Innovate 2026
Bringing global attention & talent to the bluegrass
Louisville, Kentucky
The crossroads of global ideas and local opportunity.
The smart money around the country and world is looking for culture, work ethic, affordability, talent.
When:
May 26 – 28, 2026
Where
2026 Agenda
Check-in
11:00am – 2:00pm
Connection Conductor Welcome
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Lessons Learned from Raising $400 Million and The Future of Cloud Security
Segev Halfon
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Connection Conductors & Narrative Coaching
Chad Peterson Narrative coaching Session and Connection Conductors
4:00pm – 5:30pm
VIP Event
Details to follow
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Breakfast & Book Signing
Check-in
8:00am – 12:00pm
The Vision of Innovate: 3 years running
Brian Wallace
9:00am – 9:15am
Responsible AI with Kelly Cohen
9:15am – 9:45am
What it takes to win with Darryl Isaacs
9:45am – 10:15am
Break
10:15am – 10:30am
Innovation in Capital Markets
10:30am – 11:00am
Corporate Innovation
with Patrick Ward & Rachael Schwartz
11:00am – 11:30am
Lunch
11:30am – 12:30pm
Connection Conductors & Memory Darts with Steve Woodruff
Group photo will happen at the end of this session at 12:40
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Group Photo
This will take place during the Connection Conductor session
1:40pm – 1:42pm
Marketing Strategy Innovation
Jeremy Knauff, Jessika Suter
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Fireside Chat: Responsible AI
Kelly Cohen, Chris Reitz, Jason Hiner, David Friedson, CAITL
2:15pm – 2:45pm
Supply Chain and Logistics
2:45pm – 3:15pm
Break
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Health Innovation
4:00pm – 4:30pm
OPEN SESSION
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Solo session with Scott Frank
Scott Frank
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Connection Conductors
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Breakfast & Connection Conductors
8:00am – 9:00am
SESSION TBD
9:00am – 9:30am
You might be the difficult coworker others complain about, even if you don’t realize it.
Alina Doran Think of someone at work who drives you crazy, who exaggerates their contributions, takes credit for other people’s work, or someone who always finds a reason to resist a new idea. Or the one who tries to control everything and micromanages. That difficult person who makes everything harder than it needs to be. Got them? Yeah. Here’s what none of us want to hear. Someone might be thinking this very thought about you right now. You might be someone’s difficult person and neither of you can see it. We walk around thinking we have self-awareness. We think we know how we show up, how we land, how people experience us, but we don’t.
9:30am – 10:00am
Kentucky Success Stories
Sunny Dronawat, Demetrius Gray, Patrick Henshaw
10:00am – 10:30am
Break
10:30am – 10:45am
Narrative Coaching with the Connection conductors
Chad Peterson
10:45am – 11:15pm
Food Innovation
Jeremiah Chapman
11:15am – 11:45am
Lunch
11:45am – 12:45pm
OPEN SESSION
1:00pm – 1:30pm
Ron Coleman
Ron Coleman
1:30pm – 2:00pm
OPEN SESSION
2:00pm – 2:30pm
2026 Speaker Lineup (coming soon)
2025 speaker lineup
