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Innovation Day

The 1st ever Innovation event was organized on 17th August and it was an immense success!!!. It was
an enriching experience for both the audience and the presenters.
Key highlights for the event were:
Vivek Jhanjhri, WWCO India site leader, started the day with the spark of innovation by sharing his
journey and what it means to be at VMware and innovating day in and day out.

We had 3 eminent speakers for the day:
• Chris Dials (VP GTM Ops, VMware) who spoke about the importance of “imperfect progress” and
how his team & VMware are continually innovating
• Rakesh Mishra (VP Marketing, Target) shared an impressive perspective on how “differentiation is
ephemeral & innovation is constant” and “quest for known vs unknown”
• Ravichandran (Founder, Alive Consulting) shared his thoughts on how multiple industries are
“challenging core assumptions” on business model and reinventing it
We had an energetic improvisation theatre session where we experienced “importance of impulse &
creativity” and “building and committing on each other’s ideas”.
The 2nd half of the day was around Idea Labs and it was an impressive show of enthusiasm, energy,
innovation and the best implemented ideas from Global Operations India (GBO & WWCO).

Key Highlights :
• 20 Ideas showcased. See details
• 200+ employees visited the idea labs
• Idea Leaders presented their ideas to GBO/WWCO leaders & employees visiting their booths

• Employees leveraged this opportunity to learn more about other upstream-downstream teams
Innovation day is the first step towards driving an innovation-led culture.