information in the right place to all participants.
Teaming & Group Conforming
70 members distributed among 8 groups from Government, Academia, and various industries. The teams would include 6-12 members in order to make discussions meaningful.
Pre-Work
● In order to define a general framework of the entities affected by the COVID crisis, participants researched the topic to normalize the information and distill a common understanding.
Brainstorming & Design Thinking Sessions
PHASE A: Ideation: the main tools used by the moderators during these sessions were clustering and association
PHASE B: Voting & Selection: Once the ideas were deployed by each sub team, larger teams were encouraged to vote up those ideas that were most promising. This process also allowed us to clarify some ideas and luster some others that were supporting each other or were similar.
PHASE C: Cross-Pollination 2nd Ideation round: To cross pollinate the ideas across all the teams, all of the ideas were published as anonymous authors, in order to prevent people bias against a person (or in favour) but just focus on their ideas on their own merit.
Participants
STRATEGIC GROUP LEADERSHIP
Omar Hatamleh
Executive Chairman of Cross Innovation Strategy Group
Dimitris Bountolos
Deputy Executive Chairman of Cross Innovation Strategy Group Entrepreneur, C-Level Executive Former CDO
LATAM Airlines
GROUP LEADERS
Amjad Hammad
Founder & Managing Partner
Saratoga Ophthalmology
George A Tilesch
Senior AI Strategist & Co-Author, BetweenBrains; Former Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Global Affairs
Ipsos
Álvaro de Nicolas
Chief Technology & Product Officer
Awaze Group
Steve Rader
Deputy Director Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation
NASA
ADVISORS
Paul Laudicina
Chairman Emeritus, Kearney Founder, Global Business Policy Council
Kearney
Erik R. Peterson
Partner & Managing Director Global Business Policy Council
Kearney
Fabio Chesini
Research Director
Gartner
Dale Kutnick
Senior Vice President, Emeritus & Distinguished Analyst
Gartner
Javier González Ferrán
VP Managing Executive Partner, Executive Programs Iberia
Gartner
GROUP PARTICIPANTS
Ana Maiques
Founder & CEO
Neuroelectrics
Andrea Mills
Chief Advisor, External R&D Emerging Technologies
Philips Morris
Anujar Shankar
Honorary Research Fellow Oxford University
Oxford
Boris Pluskowski
New Ventures
Sillicon Valley Bank
Carlos Westhelle
Chief Technology Officer JSC
NASA
Charles Arizmedi
Azure Business Lead LATAM
Microsoft
Christian Albrecht
Aviation Expert
Christine Ortiz
Founder, Station 1 Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT
Daniel Moczydlower
Executive VP Engineer
EMBRAER
Daphne de Jong
Technical Program Manager
Waymo
David Milich
CEO
United Healthcare
Edgar Castro
Chief, Propulsion & Power Division Johnson Space Center
NASA
Edward O'Connor
Provost and EVP for Academic, Research, and Student Affairs, and Chief Academic Officer
Kansas City University of Medicine
Eman Barhoumeh
VP of Product and GM
Lyft
Enrique Dans
Professor of Innovation and Senior Advisor Digital Transformation
IE
Franco Ongaro
Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality | Head of European Space Agency – Technology Centre
ESA-ESTEC
Frank Stephenson
Former Chief of Design
Mclaren & Ferrari
George Hemingway
Partner Head of Innovation
Stratalis
Guillermo Trotti
Founder
TROTTI STUDIO
James Nakagawa
Digital Healthcare Pioneer | Cross Industry Innovation Developer
Jason Wild
Senior Vice President, Innovation and Global Leader, Ignite
Salesforce
Javier Cabrerizo
COO
Prosegur
Javier Rodriguez
CEO USA
BBVA
Javier De la Torre
Founder & CSO
CARTO
JJ Snow
Chief Technology Officer
AFWERX
John Flynn
Director, International Business Development
Partners Health Care
Juan Villamil
Chief Information & Technology Officer
Imperial College
Justin Rodriguez
Partner
BCG
Linda Gasparello
Co-Host & Producer
White House Chronicle
Llewellyn King
Executive Producer & Host
White House Chronicle
Mahmood Dweik
Vice President
Clearlake Medical Specialties
Mark Phillips
VP of Digital
Mckinsey & Company
Martin Reeves
Senior Partner Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute
BCG
Meldon Wolfgang
Senior Partner & Managing Director
BCG
Michael Kleeman
Senior Fellow & Director Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation
University of California – San Diego
Miguel Calatayud
CEO
Qualitas Health
Mike Morris
CEO
TOPCODER
Monte Goforth
Business Strategy Manager
NASA
Nabil Malouli
VP Global Ecommerce
DHL
Nima Elmi
Director, Head of Government Affairs
World Economic Forum
Ogan Gurel
Chief Medical Officer
Psomagen
Pascual de Juan
Global Head of Innovation in Technology
BBVA
Pedro Moneo
CEO
Opinno
Pilar Manchón
Senior Director of Research Strategy in Artificial Intelligence
Google
Preston McAfee
Distinguished Scientist
Google
Rami Al Karmi
SVP & Chief Innovation Officer
Jordan Ahli Bank
Ramon Vullings
Speaker, author, Cross-Industry Expert & ideaDJ
RamonVullings
S. Amal Hussnain
Vitreo-Retinal Surgery
Saratoga Ophthalmology
Scarlett Sieber
MD & Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
CG Catalyst Consulting Group
Scott Wilcox
Chief Innovation Officer
SXSW
Steve Barsh
Managing Partner
Dreamit Ventures
Stratos Davlos
CTO, SVP, Managing Director
Innoplexus
Umran Beba
SVP, Chief Global Diversity and Engagement Officer
Pepsico
Valentina Kassisieh
CEO
Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation
Vishal Gupta
Partner, Intellectual Property Group
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
W Thomas Morrow
Chief Compliance Officer / Intelectual Property Counsel
Predictive Solutions, LL
Ziad Jeha
President Saudi Arabia & Bahrain
Schlumberger
