I’ve spent the last twenty years working at the intersection of corporate innovation, business design, and venture investing. I’m passionate about helping corporations move beyond the illusion of innovation to unlock radical progress. I’ve partnered with global organizations for speaking engagements ranging from executive workshops, to keynote talks, panels and fireside chats, and virtual speaker series.
If you’re looking to shake up your innovation strategy and infuse new capabilities into your business, let’s connect and see if I can help.
GCV · The Next Wave #36 · October 2025
Elliott joins Global Corporate Venturing to unpack the failure points that most often derail corporate venture-building efforts — and the practical factors that separate the programs that endure from the ones that stall.
Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 · Indianapolis
On the main stage at the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Congress, Elliott explores what makes companies — and the entrepreneurial ecosystems around them — resilient, and why resilience, not efficiency, is the real driver of enduring progress.
Alloy 2024
In his Alloy 2024 keynote, Elliott argues that as AI automates the predictable, human ingenuity — the capacity to take on ambiguous, hard problems — becomes more valuable, not less, and remains the real engine of radical progress.
Alloy 2023
The oldest corporation was founded 100 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was operated by the same family for more than 1,400 years. What can we learn from the organizations that have endured the test of time, and how can corporations use similar strategies to build resilient institutions? In the Alloy 2023 keynote, Elliott Parker explores the value of risk-taking through experimentation as a means for building resilient companies.
Alloy 2022
As companies grow, they optimize their operating systems for efficiency and predictability. But inefficiency often gives light to meaningful insights that can turn into transformative innovations. In this keynote, we explore ways large organizations can manufacture the serendipity necessary to build a more effective, impactful, and resilient organization.
Alloy 2021
Scaled organizations are better managed than ever, but simultaneously less capable of innovation because they’re too often optimized for the wrong objective: near-term efficiency at the expense of long-term resilience and opportunity. In this keynote we highlight the opportunity to run quick, cheap experiments to build transformative, market-creating innovations.
Alloy 2020
Old approaches to innovation, although still relevant and necessary, are less effective than they once were. Corporations still rely on internal R&D and M&A but are not driving the results scaled organizations are chasing. In this keynote we explore the opportunity for companies to coordinate innovation externally in a way that creates resilience.
Satellite Series
The Alloy Partners Satellite Series highlights pioneering entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and expert builders as they share their insight and knowledge with the Alloy Partners network.
IN Chamber Podcast · Episode 73
Large-scale enterprises are built, in Elliott Parker’s words, to execute at scale. Start-ups, he says, are designed to learn, pivot quickly, and move fast. Bringing the two together is the focus of Elliott’s work in venture building — using a venture-studio playbook and a co-creation approach to bring the advantages of existing companies into new startups.
The Disruptive Voice Podcast · Episode 68
In the early days of venture capital, investors played a dual role as financiers and innovators, partnering with their portfolio companies to design and develop their operations from the ground up. Elliott discusses rekindling that earlier, partnership model of venture capital in a new form: the venture studio. Hosted by Anibha Singh of Harvard Business School. Listen here →
DIALed IN · Episode 1
Allan Gray, executive director of DIAL Ventures — a startup studio dedicated to advancing the food and ag system through digital innovation — welcomes Elliott Parker on the first episode of the DIALed IN webcast. They discuss the concept of startup studios, why we need them, and what that means for the ag-tech space.
Inside Outside Innovation · Episode 233
Elliott Parker and Brian Ardinger, founder of Inside Outside Innovation, discuss why innovation is getting harder and what to do about it, as well as new models for tackling transformative and disruptive innovation.
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