In a rapidly changing world, innovation is key to building resilient businesses. It also has the power to reshape markets and drive sustainable transformation.
Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025
Time: 12:00 – 12:40 GMT
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How do businesses innovate to build resilience, reshape markets and drive sustainable transformation?
CISL’s Chief Innovation Officer, James Cole, will address this question by exploring how different forms of innovation are driving change at market and system levels and how leading companies are positioning for success.
In this webinar, James will also feature a case study from CISL’s Living Lab, based at the Entopia Building— our headquarters. The building has been sustainably retrofitted to serve as a living example of innovation in practice, testing new sustainability solutions in real time to shape the buildings of tomorrow.
This session will cover:
- Why we need to transform markets for resilience
- Innovation’s role in driving that transformation
- The different types of innovation and how they deliver value for organisations
- A case study from CISL’s Living Lab at the Entopia Building
- A live Q&A session
Whether you are driving change within your sphere of influence or exploring new frontiers of sustainability, this session will offer valuable insights into how bold, collaborative leadership and innovation can build resilient businesses and reshape the markets they operate in.
Speaker Profile
James has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of business, sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship. As part of CISL’s senior leadership team, he works across business policy and finance initiatives, building the capacity of leaders and leading institutions to drive systemic change for global sustainability. In 2022, he launched The Canopy - CISL’s incubator, accelerator and workspace in central Cambridge, to activate an international community of impact-led startups, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators.
