Thursday, March 10 | 4pm GMT / 11am EST
This one-hour event brings collaborative product development with open innovation, for talent mobility and business travel professionals worldwide.
Join us as we brainstorm, identify challenges and needs, and propose solutions (big or small!) related to smart technology, safety and security, and sustainability within the temporary housing space. At the end of this interactive session, everyone will have a chance to share their new ideas and vision of the solution.
After this key meeting, AltoVita’s tech team will develop prototypes to help solve these needs and create new products to serve this audience. These prototypes will be reviewed, refined, and tested during private Focus Group meetings on March 31st, and then unveiled during the grand event, the Smart, Safe, Sustainable Summit in London on May 12th.
Meet our Moderators: Chris Roberts & Ben Cross
As the Chief Operating Officer of Pivt, the social app designed to reduce turnover and improve the well-being of relocated, mobile, and remote employees, Chris Roberts is no stranger to innovation within global mobility. Plus, he co-moderated last year’s thoroughly enjoyable first-annual Innovation Summit Discovery & Design Thinking session alongside Ben Cross.
“I love helping people tackle innovation. In 2021, I collaborated with AltoVita to launch the first global open-innovation event for corporate accommodations. It was risky, kind of crazy, and insanely fun. That’s why I’m excited to partner with AltoVita for the second year in a row. Join us!”
– Chris Roberts, Chief Operating Officer, Pivt
Ben Cross joined Team AltoVita in 2020 and now serves as VP of Global Growth. He is also known as the host of popular global mobility talk show, Love + Relo.
“It was an honor to be a part of last year’s Design Thinking event, the LARGEST event of its kind in global mobility. I’m looking forward to this year, and capturing the same magic!”
– Ben Cross, VP of Global Growth, AltoVita
What is Design Thinking?
Rooted in product research and development thinking, we will use this fun and interactive process to understand customer needs, ideate, validate, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test – all from the perspectives of the collaborative participants, professionals from global mobility and business travel.
This virtual Design Thinking session will be held using a new, seamless, all-in-one tool – to be announced soon! The tool will allow participants to network and enter breakout rooms to visually collaborate. We promise the tool is super fun and user-friendly!
