Alberto Savoia
As Google’s first Engineering Director, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched the
phenomenally successful Google AdWords.
He then shifted his focus to help Google maintain its
exponential going through aggressive company-wide innovation.
In his unique role as Google’s
Innovation Agitator, Alberto led a team that developed a powerful set of tools and practices to
help Google continue to innovate with the creativity, agility, and courage of startups.
Word of the impressive impact and results of Alberto’s approach to innovation quickly spread
beyond Google.
Today, he teaches and practices Apex Innovation worldwide, lectures at Stanford
University, and coaches Fortune 500 companies. From the first “Innovate Like A Startup. Go To
Market Like A Grownup” Stanford workshop in 2011, to today’s “How To Become an Innovators”
executive seminars at Google, Alberto’s insights and techniques have had a deep and lasting impact on the
way many world-leading companies view and approach innovation.
Alberto’s work as an innovator has won him significant recognition and awards, including the
2005 Wall Street Journal Technical Innovator Award, and he’s the author of “The Right It—Why
most new ideas fail and how to make sure yours succeed”, published by HarperCollins in 2019.
phenomenally successful Google AdWords.
He then shifted his focus to help Google maintain its
exponential going through aggressive company-wide innovation.
In his unique role as Google’s
Innovation Agitator, Alberto led a team that developed a powerful set of tools and practices to
help Google continue to innovate with the creativity, agility, and courage of startups.
Word of the impressive impact and results of Alberto’s approach to innovation quickly spread
beyond Google.
Today, he teaches and practices Apex Innovation worldwide, lectures at Stanford
University, and coaches Fortune 500 companies. From the first “Innovate Like A Startup. Go To
Market Like A Grownup” Stanford workshop in 2011, to today’s “How To Become an Innovators”
executive seminars at Google, Alberto’s insights and techniques have had a deep and lasting impact on the
way many world-leading companies view and approach innovation.
Alberto’s work as an innovator has won him significant recognition and awards, including the
2005 Wall Street Journal Technical Innovator Award, and he’s the author of “The Right It—Why
most new ideas fail and how to make sure yours succeed”, published by HarperCollins in 2019.
