Innovations Roundtable hosted by Google 2026

This year’s agenda covers AI for product innovation, enterprise value creation, generative media, and how AI is changing customer experience and business growth. Speakers include Google Cloud, Philips, Mars, Siemens, IKEA, and Citi, with an audience of 190+ innovation, AI, and engineering leaders from manufacturing and related industries.

Valona Intelligence is attending to host two roundtable discussions on how innovation teams bring outside-in market intelligence into AI-driven decision-making.

🎤 Attend Our Roundtable Session

How to bring outside-in intelligence into innovation decisions in the age of AI

Most of today’s programme is about using AI to reason faster over what organisations already know. This session is about the other half: how the outside world gets into the decision. In many of the companies represented here, innovation cycles run for years while market, competitive, and regulatory signals move in months. In that gap sit the assumptions nobody owns — market demand, cost curves, regulation, competitive threats. We’ll compare how participants actually get external evidence into their innovation decisions, whether that evidence can ever stop a programme, and what AI genuinely changes here.

Host: Kasia Hartwig, VP Strategic Intelligence and Advisory, Valona Intelligence

How to use quantitative and qualitative data for integrated decision intelligence

This session explores how to advance existing market monitoring tools by integrating them into the broader enterprise infrastructure to enable a fully data-driven strategy. We’ll examine best practices and structured approaches for combining external market data, internal knowledge, and third-party sources to generate richer insights, improve decision-making, and strengthen long-term innovation strategy and planning.

Host: Carsten Gayer, Managing Director, Valona Intelligence

🤝 Visit Our Booth

You’ll find the Valona team on-site throughout the day — come say hello.

Valona Intelligence is a competitive and market intelligence (CMI) platform helping global enterprises understand markets, competitors, and emerging opportunities. Combining a proprietary source base, an AI-powered platform purpose-built for CMI, and analyst support from industry specialists, Valona provides continuous monitoring and source-backed market and competitive intelligence to support strategic decisions on where to compete, where to grow, and where to invest.

Founded in 1999 and trusted by more than 500 enterprises worldwide, Valona supports strategy, market and competitive intelligence, business development, and innovation teams in manufacturing and other complex industries. Valona was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms.