5-Day Foresight and Innovation Bootcamp. Bucharest

Type

Bootcamp

Location

Bucharest

Next session available

Jun
22
Bucharest
09:00
- 17:00 CET

Empower your team with future focused, human-centred innovation skills

What is this bootcamp about?

This Bootcamp is designed to empower teams and professionals to kick-start bold innovation projects and foster positive transformative at a large scale, within their teams or companies.

The learning experience equips participants with practical tools and frameworks to anticipate future trends, spot emerging opportunities and turn uncertainty into actionable innovation projects. By blending foresight, strategy and hands-on experimentation, the course helps teams design resilient, future-ready solutions they can apply right away.

Not last, the bootcamp helps participants close the ‘reality gap’ between customers and organisations, which should be the number one priority of any innovative company.

About this course

Future Thinking, Systems Thinking and Design Thinking

Learn from internationally recognised innovation experts what these methodologies (and much more) are all about.

Fundamental understanding

The main goal is providing participants with a fundamental understanding of these innovation tools and frameworks, as well as the appropriate context for using them.

Alternative tools and entrepreneurial results

Presenting alternative tools for various stages of an innovation process, enabling professionals to rise above the content and combine different approaches to reach innovative business results as successful entrepreneurs do.

Learning-by-doing method

Participants will work on a real project / a real challenge, learning by doing and being able to apply their new learnings in their job right away.

Who should attend?

This program is ideal for:

Managers or team leaders

seeking to develop and integrate cutting edge creative practices into their business processes and corporate culture.

Young professionals (individuals)

who want to get a profound understanding how to use future focused, human-centered innovation methods in their daily work.

Executives or decision makers

seeking to apply Innovation tools and frameworks into their daily work. Looking to strengthen their ability to lead innovation and enhance the organisations innovation capability.

Government policy makers

who want to gain key insights into the implementation of Innovating practices and ways of working.

Learning objectives

01

Choosing innovation approach

How to choose the right approach to innovation

02

HorizonX tools

How to use the HorizonX diagnose tool and how to apply the HorizonX Innovation Meta-Model

03

User-centered insights

How to better listen to your end-users and embed end-user insights into solutions

04

Future-oriented solutions

Developing solutions that are anchored in the trends and signals of the future

05

Prototyping and iteration

Develop prototypes and work in small iterations. Dare to fail (learn & try again) and pitch your story!

5 Days

Duration

Bucharest

Location

Certificate

HorizonX Institute

English

Language

Workshop participants will receive

Main presentation

Presentations by keynote speakers

Access to training tools and preparation materials

Additional access to informative materials: books, articles, videos, etc.

International certificate

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Robert Collins
Guest Speaker
Dr. Robert Collins is a business consultant and educator who has been delivering courses through the University of Oxford for over 25 years, on topics such as on topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Lean Six Sigma and Agile Project Management.
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Adela Cristea
Co-Founder HorizonX & DesignThinkers Academy Eastern Europe
Co-Founder of HorizonX and Design Thinkers Academy Eastern Europe, founder of Ascent Group, Adela is an experienced business consultant, passionate about foresight and innovation. She is the author of the HorizonX Innovation Meta-Model as well as an international speaker and facilitator, teaching innovation practices across the world.
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Lăcrămioara Loghin
Co-founder & Senior Facilitator DT Academy Eastern Europe
Lăcrămioara has a strong background as a research specialist and her passion is to talk to customers as real people with real problems. Her main driver as co-founder of DesignThinkers Academy Eastern Europe and facilitator is to translate the insights from the customers and create better solutions (products, services) for them.
Delia
Delia Wieser
Foresight Strategist / Cultural Insights Architect / Innovation Consultant
Foresight Strategist and innovation consultant with experience in leading futures, strategy and innovation projects across different industries and countries. Delia is passionate in translating emerging trends and cultural insights into strategies. Author of ‘Road Trip to Innovation – How I came to understand Future Thinking’ (TrendONE 2012) and ‘Trend-Driven Innovation’ (Wiley, 2015).
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Vlad Icleanu
Senior Agile & DT Coach
Vlad has over 10 years experience in working with NGOs, startups and traditional companies, always taking up two roles in his endeavours: manager and trainer. Coordinating an innovation center for European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in Romania, building a support community for startups under Cluj Startups and managing INCUBOXX business center make him a strong supporter of innovation, efficient work and learning from mistakes.
Alina Andreieva
Alina Andreieva
HorizonX international manager, Senior Facilitator DesignThinkers Academy
Alina has 15 years of experience in market research, specializing in CX, UX, and Service Design and Futures Thinking. She leads customer-focused transformation projects across public and private sectors. With a strong background in business development and team management, she also delivers training on creativity, empathy and innovation.
Ana
Ana Jeličić
Partner and Senior Facilitator at DesignThinkers Academy Adriatic
Experienced business consultant and trainer, with a consistent background in assisting start-ups and business developments, teaching entrepreneurship and leadership practices within corporate environments, and a partner of Design Thinkers Academy Adriatic.
Diana
Diana Simion
Senior facilitator and market research consultant
With a background in academia and marketing research, Diana has a Ph.D. in Communication Studies and significant experience as a facilitator in Innovation projects. Her main strengths are her inter-disciplinary awareness and curiosity to explore and connect people from various areas of activity.
DAY 1

Immersion

DAY 2

Innovation Research Methods and Sense Making

DAY 3

Understanding & addressing Customers Needs

DAY 4

Developing Scenarios, Testing & Pitching

DAY 5

What's next? Building the plan for implementation

Price and schedule

June 22-26, 2026, 9:00-17:00

Price per person

1690 €
Standard price (w/o VAT)
1490 €
Until April 22, 2026
Early bird fee (w/o VAT)

5% discount for the 2nd participant and 10% discount for the 3rd participant from the same organisation.

Included in the price: participation at the 5 training days, masterclasses, full toolkit of tools and frameworks for Innovation, lunches and coffee-breaks

Not included: Accommodation cost, transportation to and from the venue, VAT.

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