#19. Chris Iles – INNOVATION TO EXPAND HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN SPORT! – Minnesota Twins

Chris Iles - Senior Director of Brand Experience and Innovation with the Minnesota Twins
Chris Iles is the senior director of Brand Experience and Innovation with the Minnesota Twins (Major League Baseball team). In this role, he uses sport as a platform to expand the boundaries of human experience while pushing the Twins to set the standard for innovation in sports and entertainment. His goal is to make the Minnesota Twins the most innovative organization in sport; Chris deep dives with us into his experience and explains the projects they are running now, including their collaboration with Techstars.
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What you can learn today:
– Why are the Twins pushing for innovation
– A fan-centric approach to innovation
– The 3 pillars of innovation 
– The Twins’ relation with Techstars
– Some case studies and how to measure success innovation

Quotes 
“What gets me out of bed every day is poking at the edges of human experience to create something new that the human race has never seen.”

“My north star is making the Minnesota Twins the most innovative organization in sport”

“We were the first to launched a metaverse activation in professional sport”

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