As the Defense Alliance of North Carolina (DANC) continues to shift and grow in its mission within the state’s defense economy, it is imperative that we as members of this state’s defense economy and of DANC continue to collaborate for innovation results and to become the leaders of change. The Innovation and Leadership Forum will serve as one avenue available to DANC members and guests that will showcase new trends, best practices and useful tools in those areas.
Mission of the Forum
The mission of the Innovation and Leadership Forum (the Forum) is to provide a networking and information platform and discussion groups to empower our members. Within the Forum, participants will learn from expert practitioners and case studies how to best collaborate, communicate and create innovation and provide leadership in our changing NC defense sector environment.
The Forum topics will be driven by our DANC members and what would benefit their particular segments and business. The I&LF will be interactive and consistently striving to utilize innovative communication techniques and mediums to ensure that we get the vital messages of current innovation and leadership thought and practices to our members and our State.
What to Expect!
You can expect to see value-driven topics, speakers, experts and deliverables that help us all to deal with the daily reality of integration of Innovation and Leadership into our respective organizations. You can expect lively engaging forums that are worth your valuable time. You can expect downloadable presentation and checklist deliverables for your ongoing reference. You can expect to be polled for your desired discussion topics, for identification of potential speakers and experts that you may have within your network. You can also expect and participate in consistent interactivity on the web and other mediums to further our discussions started in the Forum. Finally, you can expect some informative fun and learning as we explore and develop these topics together.

Meeting
3rd Monday of Every Month
2:00-4:00pm
Chair
Van Carpenter
Founder, Van Carpenter Innovative Solutions