The Innovator Nevarda Smith explores the 2017 trends in E-Sports. E-sports has had amazing exponential growth over the past few years and the speed of growth isn't slowing. With the leading demographic of under 35 year olds E-Sports is sure to become one of the income growth opportunities for those who take advantage of it. We look at possible social media interaction and product placement as a way to produce significant income in this new sporting arena. We meet a millennial Dakota Smith who takes us through Overwatch and touch on E3 2017.

The future is social engagement and E-Sports is a perfect platform to engage on.

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The Innovator Nevarda Smith explores the 2017 Internet Trends in 2017 originally presented by KPCB. This will be a multi part series. Today we cover Interactive Gaming, Gamification, and Analytics,

The future is social engagement and not Advertising.

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The Innovator Nevarda Smith explores the 2017 Internet Trends in 2017 originally presented by KPCB. This will be a multi part series. Today we cover Global Internet Trends and Online Advertising and e-commerce (Experiences vs Advertising).

The importance of customer feedback and getting your product out to market as fast as possible. We will touch on the 5 reasons I see that hamper getting IT solutions to market and why waterfall approach causes most of these issues. Problem 1. Customers never really know what they want. Problem 2. By the time you are at market the requirements have already changed. Problem 3. Unrealistic timelines set by customers with a waterfall approach. 4. Communication gaps in understanding between IT and the market. 5. Understanding the business.

We will discuss how Program Increment Planning from SAFe 4.0 (r) helps deal with these challenges and how getting customer feedback and adapting to change quickly can make you successful.

We will look at the FaceBook approach to IT development and the secrete of Mark Zuckerberg's success.

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How to break into acting with Victoria Spencer Smith

Twitter and Instagram: @innov8accel

Books:

You Can Act by D.W. Brown

The Actor's Art and Craft by W. Esper and D. DiMarco

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How startup's use the Elevator Pitch to drive investment towards their Idea

Twitter and Instagram: @innov8accel

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Innovation chat live stream with Sean Hirst talking about new media and the book Crush It.

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Innovation chat live stream with Bryan Hadaway a Millennial Investing Guru.

An overview of the 9 SAFe 4.0 Principles.