Crisis & Creation: Building Organizations that Renew - Keynote with Marliyn Zakhour | 2026 Cosmic Cofnerence

The organizations that remain resilient and relevant are the ones that build the ability to continuously innovate.In this keynote bridging our Adapt and Thrive weeks, Marilyn Zakhour brings together the key ideas from the week and the best of academia to explore how organizations develop the ability to continuously evolve, invent and innovate, strengthening their resilience and readiness to navigate complex, shifting contexts.Drawing on the work of Gary Hamel, this session explores how organizations build the capacity to continuously reinvent their business models before change is forced upon them, and how leading organizations embed innovation into how they operate.We’ll look at what this means in practice: • How to identify when to improve what exists vs. when to build something new • How continuous innovation strengthens resilience and supports long-term growth • How to embed exploration into the organization through rituals, processes, and culture • How to run execution and innovation in parallel • How organizations like Fujifilm have built this capability over time