Innovate New Albany is committed to providing programs and other content that contribute to building a thriving ‘Innovation Economy,’ here in our local community and far beyond

The Innovation Economy can be defined many ways. We’ve chosen to focus on five broad disciplines that businesses and supporting organizations leverage to create real value for customers, employees, investors and more. Together, the pursuit of these disciplines accelerate the economic growth of communities, including New Albany:

• Technology: Applications, inventions, and solutions that solve problems, create new opportunities, and improve efficiencies. We aim to promote and leverage technology in a broad sense including in digital products/services, communication, transportation, energy, the environment, agriculture, health, life sciences, advanced materials, and any other technologies with promise for great value creation!
• Innovation: Ideas, products, or processes that solve problems, leverage opportunities, and create value for customers, employees, founders, other leaders, and investors.
• Growth: Tools and techniques to increase revenues, profits, organizational capabilities, and individual talents/skills that make it easier to improve performance, and scale businesses.
• Entrepreneurship: Best practices, habits, and methods of accessing resources that improve success rates for new business ventures – especially those with great potential to deliver sustainable economic growth, scale rapidly, and create attractive professional opportunities for many.
• Responsibility: Approaches to focusing corporate resources on “doing good”—for employees, communities, and the entire business ecosystem.

TIGER Events, as a rule, are designed to provide business leaders with knowledge and skills needed to launch and grow highly successful products and valuable businesses that help create economic opportunity for the community-at-large.

Who Benefits by Participating?

Innovate New Albany aims to serve a broad community – everyone who contributes to creating and sustaining a thriving economy.

TIGER Events are intended to be valuable for:

• Founders/Partners/Leaders of scalable startups
• Owners/Leaders of small businesses
• Professionals who are employees/contractors at startups or small businesses
• People who aspire to be employees/contractors at startups or small businesses
• Service Providers & Mentors who focus on helping entrepreneurs & innovators succeed
• Investors & Lenders who furnish capital to fund business growth
• Students & Academic Leaders with interest in any/all of the five disciplines represented by the acronym TIGER
• Professionals at established businesses in roles like Corporate Innovation, Intrapreneurship, IT, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Strategy, Leadership, & General Management.
• Leaders in Economic Development and other Public Policy/Government roles

What Happens at a TIGER Event?

The goal of every TIGER Event is to improve participants’ ability to achieve success in their business pursuits.

Each event offers the opportunity to:

• Learn from the event’s speaker(s), our TIGER Talent, who are leaders in their fields.
• Renew friendships & make new friends with like-minded professionals who share an interest in each day’s event topic. Since the crowd we attract is diverse, those who participate find that other participants typically have complementary skillsets and are eager for opportunities to collaborate and help one another.
• Have fun, in an interactive environment. TIGER Events are not a “spectator sport.” Everyone who comes should be prepared to interact and actively participate.

Event Formats

We are proud to offer TIGER Events in three formats:

• TIGER Talks. Presentations designed to educate and inform you about a topic relevant to succeeding in the innovation economy.

• TIGER Tools (Workshop Events). Hands-on sessions that teach the fundamentals of how to use a software tool or walk through the specific steps to create assets to help a business
• succeed. Attendees leave with new skills or new tools they can apply to their improve businesses right away!
• TIGER Tales. Inspiring stories from entrepreneurs, either highly successful or still climbing, covering the challenges they overcame, the lessons they learned, and dreams they achieved.

Event Flow

TIGER Events are built around solutions-focused presentations.

Each TIGER Event has a different focus, but they all follow a similar sequence:

• Opportunity to meet and socialize with other participants & the speaker(s)
• Brief introduction of speaker(s) & how they fit Innovate New Albany’s mission & goals
• Informative, interactive presentation
• Questions & Answers

Past Events

You can read about some previous TIGER Events through the event descriptions below:

• Generative AI: Best Practices to Keep Your Data Secure – Ron Savoia and Josh Greenwald, Stratus Innovations Group 

• Accelerate Success: Mastering the Go-to-Market Strategy, Product-Market Fit, and Capitalization
  – Manny Larcher, Stopwatch Creative

• How College Grads With Sustainability Education Add Big Value to Your Business – Neil Drobny, Formerly employed with Battelle, ERM (Environmental Resource Management), and The Ohio State University

To learn more about upcoming TIGER Events and to register, please visit the events page of our website, subscribe to our newsletter (at the top of our website homepage) and follow Innovate New Albany on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and LinkedIn.

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