The innovation hunger games

Session type:

Workshop

Presented by:

Lily Payton

Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

Naja Nelson

Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

Session time:

22 Sep 11:15 — 12:45

Session duration:

90 minutes

About the session

Are you hungry to harness the power of innovation in your work? Do you believe new ideas can serve your community better than the status quo?

You aren't alone. Public servants worldwide are applying innovation and design to increase impact. But the reality is, innovation is often stifled by capacity constraints in governments.

During this session, participants will play three innovation games to unlock the potential of innovation in capacity-constrained environments, harnessing the power of human-centred design to increase impact.

Participant takeaways:

That using innovation tools can be interactive, exciting, and replicable in their work
How to harness the power of play as an accessible, light-touch, and uplifting tool, regardless of time commitment
Concrete examples of how larger innovation tools can be consolidated and gamified to meet governments where they are

This session includes:

Interaction/hands-on.
Has a session number cap: 40 participants.

Themes:
Methods, Innovation, International, Design Gamification, Human-Centred Design, City Innovation, Harnessing the power of play.

About the speaker(s)

Lily Payton

Lily Payton is a government innovation professional dedicating her career to working with and teaching local civil servants the value of human-centred design and the critical importance of scaling innovation in the public sector. Currently, she works at the Centre for Public Impact (CPI), a nonprofit committed to reimagining how local governments works with and for their communities worldwide.

In this role, she has taken eleven cities through a design-based innovation program in collaboration with Harvard University, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently serving as a curriculum designer, facilitator, and lead implementation partner on a place-based, trust-building initiative with the City of Portland. Lily holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in Montréal, Québec.

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Naja Nelson

Naja Nelson is a government innovation and global development professional. Currently, she works at the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) a non-profit committed to reimagining how local government works with and for communities worldwide.

While at CPI she served as an implementation partner for the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Solution Group, a learning partner for 6 cities participating in the 2022 Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and as a program designer and learning liaison for the city of Detroit in the Earned Legitimacy Learning Cohort.

Currently, she is supporting the Global Development Initiative at CPI. Naja holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Pronouns: She/Her