94. Miguel Encarnação

The Iowa Idea: Miguel Encarnação

“Look for the patterns.”

In this episode of the Iowa Idea, I’m joined by Miguel Encarnação. Miguel is an innovation thought leader and serial chief innovation officer with experience across industries, including banking, healthcare, international development, management consulting, and higher education. He currently serves as head of data visualization (SVP) at Regions Bank and Financial Corporation.

Miguel shares his journey from growing up in Germany, to studying computer science, to working in early, cross collaboration innovation labs, to becoming a chief innovation officer. We cover his innovation management and strategy experiences and discuss why we’re still struggling with decades old problems of human-computer-interaction. We mix it up on the conflation of new technology, digital transformation, and innovation.

It was an honor having Miguel on the show. I consider myself very lucky to work with and learn from Miguel on many innovation, data visualization, and UX projects. I hope you enjoy the episode.

About Miguel

Dr. Encarnação is an innovation thought leader and serial chief innovation officer with experience across industries, including banking, healthcare, international development, management consulting, and higher education. He currently serves as head of data visualization (SVP) at Regions Bank and Financial Corporation, a member of the S&P 500 Index and one of the largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management and mortgage products and services in the US. His technical areas of expertise include data and information visualization, AI, Human-Computer Interaction, VR and AR. These technical competencies, in addition to his innovation management and strategy background, also form the foundation for his continuing involvement with research and academia as professor of practice and adjunct lecturer of business analytics, innovation, and computer science.

Links

Miguel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrMiguel

Upcoming talks:

Front-End Innovationhttps://informaconnect.com/feiusa/speakers/l-miguel-encarnao/#track-1-indoor-a-collective-approach-to-strategic-innovation_case-study-seeing-is-believing-the-role-of-data-visualization-in-decision-making-and-innovation

Innovation Leader – Charting the Future of Innovation: https://events.bizzabo.com/305703/agenda/session/547216

Credits

Episode produced by Spark Consulting Group (www.inspiredbyspark.com) in Iowa City, with support from Executive Podcast Solutions (https://www.executivepodcastsolutions.com/).

The Iowa Idea Podcast theme music written and performed by Paisley Bible (https://paisleybible.bandcamp.com/).