This panel session was moderated by Elizabeth Tinkham, Global Lead Consultant at Accenture with the topic being:
How is the innovation process different in large versus small companies?
The panelists were:
- Polly Sumner, President Salesforce.com
- Marissa Mayer, VP Search, Google
- Rashmi Sinha, CEO Slideshare
- Jasmine Kim, COO ImageSpan
Marissa Mayer talked a bit about the innovation process within Google, saying they morph failed ideas, versus killing them off. Sinha’s firm is engineering a software product in India and California, which is being used by the White House to communicate. Sumner reviewed some of the many innovations pioneered by Salesforce.com, which was started in the wake of the dot com crash.