1. Check-in:

   1. Introduction to new team members

   2. Introduction to host innovation center: Monthly speaker's presentation

2. Update:

   1. Review the Objectives of the group

   2. Comment on preliminary website

3. To do:

   1. Agree on calendar for the year

4. Next steps

1. Introduction to new team members.

2. Introduction to host innovation center: Monthly speaker's presentation

• Shell TechWorks created to shorten the traditional R&D cycle length

• No corporate funding, work as a start-up

• Globalization vs localization of innovation centers. Benefits of interaction ("some of the most successful solutions started as over-hearing someone")

• Pfeizer, Microsoft, Facebook - some of the centers run by women

• Getting through commercialization is one of the biggest issues (not a tech company, any tech solution will end up in 3rd party's hands).

• Issues: future size of team (silos) - solution keep the group size small, which sometimes implies limiting the number & size of projects

3. Review the Objectives of the group:

• Share google sheet w/ founders to add and revise the current goals/mandate.

4. Comment on preliminary website:

• General comment: Going too wide: (1) start ups, mega trends, and trends sections are too resource intensive; (2) Find a criteria for startup selection

• Home: Goal, aim - create google doc for founders to revise.

• Events: (1) Calendar: put events together; (2) Events that are happening in the ecosystem - keep up with what is happening, to ensure that the events are unique

• Ecosystem overview: (1) Cooperation w/ innovation leaders. Could potentially be a partner. Set up a meeting w/ innovation leaders (Scott Kirsner, Frank Hertz); (2) Look into tech allies: bring in start-ups

• New sections: (1) Social network analysis (socioviz.net):  understand which network players are cooperating with whom and how; (2) Give ideas about places/events where to meet local innovation players: Science Cafe, MIT lobbies; (3) NOT PUBLIC: place to post challenges. Survey.

5. Agree on calendar for the year:

• Hosting competition (universities & schools or teams we work in)

• Between center co-working: specialists from different centers work part time for a full-week in another center

• Founders' brunch/ dinner: 2nd week of month. Responsible: Arnaldo & Nicola (location)

• Talent Fair: January. Need to put in resumes of talent.  Responsible: David, Garret (location)

• Inter-center co-working: be company specific. Can set up quickly. Responsible: David & Garret

• Work-outs: send survey w/ questions about issues to tackle. Run at the monthly meetings

6. Next steps:

• Calendar: 

1. Cleaned up to look beautiful in the google sheet

2. Add location, time

3. Add to the google sheet different tabs, aims, challenges

• Events: more meat in each event, add the new ones' description (Objective +Deliverable)

• Information to be added to website:

  1. Get quotes of founders for rotation on the website

  2. Contact information (Names, emails, phones)

  3. People who have participated (e.g. Shell)

  4. Ask Rom to keep organizing start-ups (name 5 startups you think are cool to be working w/. Not yet)

  5. Joining: Google form

  6. Events that are happening right now

• New sections:

  1.  Operations team (Rasa, Regita, Rom, etc.) - contact info.

  2. Future step: Socioviz. Influence maps.

  3. Locations to work & be inspired