The Christensen Institute Innovation Summit

From Insight to Foresight: Designing What Comes Next

September 24, 2026

David Rubenstein Treehouse, Harvard University

Join us for the inaugural Christensen Institute Innovation Summit: a closed-door, curated assembly designed to use Clayton Christensen’s evolving frameworks not just to understand disruption, but to anticipate it.

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Christensen Institute Innovation Summit

Most innovation gatherings celebrate what’s already happened. The Christensen Institute Innovation Summit is designed for what comes next.

On September 24, 2026, the Institute will convene 200–250 cross-sector leaders for the inaugural Christensen Institute Innovation Summit. The Summit is a closed-door, one-day assembly that deliberately moves from applying the world’s most rigorous innovation theory to something harder and rarer: using it to see what’s coming before it’s obvious.

The day is structured in three stages—Insight, System, Foresight—each building toward a sharper answer to the question every serious leader is quietly asking: Where does my industry break next, and am I positioned ahead of it?

David Rubenstein Treehouse, Harvard University
David Rubenstein Treehouse, Harvard University, © Studio Gang

What to Expect

Attendees don’t just attend sessions. Instead, they move through a curated experience designed to deliver:

  • Practical tools drawn from Disruptive Innovation Theory, Jobs to Be Done, and value network analysis, applied to strategic decisions.
  • Structured cross-sector conversations with leaders navigating the same forces from different vantage points.
  • A forward-looking plenary that uses theory (not trend-watching) to forecast where markets and systems are about to shift.
  • A tangible summit artifact: a framework and signal test attendees keep and use long after the day ends.
  • And an evening to start: a pre-event VIP dinner bringing together a select group of attendees the night before.

Seating is deliberately capped. This is a curated room, assembled for depth over scale.

Who Attends?

The Summit draws leaders selected for their authority, not their availability, including innovation strategists and transformation executives; founders building at the edge of established markets; system shapers in education, healthcare, and global prosperity; long-horizon investors and capital allocators; and the next generation of leaders shaping what disruption looks like.

Partnership opportunities are available for the inaugural Summit, including a limited number of prestige tiers reserved for organizations that want to help shape what this community becomes from year one.

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