Innovation consultant to speak at Zeal
This piece is presented by Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship.
An innovation consultant will take questions and be part of a networking event Wednesday at the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship.
Brian Ardinger is co-founder of Nebraska-based Econic, a corporate innovation consultancy, and NMotion, a seed-stage startup accelerator.
He has led efforts between startups and corporations to engage the latest trends, tools and tactics to accelerate innovation.
Before his work in the startup community, Ardinger was chief marketing officer at Nanonation, working with Pepsi, Target, Nike, Harley-Davidson and Royal Caribbean. He built out the consulting arm in Asia for Gartner and worked with technology giants, including Microsoft, IBM and HP. He also led the creation of Asia’s first dedicated customer-experience lab as head of research at Ion Global, a Hong Kong-headquartered technology firm.
His one-hour question-and-answer session starts at 3 p.m. at Zeal, 2329 N. Career Ave.
A networking event will follow until 5:30 p.m.