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How does Disney stay innovative?

Inside the Disney’s Innovation Team and the future of entertainment with David Min

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🏰 How Disney Finds the Future

In the Season 4 premiere of Technically Creative, Orlando Wood sits down with David Min, VP of Corporate Innovation at The Walt Disney Company, to explore how one of the world's most iconic entertainment companies discovers, evaluates, and deploys emerging technologies.

As the executive responsible for Disney's external innovation strategy and the Disney Accelerator, David sits at the intersection of startups, venture capital, robotics, immersive media, and Disney's creative businesses. His team connects Silicon Valley with Disney, helping identify the technologies that could shape the next generation of storytelling, theme parks, streaming, filmmaking, sports, and entertainment experiences.

This conversation goes far beyond just the technologies they employ.

It's about how large creative organizations stay curious, how innovation teams operate inside enterprise businesses, and why the future belongs to companies that can combine creative excellence with emerging technology.

We explore Disney's approach to founders, the Disney Accelerator, startup partnerships, Imagineering, robotics, augmented reality, Unreal Engine, StageCraft, vertical video, YouTube-native storytelling, and why creator-led innovation is becoming increasingly important across the entertainment industry.

🎧 Highlights include:

• How the Disney Accelerator discovers breakthrough startups

• Bob Iger's vision for corporate innovation at Disney

• Why Disney partners with startups instead of building everything internally

• How Walt Disney Imagineering works with emerging technologies

• AR, Robotics, and the future of theme park experiences

• The story behind Epic Games, Unreal Engine, and StageCraft

• Why vertical video and mobile-first storytelling are reshaping entertainment

• Creator-led, responsible AI, and Disney's approach to emerging technology

• How venture capital helps Disney identify technology trends

• Why innovation starts with excitement, not education

• Lessons every creative company can learn from Disney's innovation strategy

Whether you work in film, television, advertising, publishing, gaming, music, or creative technology, this episode offers a rare look inside how one of the world's most innovative entertainment companies thinks about the future.

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