Business Leaders Lecture with Bal Bansal

Timings

5.30 pm: arrival and registration

5.45 pm – 6.30 pm: Bal's presentation and Q&A

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm: post-lecture drinks and canapés

What you'll learn

Remember when Coca-Cola did the very first ‘name on a bottle’? Know how that idea came about? Bal can tell you; it wasn’t a group of executives in a room!

Throughout his career, he has experienced some great collaboration (for example, The Bridge Programme – which was an innovation lab and incubator where Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz and others supported startups and worked together on ideas) and some… not so good collaboration.
This talk is all about the art of collaboration.

You can’t do it all alone.

Even Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak. Brian Clough (as we’re in Nottingham) had Peter Taylor.

How can Collaboration x Ideas = Success?

About Bal Bansal

A seasoned business technology leader with significant experience in strategy, digital transformation and innovation within a number of global industries.
Bal started his career at Kodak, when he was 1 of 5 selected to join the graduate programme from over 1,000 applicants. Since then, he has worked for Parker Hannifin, GlaxoSmithKline and Coca-Cola, where he was responsible for Innovation and saw the sale of a startup to Snapchat for $40m. Bal is currently at InterContinental Hotels Group as Global IT Director with a focus on strategy, planning, reporting and communications.

Nottingham Business School Students

This event can count towards your CPD hours, if applicable to your personal development goals. Attendance at the event will be monitored and the event organisers will provide confirmation of your attendance to the lecture and networking, as evidence for your portfolio. The booking confirmation email alone will not count as attending the event. Guest speaker slides will not typically be made available, therefore you are encouraged to take notes and reflections throughout the lecture to use within your portfolio.