Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and the remarkable Will Yafi, Founder & CEO of TIDWIT, for a fascinating conversation on innovating ecosystems with AI. Will Yafi is the Founder & CEO of TIDWIT, bringing more than 30 years of experience in knowledge management, alliances, and ecosystems. Will founded TIDWIT with the strong belief that healthy partnerships are the core of any ecosystem. TIDWIT’s award winning ecosystem platform was conceived to co-enable enterprises at...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Bernhard Friedrichs, Founder of PartnerXperience (PXP) for a fascinating conversation about innovating capital efficiency with partners. Nancy is honored to introduce Bernhard Friedrichs who is a seasoned partnerships strategy & operations expert and the founder of PartnerXperience (PXP). With about 20 years of global business development experience in Europe, the US, and Asia, he specializes in helping SaaS companies achieve...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Tech for an in-depth conversation about “Democratizing SaaS”, the title of his new book, and how the technology allows everyone to “SaaS-ify” software. Nancy is honored to introduce Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Tech, a digital transformation technology leader named among the Top 10 Most Disruptive Private Companies. A technology visionary, inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur, Fatehi was the recipient of the 2019...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Bob Moore, Co-founder and CEO of Crossbeam, for a fascinating conversation around Innovation through Ecosystem Led Growth Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, an Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG) platform that helps companies use their partner ecosystems to generate leads, close deals, and grow faster. Moore previously co-founded the cloud data pipeline company Stitch (Acquired by Talend in 2018) and business intelligence platform RJMetrics...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Kathryn Rose, Innovator and founding CEO of getWise and channelWise, for a fascinating conversation around Innovating Channel Engagement Models. Nancy is honored to introduce Kathryn Rose. Kathryn is an innovator, and the founding CEO of award-winning global expert marketplaces (getWise, channelWise) that provide business owners and professionals in targeted markets, access to thousands of vetted executives, coaches/mentors, education, and...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Jeanette DePatie, Writer, Producer, and professional “Techsplainer”, for a fascinating conversation around The Integration of Integration. Nancy is honored to introduce Jeanette DePatie. Jeanette DePatie has been talking NFTs, DAOs, DeFI and blockchain since 2015 and about technology since forever. DePatie is a seasoned producer of interactive content and has created hundreds of hours of streamed video. She has produced, managed, marketed,...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Dan Albaum, Marketing Leader & Author, Market Impact, for a fascinating conversation around The Culture of Servant Leadership. Nancy is honored to introduce Dan Albaum. Dan Albaum is an accomplished marketing leader with experience launching new products and driving world-class results in global technology companies including Verizon Wireless, Cisco, Honeywell, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), and the non-profit space. He is a passionate...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Skyler Stewart, leader of AI+IoT of Epic iO, for a captivating conversation around Cultivating an Innovative Mindset. Nancy is honored to introduce Skyler Stewart. Skyler has been successful for the last 19+ years in building national and global channel partner sales organizations in the wireline, wireless, Voice, Data, and Cloud industries. He has served in various channel sales and executive leadership roles for successful start-ups that...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Norma Watenpaugh for a fascinating conversation around Innovating Partner Experience. Nancy is honored to introduce friend and a force in Alliances. Norma is the founding principal and CEO of Phoenix Consulting Group which provides education and consulting services with expertise in go-to-market strategy, channel and alliance management, and ecosystem development. Prominent clients include Amazon, Adobe, Cisco, Dupont, Dell, Google,...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Dave O’Callaghan, Partner & Co-Founder of Vation Ventures, for a fascinating conversation around Orchestration of Innovation. Nancy is honored to introduce Dave O’Callaghan, a serial innovator and pioneer of ecosystems. Dave has spent thirty-nine years as a senior executive in large tech corporations and seven years consulting to large corporations, including, Hitachi, Cisco, and VMWare. Dave is also a professor at the University of...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Rise Huffman, President of Stratocumulus Technologies & Integrated Remote Testing Device, for a fascinating conversation around Innovation with Heart. As a Communications Professional for over 30 years, Rise continues to assist companies in developing and implementing technology plans, helping client companies to use technology to improve their operations and their bottom line. For the past five years Rise has been founder and CEO of...

Today, I’m especially excited to introduce you to two young women whom I could call future leaders, however they are already leading and innovating. Please allow me to introduce Jainita Chauhan. She is a senior at Texas A&M University where she uses her engineering instincts and skills, including an intense passion for efficiency and improvement, to create solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. In December of 2019 she worked with other engineering students to design a water...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Marc Halbfinger, CEO of PCCW-HKT Group, for a fascinating conversation on fiber and 5G deployments driving loT and Edge Compute to facilitate Industrial, Enterprise, and Consumer Demand driven by vast demand for data and increasing demand for geographic ubiquity. Marc has been with the PCCW-HKT Group for the past 20 years, the past 13 years of which have been as the CEO of PCCW Global, during which time he has led the company through a period...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Reece Akhtar, PhD, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer of Deeper Signals, for a fascinating conversation on how you can help your employees work well together, deeply understand each other, and reach their full potential. Learn how innovative tech delivers meaningful talent insights at every level of your business, and more! Dr. Reece Akhtar is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Deeper Signals. He is an organizational psychologist...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Tiffani Bova Chief Growth Evangelist of Salesforce, for a fascinating conversation on charting the path in 2021. As the pandemic accelerated innovation, they discuss top things to adopt in our transformed market, the shift to science in sales, committed action from leaders, how ecosystems are seen in the Growth Path context, and more! Tiffani Bova is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal...

Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative, Cate Heaman CEO of Prelude Solutions, Y’vonne Ormond CEO of 5P Consulting, and Deb Ward CEO of Televergence, for a fascinating conversation of Innovation in Alliances. They discuss Power Women Alliance and why they saw value in the alliance, how they are expanding beyond traditional partners, the importance of cost optimization, the values the alliance and ecosystem deliver, and more! Index: 00:58 – Introduction of Power Women Alliance; An...

Join Nancy Ridge and Gray Chynoweth for a fascinating conversation about Trust as a Platform for Innovation. They discuss infusing culture with trust to build resiliency, creating environments that support risk taking that lead to innovation, and more. Gray Chynoweth is the CEO of Minim (www.minim.co). Prior to joining Minim in 2019, Gray served in a variety of executive positions, including COO at Dyn, where he joined Jeremy Hithcock, Dyn co-founder and CEO, as the first non-founding...

Nancy Ridge and Adam Michalski discuss why attribution may be the most important outcome of blending art with science in channels today, why automation is the #1 trend in channel sales, and more. Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Partnered.io, the leading Account-based Partnership Platform, and host of The Partnered Podcast. With Partnered.io, you can easily automate and measure your partnerships to drive the most partner sourced & influenced revenue. Integrated directly with Slack &...

Nancy and Patrick discuss cultivating innovation as a way of life. Hear as they discuss the motivation to start bold and successful moves, the innovative Unitas Connectivity product and its success factor, changing the culture within organizations, and more. Patrick has over 20 years of leadership experience in the technology industry. Previously, Patrick co-founded and served as CEO for Universal Access, growing the company from a startup to a $144 million run rate, and eventually taking the...

Nancy and Jay discuss how channels are evolving into huge ecosystems made up of Influencers, Alliances, Affiliates, Agents, Sub-Agents, MSP’s, Integrators, Implementors and ISV’s. They explore how they all affect the customer’s journey, how ecosystems will replace linear distribution models and handle all these new partners and what effect these changes will have on channel sales models. Index: 00:54 – Introduction of Jay McBain of Forrester 02:51 – An example of innovation delivering...

Meet the remarkable Will Yafi, CEO of TIDWIT and learn how their cloud ecosystem is delivering highly scale able collaboration, distribution and information through breakthrough platform, transforming how organizations serve their customers and partners.